I use the side of a 2x6+, or side of a brick separator, to align several tiles and dots pefectly. I also use a microfiber cloth to remove fingerprints as I build.
the math on this one is pretty satisfying. The diagonal distance from the center of one stud to another is sqrt(2) (about 1.41), and the 2x2 jumper plate gives you a diagonal distance of about 1.5 stud gaps (center-to-center). 1.41 * 1.5 is about 2.12. So the gaps are approximately one-tenth of a center-to-center stud-gap!
If you want to go all in on the second type of look (with the little squares), you can also use this technique: Lay 2x2 jumper plates in a pattern where you go 2 forwards, 1 to the side; so that you leave 1x1 gaps. Or what some might call the "minecraft tree farm" pattern. You can put 1x1 plates into these gaps, but the pattern should be snug enough that it'll work as a floor without them. Then on the jumper plates, you place 1x1 tiles (rotated by about 45°, it's actually the same angle as for the 3:4:5 Pythagorean triple; 53° or so), and in the gaps between the 1x1 plates you just drop 2x2 tiles. Another thing you can play with is to use 1x1 round tiles instead of the 1x1 square tiles.
Perhaps if you wanted to show a little more you could incorporate those 1x4 rail guide piece (used in the pt. 2 of the rail piece video) to help cover a couple of the edges without losing so much space.
I found a neat floor pattern of 1x1 round tiles and 3396 2x2 tile with round cutouts. You put them on 1x8 (or however long) plates, alternating 1x1 and 2x2 attached on its middle stud, then you fill in between the 1x8 plates with 1x8 tiles, and it makes a triangular pattern of the 1x1s.
By the way burning the floor tile techniques myself as well so far pretty cool stuff I've come up with not only that can be used for all sorts of things same ideas Mark of a quilt store for example or a seamstress shop having quotes on the walls as well as one could do this using the shoe slope and other parts techniques as well not just tiles but this is in my opinion probably less likely to become a part easily. Also I've been doing a bit of the cheese slope and other Parts the stained glass as well One of the ways I figure out how to do this that is a little more foolproof with well instead of having Parts go everywhere if the window gets bumped or something gets moved. Is using the window frames and the transparent clear glass pieces two of them back to back to hold the pieces of the window in place one by one parts fit quite well sideways. And also advantages you have the window frame as well as part of the Aesthetics. And if building a barn I'm sure people have noticed how often times there is the quilt square on a barn and sometimes more than one! And yes eventually building a large Lego Barn that will have a quote Square above the door. Also tempted to have an rcx in there and one of the well sort of custom ways of doing a bit of sampled sound and yes this is possible! Not very high fidelity but the sound effect would definitely work when the doors open triggers a touch sensor can you hear a cow moo. And yes this is a Easter egg in a nod to the Fisher-Price Little People's Farm! Have a plan to also do a small seen with a Lego train eventually with about minifigure scale cows that turn their heads as a TransPass and possibly a few moves in the background what's wrong and a bit of random movement as well. And yes I know the NXT has better sound however it does not need to be the best quality and also well a little less expensive and well good use for something is possible this could be combined with the other as well still on the fence on that.
You used the center of the tile to anchor it, wouldn't you be able to use triangular tiles as well if you used a corner of the tile? Probably the jumper spacing below needs to be adapted to match, but I think you might be able to tile an entire space without much loss in that way.
@@bricksculpt There may be jumper configurations that let you "fake" one or two of the other edges. But it will definitely not line up perfectly. And I'd give it a 50:50 chance that it'll still require you to to have the walls "floating" on the tiles.
@bricksculpt This technique has a lot of potential with how many modified tiles there are as well, for example you could leave out one jumper and have a banch of nexo knight shields point into each other. Theres also a similar technique to this with 1x1 plates on 1x1 snot bricks laying on their back with i think just one plate inbetween
If the gap is indeed a "round" number in lego metrics, then you can also turn the whole pattern by another 45 degrees and tile up to the walls because there is some round number of tiles where the gaps add up to one whole piece. That way you don't loose as much of the pattern - and most places I've been to align tiles to the walls anyway. It would look like you've just tiled the room normally on first glance, but only on closer inspection will you notice the grout lines
This is great, I wouldn't have thought of the angled pattern. It will be more pieces, but it might be neat to try this technique with the 2x2 tile corner piece!
my thoughts were attempting to make a trim around the floor, like most/all houses have anyways would help remedy. you could also do a brick half wall for the exterior that comes out a half brick or so on the other side, and still be able to retain a 1-2 thick wall
@@anthonyfortune1227 trim would be comically large. better would be the outside one that can be seen in buildings. It have usually 1m. Or put a jumper plates and do both. Also there is a trick in minecraft to make 2m thick walls appear less thick and add more dimentions to it. It can be adapted to lego as well.
