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Fantasy Fort - architectural question

RCTSpankyRCTSpanky Posts: 850
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I know, the name of the product is "Fantasy Fort", but it this maybe that's the reason, why the construction is so unrealistic?

How did one get all the treelogs that way together that they overlap on all edges? Apart from that they all look totally identical. All parts of this Fort are just quick copies of maybe five base elements. Not, what I expected for a stand-alone non-sale price of 20 bucks.

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979
    edited December 1969

    With square timber you can do it like this, guess you can do the same with round logs but it wouldn't look like on the promo and it wouldn't be very strong. In any case the whole thing is not done right.
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  • DaWaterRatDaWaterRat Posts: 2,885
    edited December 1969

    You guys never played with Lincoln Logs?

    Not saying that the fort is perfectly accurate or anything, but the structure is possible

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  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:
    With square timber you can do it like this, guess you can do the same with round logs but it wouldn't look like on the promo and it wouldn't be very strong. In any case the whole thing is not done right.

    True. If you notch 1/2 way into one side of each timber, you get stacked squares, with the timbers in each square only locking into each other. Each square can slide freely over the one below. Attackers (or a strong wind) will push your whole fort over.

    You need to notch 1/4 the way into both sides of each timber. Then each one locks into both the corner above and below, and you get, well, a fort.

    http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/t/log-fort-side-rear-view-clatsop-replica-showing-construction-detail-simplicity-striking-no-windows-were-33827224.jpg

  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    edited December 1969

    DaWaterRat said:
    You guys never played with Lincoln Logs?
    Yes. And more than the creator of the fantasy fort did, apparently.
    Not saying that the fort is perfectly accurate or anything, but the structure is possible

    Look closely at the Lincoln Log structures.

    Notice how the east-west logs start with a 1/2 log, and all the north-south logs are 1/2 log higher than the east-west logs. That is what is possible, and what the creator of that fantasy "fort" did not do.

    There's also the issue of the substantial "roofs" on the four turrets, where the weight of a bunch of full logs is born by two 1/2 logs, and it really can't connect to the uprights.

  • jpb06tjpb06t Posts: 272
    edited December 1969

    Google for "log house construction techniques" and go to the image search; you will have enough to study. Log are definitely not all at the same level (I presume that this is the reason why it is called fantasy fort :roll:).

    Who knows, I might wrap my sleeves up and create a freebie (of a non-so-fantasy fort).

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited March 2015

    And probably in addition to all of the above the metal caps which cover the log ends (probably to ease texturing) and the metal connectors which join or reinforce the logs... Cool looking, but rather unreal since most forts of this type are built from local natural resources.
    The "Fantasy" part is probably just a cover word for "not historically or architecturally accurate, but sorta fun nonetheless".

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  • XenomorphineXenomorphine Posts: 2,421
    edited December 1969

    I never even noticed the intersection thing until reading this message... Now I can't help seeing it. :down:

    Agreed, it should have been more of a 'vertical overlapping' construction.

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