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Post by Bluehawk2000 » Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:30 pm

Can anyone give me tips for S.N.O.T.,because I can never build anything other than normal straight up bricks.

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Post by IVhorseman » Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:38 pm

you got any of those pieces with studs on the sides of em? use those as baseline spines of your creation, and work around those, expanding outwards.

a different method is to flat out build your creation sideways. place studs on the FRONT of your creation, and let them continue backwards. it's okay if you have open studs on the back of your model since it looks fairly greebly, but putting plates on the back can take care of that. speaking of greebles, you can use all these outward-facing studs to put all those random plates, grills, and other random crap you have lying around and don't know what to do with.

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Post by Blitzen » Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:43 pm

Remember: 5 plates = 2 studs
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Post by Dr. X » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:26 pm

Blitzen wrote:Remember: 5 plates = 2 studs
Good advice, I used that for my Volkswagen and numerous others. Bricks with studs on the side and soooo many other ways.

You can describe one way to SNOT, but yeh can't describe all of em'. TOO MANY. So just floof around with pieces and you'll find out. And listening to IV helps too....

I've never asked on the internet for Lego advice. I've been building for almost 13 years now. My friend just started a year or two ago, and he just kept a building, and now he's pretty darn good. Having a lot of pieces helps too.

But mostly the best thing that can help is TRIANGlE JOB'D!!!
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Post by piltogg » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:31 pm

when in doubt search on brickshelf, if that doen't cut it you might try the brickwiki or else just google it

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Post by pesgores » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:35 pm

I hate SNOT: too much mental work.
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Post by Bluehawk2000 » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:58 pm

What's 5 plates=2 studs? Trust me,my problem isn't creativity,it's lack of peices to create with.

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Post by Olothontor » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:51 pm

Then Bricklink would definitely be what you're looking for here.
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Post by Adean » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:03 am

........boogers? What's going on?
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Post by ace121 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:14 am

Studs
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SNOT is when you build where, well, the studs aren't on top...
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Post by IVhorseman » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:21 am

Bluehawk2000 wrote:What's 5 plates=2 studs?
five plates placed sideways are as wide as two studs.

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Post by vulcant13 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:14 pm

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Post by OneEye589 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:41 pm

Hahahahahaha!

That was a hilarious picture.

Technically that is SNOT, but what it really means is building things thataren't just up and down. Side-to-side, diagonal, angles, anything that's not just on brick on top of the other.

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Post by superdave » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:50 am

vulcant13 wrote:http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2098160

so this is a snot type moc?
Yes, it is. Not a very spiffy or nifty one, but it is SNOT.

Try this.

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Post by Olothontor » Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:10 pm

S.N.O.T is anything other than Brick on top of brick, you say? Well, then...

http://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1045

All of these are made with S.N.O.T...
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