Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 I have spent some weeks on my probably largest ship so far: "The Pride of Pontelli". The model is inspired by the Spanish ship "Santa Ana" - a model of which I have seen in Madrid's excellent Naval Museum. The original ship has one more deck. Having little experience with two deck ships I did not want to go for too much. I did not have enough yellow bricks for another deck anyway My son helped me with the lighting and photographing the ship. This actually gets more difficult with the ship's size. I will make some more improvements, but more or less this will be going out to an exhibition in August. And I am quite happy with how the brick-based-rigging turned out. Thanks for watching! Quote
Third Navigator Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 you built spanish ship's high-freeboard. Looks very good. And big bricks-using made her cool. many parts such as rigging, brick built sail inspired me to can rebuild my old ships. good ship bro Quote
NOD Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 Very well built two cannon deck ship with Lego boat hull. The most difficult part of the ship's bow and the ship's stern are well built. I like that the hull slopes outward at first, is straight on the lower gun deck and inwards on the second gun deck. As far as I can ses the height of the lower- and upper-gun decks is 4-5 bricks high. I like that and it's good. Quote
Marooned Marin Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 10 hours ago, Captain Braunsfeld said: This is fantastic photo! The ship is leaving the port, off to some exciting adventure, and we have longing, or perhaps a touch of worry of some unknown town official, or merchant, wondering if the ship will ever reach its destination. Well done! Quote
Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 11, 2023 Author Posted July 11, 2023 On 7/9/2023 at 11:27 AM, Third Navigator said: you built spanish ship's high-freeboard. Looks very good. And big bricks-using made her cool. many parts such as rigging, brick built sail inspired me to can rebuild my old ships. good ship bro Thanks - have fun rebuilding (I am thinking of rebuilding some old ships too) On 7/9/2023 at 7:44 PM, NOD said: Very well built two cannon deck ship with Lego boat hull. The most difficult part of the ship's bow and the ship's stern are well built. I like that the hull slopes outward at first, is straight on the lower gun deck and inwards on the second gun deck. As far as I can ses the height of the lower- and upper-gun decks is 4-5 bricks high. I like that and it's good. Bow and stern have seen many iterations during the building process... At some point the stern part was going to be in blue. Maybe I'll try that again one day. And your observations about the curvature of the hull are on point! On 7/9/2023 at 7:46 PM, Marooned Marin said: This is fantastic photo! The ship is leaving the port, off to some exciting adventure, and we have longing, or perhaps a touch of worry of some unknown town official, or merchant, wondering if the ship will ever reach its destination. Well done! Sounds somewhat romantic. Until you realize that they have forgotten to set the sails Quote
Marooned Marin Posted July 11, 2023 Posted July 11, 2023 16 minutes ago, Captain Braunsfeld said: Until you realize that they have forgotten to set the sails Perhaps that's the thing that worriers him the most! Quote
Marooned Marin Posted July 12, 2023 Posted July 12, 2023 @Captain Braunsfeld your creation has been Quote
Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 12, 2023 Author Posted July 12, 2023 3 hours ago, Marooned Marin said: @Captain Braunsfeld your creation has been Yeah. Happiness Thanks a lot. Quote
Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 14, 2023 Author Posted July 14, 2023 16 hours ago, Shiva said: Nice it is! Thanks a lot Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted July 15, 2023 Posted July 15, 2023 The stern of this vessel is a work of art! I like the small windows and the decorations! Quote
Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 20, 2023 Author Posted July 20, 2023 On 7/15/2023 at 7:13 AM, LEGO Train 12 Volts said: The stern of this vessel is a work of art! I like the small windows and the decorations! Thanks. I am happy that you like it. (And I still ask myself whether it would look better if the stern had blue as a main colour instead of the yellow) Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 I think yellow is perfect because it recalls wood and also integrates with the gold decorations! Quote
Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 20, 2023 Author Posted July 20, 2023 1 minute ago, LEGO Train 12 Volts said: I think yellow is perfect because it recalls wood and also integrates with the gold decorations! Quote
CaptainPolluxofOrion Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 Really superb Ship, Captain Braunsfeld! I really like it! Quote
Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 26, 2023 Author Posted July 26, 2023 17 hours ago, CaptainPolluxofOrion said: Really superb Ship, Captain Braunsfeld! I really like it! Thanks, fellow captain! Quote
Blechbek Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 With the standard LEGO hull parts it looks a bit slim and thus too top heavy. It's really hard build a large ship like that, while being so much limited by the width of the hull parts. Quote
Captain Braunsfeld Posted July 29, 2023 Author Posted July 29, 2023 8 hours ago, Blechbek said: With the standard LEGO hull parts it looks a bit slim and thus too top heavy. It's really hard build a large ship like that, while being so much limited by the width of the hull parts. And I thought the ship was not long enough.... How much wider would you build it? 2 studs? 4 studs? Quote
Blechbek Posted July 29, 2023 Posted July 29, 2023 Widening the ship would look odd too. Maybe you could lower the cannon decks a bit. A Ship of the line can't be really build with the standard hull parts. Quote
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