@@Reegeed while i appreciate the feedback, there are bricks with studs on the side that tiles can be added to, which was my initial thought with that. Not comically large at all imo, but to each their own. And Im by no means a pro at building in minecraft, but it is my main hobby currently. While I know a few techniques that do such, the lack of explanation has me confused to exactly how you’re drawing comparisons
@@anthonyfortune1227 i initially thought about this but since the topic is to reduce wall thickness and side tile does little to no impact on this i assumed you had something different on mind. Apologies for confusion.
I’ll bet you could keep the courses of tile straight by running a credit card in the space between the tiles. Also this would make a beautiful diamond/checkerboard pattern.
This is such an awesome technique. I'm wondering how this could look if used SNOT as the side of a castle wall or something... I'll have to play with it. Thanks!
Looks super nice. Was wondering if you could tile it up with triangle tiles, but not sure if the math adds up. Perhaps you could wotk it out since your math is so much better than mine😂
I use my bank card to keep gaps aligned in other build patterns, looks like it should work here too; just swipe it through the gaps and it'll push everything perfectly straight
idea: seems like the tiles don't fit perfectly, there's some wiggle room, which can look bad. What if you start at the corner and slightly shift each tile clockwise by a small amount, getting bigger as you go from one corner to the opposite corner. I think it would make some sort of spiral or fractal pattern maybe
For the basic pattern, can't you simply align the tiles by sliding a (straight!) piece of cardboard or equivalent inbetween the rows of tiles? That will take way less effort than to try to carefully align every single tile manually as you place it and look way more consistent.
It's hard to gauge just looking at the screen, but for the evenly spaced tiles, do you think a glass panel would fit that gap to help straighten them out if they look a little off?
tilting those tiles to make a square does on either set leave a gap large enough for say a rod or something of the like to slide into that? maby for a coathangar or an imbeded sword or lightsaber blade or rods to make hinges for a door?
please correct me if im overlooking something, but why would it be necessary to cover the edges of the tiles when you showed us we could use triangular tiles to fill the gap to the wall? wouldn't those techniques be counter intuitive?
Is you doing have all those 2x2 jumpers and 1x1 plates and it's just for display, then you can support the tiles underneath simply by using 1x1 round plates.
I have been racking my brain all week about wefher a diamond pattern could be achieved. I'm currently building a moc and the flooring is what I'm hung up on, I did have one idea maybe you or some in the comments might know. Could the same pattern be accomplished by just using 2 x 2 triangles? They won't exactly be square, but I'm curious to know what patterns could they make. I don't have any triangle pieces to test it out. I just as I was typing this, if 4 triangles straight edges are put together, it'll be closer to a 4 x4. Right?
@@bricksculpt okay, I thought so. But it's good to know you have confirmed it. I almost just bought a ton of pieces. Thanks, your video was extremely helpful!
Question on the table mat / build mat would love to know where you got this or any info on this from anyone would be much appreciated and a length if available as well yes I know links don't work in comments but still could possibly help or at least to search term
This is way off subject. But I watch these etymology experts have fun with words and in this episode about collective nouns. Such as flock of seagulls or murder of crows or sleuth of bears. I was thinking you might have a good idea for a group of builders or a group of Afols. ruclips.net/video/K2MaE9tn1rk/видео.htmlsi=S_3XFpt5lI3WGAfU My thoughts were a greebling of builders And a yellow castle of Afols. You have to have something BETTER.
Those videos are very helpful for MOC builders because you explain the pieces and their functions in depth. Keep going.
Agreed
Thanks, will do!
