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Bahnhof fan		#1 Posted : 29 March 2018 16:13:29(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 25 Location: Midwest		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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Crazy Harry		#2 Posted : 30 March 2018 01:16:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/11/2008(UTC) Posts: 495 Location: Oakville, Ontario		That is an great project! Amazing detail!!! Harold.

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applor		#3 Posted : 30 March 2018 01:40:03(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 21/05/2004(UTC) Posts: 1,765 Location: Brisbane, Queensland		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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Chook		#4 Posted : 30 March 2018 05:04:41(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/08/2012(UTC) Posts: 234 Location: Perth, Western Australia.		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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Jabez		#5 Posted : 31 March 2018 00:06:03(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 30/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 636 Location: Brussels		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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rbw993		#6 Posted : 04 April 2018 21:04:28(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 19/08/2008(UTC) Posts: 1,041		WOW!
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ShannonN		#7 Posted : 29 September 2018 03:48:12(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 14/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 492 Location: Maryborough, Qld		Originally Posted by: Bahnhof fan 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. Amazing detail visited there in 1988 are you going to do the plaza outside with the statue of Agrippina?

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JohnjeanB		#8 Posted : 29 September 2018 10:55:28(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/02/2011(UTC) Posts: 3,550 Location: Paris, France		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. Cheers Jean
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Blaubar		#9 Posted : 14 November 2018 14:26:50(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/12/2016(UTC) Posts: 7 Location: Baden-Wurttemberg		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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Bahnhof fan		#10 Posted : 16 November 2018 01:16:14(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 25 Location: Midwest		Hello I have added a little paint to the Cathedral Model. A little Patina on the roof & dirt etc....

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Bahnhof fan		#11 Posted : 27 January 2019 22:47:22(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 25 Location: Midwest		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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Bahnhof fan		#12 Posted : 15 December 2024 22:12:07(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 25 Location: Midwest

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Bahnhof fan		#13 Posted : 15 December 2024 22:15:53(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 17/12/2014(UTC) Posts: 25 Location: Midwest		/* 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) \| Reason: Reason for the merge.*

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kimballthurlow		#14 Posted : 16 December 2024 09:50:38(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/03/2007(UTC) Posts: 6,762 Location: Brisbane, Australia		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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kiwiAlan		#15 Posted : 16 December 2024 15:18:51(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,455 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		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. l 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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