I’m still slowly casting up for the Hirst Arts Cathedral while trying to finish other projects. This chart of required pieces comes from Bruce Hirst’s PDF plans. The green pieces are those I have finished casting and the blue numbers are my cast counts for the unfinished pieces. Most of the casting left to do is from the Bell Tower mold.
I’ve made a few changes to the plans, dropping the original floor in favour of one made from the Gothic Floor mold – which is why all of the plan floor pieces have been ignored. I’ve also decided not to include the decorative 1/4″ squares on the buttresses and towers and will instead use the plain 1/4″ gothic square – simply because I think the decorative pieces are too floral for 40k.
I’m not overly concerned with how many roof sections I’ve cast either because at most my Cathedral will have a ruined roof, and at least just exposed balsa wood beam-work. I figure most weapons in 40k are sufficiently explosive to remove the cathedral roof and blow out all the windows (hence little or no stained glass work either). At least that’s my rationale for not bothering to build the entire roof!
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Good luck with that Stu.
ohhhhhhhhhh man that looks depressing going through molding so many pieces!!.you have to be determined to do the stuff you do-to your credit-one day if i got half the amount of patience you must have i would be happy!!
Heh. Nah it’s not that bad. The trick with Hirst Arts molds is just to cast them more or less constantly :). I usually do a couple a week in my spare time. That way you have a stock of common pieces built up. Around half of the simple gothic blocks for this project came from my pre-cast stores.
Plus with such a large project it’s built in sub-parts…so I can cast and build at the same time. I’m just about to start doing that for the Cathedral.
The only annoyance is that this project will pretty much clear out my stock of pieces…but that’s ok since I figure it’s going to be at least a year of work to get it finished anyway – plus I have at least 2 other half finished Hirst Arts projects to complete.
Couldn’t you do both a ruined roof and a non-ruined roof that sits on top, so that you can have either senario…. ;-)
I enjoy working with balsa wood and have a fair selection of it in my garage so I was going to build a set of lightly detailed beam-work in the Cathedral…
I guess I could go the extra distance and actually make it robust enough to support a cast plaster roof…that way I could build a removeable roof in the future?
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