Ditto for me
You can use the Sharp end Of a Brick seperator, and slide thru the gaps between the Tiles. So the Tiles automatically slide into the Right position
I use the side of a 2x6+, or side of a brick separator, to align several tiles and dots pefectly.
I also use a microfiber cloth to remove fingerprints as I build.
Fingerprints are a real problem I have lol
it looks like those tiles are spaced out by roughly the width of a credit card...
Indeed, by all means use a spacer to safe yourself the trouble of aligning it by eye and hand!
That's how we do it in real life as well :)
Yeah that works well. They actually arnt that hard to line up by hand. Also, these tiles and jumpers have affected my credit card enough already 😁
I'd guess it's the width of lego glass
the math on this one is pretty satisfying. The diagonal distance from the center of one stud to another is sqrt(2) (about 1.41), and the 2x2 jumper plate gives you a diagonal distance of about 1.5 stud gaps (center-to-center). 1.41 * 1.5 is about 2.12. So the gaps are approximately one-tenth of a center-to-center stud-gap!
Thanks for doing the math!
If you want to go all in on the second type of look (with the little squares), you can also use this technique:
Lay 2x2 jumper plates in a pattern where you go 2 forwards, 1 to the side; so that you leave 1x1 gaps. Or what some might call the "minecraft tree farm" pattern. You can put 1x1 plates into these gaps, but the pattern should be snug enough that it'll work as a floor without them.
Then on the jumper plates, you place 1x1 tiles (rotated by about 45°, it's actually the same angle as for the 3:4:5 Pythagorean triple; 53° or so), and in the gaps between the 1x1 plates you just drop 2x2 tiles.
Another thing you can play with is to use 1x1 round tiles instead of the 1x1 square tiles.
Just slide a old baseplate through the gaps to allign them.
Yes that works well!
Or the edge of a brick separator. I've heard tell it's super satisfying
Perhaps if you wanted to show a little more you could incorporate those 1x4 rail guide piece (used in the pt. 2 of the rail piece video) to help cover a couple of the edges without losing so much space.
I like the idea but I'm pretty sure it won't cover enough area.
Years and years ago i remember a brick show video where he used a credit card to straighten the tiles
Yeah that would work.
I found a neat floor pattern of 1x1 round tiles and 3396 2x2 tile with round cutouts. You put them on 1x8 (or however long) plates, alternating 1x1 and 2x2 attached on its middle stud, then you fill in between the 1x8 plates with 1x8 tiles, and it makes a triangular pattern of the 1x1s.
insane last game! 💪🏼
I just realized the Door Rail could be used as a Handrail. but I'd have to do a Mock-up to see how it would look on an angle for Stairs or whatnot...
By the way burning the floor tile techniques myself as well so far pretty cool stuff I've come up with not only that can be used for all sorts of things same ideas Mark of a quilt store for example or a seamstress shop having quotes on the walls as well as one could do this using the shoe slope and other parts techniques as well not just tiles but this is in my opinion probably less likely to become a part easily.
Also I've been doing a bit of the cheese slope and other Parts the stained glass as well
One of the ways I figure out how to do this that is a little more foolproof with well instead of having Parts go everywhere if the window gets bumped or something gets moved.
Is using the window frames and the transparent clear glass pieces two of them back to back to hold the pieces of the window in place one by one parts fit quite well sideways.
And also advantages you have the window frame as well as part of the Aesthetics.
And if building a barn I'm sure people have noticed how often times there is the quilt square on a barn and sometimes more than one!
And yes eventually building a large Lego Barn that will have a quote Square above the door.
Also tempted to have an rcx in there and one of the well sort of custom ways of doing a bit of sampled sound and yes this is possible!
Not very high fidelity but the sound effect would definitely work when the doors open triggers a touch sensor can you hear a cow moo.
And yes this is a Easter egg in a nod to the Fisher-Price Little People's Farm!
Have a plan to also do a small seen with a Lego train eventually with about minifigure scale cows that turn their heads as a TransPass and possibly a few moves in the background what's wrong and a bit of random movement as well.
And yes I know the NXT has better sound however it does not need to be the best quality and also well a little less expensive and well good use for something is possible this could be combined with the other as well still on the fence on that.
Sounds like a sweet build when and where can I see it when it happens?
