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St. Macario’s Cathedral

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In the last 0937 Community event, we had a few surprises going on. The european launch of Taj Mahal was one of them. But there was something that left us all with our eyes wide open in awe, it was the portuguese Romão’s St. Macario’s Cathedral. Recently I had the oportunity to make him a small interview and this was the result:

Klocki - How do you describe your construction?
Romão - it’s an attempt of, using a way with some limitations like LEGO, making a model of an original cathedral in a style that I like very much - gothic.

Klocki - After three years building this cathedral, tell us about the biggest difficulties you had to deal with?
Romão - Lack of money, space and parts.

Klocki - Tell us about a detail in wich you had building difficulties and that gave you an enormous pleasure surpassing it or a technique you used with a particular satisfaction.
Romão - The construction of the abside, which is totally poligonal (and a half decagon) and the octagonal portions of both central towers (specially the arrows) were hard to build, because of its forms not so ”LEGO-friendly”.

The towers in it’s two last levels are totally SNOT and have portions with prisms and octogonal pyramids which were particularly hard to support.

Klocki - Will you make arrangements or changes?
Romão - Some. The abside roof (the portion in semi decagonal pyramid) was not ok and it has to be corrected one of these days. The altar is not yet built and the tower of the crossing is going to need a hand to get more thin because it’s a little badly built.

Klocki - Which were your inspirations?
Romão - Cathedrals all over the world, and many of them I had the privilege of visiting (Cologne, Freiburg, Chartres, Amiens, Reims, Burgos)

Main features:

- Number of parts: about 80.000.
- Rare parts: the 1×2 tiles in sandgreen on the roof (they are hundreds of them), many of the transparent parts. And the cathedral is almost all built in old light gray, what turns these parts relatively rare, one way or the other.
- Measures: Height: 127 cm
                    Lenght: 110 cm
                    Width: 63.5 cm

  

Thanks for the interview, Romão!


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