As it’s been over six months since I last did any work on the Hirst Arts Cathedral, it’s probably time for an update. Particularly since I’m supposed to be finishing this project!
If you’re a regular visitor you may have noticed I haven’t got a lot of hobby work done this year for a variety of reasons and the same is true of this project unfortunately. I’ve done some minor work around the doors of the left bell tower and finished off the front-piece of the central hall as well as building the back-piece too.
I need to do some more casting of those cursed 1″ x 1/2″ flat gothic tiles to have enough pieces to build the next set of long inside and outside walls. I suspect may also be short of a few other pieces too so hopefully I can dredge up enough Ultracal 30 dust to finish casting.
I’ve given up using those gothic flats for the interior doorways and instead am using the joined gothic square pieces as I have an excess of them cast. I believe they’re meant to be used to build up the double floors needed for the left and right bell towers. However I’ll use painted balsa wood for these square floors as I’d like to make them removable so you can get figures into the towers during play.
The Cathedral is really starting to shape up and I’m considering painting some of the large pieces to keep me motivated. All I need is one big push and I’m confident I’ll be able to finish the major construction work before starting on detailing and finishing off bit and pieces like the flying buttresses etc.
Once that’s done we’ll have to play about 50 games over Mordheim to justify the effort in building this thing!
We could always use it for some pulp games…
Hmmm, that -would- be very Indiana Jones wouldn’t it, but won’t I need an entire 28mm village of European buildings to place around it?
Smells like another project comming on. You could always look for card railway buildings, they church would be the objective so would be the only one you need to get inside unless you made the houses with removable roves and decorated the inside
Hirst Arts is good looking, but the casting process is really time consuming. However the cathedral is an outstanding work – Bruce designed it great and your model is very nice so far.
On the other hand this cathedral could be converted instantly in an chathedral ruin with just a few additions of damaged parts and rubble ;)
Hi Tankred, as the Cathedral splits on the left gallery I had considered casting up enough pieces to build another floor and just using scraps to build up an angled, ruined version of the left gallery. However this is probably far in the future considering the amount of time it’s taken me to even get this far!
And maybe once you get it finished, it may be worth a lot of money. These Hirst art pieces sold for a total of [US]$198 Million:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26740419/
When I read your first sentence, I thought you were going to say, “It’s been 6 months since I left the house.” – that cathedral looks like it has taken you weeks and weeks to complete! I’ve long considered getting a Hirst Arts mold kit, but so far I have been sticking to foam core, balsa wood and that blue builder’s foam. I found an entire 3 x 8 ft. sheet of it in a construction site dumpster!