Is this possible?

GreenBricks2003

I saw this render in a Reddit post earlier today (image down below), showcasing a nice looking brickheadz moc, and the guy who posted it had designed it so that instructions for the model could be sold on a website he was part of. However, I cannot work out how the brown straps of the medal have been built, and I'm pretty sure they would be impossible in a real model. The designer told me that he used 2x2 brackets, which are 0.5 plates thick, but with a tile on top, this would be too large to fit in the gap. He tells me that he has built the model in real life, but won't share the technique because the only way to obtain instructions is to buy them, which I am not willing to do for a model that I'm not going to build anyway. So, is this possible? I can see no way in which a technique like this would work with Lego bricks.

CCC

I just tried it, I couldn't get it to fit. In the render, those sides to the bracket look very thin. By measuring the gap, I can fit in one bracket side, a tile thickness, a plate width and another tile thickness. But the extra bracket side doesn't fit.

GreenBricks2003

CCC said:

I just tried it, I couldn't get it to fit. In the render, those sides to the bracket look very thin. By measuring the gap, I can fit in one bracket side, a tile thickness, a plate width and another tile thickness. But the extra bracket side doesn't fit.

That's what I tried, and that's what I think the author says he did! It's bewildering to me, that this guy thinks he's made it work, but I can't figure out how for the life of me.

Aleydita

Is it possible the tile and whatever the vertical brown thing is aren't actually connected? The tile could be a 1x3 connected by only one stud to something within the model? Not sure what the vertical brown thing could be? First thought was a minifigure neck bracket but this seems to be twice the length.

560Heliport

I think it's fake, and the "designer" is just trying to sell instructions that are impossible to actually build.

Paperballpark

Yeah you'd be trying to get two plates and two half plates into a space which will only fit two plates and one half plate.

It looks very odd anyway, that black brick with the medal on is 2 and a half plates high! There's no such piece.

Oh and those brown brackets are too long.

Basically it's bull.

graphite

Definitely fake.  1 plate width is 2.5 plates when they are turned on their side.  The brackets are half a plate, so side to side there in the 2 stud area between the yellow sides, you have .5, 1, 2.5, 1, .5 which is 5.5 plates "heights".  Where the gold/black/tan tiles/plates are stacked in the middle only has 2 plate "heights" available, and there is something there that is 2.5.  Looks like the brackets rendered there are actually 1/4 plate thickness instead of 1/2 like they should be which is why other people think they look thin as well.

CCC

I think I have it.

It is not a bracket, but a 2x2 hinge top (6134). The tiles go onto the side of the hinge away from the hinge, and the hinge part presumably is buried so you cannot see it (it cannot be a 1x2 hinge top due to the headlight brick in the way).

In fact, it is reasonably tight, you might not even need a hinge brick part to attach to anything. Friction holds it reasonably well.
 

CCC

Paperballpark said:

It looks very odd anyway, that black brick with the medal on is 2 and a half plates high! There's no such piece.

Isn't it just a jumper, sideways.

GreenBricks2003

CCC said:

I think I have it.

It is not a bracket, but a 2x2 hinge top (6134). The tiles go onto the side of the hinge away from the hinge, and the hinge part presumably is buried so you cannot see it (it cannot be a 1x2 hinge top due to the headlight brick in the way).

In fact, it is reasonably tight, you might not even need a hinge brick part to attach to anything. Friction holds it reasonably well.
 

Oh man, you bloody genius. I've just checked that this works, and apologised to the poor guy who I've been pestering with replies on Reddit. Thank you so much for solving this!

560Heliport

I stand corrected. Brilliant!

drdavewatford

CCC said:

Paperballpark said:

It looks very odd anyway, that black brick with the medal on is 2 and a half plates high! There's no such piece.

Isn't it just a jumper, sideways.

^ This.

Paperballpark

CCC said:

Paperballpark said:

It looks very odd anyway, that black brick with the medal on is 2 and a half plates high! There's no such piece.

Isn't it just a jumper, sideways.

Oh yes, so it is!

CCC

I might have a go at building the whole thing when I get time. It looks nice but is probably a mess inside.