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Re: Romanesque Church
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Sat, 26 Oct 2002 21:16:21 GMT
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(Sean Devolites)
> How long did it take you to build?
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 wasn't that intensive. I built the tower first, from
the top down, pausing to get more grey bricks of the right size and 1x1
round bricks. Then I started from the ground up... I used my own Lego graph
paper to draw the front elevation and one of the window bays. Building the
side chapel was the most difficult part. The door is more or less based on
the real church but since the church goes into the original rectory there,
the rest of it is my own design. I needed something that fit in with the
architecture and could also support the relatively heavy tower over an open
space! After about four false starts I settled on this design.
I built the church diagonally, in a way--the front was built to the top long
before the rest, building back just far enough to get good structure, then I
built the sides up, then the apse. I got it finished up to the roofline and
still had no idea how I was going to roof the apse.
Right before I started on it, I was at Steve Ringe's house to pick some
things up and he had a number of domes he had built with just bricks. This
inspired me to graph out a quarter-sphere, a little bit squashed, for the
apse roof, using both bricks and plates. Before that I was planning to
angle some plates as I had with my medieval cathedral a year prior (
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=82586 ). It was also Steve
who had inspired me to use plates for the door, although the hinge
arrangement is my own. The hinges are inside, hidden from view--I'll get
pics as I take it apart.
(Jonathan Lopes)
> The only thing I don't like is the use of white for the base layer--it is
> clear to me why white was chosen (from the real pix), but I think I would
> have gone with dark gray, or possibly would have thought about and tried the
> light light gray from the mosaic.
The real reason I used white was because I had the quarter-round 4x4 bricks
in that color to make the rounded entrance steps like the real church had.
The color of the real church is a little hard to categorize; in some lights
it looks grey, in others tan. After buying a number of clearanced Yodas
from Target I contemplated rebuilding the church in tan mixed with some dary
grey blocks, and regular grey for the lighter highlights and arches. It
remains to be seen if I ever get around to this...
Peter
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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