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Re: Romanesque Church
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Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:02:40 GMT
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Great Job Peter!  Its a beautiful church!  It looks accurate,
and even if you left off a few things, it still looks detailed.
How long did it take you to build?
Hasta La Vista, Sean

In lugnet.castle, Peter Guenther writes:
> Some of you may have seen pictures from MichLUG's July 2002 GATS appearance
> of my church model.  The original, St. Mary's of Redford Catholic Church in
> Detroit MI, was designed in the 1920s by the architect Ralph Adams Cram in a
> French Romanesque style.
> 
> I have finally taken some photos of the model by itself, which are now
> public at:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27433
> 
> Photos of the real church are included for comparison.
> 
> The model is 20" by 30" roughly and follows the real church itself but omits
> the convent and rectory on opposite sides.  The model is also selectively
> compressed--the real church is 8 bays long, the model 6.  I have no idea how
> many bricks are involved but hope to find out when I take it apart.
> 
> Because of the Romanesque details, I thought this would be of interest to
> Castle fans as well as Town.  The model will appear again this weekend at
> another train show appearance by MichLUG.
> 
> PLMKWYT!
> 
> Peter



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  Re: Romanesque Church
 
(Sean Devolites) (...) Well, I started it on April 15th, when I went over to get the photos of the real church. It was done about a week or two before the GATS show July 12th... so the easy answer is about two and a half months. Actual building time (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)

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