6285 - Black Seas Barracuda -> small modifications.

[BillytheKid]

I have this set as a child and still have it. Inspired of the comic books of Redbeard and his adopted son Eric. As soon the sets were available, I wanted them. I got all small sets from mine grandma and the big pirate ship 6285 from mine parents as birthday present. Always wanted the 6274 Caribbean Clipper for a good seafight, never got it. Well, later when I was grown up......well, I do  ?

Some parts of the ship always brothered me, yes even as a child. The sails were hanging out after time, the front sail foiled up down and no properdeck over the guns. And were is the name of the ship at the back, as every ship had at that time?
And after time, light grey and white discolors too. So needed to fix that too. First some pictures and I tell what I have done and why. 

And does it not look awesome:

I added a tile with setnumber, I don't remember all setnumbers.


And the name of the set at the back of ship.


I added a steering sail at the back. Actually in real life not possible, it would have to much stress at the mast. It does look cool. The sail is made by Towarzysz Klocek - Sails and Fabrics for Lego sets. Really good quality. Also the flags are from him, looks better than the plastic lego ones. The original flags are stored beneath in the ship's belly.

This looks way better with a proper deck over the guns. Even fitted a small boat as in real life.

You can remove it and it does looks like the original set.

Even the gunner still fits in this way.

What me bugs me were the sails. I needed to replace them with replica's, the old ones were dirty and bad shape. This solution I found to keep them in the wind.


More updates are coming............

[Siroco]

You certainly improved the old Barracuda, I too love the Redbeard comics.

Do you also have the 2020 Barracuda? Beautiful ship and with a closed deck 

[DonQuixote]

3 hours ago, Siroco said:

You certainly improved the old Barracuda, I too love the Redbeard comics.

Do you also have the 2020 Barracuda? Beautiful ship and with a closed deck 

That set brought me back from the dark ages. Amazing ship and island

Great improvement on the old Barracuda 

[GeoBrick]

30 minutes ago, DonQuixote said:

Great improvement on the old Barracuda 

Especially with the gaffel sail! 

[DonQuixote]

2 hours ago, GeoBrick said:

Especially with the gaffel sail! 

Indeed! 

[BillytheKid]

Thx for compliments. Well lets share a few more modications I did.

The front sail will fold after time, which looks terrible. In set of the redcoats 6271, the front sail is mounted differently. That's exactly what I did with BSB 6285 and CC 6274. In instruction of 6285 you start at front with rope and you go to the back. I ordered a longer rope (funny enough at real shipyard  ) and I started at the back and go to the front. Then up to the first mast and straight down in the 1x1 yellow modified plate with ring and put the rest of rope in front of the ship. Where I stored the original flags also. After 5 years the front sail still hangs as at first day I mounted this way. Just recently again by replacing the old dirty damaged sails for replica's.
Very cheap and easy solution, just using a longer rope .

I changed also the crane at ship with using a winch mounted at a 2x2 turnable plate. And the inverted slope replaced with a net, for more realistic look. In mine opnion it looks way better. Yeah, I know those parts weren't available in 1989.

And here a closer look at those cloth flags and the name of ship at the back.

Only I need to look for a proper captains hut. Now it's empty.

I added those (expensive nowadays) a real compass. That was a real cool part in later piratesets, which I wanted at all ships I have now.