Ship sails without fabric

[Wiggles]

I am building a couple of small ships to match my castle MOC. I am looking at the sails to be made from pieces rather than fabric ones. Any ideas on how I should approach this? What pieces should I be looking for and how to attach them securely to the ship?

[blackdeathgr]

Imo cloth sails seem much more natural but feel free to experiment :-)

[deraven]

You should definitely spend some time browsing the Pirate MOCs if you need some inspiration. Here's just a few examples of brick-built sails:

http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=39174

http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=104864

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=193279

(This one is just a great example of creativity with a non-traditional "sail"!)

http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=110382

http://brickset.com/sets/70810-1/MetalBeard-s-Sea-Cow

(Using Technic panels works reasonably well in this official set, and I've seen it used well elsewhere, too)

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=112665

(Super-simple but effectiveplate sails)

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=112149

(Beautiful result in micro-scale with a single piece!)

Happy building!

Edited August 8, 2015 by deraven

[gicomegi]

Imo cloth sails seem much more natural but feel free to experiment

Edited August 10, 2015 by gicomegi

[Wiggles]

Thank you for those suggestions and links. I'm off to the Bricktastic event to morrow so I'll see what I can pick up. I'm so glad I found this community

[Sorrelon]

I'm also doing the same, a transport ship MOC for Castle, but I also think cloth sails look much more natural and better when compared to ones built with bricks. If you don't want to buy cloth sails because of pirate or imperial patterns, I can recommend sails from Imperial Flagship set.

http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=sailbb47&idColor=1#T=C&C=1

http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=sailbb46&idColor=1#T=C&C=1

I bought those ones a few months back and none of them have flag or pattern of a faction.