Plaid Beard
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[LDD Scene] Keelhauled! Warning: Contains floating bricks!
Plaid Beard replied to Kolonialbeamter's topic in Pirate MOCs
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This little scene is great! It's got a lot of depth for such a compact project. Is the interior of the cabin finished?
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This reminds me a lot of my first ship..... but this one is better..... and I was 35.....
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I love the modularness (pretty sure that's a word) of your project, and the scale is awesome. I especially like the simplicity of your docks and the way they add to the scene. I can't wait to see where this goes.
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Looks much better! I like the new length, and your water is very eye-catching.
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Love it! Tons of wonderful details packed into a small scene. Very well done!
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Love it! Very cute, but very solid!
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I have to agree on the color, although I do like the ship as a whole very much. It looks solidly built and well planned.
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Very well done. It has that sort of creepy/cool feel that the ship had in the movie.
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On the Bluecoat-held Caribbean island of Sainte-Salacious lies the most ancient and prestigious Académie des Mousquetaires, where the bravest recruits for the Bluecoat Army receive their training as musketeers. While at the Académie, recruits learn swordsmanship, marksmanship, some light typing, and occasionally are beaten with raw fish. When they graduate, the recruits join the ranks of the most elite unit of the Bluecoat Army, the illustrious musketeers, who dream of little else but the day when they will meet their Redcoat foes in battle, and then afterward type up the after-action report. The building, itself, was built in 1562 by the Spanish as part of the monastery of Saint Salacious, who was martyred in the 9th Century while trying to introduce non-alcoholic beer and anger-management to the Scots. The island was named by the Spanish explorers who landed there in 1517 and contracted trichinosis from eating the local wild pigs. And now, here is my MOC, which is part of my larger building project to document life on the strange little island of Sainte-Salacious: Sometimes the musketeers do charity work, such as this musketeer teaching swordplay to a young street ruffian as revenge for the boy's mother saying she doesn't date soldiers. The monument to the greatest musketeer of all time..... whose name escapes everyone.... The Bluecoat guard on the left is not overly thrilled to be wasting his youth guarding a door, while the guard on the right is just plain tickled not to have been posted to an actual combat unit. The roof comes off for ventilation on very hot days. Apparently. A bizarre little ritual, but a necessary part of the training. Apparently some of the bricks in the wall started to separate when I carried it downstairs to photograph it. Ah well, free lighting. I had wanted to use more vegetation in the courtyard, but I'm saving my trees for a different project.
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These are incredible! Thank you for sharing, and I agree that Gary's builds would find in well. His details are vraiment incroyable!
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The gun deck is filled with the full size Lego cannons. I only have one ship that I built with brick-built cannons - my schooner The Lady Kathryn (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=111842#entry2268103) - because she's a smaller ship and wouldn't fit the big guns.
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Greetings! Finally finished my Bluecoat frigate. Don't have a name yet - that's proving to be difficult to settle on, but I have some ideas. I based her on plans and paintings of French frigates from the mid-18th Century, and the build owes a LOT to the "Build A Frigate" tutorial, as well as quite a few gorgeous ships I've seen posted on this site, so thanks to everyone who posted pictures of your ships! Here is the overview. The ship is about 66cm tall and 87cm long, and is the largest ship I've built. Fully Rigged Ship, Three Masts 20B The figurehead is a little dull. I haven't settled on a name for the ship yet, so the figurehead probably will be changing. 2nd Battalion of Bluecoat Marines. The ship's launch. A Bluecoat infantry officer hitching a ride. The capstan does not work, but I'll probably change that soon. I kinda like the way the masts turned out, but even with reinforcing inside of them, they are way too fragile for the ship to be played with. Since my goal is always playability, I'll probably change the masts soon. I do enjoy making custom flags. Come on, now - I'm not the only ship builder here who likes croissants. It was not easy to get the tumblehome to line up with the part of the cabin that juts out, but I like the way it turned out. I really like the way the outside of the captain's cabin came together. I tried quite a few different looks before I finally found one I liked. And of course you know I'm going to have a binnacle. I love binnacles, but I don't like trying to build them. Deck comes off to expose the captain's cabin. Brunch is served. I wanted to do a tiled pattern for the cabin floor, but did not have enough pieces, so hardwood it is! I kind of like the way it looks. I might also change the ship's wheel. This one is okay, but I can do better. I don't think the ship's cook is as French as he claimed on his résumé. The ship's bell again - it was a little challenge to build it with a clapper, but I like the way it turned out. I haven't made the sails yet. I'm going to wait until I know whether or not I'm going to redesign the top masts, and I'm also going to make all the sails for all my ships at once. Thanks for looking! ~ Plaid Beard
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Hmmm. That's very odd then - I have absolutely no idea where I got those pieces! At the most a couple weeks. Going on vacation this week, and hopefully I'll be starting my next project when I get back!
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Thanks! I do have a few more projects up my sleeve for the Fall. I've been trying to think where I got those pillar blocks - I know they weren't from Museum Robbery, because those were tan, pretty sure, and I didn't get that set. And I didn't get any sets in the 2000s that would have had them. I did take apart several of the "castles" I got in the 1990s (they weren't great sets, and I just got them so I'd have something to build) to use for pieces, so that's the only place I can think that I would have got them. It's possible they came from one of the Adventurer sets from the 1990s, because I also took apart a couple of those (a couple Egyptian-themed ones) recently, as well.
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The yards are definitely something I need to work on, because I'm not completely happy with them. I had sort of a parts-crunch, though, so I had to make-do with what was on-hand. I'd like to see the Redcoat bobber with enough guns to silence the mighty broadside of my Bluecoat flagship! Any shipbuilders out there may interpret that as a challenge to action, by the way!
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I've always thought the Bluecoats needed their own larger warship, and you've done a great job designing one for them. Well done!
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Thanks for posting this! This is a good inspiration for me to work on some smaller projects. You do some great work!
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This is really adorable. Well done!
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It has 5 hull sections, plus the stern and bow sections. Thanks, everyone! This was a tough project, but I enjoyed it.
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Here's the link to the tutorial: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30622 There are a lot of great tutorials on this site that are worth exploring, and I've found a lot of experienced folks who are more than happy to answer questions.
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The Red Dragon, 62 gun pirate ship of the line
Plaid Beard replied to De Sandman's topic in Pirate MOCs
Wooooooooow...... That is incredible! I really love the figurehead - I never would have thought of doing one like that! This is an impressive ship! -
Thanks! I don't remember which minifigure originally came with that head, but when I thought of the fish thing that was the head that I knew I had to use. What's more manly than a muscled-up dude with Elvis hair grunting while being beaten with raw fish?
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This picture shows how I built the pedestal. I don't remember if the round pieces came from a Castle set I got in the late-1990s (back when Castle lost its way) or if they came from a very old Space set I had from the early-1980s. The base is pretty straight-forward. I love this color blue, but for this build I would have preferred a darker blue to better match the Bluecoat flag.
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I just remembered that I used some of these musketeers before in a comic I did a few years ago...