Um dos melhores construtores de LEGO no momento, Norton74, voltou a surpreender-nos com um novo MOC, bastante diferente daquilo que nos tem habituado. Deixou os edifícios e os veículos motorizados e replicou duas carroças, bastante típicas pelo povo cigano que no inicio do século 19 percorriam a Europa em feiras e circos.
Norton, de seu nome Andrea Lattanzo conseguiu recriar na perfeição o estilo, cores e até o ambiente que se encontrava nestes veículos durante a época referida, incluindo até alguns pormenores e apontamentos culturais.
Podem e devem ver mais trabalhos de Andrea na sua galeria do Flickr ou página do Instagram.
Breve descrição por parte do autor:
Gypsy
wagons have been around for a very long time, having primarily been seen with
travelling circuses, before being adopted by gypsies.
The
"Horse drawn, painted, one roomed house on wheels with a stove" is
believed to originate in France in the early 19th Century. Gypsies themselves
adopted them around 170 years ago. Its Romanesque characteristics, its baroque
carvings and bright colours are likely to have been picked up from wanderings
in Central and Eastern Europe.
The
Gypsyes' name for their wagons is a "Vardo", from the Iranian
name vurton, that means cart.
There were
six main types of wagons and they were made of oak, ash, elm, walnut and pine.
Most caravans were pulled by draft horses.
I've always
been intrigued by Gypsies Wagons and in the past few weeks I built a
couple of them. Inspiration come mainly from a coffee table book my wife gifted
me, "Les Roulottes, une invitation au voyage", a big source of
colourful and funny caravans. It was very funny designing and building these
caravans and also choose the right Minifigures from old sets and Collectionable
Series.
If you are
wondering why Jack Sparrow is in the MOC the answer is that I think
he has the perfect look of a yesteryear Gypsy :)
Hope you
like! Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks and
credit to builders Karwik and Travis Brickle for inspiring me with their beautiful and
top notch horse drawn carriages.
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