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Offline Bahnhof fan  
#1 Posted : 29 March 2018 16:13:29(UTC)
Bahnhof fan

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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. DSC06290.JPGDSC06294.JPGDSC06291.JPG

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Offline Crazy Harry  
#2 Posted : 30 March 2018 01:16:18(UTC)
Crazy Harry

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That is an great project! Amazing detail!!!

Harold.
Offline applor  
#3 Posted : 30 March 2018 01:40:03(UTC)
applor

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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?
modelling era IIIa (1951-1955) Germany
Offline Chook  
#4 Posted : 30 March 2018 05:04:41(UTC)
Chook

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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.
Offline Jabez  
#5 Posted : 31 March 2018 00:06:03(UTC)
Jabez

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Originally Posted by: Bahnhof fan Go to Quoted Post
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 sideBigGrin

I heard that lonesome whistle blow. Hank Williams
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Offline rbw993  
#6 Posted : 04 April 2018 21:04:28(UTC)
rbw993

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WOW!
Offline ShannonN  
#7 Posted : 29 September 2018 03:48:12(UTC)
ShannonN

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Originally Posted by: Bahnhof fan Go to Quoted Post
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. DSC06290.JPGDSC06294.JPGDSC06291.JPG



Amazing detail visited there in 1988 are you going to do the plaza outside with the statue of Agrippina?

Offline JohnjeanB  
#8 Posted : 29 September 2018 10:55:28(UTC)
JohnjeanB

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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
Offline Blaubar  
#9 Posted : 14 November 2018 14:26:50(UTC)
Blaubar

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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!
Offline Bahnhof fan  
#10 Posted : 16 November 2018 01:16:14(UTC)
Bahnhof fan

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Hello I have added a little paint to the Cathedral Model. A little Patina on the roof & dirt etc....

DSC06366.JPG
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Offline Bahnhof fan  
#11 Posted : 27 January 2019 22:47:22(UTC)
Bahnhof fan

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Location: Midwest
Originally Posted by: applor Go to Quoted Post
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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