[MOC] Port Quinnton (part 1)

[Dreamweb]

Hello there, I would like to show you my latest MOC, and also my first true land-based LEGO Pirates MOC... This is port Quinnton, a name some of you might remember from the old times here. 

You can also find it on Instagram and on Flickr!

Anyway, my intention was to make it modular, so the port will eventually be extended, but for now there are two baseplates, one of which comes of course from the good old Eldorado Fortress! Also please note that I deliberately used as many yellowed white bricks as I could find for an effect of old walls!

It serves as a base for a small fort for the bluecoats, connected by a bridge to the rest of the land.

However, as the port will expand in the future, some civilian characters (maybe even some pirates!) will surely be added. For now, the soldiers rule this town!

Can you see the buried treasure? 

And finally, the inside of the solders' fort:

Hope you enjoyed it, thanks! 

[Sebeus I]

That's some excellent part usage right there! I like the use of these classical/vintage parts, the cannon wells work quite well.

[Feuer Zug]

Wow! This is a great start for a modular port city. As mentioned by @Sebeus I, some NPU on the walls. Those old angular corner pieces with the cannons work well. The yellowed bricks do help the realism. 

[Elephant Knight]

A lot of great and interesting parts usage, and the raised baseplate looks good there, too!

Eknight 

[Dreamweb]

22 hours ago, Sebeus I said:

I like the use of these classical/vintage parts, the cannon wells work quite well.

Thanks mate, too few people use old LEGO moulds these days, I try to use old/discontinued pieces whenever I can. Which also means I could never be on LEGO Ideas and stuff like that. 

20 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

The yellowed bricks do help the realism.

This was very much my intention. This was the first time when I used new and shiny bricks only as a last resort. 

18 hours ago, Elephant Knight said:

A lot of great and interesting parts usage, and the raised baseplate looks good there, too!

Thanks mate, I really like this baseplate and I'd been waiting DECADES to use it in a proper MOC. 

[GeoBrick]

I love those cannon bulwark walls.

[Jack Sassy]

This be an impressive display of Imperial might on land! As others have mentioned, the gun ports have some NPU. I also appreciate the rockwork with foliage, it looks the right amount of natural in LEGO form.  Good job on yer first land based MOC! 

[Dreamweb]

On 7/3/2025 at 1:17 PM, GeoBrick said:

I love those cannon bulwark walls

Thanks, that's another large piece that can be quite useful! 

On 7/4/2025 at 12:03 AM, Jack Sassy said:

I also appreciate the rockwork with foliage, it looks the right amount of natural in LEGO form

Well, being a PhD in geology, I finally had the chance to do some experimenting with weathered rock face.  Not really applicable when building ships!  Thanks for the comment!

[Franco Clarke]

As others have stated, this has some ingenious parts usage, using up bits which are otherwise not much seen in pirate builds. I like the gentle curve of the bridge, how stable is it?

[Dreamweb]

On 7/22/2025 at 7:44 PM, Franco Clarke said:

I like the gentle curve of the bridge, how stable is it?

Thanks! The bridge is quite stable when attached properly. Too bad LEGO no longer makes those thin baseplates in such small sizes as far as I know. Bending them is such a nice way to use them, a technique I saw for the first time used by someone many years ago.