You used the center of the tile to anchor it, wouldn't you be able to use triangular tiles as well if you used a corner of the tile? Probably the jumper spacing below needs to be adapted to match, but I think you might be able to tile an entire space without much loss in that way.
Yes I think that works but I think you can only use the triangles on one side.
@@bricksculpt There may be jumper configurations that let you "fake" one or two of the other edges. But it will definitely not line up perfectly. And I'd give it a 50:50 chance that it'll still require you to to have the walls "floating" on the tiles.
Tried it with jumpers and pretty much every way no luck for me.
You can run the flat tip of a brick seperator between the tiles, to straighten them out evenly
I like that
could use a thin bit of card to line the tiles up when your done.
I’ve been trying to figure out a method to do that for so long. Didn’t know it would be that simple. Good design!
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!!
You could use the original door rail method if you mount it on a 2x2 plate with studs on opposing corners
3:30 the gap is exactly half a plate, so you could correct them by swiping a window piece through them
That could make something cool with those slotted in there.
@bricksculpt This technique has a lot of potential with how many modified tiles there are as well, for example you could leave out one jumper and have a banch of nexo knight shields point into each other. Theres also a similar technique to this with 1x1 plates on 1x1 snot bricks laying on their back with i think just one plate inbetween
I need to explore this topic further maybe another video coming.
If the gap is indeed a "round" number in lego metrics, then you can also turn the whole pattern by another 45 degrees and tile up to the walls because there is some round number of tiles where the gaps add up to one whole piece. That way you don't loose as much of the pattern - and most places I've been to align tiles to the walls anyway. It would look like you've just tiled the room normally on first glance, but only on closer inspection will you notice the grout lines
This is great, I wouldn't have thought of the angled pattern. It will be more pieces, but it might be neat to try this technique with the 2x2 tile corner piece!
Thanks!
You can thin it out to 2 or even 1 thick wall with a little of redesign of a wall base. I don't know how to describe it tho.
my thoughts were attempting to make a trim around the floor, like most/all houses have anyways would help remedy. you could also do a brick half wall for the exterior that comes out a half brick or so on the other side, and still be able to retain a 1-2 thick wall
@@anthonyfortune1227 trim would be comically large. better would be the outside one that can be seen in buildings. It have usually 1m. Or put a jumper plates and do both. Also there is a trick in minecraft to make 2m thick walls appear less thick and add more dimentions to it. It can be adapted to lego as well.
@@Reegeed while i appreciate the feedback, there are bricks with studs on the side that tiles can be added to, which was my initial thought with that. Not comically large at all imo, but to each their own. And Im by no means a pro at building in minecraft, but it is my main hobby currently. While I know a few techniques that do such, the lack of explanation has me confused to exactly how you’re drawing comparisons
@@anthonyfortune1227 i initially thought about this but since the topic is to reduce wall thickness and side tile does little to no impact on this i assumed you had something different on mind. Apologies for confusion.
I’ll bet you could keep the courses of tile straight by running a credit card in the space between the tiles.
Also this would make a beautiful diamond/checkerboard pattern.
Yeah credit card works well.
You can run the blunt side of a butter knife or something else between them to straighten them, Rivendell roof style
love these unique technique videos
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying them.
This is such an awesome technique. I'm wondering how this could look if used SNOT as the side of a castle wall or something... I'll have to play with it. Thanks!
Yeah that would look really cool!
Looks super nice. Was wondering if you could tile it up with triangle tiles, but not sure if the math adds up. Perhaps you could wotk it out since your math is so much better than mine😂
The triangles don't attach in the pattern. Haven't found a way to do it.
When you finish laying out the tiles, twist 1 or 2 so that it looks like a realistic badly. played tile floor as well as upsetting those with OCD!
Yes I did that in my trials. Looks like an old worn out patio.
Pretty cool ideas… how about combining your “ least liked piece”
Already playing that out in my head lol
I use my bank card to keep gaps aligned in other build patterns, looks like it should work here too; just swipe it through the gaps and it'll push everything perfectly straight
If I swipe it will it charge me? I already spend too much on LEGO.
It could be interesting to use part 35787 for the edge, but I do not know how you could connect that.
It doesn't connect easily. Figure it out and post a video :) I'd love to see it!
