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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] This is part of the reason I suggested modularity. When I build Lego structures other than simple classic houses, I tend to create structural frames within which I place multiple floors one at a time. Something like a staircase might run through all floors, and the outer walls would remain intact to give the structure rigidity. But each deck would rest within on a series of support pegs or ledges on the walls, and these pegs and ledges would be arranged so that those of an upper deck still allow for the removal of a lower one. Modularity in fact *forces* me to build things that can support their own weight, with or without the modules in place. Using old Technics series elements on the interior structural frames (you know, those yellow or red 1x16-stud beams full of holes for connecting bolts) gives great strength and also improves the realism of the model... Perhaps the saucer of this ship ought to be a "single-piece" stress-bearing shell coupled to a central pillar that houses the computer and the bridge etc., with girders supporting pie-wedges of decks that can be individually removed to reveal the decks beneath? Alternately, the entire ship could split in two at the centerline, with heavy-duty locking mechanisms in two or three key locations. I've never done that with something as big as what you are suggesting, but I did do a 120cm cruise ship with the center-split mechanism for the lower hull and removable decks for the upper, and it turned out all right - you could lift and manhandle it safely enough. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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