Another idea for a new Playmobil construction system

[playmofire]

Apologies for the long delay in getting back to this topic but the day after my last post I damaged a finger which meant I couldn't do the extra drawings or the mock-up of the wall unit.  After that, the planned house move intervened plus some work on where we are living now, and so it's only today that I was able to do some rough sketches of the way a roof could be fitted and revise the design of the corner connectors so that they are more compact and so that the 45 degree one actually works.  I suddenly noticed that the original sketch just gave a 90 degree corner with a short 45 degree angled wall section.  The roof shown is a pointed would be a pointed one but it could just as easily be flat with a parapet or a pyramid style as the connection system in all cases would be the same using the slot on the top of the wall unit and a projecting connector on the roof.

Here are the sketches.

First the roof system:



and then the revised corner connectors:



Roof units would come in full and half units and would be connectable with the same tongue and groove system as the walls - i.e. the left hand edge of the roof has a slot in and the right hand edge a projecting tongue.  At the right hand edge of a roof, the tongue would slot into the gable end and at the left hand edge a connector like that used to connect walls vertically would be used to connect the gable to the roof.


For those who read this post early on, I have now uploaded the revised roof unit sketch.

[Wolf Knight]

Very brilliant Gordon !!! I think this can work very nicely!!!

[playmofire]

Very brilliant Gordon !!! I think this can work very nicely!!!

Thank you, Panos.  I shall try to do a sketch of the individual roof pieces tomorrow.

[cachalote]

i asked sylvia  to move this thread to this section so that it could create some synergies with:

"system x designer wanted" - http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=5760.0
"steck designer wanted" - http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4514.0
"a new construction system for playmobil... " - http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4623.0

let´s see if it will work, steck and system-x together. 

[WarriorOfToys]

Sounds good Gordon,
Looks really nice too.

But I can see only one problem...
The walls are really think,
It would take a lot of plastic to create this.

[playmofire]

Sounds good Gordon,
Looks really nice too.

But I can see only one problem...
The walls are really think,
It would take a lot of plastic to create this.

Thank you, WoT.  As for the thickness, the sketches are not to scale.  I used a scale which made it easy for me to do the drawings quickly.  I should have put on them that they weren't to scale on reflection.   

[WarriorOfToys]

Thank you, WoT.  As for the thickness, the sketches are not to scale.  I used a scale which made it easy for me to do the drawings quickly.  I should have put on them that they weren't to scale on reflection.   

Oh ok,
But still, the way the structures would need to be made in order to work
(Especially with that roof)
They would need to be pretty thick.

Maybe This is a good thing.
One of the things I liked about SysX was that it had these slopes at the top and bottom,
Maybe that is what your system needs.

[playmofire]

If there were tiles moulded in I think no thicker than Steck would work, but that's a problem for the engineers not the designer!