MOC: Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior 3

[Konajra]

Please allow me to post my latest build.

Back in April 2014 I received an email from Greenpeace to visit their latest Rainbow Warrior while she was in the harbour of Amterdam for just 2 days. Since I wanted to build this iconic campaign vessel since 2011 when it was just launched I went over there. I took a lot of photos capturing the most important details. But I also wanted the GA and Lines plans of the ship. After talking to some Rainbow Warrior Sailors I was given the email adress of the Designated Person Ashore. After some emails and phonecalls and a NDA I received the plans. Happy me.

As usual I started in MLcad. This took me about three to four months. The whole underwater ship is build upside down, the keel included.The part above the water line is build in snot.

Rainbow Warrior WIP by Konajra, on Flickr

The first Idea was to build the underwaterpart as one piece and split the part above in two. However during the construction of the ship it became clear that the underwatership was not going to be strong enough on its own. So I decided to build the green part of the hull in one piece and connect it to the underwatership. The hull is now one complete piece with a length of 150 cm. It is so strong that it can hold the entire finished model on the stand without using the keel as a base. That was even a suprise for me

Now some photos of designing and building the ship.

Rainbow Warrior 3 by Konajra, on Flickr

Rainbow Warrior WIP by Konajra, on Flickr

Rainbow Warrior WIP mlcad by Konajra, on Flickr

The construction of the ship

Rainbow Warrior WIP 2 by Konajra, on Flickr

rainbow warrior 3 wip by Konajra, on Flickr

A photo showing the dimensions of the ship

scale Rainbow Warrior by Konajra, on Flickr

And the finished model:

RAINBOW WARRIOR III by Konajra, on Flickr

RAINBOW WARRIOR III by Konajra, on Flickr

RAINBOW WARRIOR III by Konajra, on Flickr

RAINBOW WARRIOR III by Konajra, on Flickr

More pictures at my flickr stream :https://www.flickr.c...57645464566471/

Thanks for your time and reading this post.

Edited March 23, 2015 by Konajra

[Edwin Korstanje]

I've seen your model already two times in real, but it 's still a stunning creation Konajra :thumbup:

Edited March 24, 2015 by VFracingteam

[grum64]

Good Lord! What a beautiful vessel. It's stunning.

[lightningtiger]

Now that has a lot of 2x4 green tiles........mind blowing AWESOME ship 'Konajra' and it's minifig scale too......might sit better in the town forum since it is minifig scale.

'Konajra' you are totally the master and commander of Lego ships........Brick On !

[Trance89]

Your ships are always mindblowing. The size, detail and minifig-scale... How do you measure the correct size of your ships?

[Konajra]

Thanks guys.

@ Trance89: You can find the real dimensions of the ship online. I then make a one to 40 scale of it. In MLcad there is a function that tells you in studs, cm and inches the size of your creation. That way I know if I am doing the right thing.

[Kodan Black]

Wow, that is incredibly detailed and enormous. Did you send completed photos to the person who gave you the plans so they could see how it turned out?

[Konajra]

Yes, I did. They liked it a lot.

[williejm]

Wow. Simply amazing. Great work.

[eurotrash]

Blimey! It's another incredible creation. Are there any vessels you can't do?

[dr_spock]

Fabulous work. All details are great.