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These are great. The sand green is a nice variant.

I have a stupid Noob question for you. How are you building the basic core? Are you just using standard bricks, and then attaching technic bricks with 1/2 pins or studs on side bricks or whatever to hold the exterior plates on??

Whatever you did...it looks great!

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  On 10/26/2011 at 5:00 PM, Toadtorrent said:

These are great. The sand green is a nice variant.

I have a stupid Noob question for you. How are you building the basic core? Are you just using standard bricks, and then attaching technic bricks with 1/2 pins or studs on side bricks or whatever to hold the exterior plates on??

Whatever you did...it looks great!

The smart thing would be to builds solid core, that would make construction easier. But mine are completely hollow. The panels hold themselves together using 1x4 bricks with 4 studs on the side, 8 of them. I could have used 5 stud bricks in each corner, but I didn't have any spare.

Doing it that way actually creates a VERY strong sphere, but only once all 6 panels are installed. Until then its incredibly fragile.

Glad you like them. I can't take a lot of credit for the red birds design, but these were a fun build. I'm hoping to get two more blue and two more red birds built before I need them for the display, and maybe a black bird. The black bird should be bigger than the red, but I don't havetime to order bricks, so I'm going to try for a black bird the same size as the red.

--Tony

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