Hello everyone. I'm new to Lego and new to these forums. I have a building technique question. Since I'm new to Lego and making MOCs I thought I'd try building something simple to get some experience and practice. I settled on a lightsaber for my first MOC. While designing it and looking up pictures of lightsabers online for reference I found pics of a great looking saber. I like the hilt design and want to try that style on my saber. Here is a link to a pic:
https://www.flickr.c...57633049804582/
I can't figure out how to get the black plates attached on the 45 degree rotations on the hilt. The black plates on the 90 degree rotations are obvious, just stack up some 4x4 round bricks, plates and macaroni bricks to get the desired length and put technic pins in the holes to attach the black plates. You can see from the image that the 4x4 round brick slots on the right side of the hilt are rotated 45 degrees from the slots on the 4x4 round plate and macaroni bricks on the left side of the hilt. Since you can't rotate a 4x4 round brick 45 degrees and attach it to another 4x4 round brick or plate, how is that rotation achieved?
Any help with this would be appreciated.