Artizan Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 My entry for the Eastern Medieval Life category in CCCVII. The scene is depicting a medieval Orthodox church being visited by Rus warriors. It took me a while to find the appropriate techniques to achieve what i had in mind, the result really satisfies me: Galleries: Flickr Brickshelf(when moderated) Comments are more than welcome, hope you enjoy it! Quote
Admiral Croissant Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 Good MOC, I like the way you made the melting snow, the horse statue and of course the church itself. I don't know a lot about Russian churches but I must say this thing has a very 'russian' feel over it Quote
WesternOutlaw Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 Very nice architectural details, and a good color selection. I like the way you created the crosses and the extra details like the stain glass window in the back/side (from your FlickR image). Great job on this. Front-paged! Quote
I Scream Clone Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 What's not to love, the dome and spire techniques, the horse, the fence. Its all really nicely constructed. Good luck. Quote
MetroiD Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 Very interesting design... The dome gives it a very typical Russian look and it looks it must have really hard to build. Quote
kris kelvin Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 This horse is mind-blowing ! ! ! Cen we have bigger photo of this horse. Overall very good work Quote
quietworkshop Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 Being Russian Orthodox myself, this warms my LEGO filled heart I like how you've put the little graveyard alongside the Church (common placement in the old days! ) and how you paid attention to creating the slanted lower crosspieces. Great job on the domes, too... While I'm not sure if it's relevant to the particular church scene...the horse is quite magnificent, making me think of the Peter the Great monument in St. Petersburg. Great work all in all! Quote
lightningtiger Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 Beautiful old church MOC and that horse - fantastic ! Great work, 'Artizan' - keep it going ! Quote
Artizan Posted December 19, 2009 Author Posted December 19, 2009 wow thanks for all the charming comments. i am going to post the design details, the horse statue and others as soon as possible. Quote
ZeeK Posted December 19, 2009 Posted December 19, 2009 Being one of those "russians" I think i have to add my two cents here... - the building itself captures the typical Church, as long as the cementry - in most cases the sphere-shaped roofs are not black, however the color used in the MOC brings more atmosphere - i don't have any objections - the fence shows that the church is poor - may be this church is located in the village etc. - i don't think i've ever seen any monuments located so close to the church - i'll double check :) Many thanks for the MOC! It really looks very russian! Quote
Artizan Posted December 19, 2009 Author Posted December 19, 2009 i loosely based the church on Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, which has black roofs and white walls and the church from Call of Duty-Modern Warfare (the cherbobyl mission). your comments are most appreciated. Quote
CommanderFox Posted December 21, 2009 Posted December 21, 2009 A very nice entry Artizan I really like the melting snow and the statue horse. The church looks quite small, but very very cute! Nice job and good luck! CommanderFox Quote
Milan Posted December 21, 2009 Posted December 21, 2009 I agree with positive comments...this is nice piece of work. Techniques are great! Quote
Big Cam Posted December 21, 2009 Posted December 21, 2009 Great work, for anyone old enough to remember The Legend of Zelda A link to the Past, this reminds me of the curches in that game. I love it! Quote
MagPiesRUs Posted December 22, 2009 Posted December 22, 2009 Amazing! It's always great to see medieval MOCs from outside of Western Europe. Your domes are fantastic, as is the horse, great use of the minifig leg. I love the reserved colour palette too, and love how the church mosaics provide some vibrant colours, the turntable bases work really well here. Speaking of which, the use of a turntable base as a cross for a tombstone is ingenious, I've never seen that before, great work. I love the silver crosses too, although they're the Western crosses as opposed to the Russian Orthodox crosses. It may look a little messy, but have you tried adding some light grey hands on either side of the cross? Stunning work Artizan, and good luck for the contest. Quote
Djole Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 Wow, pretty good shapes achieved in MOC being sized so small! Just wondering how did you connect black plates creating that oval roof above southern gate? It tickles my eye a bit, although I like how you handled murals, simple but effective. Cemetery's just brilliant, dissimilarity and disorder of it's crosses is so graveyardish. I like the idea of melting snow, haven't see that before! As for the horse, I'm speechless, just keep up the good work! Greetings from Serbia! Quote
supertoad64 Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) Wow, the landscaping work you've done is really impressive. There are many interesting and unusual techniques on display here. Edited December 31, 2009 by supertoad64 Quote
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