Anker: GK-NF 16 Teaser Building - Church

In the Richter plan books, the first building in a new set is the teaser for which one of the pictures is already shown on the back page of the previous set. In best marketing fashion, these are usually very attractive buildings.

In case of GK-NF 16, this is the big Parish Church. I hads really been looking forward to this one while doing a few "farewell" projects with the GK-NF 14 set. 

One thing that always makes me curious is which new stone shapes are in a new set, and when they will be used for the first time. Here is the first new shape used when building the church:

First new stone from box 14A, and it is a new shape: a red stone 26

In addition to a few more stones from the new box 14A (new and old shapes), the next picture also illustrates a nice functional use of one of the tiny 1/4 x 1/4 x 1 stones #79. I appreciate it when these stones are used where they are really needed to provide the right kind of spacing (as in this case), not just as sugar coating for putting small pieces in random decorative positions on ledges, roofs etc.

Green circles: stone 79 is needed for its size, to make the distances match underneath the roof of the side. Orange circles mark another new stone shape from box 14A, the small triangular #218, and the first stone #4 taken from the new box because all others have already been used - note that 14A does add lots of new stone shapes, new roof angles etc, but also adds quite a few standards like #4, 15 and 17.

Another thing I like to document (maybe I can use it in future ad hoc building projects) is the way the layers carrying the roof are held by the building walls. Here's the last walls-only layer before the first wooden beams are laid down:

And here's a walk around the finished building. As always, you can click on all pictures to see a larger copy.

Front with entries to the tower and the main building

Tower and the building side with the (one) aisle, with a much lower and rather flat roof.

Complete view of the church with the apse. Oh, and mnd the roof ont he tower with the new, steep roof angle with different thickness side stones for each layer, made to fit building proportions with a lowest layer from the less steep, older stone shapes.

It will be fun to see the church building plans grow even more in larger Ankerstein boxes, maybe with symmetric pairs of aisles and larger choirs and apses.

The final touch