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    SNOT - What's the commotion about? —Todd A. Schroeder
   I've heard many builders incorporate the SNOT method into their creations. As far as I can tell this means that the Lego piece is turned on its side or upside down. Am I missing something because this does not seem impressive to me at all. What's (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: SNOT - What's the commotion about? —Bryan Wong
     (...) Well in using a piece on its side, or upside down, one can achieve new geometry, new shapes, new orientations etc. I guess the possibilities are endless. Too bad I have little or no experience using SNOT-techniques. -Bryan (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
    
         Re: SNOT - What's the commotion about? —A. Mark Wilburn
     (...) Oh really? What about the plane you did for last year's town comp with the upside down windows? (sure nobody else could see it, but the SNOT was there). I'm sure it'll simple happen when the need arises (wait till you try to build more stuff (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: SNOT - What's the commotion about? —Calum Tsang
     (...) It's not a big deal at all for Technic builders, who are very familiar with building on all aspects and directions. However, for Town and Train builders, this is a major departure from the way Trains have normally been done. Building on side (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
    
         RE: SNOT - What's the commotion about? —Bram Lambrecht
     (...) SNOT techniques in non-Technic building are generally quite different from Technic construction because the goals are different. The goal in non-Technic design is to fill in gaps as well as possible while adding lots of detail, and while using (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: SNOT - What's the commotion about? —Tobbe Arnesson
   (...) Here's a pretty good page about SNOT by Holger Matthews (HoMo): (URL) in German but Babelfish can make understandable English out of it (at least to me who knows a tad of German): (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: SNOT - What's the commotion about? —Thomas Avery
   (...) <snip> Uh, that's "HoMa". He might not appreciate "HoMo", if you know what I mean. ;-) TJ (22 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: SNOT - What's the commotion about? —Tobbe Arnesson
   (...) Uhm, sorry HoMa was a quick post during lunch .) /Tobbe (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
 

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