elmarriachi Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Cistercian abbey "Bebenhausen" - 1/87 by Faller[/u] a limited special kit for the 70. company anniversary of Gebr. Faller GmbH. A huge kit.... and something completely different.[/i] The Cistercian abbey "Bebenhausen" The Cistercian abbey "Bebenhausen" is in Germany, near Tübingen. One of the best preserved abbey from the Middle Ages. It is about 1 hour away from me so that I will make a trip there soon... The kit The kit is limited to 1.999 kits and it is a once only production. It is one really huge and heavy kit full of plastic parts. Totally about 1.435 plastic parts, clear foil for the windows, one printed foil for the church window, laser cut material, paper material, .... and the parts are in different colors already, a little bit weathered as it seams. I have made some photos of the kits parts in the following. carton 1: carton 2: Zero77, Iain, Rick Griewski and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 carton 3: carton 4: What have I planned? I will give the full kit a new painting. The wall colors of the kit are good, but it is plastic. And it is not 100% the correct color I think. It is too beige, the original one is more grey maybe... and the roof is too red, not brown as the original..... so full painting, weathering ...... Cheers Micha BiggTim, Zero77 and Joe66 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 That's different Michael! I used to build a lot of the Faller buildings when I was a teenager - but that was a loooooong time ago. Quality of this one looks superb! Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero77 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 (edited) Wow, very interesting project. And 1/87 is a large scale for a building. Building such a model without painting the plastic would be a blasphemy ! I'm sure it will end as a gem after you took care of it ! Edited July 21, 2016 by Zero77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Well now, this is different. What a great looking kit. Rick Griewski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 wow, this will be cool to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 At this risk of repeating everyone else's sentiments, this certainly is different, Michael! There looks to be an amazing number of parts, too. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 Thanks a lot.... yes, very different And yes, a huge number of parts - about 1435 parts... Cheers Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Hey that's pretty cool! I built architectural models professionally for about 7 years, but I've never built something that involved from a kit. Looks impressive! Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Dang, man. You do it ALL! Good on you. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Looking forward to see you perform your magic on this one Michael Hubert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted July 25, 2016 Author Share Posted July 25, 2016 Thanks a lot.... I think it will be lot of work.... but it looks really interesting. I think I will glue as much as possible before painting.... let's see how it goes best Cheers Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Is this going to turn into a full blown HO train set? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted July 26, 2016 Author Share Posted July 26, 2016 Hi Ron, definitly nope.... I have no trains.... I do not want trains .... Cheers Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Hello, I was able to visit the wonderful monastery in reality some days ago, shooting lot of pictures of the building. Now it is time to start the huge kit. The kit begins with the biggest building - the church of the monastery (which was much bigger in the past I learned). A bit difficult is the conpleting of the wall-parts which mostly consist of two parts. Some have reinforcements from the backside, others have to be glued edge on edge. I used some thin palstic sheet to strenghen it from the inside. Also a bit of putty was necessary as there are some visible sinkmarks on some parts.... luckily it won't be visible after the painting. Next task - gluing the walls together as fat as possible for the moment. Cheers Micha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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