I am working on a medium size pirate moc that will have a decent section of open ocean, I am using the mils system for the land portion but can't figure out how to properly connect the tiles in a large open ocean context where you don't have any land portion on the modules for technic pins. 

Practically, I can just connect the baseplates I have picked out with the trans clear tiles I am accumulating but they won't come apart cleanly. Is there a proper way to accomplish this? I would even do a typical MILS plate tiles instead of bricks to give elevation if there was just a way to easily connect and disconnect them.

7 hours ago, redeemed said:

I am working on a medium size pirate moc that will have a decent section of open ocean, I am using the mils system for the land portion but can't figure out how to properly connect the tiles in a large open ocean context where you don't have any land portion on the modules for technic pins. 

Practically, I can just connect the baseplates I have picked out with the trans clear tiles I am accumulating but they won't come apart cleanly. Is there a proper way to accomplish this? I would even do a typical MILS plate tiles instead of bricks to give elevation if there was just a way to easily connect and disconnect them.

I see no other way of connecting the ocean plates than using overlapping tiles.

Is it possible for you to raise the ocean level, so you can connect the ocean plates with technic pins? That's the way i would use for a large layout. It's more parts intensive though.

1. trans blue tiles
2. plate
3. brick / technic brick
4. baseplate

Here is an example of what i mean from a Rogue Bricks collab (picture by Jonas / stonewars)

Exta layers of bricks and tiles (as @Yperio_Bricks presented from their collab) not only enables connecting BP with technic pins but also helps with stress effects.
In 2020 My LUG made viking collab diorama with big portion of the sea, we used BP + plate + tile to make water. BPs were connected with overlapping 1x2 tiles (the whole sea was made with 1x2 tiles).

My part of the sea was ~6BPs. To make connections between BPs stronger I have added rocks in some of the corners.

Due to stress the BP were wrapping around at the edges. Perhaps more irregular placement of the tiles could help with that. When they are lined up the stress effects of each part (and each line) add up.

 

 

Edited August 22, 2024Aug 22 by BardDandelion

12 hours ago, BardDandelion said:

Exta layers of bricks and tiles (as @Yperio_Bricks presented from their collab) not only enables connecting BP with technic pins but also helps with stress effects.
In 2020 My LUG made viking collab diorama with big portion of the sea, we used BP + plate + tile to make water. BPs were connected with overlapping 1x2 tiles (the whole sea was made with 1x2 tiles).

My part of the sea was ~6BPs. To make connections between BPs stronger I have added rocks in some of the corners.

Due to stress the BP were wrapping around at the edges. Perhaps more irregular placement of the tiles could help with that. When they are lined up the stress effects of each part (and each line) add up.

 

 

Sorry, what is BP? I am new to this community and don't know all the abbreviations yet

5 hours ago, redeemed said:

Sorry, what is BP? I am new to this community and don't know all the abbreviations yet

Baseplate

Thanks for the help, I guess the answer is just to make the ocean with full height MILS plates. 

It's definitely better for stability of the whole diorama but costs significantly more.

It does give the opportunity to create a more profound ocean waves effect though.

26 minutes ago, GeoBrick said:

It does give the opportunity to create a more profound ocean waves effect though.

Not to mention putting things under the water using trans plates.  Hidden reefs, giant fish about to swallow boats whole and whatnot.  Hard to work in a single brick height, but a really cool effect when done well.