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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 resorted
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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| 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 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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