My Gothic Cathedral is Finished (pics)

Beautiful job Lee. What are the completed dimensions?

Yet another truly lovely job Lee. You are indeed an inspiration to us all. 

An amazing building.

Lee...that is a GREAT job!!  FAN-tastic!!

When I read the title of the thread, I thought it was a joke and you were going to have a picture of Chartres as a backdrop.  But, NO.

Blown away in SoCal....

Lee...this is your best work as far as buildings go.  I had looked at these sets way back when AMCDave was working on his project.  I am now convinced that I will be using these sets combining them with some Exin castle kits to build a cathedral for my downtown area.  Looks like a skyscraper or two may be sacrificed!!

Alan

WOW!!!! You agin make me feel bad I've dragged my feet on mine so bad!!!! How about some details???  Did you cut each window individually? Or one big sheet?? What are the inlaid statues on the blank wall sections??? Figures thinned?? What kind of figures?? THANKS....nice work!

Each panel's set of three arched windows is a separate pane: cut to the right dimensions they slip in a recess in the panel nicely.  I then used Gorilla tape to cover their edges and hold them in place.

The figures "carved" into the building - supposed to be depictions of saints - are JTT unpainted plastic figures with the back side filed flat and glued to the panel. I filled gaps around them with a bead of Elmers glue and when that dried just painted them. 

Very Nice!!! Thanks for sharing your tricks of the trade on this project.

Your work is a great motivator to me to try new techniques. I look forward to your next project, whatever it may be!!

Very nice Lee and a great opportunity for the population.  Time for Veranda to get married.  Big procession, long line of caddies, bishop in presence complete with pectoral cross and miter...  Veranda would be fantastic in her custom made wedding gown..

I just can't wait, hope I'll be receiving an invitation

Such a project just has to make you smile to gaze upon it.   And you whipped it up so quickly.  

My Plasticville cathedral church, which is non-denominational by the way, looks like I'm a non-believer compared to yours that dominates that section of your layout.

Great work!

Lee, I take back everything I have said about you as a Legacy "Refuser."

That is amazingly cool.

NOW . . . . . . 

You must have a hunchback, gargoyles and a beautiful woman.

I will do the recording of the hunchback saying in a thick, raspy British accent :

" Ohhhhhhhhhh, That I were only made of stone, like you. "

Lee, this turned out great and looks fantastic. Amazing work and I'm impressed by not just the building, but the short amount of time it took you from beginning to end! Also looks great the way you integrated it into your layout. Thanks for sharing. Really superb project. Terry

Incredible job. Makes me want to consider going to Mass rather than a Sunday Swap meet.

Lovely just lovey....a great master work.

Outstanding Lee! It's builds like this that inspire me. 

Thanks,

Andy

That is super COOL !!! it looks great ,wish I had the room for something like that .

Lee

    Beautiful work, that look's fabulous

Alex

Haha, also some gothic organ music would be great. Well done Lee, very impressive.

if only it had flying buttresses.  

Lee this is about the coolest thing you've built yet.

Here's something for you Dave, not Christmas yet but it's part of my Christmas music collection and I think it fits perfectly.

Nox Arcana has a number of titles that fit the feel of Lees cathedral.

Hallowed Ruins

Gregorian Hymn

Jerry

Lee,

If you are going to detail the interior, maybe I can help.

Tom

Very nice, it reminds me of the parish churches in Philly. I think I need to get a few of those Pegasus models when I retire in 18 months(who's counting).

That is an incredible structure Lee!  Very nicely done.

Always look forward to what you will be working on next.

Happy railroading,

Don

Nice building, and appropriate - pipe organ builders.

You got me thinking: it would be fun to build a miniature scale pipe organ and church interior.  I didn't, and won't in this case, because this church is in the most isolated portion of the layout - at least four plus feet from any edge of the layout where people stand to look at it.  The building is actually atop a lift out hatch I get to via a really irksome duck under (actually, a crawl under).  So you can't see anything through the windows normally.

Made My Day, Thanks.

At the beginning, I thought this was a kit...it is a really nice scratchbuild, and all the

more impressive.

Absolutely beautiful. Great work.

Its not purely scratch - but not quite just a bashed kit, either.  I used 42 panels from various Pegasus Gothic City building kits - all modified and filled and filed, yes, and 21 JTT figures for the "saints" carved into the walls.  Roof, windows etc., are scratch. 

This was a lot of fun to build. So much so that I plan a archdiocese residence (archbishop's home) to go behind it, that will have a triangular footprint about 12 x 9 x 15 and be seven or eight inches high. 

Whoops, I mis(spoke/wrote), and odd, too, for I do a lot of it...I meant to write, "kitbash", not "scratchbuild".  Too early in the morning to be writing intelligently...

 When viewing your photos a phrase came to mind from Hebrews 11:1

"Faith is the Substance of things Hoped for, The evidence of things not Seen.

Job well done, Lee

Really nice!  But where are the "flying buttresses"?

Lee;

Truly Amazing !

I love the pun with the car, not that I would recognize it. And more wars have been fought over religion than anything else, the tanks in background are actually appropriate in a way.

While something like that is way out of normal for the area I'm modeling I must admit to considering it. Not that big But still...

Just Amazing, Impressive, WOW....

So, now the cathedral is done, when does 'Quasimodo's Stonecuttery - Headstones, Saints, and Gargoyles' open?

Cool!

Lee, that is really a nice structure, and the process of construction would make a great an interesting article to read in the magazine.

Now if only some company would make a kit for those of us without your talent...

Beautiful, Lee. And I think I've seen someone in OGR advertising inserts for windows INCLUDING stained glass.

Just add a sound system playing Gregorian Chants.  Matt