I'd like to request a tutorial...

[Captainmorgan]

My first thing to request is a fort tutorial, I have looked through the posts and cannot find one.The second is a ship tutorial, I know there are some but the only LEGO ship I have is Brickbeard's Bounty so I don't have many ship peices. Sorry if there's already tutorials, I couldn't find any though.

[Hiawatha]

My first thing to request is a fort tutorial, I have looked through the posts and cannot find one.The second is a ship tutorial, I know there are some but the only LEGO ship I have is Brickbeard's Bounty so I don't have many ship peices. Sorry if there's already tutorials, I couldn't find any though.

@Horry has made some very nice tutorials using LDD. Tutorial

I also know that @Captain Green Hair has made one for frigates. Tutorial

They are both good ones that I know of and I am sure there are others out there. Hoped that helped.

[Captainmorgan]

Thanks Hiawatha, I have seen those tutorials before and especially liked Captain Green Hair's frigate. I just cannot build it because I don't have enough hull pieces. Hopefully a fort tutorial comes round soon.

[Pavel]

Fort tutorial would be indeed nice idea!

[Skipper]

Captain Morgan, are you looking for a tutorial on the design aspects of realistic forts (like the tutorials Horry made) or how to build a nice looking fort (like Captain Greenhair's)? Because they are very different things. I don't have time to write a tutorial right now nor am I a historian on the subject but I can recommend you some sites that I've used.

"Fortified Places," has articles/pictures on various types of cannon forts all over coastal Europe, good place to get inspired

My favorite fort type is the Vauban fort, Wikipedia is always a good place to start.

Some famous Vauban forts you can look up are Fort Ticonderoga, Castle of Good Hope, etc.

This and this (some self promotion here) are pretty good examples in LEGO.

I don't know what this one's called but the Torre de Belem was pretty representative of another generally Spanish type, you can see some lego MOC's here and here.

For ideas of interior details we had a topic on this a while ago, Horry's post two down is a pretty good list.

Hope that helps, don't forget Google!! And you don't need a lot of hull pieces to build a ship, Brickbeard's Bounty's pieces are perfect for making an unrated sloop of war or something of that sort.

Edited November 28, 2011 by Skipper

[Captainmorgan]

Well what I mean is just a normal LEGO fort. I guess it could be realistic but it is hard for me to look at a picture and build. Thanks to everyone who tried or are trying to help.