SMS Berlin

[Kerntechniker]

Hello,

after the nice welcome to the HMS Reliant, i decide to present a pimped brig, the SMS Berlin.

Yes I know a brig is only two masted but anyway it's a total free creation

[Captain Zuloo]

Nice work! I particuarly like the name on the front of the ship, very well done. But what does SMS stand for? Do you have any more images hosted on a site like Brickshelf or Flickr? I'd love to see more images of this wonderful creation!

[RoryoCox]

Your new ship looks really good. I like the design.

And I'm jealous of you figures

[Commodore Hornbricker]

Nice ship. With the title I was expecting a little more crome and gold and maybe some custom rims and paint. Keep up the good work.

[Captain Becker]

Nice shi i would like to see how the back gallery will looks, could you post more pics please?

Captain Becker

[General Redwater]

Very nice work! Do have more pictures ?

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General Redwater

Edited May 1, 2010 by General Redwater

[Kerntechniker]

SMS stands for "Seine Majestät Schiff" is the german counterpart of HMS. I think it was first used just after the foundation of the german empire 1871, but i'm not 100% sure. So it's historically not correct

Thank's for all the nice note's. More picture are here.

[the_green_avenger]

I never really thought the prussians had a very large navy...

good to see a bit of diversity put into this, that's what really caught my attention

Hope to see you around here more often!

[BrickPerfection]

SMS stands for "Seine Majestät Schiff" is the german counterpart of HMS. I think it was first used just after the foundation of the german empire 1871, but i'm not 100% sure. So it's historically not correct

Hehe, well I doubt that sailing warships were still popular in the 1870s

Your mainmast is very, very close to the foremast, really it should be much further apart from it.

I also found the gun placement a bit weird, the guns should be 4-6 studs apart though 4 studs IMO works best. It should be quite possible to fit 8 instead of just 6 guns into that hull...

Also there is no figurehead which i think you really need to change.

If you have time, custom sails and rigging could improve your ship a lot.

It really takes an insane amount of time though...

The colourscheme looks a bit weird with the SES hull pieces since the red line is not continued.

Other than that I'm glad there's one more bluecoat ship on these forums

I've seen the Admirality on 1000steine.de

Why not post it on EB? It's lovely!

-Perfectionist

[Kerntechniker]

Hello Perfectionist,

well the ship is from a historic point of view nonsense, but well it's my first MOC after a long period of non building.

But I'm still thinking about a reconstrcution of the Berlin, but this will take time.

Before the reconstruction, I've to build my MOC for the bayonets dawn contest and a steerage for the flagship :pir-skull:

[Brig. Brick]

SMS is the correct indication, being used in the German Navy from 1871 to 1919,

in 1870's, the ships began to be shielded, and start the use of steam, and the use of sails practically finished by the end of that century,but even in the middle of the WWI, many sailing ships were sunken by the firsts U-boats submarines

but now, whit your MOC, very nice indeed!!, and the troops... like the amount of troops!!!