Anker: Delling Church

Before ordering the next box, I decided to warm up with a few non-Richter builds for GK-NF 14. Here is one taken from the CVA booklet with building plans for GK-NF 10 to 14, the Delling church.

As expected from the pictures in the booklet, this is a wonderful bread-and-butter building, designed in a straightforward, nice and clean way. Simple subject, solid execution, and a very good use of the basic stones in the set (but no artificial use of the many small stones that are sometimes pressed into very optional, decoration-only roles to good or not-so-exciting results).

Starting the roof construction

A small set of stairs leads up to the entrance in the tower. A nice ledge in yellow structures the tower, another one in red holds the roof.

Note the absence of unnecessary decoration. Some of the tiny 79 and 80 stones are used for small windows in the roof - not very realistic but a nice way to increase the roof area with a limited amount of blue 45 degree stones.

The small arches play a realistic role for the windows / sound holes on the level of the bells.

Main entrance and facade, again with a simple form and structured with a few ledges in yellow and red.