You could make a cool roof with this too
Yes I have been testing that aswell
this could be super useful for building a pool or some sorts of Poolrooms-scenery!
That would be cool!
idea: seems like the tiles don't fit perfectly, there's some wiggle room, which can look bad. What if you start at the corner and slightly shift each tile clockwise by a small amount, getting bigger as you go from one corner to the opposite corner. I think it would make some sort of spiral or fractal pattern maybe
That pattern would be cool. There's definitely room to expand on this topic when I get the time to experiment more.
For the basic pattern, can't you simply align the tiles by sliding a (straight!) piece of cardboard or equivalent inbetween the rows of tiles? That will take way less effort than to try to carefully align every single tile manually as you place it and look way more consistent.
I wonder if you could find a Playing Card to use as a Spacer to keep things straight?
Yeah that would work
Nice! It looks really cool and classy, though I think it takes a bit too many parts, as you said.
Yeah true
It's hard to gauge just looking at the screen, but for the evenly spaced tiles, do you think a glass panel would fit that gap to help straighten them out if they look a little off?
I will have to try that. I think it will fit, but it will be close.
tilting those tiles to make a square does on either set leave a gap large enough for say a rod or something of the like to slide into that? maby for a coathangar or an imbeded sword or lightsaber blade or rods to make hinges for a door?
The space is smaller than a rod for sure.
I think you can also finish the edges with trianglular tiles
The triangle tiles don't have a center stud holder so they don't attach in the pattern.
please correct me if im overlooking something, but why would it be necessary to cover the edges of the tiles when you showed us we could use triangular tiles to fill the gap to the wall? wouldn't those techniques be counter intuitive?
You would think so but the triangle tiles lack a central connection point making them not fit in that grid pattern.
For the edges, can't you somehow use the 35787 Tile Modified 2 x 2 Triangular?
The connection points on the bottom make it not fit the pattern we'll. At least I couldn't figure it out.
Is you doing have all those 2x2 jumpers and 1x1 plates and it's just for display, then you can support the tiles underneath simply by using 1x1 round plates.
LEGO GENIUS
Lego Jesus?
Lol thanks
U can use this technique to create stone walking path on house, it would be very nice with grass sourraunding it
Yeah I agree!
Would make a heck of a pool floor.
I love this idea!!!!!
Right?!?! Then use a similar technique on a small scale for the tile edge that every pool has at the top. Great idea!! 👍
I have been racking my brain all week about wefher a diamond pattern could be achieved. I'm currently building a moc and the flooring is what I'm hung up on,
I did have one idea maybe you or some in the comments might know. Could the same pattern be accomplished by just using 2 x 2 triangles? They won't exactly be square, but I'm curious to know what patterns could they make. I don't have any triangle pieces to test it out.
I just as I was typing this, if 4 triangles straight edges are put together, it'll be closer to a 4 x4. Right?
Haven't had good luck with the triangles in this method. Having them lack a venter stud hold makes them difficult to use.
@@bricksculpt okay, I thought so. But it's good to know you have confirmed it. I almost just bought a ton of pieces. Thanks, your video was extremely helpful!
You're welcome thanks for the support!
Question on the table mat / build mat would love to know where you got this or any info on this from anyone would be much appreciated and a length if available as well yes I know links don't work in comments but still could possibly help or at least to search term
Its from rebrickable I did a video on it ruclips.net/video/IxxhpCoinFg/видео.html
Anyone else having comments act super wonky right now
woah
What he said at the end of every video? French is it?
@Bob Brickman
I can’t even tile one layer and your casually putting tiles on 2 layer
This is way off subject. But I watch these etymology experts have fun with words and in this episode about collective nouns. Such as flock of seagulls or murder of crows or sleuth of bears. I was thinking you might have a good idea for a group of builders or a group of Afols.
ruclips.net/video/K2MaE9tn1rk/видео.htmlsi=S_3XFpt5lI3WGAfU
My thoughts were a greebling of builders
And a yellow castle of Afols.
You have to have something BETTER.
I would say it's a click of afols. Like clicking bricks together.
A click of Afols is perfect. It rhymes with clique too.
11:35 When you get the feeling they're only saying it so they look good to convince you "see I think it's alright so it should be alright"
All your bricks are belong to us