Turkish Pirates

[Username_Taken]

Has anyone seen any good Corsair MOCs or anything that has to do with Turkish soldiers/pirates around?

Thanks,

U_T

[Col. Whipstick]

Er, I don't think so, the only way of knowing for sure is going through the annals of this website, just about anything with maritime history makes it's way in here.

Primarily considering the Lego Pirates most discussions and models revolve around European colonialism in the New World and not so much focusing on the colonies or lands of the Old World of the time. I recently made a post suggesting alternative themes for Pirates and Soldiers and based it on Southern Africa - in that thread I mentioned having Arab dhows and pirates in the Indian Ocean as it was so during the Golden Age.

No one seems to have done any MOC's remotely in this area though. Likewise Oriental Pirates would be useful and the Europeans colonized much of the Pacific but that too has never featured, these guys tend to have a Caribbean policy only.

Edited December 9, 2007 by Col. Whipstick

[woody64]

Especially since the ottomans had big influence in europe and also main influence on sea, whic h can also be seen in one of the main historical sea battle of

Lepanto.

The Lego Spanish Imerials are also well suited for this area.

For ottoman navy you may fin a first step with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Turkish_Navy

Andreas

Edited December 9, 2007 by woody64

[Lord Of Pies]

As Col. Whipstick pointed out the LEGO pirate theme primarily centres around piracy in the Caribbean during the golden age, and not so much piracy/colonialism anywhere else in the world really.

[Col. Whipstick]

As Col. Whipstick pointed out the LEGO pirate theme primarily centres around piracy in the Caribbean during the golden age, and not so much piracy/colonialism anywhere else in the world really.

Which is a shame... all of Africa, India, China and most the Pacific wouldn't be too hard to simulate with the lego that's out there... Just mix elements of pirate lego with ninjas, the indian stuff from the Johnny Thunder series, the 'indians' from the western stuff, all of that is easily compatable with the era of 1500 - 1850ish.

[woody64]

As Col. Whipstick pointed out the LEGO pirate theme primarily centres around piracy in the Caribbean during the golden age, and not so much piracy/colonialism anywhere else in the world really.

I always was astonished about the subthemes discussion. To my point of view the pirate theme starts with:

- pirates (so far I haven't found that these theme is only dedicated to caribbean), - ~1650 (Henry Morgan)

- imperial (which is said to represent english and french navy), therefore european ~1800

- islander (polynesian)

- imperial armada, spanish based - ~1500

But all that together gives us the possibility to build any subtheme we want.

For example: Lepanto: Spanish - Ottomans / Imperial Armada - Orient

Andreas

Edited December 9, 2007 by woody64

[Captain Green Hair]

Well, the Xebc in the picture, made bij Phred, could be a turkish ship:

[Username_Taken]

Captain Green Hair, do you have any different pics of that ship? It looks quite promising...

[MagPiesRUs]

Well, I made an MOC of some corsairs fighting skellies for the pirate halloween constest. Here's a picture:

And here's the link: http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/eurofo...2414&hl=corsair

Shameless self-promotion ON! :-P

[Captain Green Hair]

Captain Green Hair, do you have any different pics of that ship? It looks quite promising...

It's Phred's creation, it can be seen HERE

I'm building a Xebec myself and find this one very inspiring!

Edited December 15, 2007 by Captain green hair