Spanish Imperial Galleon - Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, By Captain Green Hair and Bonaparte Options

[Bonaparte]

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Captain Green Hair and Bonaparte present:

The Spanish Imperial Galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción

Constructed partly in the world famous Amsterdam shipyards of Captain Green Hair and partly in the shipyards of Bonaparte near Antwerp, we are proud to present this international project. We started planning the ship beginning of 2009 at which time we begun buying bricks. As we've used a lot of rare colors it took a bit of time and a many Bricklink orders. All sails and flags are made out of real canvas (no paper) and many meters of rope were consumed for the rigging. On some occasions we enjoyed the assistance of Errorist (a Eurobricks member) and Steven (a friend of Bonaparte).

Thanks for looking and for your feedback

[Teddy]

Oh, this is really pretty.
I'll enjoy the pics a bit more before giving more feedback.
Just wanted to let you know I really like the ship.
Kind regards,

Teddy

[Zorro]

Very nice creation. The sails sure must have costed some time and effort!

[Sir Dillon]

Probably the best hull work I can recall seeing, and the whole ship is excellent.

Did you guys find it easier or more difficult working together?

[Erdbeereis]

That is gorgeous!

I really like the colors, they're quite different. Great work on the sails as well. You can tell that a lot of hard work was put into them.

Awesome work you two. One of the best ships I've seen for sure.

[Bonaparte]

I'll be honest and confess most of this ship was build while drinking beers or suffering from the effects of drinking too much beer

Did you guys find it easier or more difficult working together?

We both are quite open to the idea's of each other and most of the time we agreed rather fast for most decisions. Initially we both had different idea's about the color scheme in the side of the ship, so we've trial several versions to see what looks best. We first did the mosaic with yellow/white but that didn't work out well, especially looking at it from a distance, so we moved to the green/white (which was CGH's original idea). We had a lot of fun building this together, it took a bit longer because we sometimes had to wait for many weeks before finding another suitable date.

I'll also post some of the construction pictures in the near future.

[Batbrick]

Wow! That's amazing!

Not being well versed in ship knowledge I'll simply say that the bow of the ship is amazingly detailed, and all the sail work is fantastic, very intricate indeed. The way you've melded the brickbuilt portions of the ship into the base pieces also works astoundingly. Thanks a heap for posting.

A marvellous teamwork job from you Bonaparte and Captain Green Hair.

Batbrick Away!

[Svelte]

Absolutely amazing! What a behemoth!

I particularly like the angled wall sections of the cabin area as they gently but a little giddily (from a fig's point of view) slope up, and the use of those large cone pieces for lamps - inspired!

I take it this is the project you were having problems finding consistent dark red for?

[Bonaparte]

*snip* and the use of those large cone pieces for lamps - inspired!

Credit for the lamp designs goes to Captain Blackmoor. We liked them so much we wouldn't want our ship to be without them.

I take it this is the project you were having problems finding consistent dark red for? :laugh

That's still for another project I'm working on and which has a lot more dark red as this one. But I did replace some dark red parts in this one also to get rid of color inconsistencies. As a matter of fact, I have thrown away a bag of inconsistent reddish brown parts while building this ship. After we'd build the hull, one evening I replaced all the reddish brown parts with color mismatch. Annoying job, bad LEGO company!

[Dragonator]

Wow, great work you guys! That looks fantastic. You've used some nice colour variation which makes this stand out from all the plain brown ships we see, and the attention to detail is very fine, particularly with the sails and rigging, and those lovely angled sides. The lanterns are very cool, A nice use of parts there.

I like how the hull has been made particularly, some very fine work there. I'm loving the angling of the sides around the bow too, there some great techniques to be seen all over this creation.

[ImperialScouts]

I love it !

(Better review later)

[Captain Green Ha...]

Did you guys find it easier or more difficult working together?

It was easy to persuade Boney into my ideas.

[Quarryman]

It's great to finally see the finished version of this (Captain Greenhair has talked "quite a bit" about in on MSN )

Truly amazing, as one would expect from two such fine ship builders Brilliant shape of the hull, and the rigging, sails and flags really add to the impression. If only TLG had hired you guys to design the 10210.. then it'd probably cost way too much

[Athos]

Wow.

I really like the sloped cabin walls in the back.

The only thing I don't like are the sails. They don't look very Lego-like, though there isn't much you can do when making your own sails. I think they're a little too realistic, compared to the figures.

So much good stuff, its hard to even comment on it.

Steve

[I Scream Clone]

I'm sure you guys no where to start, but I have no idea! There are so many details to poor over. There must be a shortage of Jumper bricks on BL at the moment. The rigging and sails are beautiful as with the last Bonaparte vessel. The hull is amazing and flows upwards quite well. The mosiac work on the sides must have taken a lot of 1 x 1 plates, but really lifts the creation. The crew and pig look great.

Any plans to photoshop some backgrounds into the pictures, would really seal the deal.

Just goes to show what a heap of beer can build hey!

Svelte, what's our project going to be to top this?