MOC: Mayflower

[Sir E Fullner]

Hello, Historic-theme-obsessed-people! And Happy Thanksgiving as well!

Getting into the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am going to make Thanksgiving-related MOC's all throughout the month of November. To get the ball rolling, let us start with:

The Mayflower

First of all, for those who don't know, a bit of background on the Pilgrims:

The Pilgrims were a group of Protestants living in England during the 17th century. They belonged to a church group called the Separatist church, so called because they "separated" from the Church of England. The King told them to keep to the Church of England, but they didn't. To escape religious persecution, they fled to Holland. That didn't work out so well because they didn't know the language and were afraid that their children were moving towards the Dutch ways. They heard of religious freedom in Virginia, so they asked the King of England if they could go to America, and he gave them a charter of land near the Hudson River area of New York.

The Pilgrims acquired two ships, the Mayflower and the Speedwell, and sailed to the port of Southampton, England to take on passengers and supplies for the rough journey ahead. The Speedwell's captain was too cowardly to go ahead, so he caused a leak on his ship on purpose and stayed in Europe. With the Speedwell damaged, all of the Pilgrims had to climb into the tiny Mayflower. The Mayflower departed from Plymouth harbor on September 6, 1620 with 102 passengers, including at least two dogs, with William Bradford as leader.

On the trip over, the Pilgrims suffered many hardships. Five passengers died at sea. One baby was born on the voyage and named Oceanus Hopkins. While sailing to America, the Mayflower was caught in a storm and instead of sailing straight to the Hudson River, they sailed north into New England.

On November 9, 1620; land was spotted from the Mayflower, but before anyone could leave, they had to sign the Mayflower Compact, a list of laws that all colonists had to obey. Anyways, enough history, on to the build.

The MOC

Obviously, I made the Mayflower with LDD only because I didn't have the bricks at hand to make such a huge ship.

A view of the decks:

The kitchen at the front of the boat:

I feel sorry for those Pilgrims, eating only watery soup and hardly anything else.

The cargo hold:

Governor Bradford's quarters:

The guy with the armor is Captain Miles Standish, the military leader.

For more images of the ship, click here.

Stay tuned!

Always entertaining, always inspiring, always:

Edited November 6, 2010 by efullner

[Ye Olde Pirate]

One word: Awesome. I love how you did the Mayflower! It looks just like the real thing. The outfits you used for the figs look real "pilgrimish" and it's cool that you put Miles Standish in there. Good Job

Gob Bless

[Masked Builder]

I like it! Nice work. It looks like a good size too.

[Mrlegoninja]

COol! Great work.

[The Yellow Brick]

Very nice ship, still room for improvement

Do you use paint to make the torsos ?

[Sir E Fullner]

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Do you use paint to make the torsos ?

Why, yes I do.

[The Yellow Brick]

Why, yes I do.

Interesting, thats somthing I've never thought doing that with LDD pic's

[Captain Becker]

Nice one, but wheres the bottom of the ship? I dont see any floor on loest deck or cargo holder.

Anyway, its pretty good LDD MOC and id like to get an LFX file to tak a closer look

Captain Becker

[bricked one]

April showers bring Mayflowers, what do Mayflowers bring? - The pilgrims of bad jokes...

Nice big build, looks kinda empty though, keep on brikin'.

[XimenaPaulina]

Very nice way to use LDD to create that pretty huge ship, good job there efullner! What's great about that is you could always improve it anytime you want. Is there any chance we'll we see this in real brickbuilld?

[Admiral Croissant]

Nice job on the torso's, and ofcourse on the ship itself!

The Mayflower is a beautiful ship, and it's great they made a replica of it.

I like the fact that your ship has an interior, but if you would build it in real, I think you should use some more different colours/types of brown.

But overall, it looks very good. Next time you make a ship, please post it in the Pirates forum, that's the best place for sailiing ships

[buddy]

Good MOC efullner, you've captured the look of the ship well and made it look realistic and accurate. A good idea to put torso designs on using MS Paint.

Well done.

~buddy~

[Darth Yogi]

Great job on the ship. It looks nice and accurate. Nice figs to, they fit in nicely.

Good job

[BrickArtist]

very nice! looks very accurate and detailed, will we see it in the bricks?

[Sir E Fullner]

will we see it in the bricks?

Probably not, since this ship was used with LDD LU mode.