Frank Brick Wright

Will you be building the bow and the stern the same way you did before? I am not specially found of it as it is way too squarish and simple. You have shown such a skill in the Nikki that I think you should try to be ambitious and go further with more complex techniques for that areas where the curves get harder to describe This is looking promising, the red/black colourscheme is always a nice combination

Admiral Croissant said he would index it but I don't think he did (at least there's no INDEXED image): http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=74563

Should we 'spam' in here? Because without fighting in the rules/signups and without a proper topic the tension is just too high… The forum will blow up…

I also thought that… But now I see you weren't! I guess being a bluecoat has helped you to the top Congrats admiral, good luck for your new duties!

You probably meant: 'What's wrong with two blue cartographers?'. Nothing wrong, in fact. But I think we both agree that reddies, whatever their rank, are wrong. So yeah, the red cartographer is wrong, as all the red team

Indeed! What will happen if there are more candidates than ranks?

[pid][/pid] 144B *EDIT: Please scroll down or click here for more and better pictures* *Historical context* I am presenting to you all my latest build: Æneias, an Iris class french schooner from around 1820. She is a 14-gun gaff-rigged schooner based on the plans of La Recouvrance, a well-known vessel which sails from Brest. I have followed both the lines and the rigging of the original ship, since I had abundant free plans.There were 5 Iris-class vessels and they were originally used for mail-transport and latter for protection of merchant ships. In case anyone is wandering, the name is from the classical hero Aeneas which is said to have founded Rome (go remember school stuff! ), though I have chosen to write the name in latin. **Acknowledgments** I would like to thank: Cb4 for the amazing hull design, most credits for the hull go to him; Captain Blackmoor for the efficient and neat designs on almost every torso of my crew — credits to him!; Captain Green Hair for overall support, great assistance and expertise on ship-building: Thank you so much Rick! The prow figure (which, by the way, is Dido ): The stern is one of the ares of which I am most proud: the curve is recreated using an intricate SNOT which places studs in 7 different directions. The brick-built 12 powder cannons (each one consists of 12 parts): The crew (around 30 sea-men), the armament and the provisions: For maintenance reasons, she is almost fully modular: Finally a view a clear deck, focusing on the capstan:

Sir Wright, Royal Cartographer, to serve you faithfully gentlemen. Spielbrick… I am the cartographer here. Look at that map you are carrying. You barely know how to trace straight lines. Torso here

I have to disagree with Capt. Becker here, For me this is very good looking! Our dear CGH once again contributed to improve another vessel didn't he? She looks tremendously better with that blue. @Captain Greenhair, I see you have joined the bluecoats once again! And what a sense of humor… I lol'ed for a while!

I understand the choice of white as being a common colour, but I guess it is just too much white. On the stern we would probably expect some details in other colours as well but I think that it will look even more weird if you change all the whiteness just there - I would keep if that way (perhaps only a black lamp would be better). As you said yourself the stern still needs some improvements. I actually like the windows as they are. I can however suggest you a precious piece here which I have recently found. This little wedge can build a fantastic transition in the top of the galleries where currently you have the cheese and the red plates. The bow also looks very nice, though probably the anchors are a bit too rectilineal. Keep up the good work!!

That's it… Start making consolation speeches: 'We will lose this year, but as we won the year before…' Prepare yourselves: you will need consolation in the end… in YOUR end.

Great idea! But why this name?? IMO in the tournament name it should be Bluecoats vs Redcoats, and not the opposite. The winners come first.

1) Frank Brick Wright 2) Bluecoat 3) Cartographer (or Navigator or Midshipmen)

Poor ducks indeed!! I decided to take a picture with them to add that extra… aiming target Thanks again for your help About the sails, well, first time with a finished full hull and first time with cloth sails, we can't get everything right at the first attempt About the white, well, I've draw some lines on the sails with pencil but I probably need to draw them with more determination. Although, when looking at the original Recouvrance, the sails are very white (that's why I kept them as so) And the frays… well yes I probably need to use varnish to avoid that, I will certainly do that on my next

