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Re: The Gothic Cathedral
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Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:34:21 GMT
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In lugnet.build.arch, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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Well I have been working on and off on this since 1996, so it is about time I
posted some pictures.... but my Gothic Cathedral is (relatively) complete.
With 20,000 pieces, the cathedral is based on a composite of 4 European
cathedrals (that I have visited). They are Britain’s Canterbury Cathedral and
York Minster (ironically the top 2 churches in the hierarchy of The Church of
England), and France’s Rheim’s Cathedral (located in Champagne province, it
was the coronation church of the French Kings) and Paris’s Notre Dame.
Since I started this in 1996 (before Bricklink), I chose red because I had all
the necessary arches (from 35 London Bus sets, and many other basic sets).
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332748
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332749
In the Great East and Great West Windows, I chose a SNOT technique for Gothic
tracery windows that I first saw on Lugnet about 6 years ago (can’t remember
the originator). It uses clear bricks and plates, interspersed with red
plates. Unfortuntely the shadow around the arch prevents much of the detail
from coming thru.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332750
The cathedral is about 4 1/2 feet long, with a 6 bay Choir, 1 bay crossing and
a 10 bay Nave for a total of 17 bays, plus a chapel at the end of the choir.
The Transept with crossing is 7 bays. The Nave, Choir and Transepts all have 3
aisles. I opted for the square ended English Gothic, rather than the French
Gothic with radiating chapels. The flying buttresses are made from a lot of
1x2 and 1x2 inverse red slopes. And in the crossing tower, the great windows
are made not from clear bricks, but 1x4x2 windshields! Even close up the
tower looks realistic, the windshields in no way detract. I had enough clear
bricks (I think I had 15,000 before Bricklink came online) to do the crossing
tower, but the windshields looked so good, I opted not to use bricks for the
windows.
Here is a picture of it while still under construction, with an experimental
spire, which I opted not to use.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332751
In the future I will be building auxilliary buildings, such as a cloister, a
Bishops palace, canon houses, and perhaps some semblence of a fortified
enclosure with a grand gateway.
Also, this cathedral will be pictured on the front of my LEGO CD (but a much
better photo).
Enjoy!
Gary Istok
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Hi Gary,
Do you have any better photos of this? It is almost impossible to see the
details of the cathedral and I would very much like to as they all look very
interesting. The crossribbing in the two top towers in this pic
(http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332750) looks particularly
neat.
Perhaps if you do post new pictures you should crosspost to .announce.moc since
this group seems to be rather quiet and a model this impressive deserves a wider
audience.
Tim
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