Here we will attempt to collect a compendium of tutorials and examples of various building techniques, concentrating on techniques mostly likely to be of interest to Historica members. This is not intended to be a tutorial itself, just a set of links to other information on Eurobricks or other sites.
General
- You may also want to look at this Advanced Building Techniques topic on EB
- Derfel Cardarn's Guide to Building a Medieval Village
- Deborah Higdon's Flickr photostream is a wealth of ideas
Round Walls and Towers
- John Boozer's tile-and-tank-tread towers and walls
- Deborah Higdon has a similar technique , using 1-2/1-4 brackets instead of tank treads
- Derfel Cadarn uses hinge plates and 1x1 round plates or bricks alternating with 1x1 bricks with a stud on the side in his round tower tutorial
- 1x2 log bricks
- 1x2 regular bricks slightly stressed, only for very large radius curves
- 1x plates alternating with round 1x1 plates
- 2x2 round plates
- using Technic 1x2 thin liftarms
- Nannan Zhang's hinge-bracket-tile variation
- Bikicsmilan's technique using old gears
- Steve DeCraemer and Hinckley's three headlight bricks and a 1x1 round brick with covering 1x4 tile technique
- Using 2x4 wedge bricks
Roofs
- lots of good techniques in this EB roofing discussion
- John Boozer's 'round' roof made up of six sections of SNOTted slopes
- Deborah Higdon has an interesting small turret roof, using SNOTted curved slopes and dishes
- Steve DeCraemer's flags technique
- Derfel Cadarn shows how add a proper-looking rake to the end of roof made of sloped bricks (see other photos in the Flickr photostream too, and here too, and here, and here). The 'rake' is the inclined end of the roof between the eaves and the ridge; some people call it a 'gable', but technically the gable is the triangular portion of the wall below the roof (and below the rake)
- Overlapping tiles
- Dutch gables
- Angled plates with curved slopes to look like thatch
- Horizontally stacked log bricks
- Curved bricks
- Dr Rod's curved slope end brick technique
- Buurli Burri's staggered tile technique
- Back to back cheese slopes technique
Trees
- Comprehensive tree building thread on EB
- Derfel Cadarn's hinge brick and technic trunk trees
- Derfel Cadarn's flex tube trees
- Pillar supports with bushes on top
- Mephistopheles' telescope trunk technique
- Various techniques from Jareth: hinge plates with green tiles, curved bricks with tiles
- Masa of Kaliphlin's palm technique
SNOT
- the Unofficial Advanced Building Techniques Manual (mostly SNOT, but other stuff too)
Landscaping and Rockscaping
- Swamps with plant stems and trans-green tiles
Water
- Derfel Cadarn's waterfall with SNOT trans-clear plates
- Gabe's waves made out of slopes and trans-clear plates
Microscale
Bridges
Brick-built Animals
- Crane or egret
Other
- Weapons, especially hammers and maces