building variation of round tower

[Lego Otaku]

I don't think I've seen this building variation before. Since it's more suited to castle theme, I figured it'd better in historic thread.

A little less bland than the regular round tower using 1x2's and round 1x1's but it'd have to be a bit bigger due to need for some flat sides to support the "support" beam. The smallest I could make this was using 24 1x2 per row, each bent at about 15 degrees. With the design above, a max of 8 "support" can form complete tower if you used every 3rd brick. Maybe 12 support at every other bricks (if it's still allow enough flexing to form round tower). Or 6 support at every 4th bricks. Any less frequent and it'd start looking bland again, and any more support, the tower would be too stiff to form round tower anymore.

Edited October 4, 2013 by Lego Otaku

[gads]

It works rather well :)

[mpoh98]

Wow nice technique! Round towers are always hard, and even harder to find different techniques. Looks great!

[Rogue Angel]

I've done this with plates instead of bricks and it worked pretty well. Definitely cheaper than the technic arm method.

[gedren_y]

You might get a tighter radius for your round tower if the 'supports' or 'buttresses' were made out of 1x2 Log bricks. They would allow for the curve to continue (to a limited degree) behind them.

[Lego Otaku]

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