How do they transition from horizontal joint to vertical?

[morganm]

Here's an example of a technique I'm trying to replicate. Pretty sure I have all the pieces but despite all of my effort I can't figure it out!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=418188


Lets take the arm for closer examination. In particular it's right arm as we can clearly see the shoulder assembly and the elbow assembly:


On the cockpit chassis we see the clips holding onto the T pin. The shaft of the T pin goes horizontal into some brick in the arm.... OK, got it.

What I don't get is how to transition from where the T pin interface there is horizontal to now a similar T pin interface vertically in the elbow.

Please enlighten me, thanks!

[Silent-sigfig]

headlight bricks

[aoffan23]

What Silent said. You can see the half plate space at the bottom of the shoulder, it's a little rectangular black space. All put together with a 1x3 inverse slope and the plate and cheese at the front.

[morganm]

That's what I figured but I just don't get it.... please elaborate.

I guess you mean one headlight brick standing vertical with the T pin shaft going into it right? But then how does the horizontal headlight brick interface with the vertical one to allow the vertical T pint shaft to go into the headlight brick?

[aoffan23]

The red things are the SNOT studs on the headlight bricks. You just put one horizontally, one vertically. Not really that hard to figure out.

[morganm]

What is interlocking the two headlight bricks?

[Dertyyy]

they are on the same plate, just turned 90 degrees. there is no SNOT in the connection of the bricks at all.

[aoffan23]

All put together with a 1x3 inverse slope and the plate and cheese at the front.

It's just like Dertyyy said, they're just laid out like plain bricks.

[morganm]

OOhhhh kay... got it. Thanks guys!

[Gungnir]

What I want to know is: How the hell does everyone get away with such tiny cockpits? Mine are always at least 6 studs wide.

[OneEye589]

Why six studs wide? I usually only make mine 4 studs wide; middle being down for the fig to sit and the outside two raised for the arms to rest on.

[Robot Monkey]

Why six studs wide? I usually only make mine 4 studs wide; middle being down for the fig to sit and the outside two raised for the arms to rest on.

This is what I do.