11/9-2005 (New technique described here! -read on...)

After visiting Legoland in Denmark, and picking up a 4507 (Prehistoric Creatures), and some bits and pieces from the brickshop, I set out to reproduce my childhood home in Ry (Less than 100km from Billund...)

I was way short of brown and green bricks, and of many other basic thing like baseplates and plates. (Must go get that box of classic Lego I´ve got stashed away!)

With this house I developped something new!!! (Well, at least I think it is new, but if somebody have seen prior art, I´m only too happy to be proven wrong ;-)
It´s the drainpipes around the roof; They are build onto the walls of the house like always, BUT they offset the roof by 1/2 a stud in two directions.
That makes for a much slimmer look of the windshields and the drainpipes themselves.
With the photos I´ve tried to document the technique, which actually locks the whole construction in very tight.
Also, this technique calls for NO SPECIAL stud-offsetting-bricks!

Anyway the house uses lots of normal 1/2 stud offsetting plates. Especially the windows. (One floor-to-roof glass mosaic even uses SNOT-technique, something totally new to me, thanks to internet!)

Danes -local to the Ry area- might see the resemblance to the house on "Baldersvej 5", although I had to skip one room, and 2 small mosaic-windows on the driveway side because of lack of roof-tiles.
(For any other errors, I appologise; Havent been to the house for more than 20 years, and made the construction only from memory. -no photos...)


Best regards
Henrik Hoexbroe
"The Dane in Spain"
hxmiesa  @  yahoo  .  com