[WIP] The Seven Seas Barracuda (East Indiaman Galleon)

[CaptainPolluxofOrion]

Omg these 2 Ships are awesome! (Also your UCS Bay) I'm currently at a point where i want to modify my own Baracuda Bay (Especially the Ship). In difference to your East Indiamen Designchoice i think i want to go a lot backwards. The world i want to build in my room is more of a 15th/16th Century mishmash Fantasy World. So ships are more or less Cogs, Caravells, Carracks. I think i want to make her a middle sized Carrack with a third mast. I got the new Durmstrang Ship to my 40th Birthday (Yes i'm that old ^^) I think there are some really good techniques to build Carracks also in a bigger Minifigsize.

[cehnot]

On 2/18/2025 at 6:25 AM, CaptainPolluxofOrion said:

Omg these 2 Ships are awesome! (Also your UCS Bay) I'm currently at a point where i want to modify my own Baracuda Bay (Especially the Ship). In difference to your East Indiamen Designchoice i think i want to go a lot backwards. The world i want to build in my room is more of a 15th/16th Century mishmash Fantasy World. So ships are more or less Cogs, Caravells, Carracks. I think i want to make her a middle sized Carrack with a third mast. I got the new Durmstrang Ship to my 40th Birthday (Yes i'm that old ^^) I think there are some really good techniques to build Carracks also in a bigger Minifigsize.

I am 42, but who cares. I look forward to your designs. I love the Elizabethan era and the golden age is my favorite time. I took that era for my inspiration, but dig your ideas as a theme. I don't see a lot of cogs so it wil be wonderful to see more in that age. 

Some of my orders are not arriving for a few weeks so I spent a few days tearing apart my island to start reconstructing it in Studio. 
So far the front 2 sections are complete. This will take a bit of time to do the back sections. They are mostly caves, buildings, and lots of slopes. So far the island is around 1640 pieces for the front two sections. I reduced the piece count about 200 or so by swaping out stacked 1x1 plates and used the new 1x1 brick that is 2 plates tall for the file. I expect this island to be around 4000-5000 based on the skull island section. That section uses a bunch of plates for the building texture. 

These two sections are expanded versions of the original set. Without the ship in place you can see how the right is wider than the set and the left takes the shack and make it an entrance to the cave. 

In the photo below you can see the black removable beams. I needed a place my adult hands could reach. To the left is a removable top hatch for access to the jail cell below. I made the front sections usable like the set. So it could use the original ship placed as the set did. But this is built for larger ships im constructing with the same separation secrions so i coukd swap out parts and such. 

 

Since you guys have not seen the caves yet. The fact is you cannot access each section without swimming or using a boat. The rear sections each have their own piers that do not connect and do fit the row boats inside. 

the ship has a bunch of attachments, roofs, walls that i built to replace the open sections or a place for stairs to lead up to other sections of the island. I may try to make them a bit more modular so they can reconfigured on the island without a ship. But what i may build is an expanded Jose Inn based on the 3in1 ships i have never built. I originally thought of making them into a larger ship with a prefab hull. 

It would be nice to make this island more of a shipwreck cove with multiple designs that can all be reconfigured back to ships. 

 

 

CAMILLA:

I really like the brown after building most of the Black ship. The dark blue and black hardly contrast. 
I decided to build the original color pallet with brown. I went into the file and modified it, fixed areas i wanted to match the colors, and make more of the black areas brown. The white bottom really doesnt fit well with the white area inside the yellow where the cannons are. I cleaned up the lines and such on the yellow to fit to the rear better. I love how I extended the balcony to the cabin more centered around the window and it now lines up to the yellow asthe railing curves to the ship. The interior is all white like the black ship and I began building the galley section the other day. I am waiting on the 4 orders, mostly the brown slopes and white arches since I used most of them up in the black ship galley and interior. 

I really dig the bright white inside and darker tones outside, but I feel like Camilla needs to be left brown on the exterior.  

I also built most the black ship and tore apart the upper levels and decided it would be better as a frigate so I am trying to solve that in Studio first. I will likely work on the cabin design to reflect the other designs. I think it could convert easily, im mostly approaching this project as a series of ships that would have been designed at the same time in the same family.

Why the same designs? MODULAR
The idea is I may swap out parts of each ship for the island, but not modify the island. Just add on it. The cabin needs a lot of work. 

 

Edited February 19 by cehnot

[cehnot]

Island Total Piece Count So Far: 2380

 

The third Island section is now finished in Studio. 
The Top view. I think you can really see how the island comes together here. The bedroom is built next to the ships rudder. The rudder forms the right wall and the captains cabin hangs over the bed. 

You can see the rest of the "L" shape pier below. Row boats fit nicely here. 

A bit dark, but you can see the "L" shape pier come together. 

Where does that balcony stairway lead on the far right?

I had to make a few cave changes to fit them together properly. I realized i never fixed my file after I made a few rock changes to the structure on under the pier. I really love the rocks forming a tunnel. The nice part is the tunnel at the front leads to the shipwreck forecastle. 

I never showed how the top parts lift off for access to the prison and the entrance to the cave.

 

The last section is my 32x32 baseplate version of Skull Island recreation. I love how it will flesh out the entire thing. 

Last few things to do:
- Skull Island section
- Ship Middle Section Roof, front entrance door wall
- Ship Stern section entrance door wall
- Ship Bow section entrance door wall 

Edited February 25 by cehnot