[ENTRY] The Golden Ship

[CaptainDarkNStormy]

This is the second entry of my 7yo son 'Lil Stormy. He's dubbed it The Golden Ship. This is a Bluecoat vessel laden with riches found in the New World.

[Fraunces]

Love to see the youngest participating. Great job Stormy!

[Mazin]

Finally a unique idea for a ship that is entirely different from other vessel oriented entries :)

Of course it needs a lot of work and focus, but it;s a start. It could be either one of those spanish treasure ships full of gold who's trip to the motherland ended when a volcano had erupted and covered it in ashes, and the head melted all it's valueavle contents merging richess with it's porter forewer :)

Or it could be some madman's work, a deranger governor or an ultrarich pirate ordered to use all of his possesions to build a golden statue of a ship that brought him to the West Indies.

Or maybe it was some shipwrecked crew, who's galeon ended stuck in the jungle and local tribesmen started believing that they are god, thus bringing them so much gold they used it to turn their former ship into a sort of a chapel, a holy craft.

Anyway... You give me a golden ship and ideas easily pop out. But I'd throw even more gold here, perhaps throw some jungle around, as the ship could be grounded, add little vegetation if it's been taken over by nature, and ditch all of those batteries, as i don;t think that they work here. Or make them golden or destroyed if they are supposed to stay on this wreck/statue.

Then again even those cannon could stay if this vessel could be finished and turned into some kind of a representational craft! Monarchs and rich boys used them in Europe and Asia, so why not in the Carribean? And they were indeed often made out of gold! Like the venetian Bucentaur.  These were not used for battling or merchant trips of course, but purely to show off in front of crowds, just like presidents like to ride their cool limousines and kings sometimes still use golden carriages. So... i guess that would excuse the use of golden chains on a sailing ship :)  

[iragm]

This is another wonderful little design; the story here needs some fleshing out: is this a wrecked ship?  If not, where are the sails?  What treasure is it laden with?  Surely not just gold chains and corbel/scroll bricks?

But still, this is a good start and a decent build, and while it's the weakest of little Stormy's three entries in my opinion, that's OK -- ships are hard to build!

[CaptainDarkNStormy]

Love the comments ya'll!!!

[Rogue Redcoat]

Aye needs a backstory, a way to steer the ship and why are those Minifigures have the yellow hands and fleshy heads, or is it to prevent him from breaking the arms  anyway, he is very talented, so happy building :)

[thewatchman]

Good eye for colour!

 I love that hull colour and the chain rigging is cool!

good to see the next gen of builders being trained by some of the best!