[MOC] The Inferno

[Sebeus I]

This is a collaboration between me and @Legostone .

We present: The Inferno!

Soon after 71391 Bowser Airship was released, I collected enough medium nougat coloured hull pieces to build a ship. Initially my intention was to build a replica of the famous Inferno, as seen in the move The Goonies. However, upon closer inspection of the reference material, we eventually decided to deviate and add some more interesting features. 

David came over to my place for a Ship Building Weekend, we had done one of those before, resulting in the creation of the Revenant.

This is what we started from, on a Friday evening:

(I typically collect potential useful parts in the hull of a WIP ship, that's just my process ) 

And this is what we had at the end of the weekend.

Needless to say, we had been quite productive. One might even call this speed-building.

From there on I continued on my own to finish this beauty. Though we continued to discuss solutions via whatsapp.

I had never built a ship with a sprit topmast before, for a more classic galleon rig. It's more tricky than a modern bowsprit, meant for jibs, but I think it works. Some things we didn't like about the Goonies' Inferno are: the not so glorious stern (we wanted galleries!), the odd position of the main mast  and the lack of fire power (Our ship now runs a compliment of 18 12-pounder guns on a dedicated gun deck and we left some room on the upper deck for additional 3 pounder guns, though I've only placed two near the capstan.

The colour scheme is one I am very happy with, On top of the medium nougat hull sit the walls, which are made out of (old) dark grey. It more brownish tone, compared to the newer Bluish Grey, works great on a "wooden" ship. David and I had collected just enough rust-coloured gunport flaps, before Bricklink decided that Rust is not an official colour . To be fair it's not that different from regular red but still, regular red might have been too bright to play nice with the rest of this particular colour palette.

Above the main gun deck, we have a splendid marriage of dark orange and dark red, continuing all the way up to the beakhead. On top of the stern medium nougat makes a return. I find that the reuse of the hull colour elsewhere on the ship often works well to bring some balance in the colour scheme. Pearl gold serves as decorations, ornamenting the prow and stern.

I've taken some pictures before I added the sails, as it is often easier to see more of the ship itself that way.

The deck is made entirely of dark tan.

I personally find that reddish brown is easily overused so I've tried to limit it for little details on deck only.

I had these printed tiles from the Snow White set, which goes well on the binnacle.

Concerning the helm, a ship like this really isn't supposed to have a steering wheel. A whipstaff would have been more appropriate 

There is no interior, on a fully rigged ship it doesn't make much sense investing time in details into an interior that can never be accessed anyway.

I'm very happy with these grates, I had these built already for another ship but it just felt right to use them on this one. (It's going to hurt collecting more reddish brown fences, they're quite expensive )

I think medium nougat would work well for the masts, instead of the current tan. Unfortunately I only considered that when the standing rigging had already been applied.

 

Captain William B. Pordobel, can't forget about him.

And that concludes our business, let me know if you like it.

David and I are already discussing a new ship to build on another ship-building weekend .

 

Edited Monday at 10:47 AM by Sebeus I
Fixing images, correcting typo

[Marooned Marin]

What a beauty!  

So much details and use of vibrant colours makes this ship stand above pretty much everything I've seen in the last year, or more.

Photography is great and I agree with all deviations in design you both made, it's much more interesting than original, awesome work! 

 

 

[Sebeus I]

On 8/9/2025 at 3:25 PM, Marooned Marin said:

What a beauty!  

So much details and use of vibrant colours makes this ship stand above pretty much everything I've seen in the last year, or more.

Photography is great and I agree with all deviations in design you both made, it's much more interesting than original, awesome work! 

 

 

Thanks 😊 I think I've built ships on most colour prefab hull now.

[Barbatos]

At first impact I said, 'Wow, beautiful!"

Then I read the post and looked at the other photos and said: "Wooooooow, fantastic!!!".

I can only congratulate you on this collaboration. The details and colours are very striking and I must say that a ship like this I would love to be able to build!

One question: are all the joints 'legal'?

[Sebeus I]

1 hour ago, Barbatos said:

At first impact I said, 'Wow, beautiful!"

Then I read the post and looked at the other photos and said: "Wooooooow, fantastic!!!".

I can only congratulate you on this collaboration. The details and colours are very striking and I must say that a ship like this I would love to be able to build!

One question: are all the joints 'legal'?

Thank you,

"Legal" is a matter of perspective (as a pirate would say )

When not considering the rigging (which I guess counts as not legal as a whole), I'd say the only debatable connections would be a couple on the upper side walls, where different angles connect. There's no excessive stress or anything like that though, they're more like incomplete connections where plates are not clutched into each other completely and are held in place by other features. Now that I think about it, those plates could have been replaced by tiles and it would be completely legal, though less sturdy.

[Admiral Bejaune]

Very nice work gentlemen.  The colors work great together and nougat hulls look nice. Congrats! She is a fine ship!

[Jack Sassy]

An impressive result ye both have achieved over a weekend! I be not familiar with the source material, but she looks as beautiful as can be. I particularly appreciate the shaping of the stern, not to mention the addition of those gold sculptures. The use of dark grey is ingenius in this case, it looks beautiful!  Would ye ever consider adding interior detail if, say, there were removable sections of the broadsides or the captain's cabin? I do agree it be pointless to add interior detail to a vessel with full rigging, but if the access points were to avoid collision with the rigging itself...? This be a question I have been wondering about meself, perhaps ye can provide a logical solution. Either way, good job to ye both! 

