[MOC] 64 gun 3rd rate ship of the line. The lobster

[berninhr]

Hello I thought I should share my most recent creation. A 64 gun 3rd rate ship of the line! 

Please let me know what you think!

 

Edited March 2 by berninhr

[Fraunces]

She's a beauty! Love it. 

[Max_Lego]

Magnificent! Love that build. 

[Feuer Zug]

Gorgeous work. Lots of details from bow to stern. I see part of the upper gun deck. Do you have pictures of the entire deck? Or does the main deck not come off?

[Third Navigator]

Well made bow! I can't see any clue..

[Captain Braunsfeld]

Excellent ship - congratulations.

And I know how difficult it is to take pictures of such a large vessel. You have managed that well.

[berninhr]

On 3/2/2024 at 7:52 PM, Fraunces said:

She's a beauty! Love it. 

Thank you glad you like her. She took many iterations and even more hours to get right.

 

On 3/4/2024 at 8:10 AM, Max_Lego said:

Magnificent! Love that build. 

Thank you!

On 3/4/2024 at 2:44 PM, Feuer Zug said:

Gorgeous work. Lots of details from bow to stern. I see part of the upper gun deck. Do you have pictures of the entire deck? Or does the main deck not come off?

Unfortunately the gun deck is not very detailed and there is a lot of support structure so there isn't really too much to look at.

On 3/5/2024 at 11:10 AM, Third Navigator said:

Well made bow! I can't see any clue..

Ah yeah that took a while to get right but basically lots and lots of hinge plates lol 

 

 

7 hours ago, Captain Braunsfeld said:

Excellent ship - congratulations.

And I know how difficult it is to take pictures of such a large vessel. You have managed that well.

Thank you so much! and yeah getting good photographs was a bit of a challenge quickly found out I didn't quite have enough baseplates   

Edited March 6 by berninhr

[MAP Tec]

Looks amazing!!! The more cannons, the better 

[MetallFanYT]

really nice ship 👍

[berninhr]

On 3/6/2024 at 7:42 PM, MAP Tec said:

Looks amazing!!! The more cannons, the better 

Yeah can never go wrong by adding guns!

 

On 3/10/2024 at 5:43 PM, MetallFanYT said:

really nice ship 👍

Thank you glad you like her.

 

I thought I would share some behind the scenes photos in case anyone would be interested

Here is how I have to store the ship as she is too tall for my shelves with the masts attached

and here is a few pictures of the build process

and finally complete next to the first imperial flag ship

[GeoBrick]

She's a beauty. And the additional pictures answered my thought if the entire hull was build up from LEGO boat pieces. Appearantly only on the bow.
Perhaps the only thing that feels a little out of bound with the smoothness of the ship's shape are the dark red pieces on the galleon (before the forecastle). This sections looks blocky in comparison.

[MAP Tec]

Wow, wow, wow!