 Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 27 Location: Midwest
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Hello Marklin Users: I am making progress on my model of the Cologne Cathedral. I am hoping to complete it within a few years. The flying buttresses are fun to recreate. I will add details to them shortly, along with paint. In real life, the beautiful color of the stain glass windows does not show through to the exterior. They appear dull, with a few traces of color showing through. It is a constant challenge to convert the 2 dimensional cardboard model I enlarge and use as a template into a 3 dimensional one. Hopefully by the time I complete it, Maerklin Gmbh or LS Models will produce a model of the Wagon-lits Cologne Pullman Express.   
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 You have been a member since:: 18/11/2008(UTC) Posts: 495 Location: Oakville, Ontario
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That is an great project! Amazing detail!!!
Harold.
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 Joined: 21/05/2004(UTC) Posts: 1,768 Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Yes it looks colossal in its size and amazing in its detail!
So you are printing your own cardboard designs which you then assemble? |
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Joined: 15/08/2012(UTC) Posts: 234 Location: Perth, Western Australia.
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Hi BF. I (and probably many more) would love to see the process you have used up to now for your build as it seems that you have perfected it.
Thanks for sharing.
Regards.............Chook.
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 Joined: 30/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 636 Location: Brussels
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Originally Posted by: Bahnhof fan  my model of the Cologne Cathedral. I am hoping to complete it within a few years.
Well the original took about 650 years to complete so you have time on your side  |
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Modeling Immensee, mile/km 0 on the Gottard. SBB Era V.
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Joined: 14/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 492 Location: Maryborough, Qld
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Amazing detail visited there in 1988 are you going to do the plaza outside with the statue of Agrippina?
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 Joined: 04/02/2011(UTC) Posts: 3,563 Location: Paris, France
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Hi Bahnhof fan
I am amazed at your result quite a piece of work and a nice size too. Are you planning to include the Köln station nearby the cathedral and the Hohenzollern bridge?
Anyway bravo. Personally I don't have the skill nor the space.
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 Joined: 15/12/2016(UTC) Posts: 7 Location: Baden-Wurttemberg
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Simply incredible.
Are you sure that you are building a model and you have not just added a wall around the real building making it look smaller :D
I lived in Cologne for quite some time and I would never even have dared replicating the Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus.
Chapeau!
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Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 27 Location: Midwest
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Hello I have added a little paint to the Cathedral Model. A little Patina on the roof & dirt etc.... 
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Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 27 Location: Midwest
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Originally Posted by: applor Yes it looks colossal in its size and amazing in its detail!
So you are printing your own cardboard designs which you then assemble? I have been using Lithograph kits. I enlarge them with a scanner to a scale of 1/100. Then I clean up the scans. many of the lithograph kits have hand sketched portions, which look great for z scale... but when you enlarge them, they are not accurate enough. I use Microsoft paint to reallign objects, which appear off center are are out of proportion. I also use actual online photos to compare with the Lithos. Where there are large discrepancies, I use the actual photos. I transfer the designs to art boards (rigid cardboard), The window tracery is done with heavy duty cardstock, very sharp knives and paper punches. I use milliput putty to form the statutes. Bahnhof fan.
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Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 27 Location: Midwest
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 /* I merged this into an earlier topic about the project in 2018. There is an even earlier topic ffrom 2015 that can be seen in the "similar topics" area at the bottom of t he page or you can click on this link -> https://www.marklin-user...shing-a-gothic-cathedral */Edited by moderator 16 December 2024 04:39:26(UTC)
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Joined: 18/03/2007(UTC) Posts: 6,764 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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There are some rather deep seated relationships with railways in this cathedral. Besides being next to the local HBf inside are a few stained glass windows which were donated by railway companies in the mid-nineteenth century. I wonder if this was to help overcome any religious prejudice some folk may have felt against travelling by train in those days? Sort of like a heavenly testimonial to train travel. Here is one example which I photographed in 2018. A stained glass window showing that the directors of a railway company (der Köln Mindener Eisenbahn Gesellschaft) donated the window in 1864. I have shown only part of it. Beautiful it is ..... and thank you to the 385th Bomb Group (and others) based at Great Ashfield in Suffolk for allowing it to remain in the 1940s.  If anyone would like to see the full window photographs I took, please make a note here. Kimball |
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 Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,475 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot
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Originally Posted by: kimballthurlow
Beautiful it is ..... and thank you to the 385th Bomb Group (and others) based at Great Ashfield in Suffolk for allowing it to remain in the 1940s.
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There are times when %deity% looks after his own buildings. Witness also St Pauls in London, despite the destruction around it.
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