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My son has just produced this from his bag and it has to be in for Monday morning. I am riding all day tomorrow and he has no hope of his mum helping him do it so over to you STW.
He needs to build a shelter for Lego figures that will :
Take a 1kg weight being placed on its roof
Keep them dry when 200 ml of water is poured over it
Will survive a 30 second blast from an electric fan
Any suggestions as to how I can sort this out with a quick, simple structure ????
Cheers STW,
Simon
Large mixing bowl from the kitchen.
Bricks and cement, or if you don't want to have to carry it for him, carbon fibre.
Tupperware lunch box with a brick tied to it.
Inverted plastic bucket fits the bill. Accessorise wiv sum felt pen.
How powerful is the fan?
Flowerpot with no hole?
pint glass collected from the pub tonight
Make out from lego and put cling film under the roof
Make some salt dough http://www.ancientnile.co.uk/saltdough.php
and re-enforce with some wire of some sort. A latticed chicken wire would be good but even strips of wire place in the the correct manor to spread the load would work, think re-enforced concrete structure. Varnish when finished for water proofing.
Has he been given any tips in lesson? Might want to crib that if so, or they'll know dad did it.
Make a papier mâché dome over the outside of a mixing bowl then cut out an arched segment at some point to allow your Lego folks to go in then paint or varnish it.
Sorted thanks STW.
Old sweet tub with a doorway cut in, weighted down so the fan doesn't blow it sideways and covered in baking foil.
Thebrick gets the award for most engineered suggestion, top work fella.