R e n o v a t i o n  J o u r n a l

 

2024-5

 

Alte Abtei mit Kreuzgang

May 30, 2024 

 

 

Announcement by Faller | Neuheit 2024

 

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"Arrived today directly from Gütenbach!"

 

30.5.2024 | Arrivé

 

 

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24.5.0 | Announcement

 

 

 

 

 

This Abbey is part of the former Bebenhausen monastery

 

Faller 130816 | Jubiläumsmodell

 

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24.5.1 | Arrival from Gütenbach

 

Although I received this shipment via Faller in Gütenbach on May 30, 2024, I have put the box aside to be opened at a later date. 

 

 

 

30.5.2024

 

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On June 5, Faller responded approvingly on FB to a comment I had made on her video message about the Abbey 

 

 

5.6.2024 

 

 

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24.5.2 | Unboxing

(13.6.2024)

 

It wasn't until June 13th that I opened the box...

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.6.2024 

 

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24.5.3 | Painting and weathering

(19-25.6.2024)

 

In keeping with the Weinkellerei, I also decided to paint the Abbey in a slate gray base color.

 

18.6.2024 

 

In contrast to the prescribed brown color, I chose off-white to create contrast with the brown half-timbering. 

20.6.2024 

 

And although Faller has already patinated the roofs somewhat, I opted - as expected - for the tried and tested amaranth red.

 

20.6.2024

 

 

20.6.2024 

 

21.6.2024 | Patinierung

 

25.6.2024 | Drywhiting 

 

 

27.6.2024 | only a thin layer of lasur on the Fackwerk

 

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24.5.4a | Constructing the Chapel

(27.6.2024 - 4.7.2024)

 

 

 

 

  

30.6.2024

1.7.2024 

 

 

As with the cathedral and Johannes Kapelle, here too - albeit now one piece - there is a lamp in the spire.

 

 

And all the clocks here again as a full octave! 

 

 

 

 

In order to deviate from the construction drawing as well as the Johannes Kapelle, I decided to place the spire in the middle of the roof, instead of on the outer edge.

It gives a completely unique allure...

 

 

2.7.2024

 

  

   

 

3.7.2024

 

 

 

 

 

4.7.2024 | Chapel finished

 

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24.5.4b | Constructing the Main Building

(4.7.2024 - 28.8.2024)

 

 

 

 

4.7.2024

 

8.7.2024 

 

Can you imagine anything more satisfying than joining beautifully colored and patinated parts together, creating a centuries-old building?

 

9.7.2024

 

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24.5.4c | Inspiration

(9-11.7.2024)

 

The work on the rest of the main building took longer than I am used to, because

- when I saw the beautiful Gothic windows -

I decided not to stick a cardboard mask on it, as Faller prescribes, but a three-dimensional corridor, where monks would walk.

There's no need to ask where I got my inspiration from...

 

However, omitting the paper mask required me to create a tiled floor.

This was partly possible in the base plate, but because the connection at the door was missing,

I made a connecting tiled floor from the remaining material. 

 

 

 

19.6.2024

 

9.7.2024 

 

 

 

10.7.2024

 

 

 

An imitation wall was added to cover the inside, as well as two interior walls on both sides of the chapel, creating a long corridor this way.

  

11.7.2024

 

 

Taking shape more and more...

 

 

 

12.7.2024

 

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And then again... some confusion. I came short of windows 8/22...

 

 

 

So I wrote to Harald Köntopp to take notice and he was kind enough to reply both with a correction sheet and a kind message, after 'counting so many windows...'

 

"Hallo Herr Osterthun,  jetzt bin ich fertig mit dem Fensterzählen.

Auf Seite 5 und 6 benötigt man 14 x 8/17 und 2 x 8/22. Auf Seite 8 Position t kann ich dann 6 x 8/17 und 2 x 8/22 verwenden.

Anbei die geänderten Daten. Herzlichen Dank für den Hinweis und eine schöne Woche ! Gruß."  

16.7.2024 

 

And so we continued happily and full of good cheer to perhaps the most appealing part of the Abbey...

 

12.7.2024 

 

It's a pity that two windows were lost due to the extension of the chapel...

 

 

 

14.7.2024

 

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This is the idea of the compound. But it still can go any direction...

 

16.7.2024

 

Each floor has its own lighting

 

 

16.7.2024

 

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Three days later I continued, soldering and insulating the wiring...

 

 

 

 

19.7.2024

 

 

Tidy up neatly...

 

 

 

 

 

31.7.2024

 

 

2.8.2024 | paper mask

 

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Earlier we talked about inspiration... now this is what I meant! Look at the corridor on the right...

 

 

Het Spookslot | De Efteling  | 14.8.2010

 

 

 

"Il noma della rosa..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.8.2024

 

 

 

 

 

Contrary to what the manual suggests,

I moved the cut in the roof - where the main building will connect - three tiles to the left so that the door in the hallway (the left one) has more space.

It requires some attention, but the result is rewarding. 

 

 

18.8.2024

 

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24.5.5 | Finsihing up: the roof

(28.8.2024)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Frits Osterthun © 30.5.2023

Last update: 2.9.2024