It is applied knowledge of LEGO bricks and parts dimensions.
Think those parts not in studs and bricks, but units. A brick 1x1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1x1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end. And when you keep thinking in those units, SNOT and other building techniques suddenly get much easier.
FYI, you need to escape the asterisks with backslashes, otherwise there are rendered as italicization markdown:
A brick 1\*1is5 units wide and6 units high. A plate is2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone isset back by one unit. A slope 33° 1\*1is4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end.
Rendered as:
A brick 1*1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1*1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end.
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It is applied knowledge of LEGO bricks and parts dimensions.
Think those parts not in studs and bricks, but units. A brick 1x1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1x1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end. And when you keep thinking in those units, SNOT and other building techniques suddenly get much easier.
FYI, you need to escape the asterisks with backslashes, otherwise there are rendered as italicization markdown:
A brick 1\*1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1\*1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end.Rendered as:
A brick 1*1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1*1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end.