Thanks Leonie! It brightened my day

Bags 33 and 34. The last pieces. Notre Dame is now the tallest building in Paris until the Eiffel Tower is built. Restoration of 1843-60 adds the 12 apostles to the roof. 1 of the statues has the face of Viollet-le-Duc who faces the spire rather than watching over the rest of Paris like the others

Bags 31 and 32. Yup fiddly stuff. We jump 100 years to 1350 with pinnacles replaced (or added in the Lego version) on the uprights of the flying buttresses. Jumping even further forward to the 19th century restorations we have tabernacles added atop the flying buttresses along the nave

Bags 29 and 30. The roof is done!
We have now reached 1245 with the completion of the overall structure. 🎉
I feel like the remaining bags are now going to be fiddly decorative touches 😬

Bags 26, 27 and 28. Back to the bell towers. Accidentally put the ‘bells’ in upside down on the first one and had to redo it 😅

Bag 25. What? Not finishing the towers?! Adding on the roof over the nave instead

Only the LEGO versions 😅

It’s a beauty!

It’s a beauty! I love all the tidbits of historical and architectural information provided by the instructions too

Bag 24. Another level of the towers. Still no bells but a whole load of columns.

Less fun bag this one. Those lovely columns were made using 40 tiny wands which had to be set at different angles.

Bag 23. The towers continue. We’re somewhere between 1225 and 1245 (when the towers were complete).
Towers up another level with sturdy to supports to hold the weight of the bells on the next level (I assume)

Bag 22. Another rose window added. Up we continue to build.
Sadly the galley of kings represented by cones and other round elements rather than mini figures. To be honest the minifigs would have been very mini and would have had to hold a reasonable load as the towers continue up in the next bag

Returned from Leeds IMC to find the Notre Dame on display in its 1225 unfinished glory.
Taking that as a hint, construction has resumed 😅

Bag 21. Returning to the west end. Building up the towers above the main portals

Thanks for chairing Leonie! It was a great panel

Bag 20. Adding in a whole load more flying buttresses. The pieces actual have holes in them mimicking the water channels in the real thing. We’ve made it to 1225 now

Bag 19. Adding in the ribbed vaults and more arched windows. Such attention to detail that they follow the original with a transverse rib at every second capital

Bag 18. All about the north and south rose windows.
Made an exception and included a picture from the side to show these beauties. Sadly lacking in colour though. May have to get my coloured pens out 😅

Bag 17. More pillars went in to hold up the roof. Also added in the arches over the west doors

Bag 16. Been a busy few couple of weeks so I’m happy to be able to get back to this for a little bit this afternoon.
Working on building up the roof and adding more mini flying buttresses