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Hey wow look at that! wowie!
Eric
In lugnet.build, Eric Lind writes:
> Well, after a rather longish break from building, I crafted a domed
> cathedral, somewhat in the style of St. Peter's in Rome. I was mostly
> striving for large architectural forms, rather than more elaborate details
> (that, and I got tired of not being able to use my living room), so it is
> Gothic in form, but very plain in terms of external ornamentation. The
> piece count got up into the 10,000+ range.
>
> I built the dome first, largely to see if I could do a fairly round form.
> Originally, I was going to use a set of computer generated plans I came
> across on the web a while back, but I can no longer find them (any clues? -
> it was a round globe, but a hemisphere worked great for domes). I resorted
> to graph paper and drawing a bunch of concentric circles. The result is not
> bad, but not entirely satisfying. I then got motivated to build the rest of
> the cathedral around it. As it was too hard to match up the top of the
> central vault with the bottom of the dome, the dome can be lifted off of the
> rest of the structure. A few pieces were built around it to keep it from
> wiggling around too much.
>
> The roofs of the four wings are built on baseplates and are also removable.
> I wanted to be able to show off the interior arches, plus, I didn't have
> enough regular flats to cover that much square footage.
>
> The URL is http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5341
>
> LMKWYT
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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