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For someone who've grown up with the first pirates wave, I've to say this new Eldorado for looks quite disappointing, especially when we compare it with the POBB. I could change my mind once I have the actual set, but I still think they could've done better than that. On the positive side, it appears that the new set is a sort of 2-in-1, with a fort in its original form and a port when it opens. Also it's thoughtful to include a small trade vessel, though I'm not sure with that raised bow, it looks like they've used some hinge plates to raise the front at a certain angle, not sure if it's the best way to achieve that feature, some railings in place of that sloped bow would look better imho, like the Ideas' sailboat.

Nice facade, and interesting minifigs, are they all from official sets? 'cause that guy with blue overcoat looks raelly cool, I may want to buy one for myself in case I stumble upon one one day.

That would be nice, there's the new BSB for the pirates, the bluecoats may reasonably expect an upgrade to their out of date Caribbean Clipper.

Nicely done, dude.

There's nothing with the build it self, you got a tumblehome, a fully covered gun deck, can't be sure with it but seeing the guns are superposed I assume there's one, rails on the bow and a window-ed stern castle. If you can extend it with a few more hull pieces, you'll get a two decked warship. But if you are aiming to turn it into a brig or sloop, it should be longer, without covered gundeck, and the tumblehome on sloops isn't as pronounced than on ships of the line, basically you can build a sloop with perpendicular sides. From my own experience, it would be a lot easier to build something after a real world model.

Grey sails do look good, surprisingly, perhaps because it's a pirate Searats ship. Sails plus oars, seems you are going to use it in open waters as well as in shallows waters, I'll tell my boats to flee at sight.

Surrounded by sea, with limited cultivated lands, fishing is an important source of protein for the settlers of Kojima. Luckily for these privateer-settlers, there were some skilled craftmen and shipwrights among them, it didn't them to long to launch their first boats. The Aiiro class fishing boat: Time to have homeland products, fine bakery and wine are indispensable to keep moral high. Enough for today, back to port! OOC: I'm once again trying to work with an official set, but not enhancement this time, I rather prefer to build something different than the original, as it's hard to work out an era-appropriate boat with that Thor's ship.

Thank you, Thomas Waagenaar. Now you mention it, I recall having seen a few of one or two masted boats near a dock somewhere around the Af...dike (the large dam with a highway on it) years back. Thank you, BD, glad to see you around again. Thank you Bregir. I've to say I struggle the most with sails and rigging when building ships. Thank you Yperio_Bricks. Small boat are fun to build, we may expect to see more of them since there isn't any arms race going on.

Neat model, the fact that you managed to build a Jeep out of the Range Over makes it even better.

Thank you, Captain Braunsfeld. Thank you NOD. Thank you Jeff of Clubs. There aren't any horse yet, I'm planning to import some though. Glad you like it. To be continued...Thank you Fraunces. Thank you Keymonus.

The watch on a tower perched on one the cliffs surrounding the Haruna Bay on Kojima Island saw two ships approaching the coast, he quickly shot a fire with his musket to put the little garrison on alert. Minutes later, the settlers were at ease as they recognized these two ships as Kurenai and Forte. They brought in new settlers. At their arrival, the newcomers could appreciate the famous show of "Planting the Flag", representing the iconic moment of some Marines from certain Kingdom planting their flag on this long-forgotten Oleonic land.The settlers didn't hold grudge to these uninvited guests, in fact, without their visit, the dormant Oleon Crown would have never known the existence of this tiny parcel of land in the ocean. Tourists could also pay a visit to the local souvenir & liquor shops.

Glad you like it. Thank you Fraunces.

Nice scene. I like these huge and well detailed digital builds.

Nice plane! It's interesting to see that this model has cut off wingtips.

Very nice scene! You've captured the essence of Chinese architecture very well. And happy to see another countryman here.

Thank you Captain Braunsfeld. Thank you Fraunces. Most of my bricks are stored elsewhere, including all my figs, I'll see if I can pick them up today.

To support the founding of a new settlement on the island of Kojima, a carrack was commissioned to ship men and provisions on a regular basis. Due to the non-profit nature of these trips, at least in the beginning, settlers could only request the services of low-bidding ship owners, for example this old captain and his out-of-date carrack. OOC: This can be considered as an upgrade to the Armada Flagship, although I don't own that set, I only have two bow pieces from it, but I still wanted to try to work out something out of them. These bow pieces provided a good basis to start with, but the curved blue stripe looks quite odd, if we want to build anything ressembling to a real world model. Instead of covering these stripes with plates, I tried to keep that curve and to have a curved shape. So ships like carracks and cogs that suit most, I can still use these prefab pieces, while keeping a relatively realistic look. The building process was quite fun, and I was able to complete it in a week, with reasonable effort.

Nice schooner, Thaum, the sails and rigging look good.

A Dutch ship, instantly recognizable, wonderful moc Garmadon, best lego ship I've ever seen, I particularly like the brick built hull, must have costed you a lot of time to achieve the correct shape. Very well done!

Thanks BD! It also fits well to older fellows like us.

Thank you Jeff of Clubs. Looking forward to your ship.

Nice photo, I like the boat, a very inspiring work.

Astonishing, superb scene, with an impressive amount of details!

Glad you like lt, Kwatchi. Thank you, Nod. The angled parts are supposed to work as extensions to that blue stripe, those bi-tone hull pieces look good on official sets, not sure if they are the best choice to ship mocs though. Thank you, DeathCap, glad you like it. Thank you, Thomas Waagenaar. It's a multicoloured boat, a little <insert that tiresome argument> maybe. Glad you like it, Capt Wolf. I tried to build pirates ships with my dragon knight bricks when I was a kid, now I have these hull pieces, it would be a shame not using them.

Yes, I said reasonable effort, which includes but not limited to paper sails and adhesive tape to hold them in place.