[BDP] Privateer Frigate Fortuna

[BrickPerfection]

On 3/28/2025 at 4:13 PM, Mister Phes said:

That's brilliant!  That's exactly what we need!

In addition to the promotion of Fortuna, do you mind if the photo is added to the Classic Pirates fan gallery?

Thanks for bringing it up!  Sure, go ahead! Please list me as BrickPerfection though.  

Edited March 30 by BrickPerfection

[Mister Phes]

11 hours ago, BrickPerfection said:

Thanks for bringing it up!  Sure, go ahead! Please list me as BrickPerfection though.  

Of course!  With links to your social media profiles too.

I'm writing a series of articles which covers the evolution of the Fortuna from Series 5 to 7.

And will publish them strategically to coincidence with key BrickLink Designer Program dates.

That way we can familarise Fortuna with AFOLs long before the Crowdfunding phase starts... and keep reminding them it's coming!

There were a couple more photos I was hoping to use to help keep things fresh - rather than recycle the first photo in every article.

[Franco Clarke]

Congratulations on being selected, very well deserved. I'm looking forward to adding this one to the fleet. 

[BrickPerfection]

On 3/31/2025 at 3:01 PM, Mister Phes said:

Of course!  With links to your social media profiles too.

I'm writing a series of articles which covers the evolution of the Fortuna from Series 5 to 7.

And will publish them strategically to coincidence with key BrickLink Designer Program dates.

That way we can familarise Fortuna with AFOLs long before the Crowdfunding phase starts... and keep reminding them it's coming!

There were a couple more photos I was hoping to use to help keep things fresh - rather than recycle the first photo in every article.

Thank you so much! I'm sorry for the late reply, I was actually super busy refining Fortuna. I'm extremely pleased with the improvements, but cannot reveal anything for now.

Yes, feel free to use that photo! If you want to have the full history, you could start with that and have the ships that I built for Classic-Pirates and the Pirate MOC Forum as the next stepping stone before the BrickLink Designer Program! Unfortunately, Captain Green Hair's Build a Frigate tutorial is missing as a result of Brickshelf being down.

Fortuna is registered for Brickbuilt Sydney (May 31-June 1), and hopefully I can show an updated model then. I was thinking of doing a side-by side comparison of the models from Series 5, 6 & 7 and the pre-production model, but I'm not sure when I can pull this off - it depends on getting permission from BrickLink and the BDP Team. Brickbuilt might be just a tad early; we'll see!

The other thing that I was super keen on showcasing is custom fabric sails, and how you can make them to look more realistic than e.g. the productions sails of the Endurance. Ideally, I could have a thus customised Fortuna at Brickvention Australia 2026 where BrickLink would also show the model as an upcoming set.

7 hours ago, Franco Clarke said:

Congratulations on being selected, very well deserved. I'm looking forward to adding this one to the fleet. 

Thank you, I'm pleased to hear that!  

[Mister Phes]

3 hours ago, BrickPerfection said:

Fortuna is registered for Brickbuilt Sydney (May 31-June 1), and hopefully I can show an updated model then. I was thinking of doing a side-by side comparison of the models from Series 5, 6 & 7 and the pre-production model, but I'm not sure when I can pull this off - it depends on getting permission from BrickLink and the BDP Team. Brickbuilt might be just a tad early; we'll see!

This is great news!  Keep us updated.

The article for Series 6 Fortuna is mostly done, and another for the Series 7 will commence work sometime in the future.

But we have plenty time as  crowdfunding still another 10 months.