Tuesday I have a Christmas party that I am attending and there is a Gingerbread House Contest that I have entered. I didn't want to make a regular 'Ol Gingerbread house, but something "cooler." So why not a castle... I hope I have made the right decision. This started as a simple project, and keeps getting more & more complex, I hope it turns out all right.... My original inspiration came from the this picture:
Which is a stinkin' sweet playhouse... (click on the picture for the web link).
So I was going to do a near replica of this , but not include a back, so that it would show the decorations of the inside, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on the inside, so then I discovered a picture of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany & it won me over:
(Click on the picture to enlarge it, it's pretty big)
Yea I know that is a lot of work, but I am better at construction than at designing figurines, well stick figures I can do, but let's face it, I don't think that would work...
So I sit here, with all of sorts of pictures of this castle taken from all different angles, analyzing it and cutting it down to "model" size, then I found this link to create a paper model of it.
I am going to print this out & build it tonight, then use the measurements I've made and compare them to this paper model and figure up final measurements. I am mainly going for the larger part of the back of the castle & if I succeed at that & I have time, I will continue with the rest of it. If I fail & still have time, then I will go back to my original design of the playhouse idea.
Well here we go...
Which is a stinkin' sweet playhouse... (click on the picture for the web link).
So I was going to do a near replica of this , but not include a back, so that it would show the decorations of the inside, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on the inside, so then I discovered a picture of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany & it won me over:
(Click on the picture to enlarge it, it's pretty big)
Yea I know that is a lot of work, but I am better at construction than at designing figurines, well stick figures I can do, but let's face it, I don't think that would work...
So I sit here, with all of sorts of pictures of this castle taken from all different angles, analyzing it and cutting it down to "model" size, then I found this link to create a paper model of it.
I am going to print this out & build it tonight, then use the measurements I've made and compare them to this paper model and figure up final measurements. I am mainly going for the larger part of the back of the castle & if I succeed at that & I have time, I will continue with the rest of it. If I fail & still have time, then I will go back to my original design of the playhouse idea.
Well here we go...
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Neuschwanstein is beautful-Leanna
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