Very nice ship, again!! I like a lot the overall shape and the stern details, and of course the blocks, they look terribly professional I'd like to suggest two points for improvement though First I think your bowsprit is a bit too angled, i.e. the angle made with the horizontal is too large (I've talked with CGH so I know you used this as a ref-pic and you can check that indeed the bowsprit isn't that angled). Then there is the Boom. I'm not 100% sure about this so my apologies if I am wrong. However I am pretty sure that the angle the boom makes with the mast should also be much larger, i.e. the boom should be closer to the horizontal. Usually booms have indeed an angling but I don't think it would be that steep. I have not measured but I'd say you have a 20º angle there and the highest angle I have seen there should be around 10º. Again: a great masterpiece

I would like to thank you all for your support and feedback. Due to all the great appreciation comments I received here at EB and also due to my parent's and my friend's opinions I have decided to keep her intact for the posterity. I have also done my best to place her at the Nacional Maritime Museum here at Lisbon. I have tried to mark an appointment through email and I was soliciated more info (I had not said yet it was a Lego model). I gave them all the info concerning the building methods, the reference ship, the plans I had followed and sent two pictures of the ship to the Museum. I also mentioned our dear Admiral C. that managed to get his Vesta exhibited in the Netherlands as an example, showing that this case was not unprecedented. They impolitely left my email without an answer. I can do nothing more. I have also managed to take some better pictures of her. I hope you appreciate them. Ducks!! Firing a broadside:

Redcoats… I mean, you guys must be really desperate to join the "reddies" Against the bluecoats the defeat is a guarantee!

So we've got Admiral Croissant, Blackmoor and CGH… This is VERY promising!

I would like to thank everyone for their feedback on this topic. I am happy to say that she is finished but it has been raining all week long here in Portugal and I have been busy with other issues. As soon as I get a free sunny weekend I will take some outdoor pictures

For a prototype this is a very complete version, and also a very beautiful one! The view of the brown tumblehome is fantastic! I'd suggest though that you increased the tumblehome at the bow Whilst I think the height is OK, as galleons could have a very high forecastle, yours seems a bit bulky and squarish, as the the last few bricks are basically vertical. I specially like your unique stern. We usually get to see heavy sterns with lots of gold and yellow details and yours is simple and elegant. Good job on that! The lines seen from the back seem almost perfect, where the almost is those 1x2 inverted brown slopes you have used to build the stern upwards from the prefab hull. The angle should be a little more complicated than uniformly 45º, as you can easily check in Nuestra Senora: So if you are considering rebuilding the stern these are good ideas to keep in mind

This is a very good-looking project! I hope we can get more pictures soon I'm not very sure about the accuracy of the arched structure but it certainly looks pretty nice, as well as the tan deck and the stairs. I think you are doing an excellent job over here. I would like to suggest two points for further improvement: The pins where you will attach the shrouds/deadeyes look too close to each other. In general galleons - specially of this size - had huge shrouds expanding far astern. I think yours look somewhat too close to each other. On another note I like the mechanism you used to fix the angles: that brown frog The problem here is that anchors usually were fixed parallel to the waterline. It would have rather bad effects for your tumblehome/gunports if in real life you just dropped a really really heavy anchor from that position

1920x1080 Don't know the speed… Safari 5.1.7 Good luck on designing the new skin!

It's alright Well I have looked into your tutorial. The capstan is not very far from something accurate. I have based my design in this: On the other side I also had this: Whilst your design works rather well in a prefab digital environment I must say that in something with a rather more realistic — and then abrupt — curve, both vertical and horizontal, there isn't that abundance of space that you find in your 16-studs wide hull. Well, about all this "being crowded" thing, I must say that I believe she is slighter crowder than she probably should. On the other hand, obviously the cannons take a lot of space, but then each one would require some 4 men to maneuver. Then I would need, in the very very least, 28 men for her, which is about the number I have. This is why I believe that she actually looks good so crowded — because she is supposed to be crowded! Deadeyes where something which I indeed considered. The main reason for not doing so was the lack of a sufficient number of wheels. Another issue was my absolute lack of patience for doing so. Whilst you have kept your amazing Vesta intact, as soon as my Æneias gets sails and photos, I will wait some 2 weeks and then destroy her for starting another vessel. The time investment to make deadeyes, the overall result and then destroying it all, all things balanced didn't seem to be worth it. I look at these ships as a way of practicing to something bigger which then I will leave intact. That is why custom work is so painful for me — because then I have to destroy it all.

That wouldn't be very usual in a ship of this size. More specifically, as you can read in the description, she is based in an original ship, La Recouvrance, which, as you can check by yourself, doesn't have a weather deck.

So our dear minifigs have the proportions of a baby: head's height is 1/4 of total height