[Barbatos]

 

The choice not to develop the interior in favour of full rigging is completely understandable.

I myself prefer this solution. For me it is more important that the model is as faithful to reality as possible rather than being 'playable'. So I absolutely agree with this choice.

10 hours ago, Sebeus I said:

Thank you,

"Legal" is a matter of perspective (as a pirate would say )

When not considering the rigging (which I guess counts as not legal as a whole), I'd say the only debatable connections would be a couple on the upper side walls, where different angles connect. There's no excessive stress or anything like that though, they're more like incomplete connections where plates are not clutched into each other completely and are held in place by other features. Now that I think about it, those plates could have been replaced by tiles and it would be completely legal, though less sturdy.

Yeah right, it's illegal until Lego makes it... Like cutting hoses! 😅

It was just curiosity, I think it's an added value if the joints aren't forced. Anyway, congratulations again on the result, it's always nice to see your MOCs!

Edited Monday at 09:49 PM by Barbatos

[Sebeus I]

13 hours ago, Jack Sassy said:

An impressive result ye both have achieved over a weekend! I be not familiar with the source material, but she looks as beautiful as can be. I particularly appreciate the shaping of the stern, not to mention the addition of those gold sculptures. The use of dark grey is ingenius in this case, it looks beautiful!  Would ye ever consider adding interior detail if, say, there were removable sections of the broadsides or the captain's cabin? I do agree it be pointless to add interior detail to a vessel with full rigging, but if the access points were to avoid collision with the rigging itself...? This be a question I have been wondering about meself, perhaps ye can provide a logical solution. Either way, good job to ye both! 

Thank you, 

It's not only to avoid the rigging itself but the stays need to be pretty well anchored in the walls, which in turn requires the walls to be very sturdy themselves. Having a large opening in there could jeopardize that structural integrity. It's not impossible though, I'm certain a solution may be found to reinforce the walls in some other way. Nevertheless, given the short timespan in which the largest part of the ship was built, we cut some corners there I guess .

13 hours ago, Barbatos said:

 

The choice not to develop the interior in favour of full rigging is completely understandable.

I myself prefer this solution. For me it is more important that the model is as faithful to reality as possible rather than being 'playable'. So I absolutely agree with this choice.

Yeah right, it's illegal until Lego makes it... Like cutting hoses! 😅

It was just curiosity, I think it's an added value if the joints aren't forced. Anyway, congratulations again on the result, it's always nice to see your MOCs!

Oh, I certainly agree, if it can be done, legal connections, without compromise, I will .

[Jack Sassy]

4 hours ago, Sebeus I said:

It's not only to avoid the rigging itself but the stays need to be pretty well anchored in the walls, which in turn requires the walls to be very sturdy themselves.

Aye, indeed.

4 hours ago, Sebeus I said:

It's not impossible though, I'm certain a solution may be found to reinforce the walls in some other way. Nevertheless, given the short timespan in which the largest part of the ship was built, we cut some corners there I guess .

It leaves an opportunity for some tests in the future. Ye both have done an astounding job!

 

[Elephant Knight]

A wonderful ship, and the nougat hulls look great. Ive been itching to use them myself.

Eknight 

[Sebeus I]

2 hours ago, Elephant Knight said:

A wonderful ship, and the nougat hulls look great. Ive been itching to use them myself.

Eknight 

Thank you. You definitely should, I haven't seen many ships with this hull, if even any .

[GeoBrick]

That's a beauty if I ever saw one. Definitely getting VOC Bavaria vibes here.

I especially like the way you depicted the hull's curve with the half-stud 'pushouts',

Kinda wonder if the birth of this marvel was to be seen on a white board in a shopping center room, beginning of July?

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[Elephant Knight]

2 hours ago, Sebeus I said:

Thank you. You definitely should, I haven't seen many ships with this hull, if even any .

Its on the to do list. Problem is, I dont have any concrete ideas other than 'redcoat ship using nougat hulls.'

Eknight 

[Sebeus I]

3 hours ago, GeoBrick said:

That's a beauty if I ever saw one. Definitely getting VOC Bavaria vibes here.

I especially like the way you depicted the hull's curve with the half-stud 'pushouts',

Kinda wonder if the birth of this marvel was to be seen on a white board in a shopping center room, beginning of July?

'

Haha, we began building her about a month earlier. Since then she occupied my mind a lot of the time so it is quite natural that I would draw her when the opportunity arose .

[MaHo90]

This ship looks amazing. I've got a lot of Prins Willem (name on the ship "Prins Willim", there wasn't enough space to spell it correctly) vibes, a Dutch ship from the VOC build in 1650 and used to 1662. It's in the same style as the well known Batavia (build in 1628) but bigger. 

It's a nice basis to build de zeven provinciën, the ship from Michiel de Ruyter, build a couple of years later with a extra gun deck, so maybe I am going to steal some ideas from your ship when I finish my current project.