As a medieval collector, I've always wanted a cathedral in my city. Without church/cathedral, any medieval city seems to be lacking something essential and typical for medieval times. As mainly being a Steck builder, I've always disliked my attempts to create a church or a cathedral as the buildings just weren't large and detailed enough
. My biggest concern was the width of the roof, which is, as all steck builders are aware of, limited to 2 building units. If I wanted to build a cathedral, I needed at least a 4 building unit wide roof. The wedding church from 2008 solved my problem as the black sys-x roof part (without slope) allowed me to stack roof parts virutally without limits.
That's how I started to discover the fine building possibilities of System-X, resulting in my first small church creation I posted two years ago. After that, I started collecting the parts for this System-X cathedral (see pics). The pictures are all evening/night shots as they focus on the rose and stained glass windows. As I'm living in Belgium, I found a lot of inspiration in the gothic cathedrals of our region (Flanders and Picardy in France). The design is more or less inspired by the cathedrals of Amiens and Paris (France) and the cathedral of Tournai (Belgium). I wanted to make a gothic cathedral but with roman building parts (there are very few useable gothic building parts available, only the gargoyles from the dragontower actually).
The exterior is more or less ready (more statues need to be placed in the front). The interior still needs to be finished, so to be continued...
