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Re: MOC: Notre Dame, Paris
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Date: 
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:34:25 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Blewett wrote:
Hello All:

This is my first post to the newsgroups. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to
cross-post to other groups; let me know if that is discouraged.

I've started working on a minifig-scale model of the Notre Dame cathedral in
Paris. I've got a preliminary version of the flying buttress done. You can see
it over on brickshelf:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1479970

Because of the lack of Gothic arches in the Lego system, I've settled on the
rounded style. I've started to read some about the SNOT techniques, and I might
try to do some of them that way. That won't work for open-ended arches, like the
ones in the flying buttress though. I would appreciate any comments or
suggestions!

Looks like it will turn out quite nice.  Is the cathedral going to be all CAD,
or are you using the CAD program to plan what you're going to build in real
life?

The crossposting you used for the message was exactly the way it should be. : )

David Gregory



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  Re: MOC: Notre Dame, Paris
 
(...) I'm going to design everything in MLCAD, then build as I can afford it. The one flying buttress has about 700 parts. IIRC, there are about 18 buttresses in the actual building. Those will be a small portion of the actual size of the final (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)

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  MOC: Notre Dame, Paris
 
Hello All: This is my first post to the newsgroups. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to cross-post to other groups; let me know if that is discouraged. I've started working on a minifig-scale model of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. I've got a (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.cad.dat.models)

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