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Hi Eric,
That is a REALLY big model. I think that the dome seems "round" enough.
The scale is so big that the bricks seem to melt into a continuous sheet.
The overall building layout looks like it a bit more of a mix of Romanesque
and Renaissance (sort of like Florence Cathedral
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Florence_Cathedral.html ) than
Gothic, but its nice.
I like triple arches used in lower part of the transept. These strike me as
a Gothic features although I can't place them on any buildings. Did you
come up with this pattern yourself or did you get it from an existing
building?
I'm assuming that the color differences are due to lack of bricks.
Interestingly enough, these remind me even more of Florence Cathedral. You
can't see it in the picture I linked above (click on the picture and you
will start to see some of this detail in the larger version), but the
cathedrals in Florence all have multi-colored marbel on the front. Whether
concsious or not, you have replicated this feel to some extent, especially
on the dome.
How did you attach the octogon pieces together? It looks like you used
plates sticking out at various points and secured them with one stud on each
edge.
Eric Lind <ericthelind@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:GG2Kx8.DF@lugnet.com...
> 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 resorte • d
> 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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