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Le Baton Rouge A Flickr find, by Big Daddy

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 07:35 PM

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It's a modified version of the new Fort from the new Pirates line.

I think he did really well. I especially like the skull rock, the hanging skeleton and the flagpole!
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Posted 26 January 2009 - 08:15 PM

WOW that looks really good! It makes me think of the possibility of Blue coats in the new pirate line :pir_laugh2:

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 08:17 PM

I like it, lots of influences from the original Soldier's Fort but still very nicely improved.
I like the tower a lot more then the barely detailed tower of the original set. I also like the gallows. :pir-skull:

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 08:24 PM

Wow, great find! I believe Big Daddy is also a member of Eurobricks, maybe he can tell us a bit more about it!
I love the desk and weapons rack underneath the cannon post, and the bluecoats just rock!
I urgently need to buy some of those windows as well...

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 08:29 PM

He's gone and made the overall structure appear more solid, like a fort should be!

I particularly like what he's done with the "sentry box" (beneath the flagpole) because it's a vast improvement over the original design which was merely a sloped roof held up by some flimsy poles.


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Wow, great find! I believe Big Daddy is also a member of Eurobricks, maybe he can tell us a bit more about it!

And we can show him some of that "Old World" charm while he's here :pir-grin:

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 09:41 PM

Hes really made some improvements here. I really like the little shack with all the muskets and the little table.

The main tower windows look nice.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 10:46 PM

Great improvement! I love the skull rock^^ this is a really nice fort!

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 12:29 AM

I think this is better than the British Fort mainly because of the blue coats. But I think you have done a very good job of transforming the new British Fort into a modified, better looking Imperial Armada Fort. Great modification again.

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 03:10 AM

I like the flagpole most of all

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 03:21 AM

View PostLegoKing, on Jan 27 2009, 10:29 AM, said:

I think this is better than the British Fort mainly because of the blue coats. But I think you have done a very good job of transforming the new British Fort into a modified, better looking Imperial Armada Fort.

Imperial Armada or Imperial Guard?

Imperial Armada decore seems to have green incoporated, but alas, as there's only one Imperial Armada structure at this point in time it's difficult to determine exactly which elements would be reoccurring in larger sets. I presume though, green would be part of the colour scheme.

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 10:09 AM

This was featured on Forbidden Coves page to see the original post you need to search the archives. It is the only article I have found on the sight that I have visited over 20 times :grin:

In-fact i will be posting a Moc from the 3 and 10 standard article!

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 11:54 PM

View PostMister Phes, on Jan 26 2009, 07:21 PM, said:

Imperial Armada or Imperial Guard?

Imperial Armada decore seems to have green incoporated, but alas, as there's only one Imperial Armada structure at this point in time it's difficult to determine exactly which elements would be reoccurring in larger sets. I presume though, green would be part of the colour scheme.

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 04:56 PM

That's amazingly wel done. I think there's hardly a better combination of old and new pirate style possible! I love that colour scheme.
Possibly even more than the originial Imperial Gaurds' colours.
Creative use of the horse saddle for the skeleteon as well.

I wonder how it'd look side by side with the TLC version.

Nice, very nice!

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 07:51 PM

A great mod of the original! Everything has been beefed up wonderfully.
Best of all, it's been updated to the Imperial Soldiers :pir-grin: !
A lot of creative techniques here, but I like the addition of the window sill a lot.

I think the crane should be kept and improved, though.
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 12:28 AM

Nice job. You did wonderful turning Soldiers' Fort into a French fort. Best fort I have seen yet! Good work on the rifle rack. What is with the saddle on the skeleton?
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