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I love the colors on the night owl!

I love the color scheme!

Wow! This design is stunning. The use of curved slopes for the boat hull looks so good. I also love all the pearl gold. If it were up to me every seafaring vessel would have a golden chicken as its figurehead.

I recently got back into trains with set 60197 and I was thinking about how else I could use the powered up components. As a child I always drooled over the My Own Train section of the catalogue, and I thought since maybe I could build my own with a battery tender instead of 9v. This prototype extends the coal tender so that the battery box can we held low in the center and maintain the same height as the original. My only concern is it may have a hard time going around turns now with a wide wheelbase. I guess I will find out when I can order extra train wheels from PAB! I couldnt figure out how to attach these images so here are the links sorry about that! https://imgur.com/6yIoljv https://imgur.com/XJTX8Ot https://imgur.com/kuWdcie

I love how the sails look like a tablecloth. So creative!!!

I think segregating digital builds would diminish the creativity of this community. And considering that only 1 of the entries out of 4 winners were digital entries the idea that digital builders have an advantage does not hold water.

I love those glass bottles!

You may have some luck getting one if you have a lego store nearby. Mine had a bunch of scary islands still available yesterday. They also had a few older gwp for sale like the blacktron cruiser!

I think that could work if it makes things easier! But in my humble opinion ones creative vision is neither hampered nor helped by digital building. So I would be fine having them all together as well.

Wow I had no clue these replicas existed! When you're done would you be willing to share the studio file? I wonder how this would look with string rigging instead of the ridged lego ones.

I think with Aliexpress its hard to know what you're actually getting. It would be nice to see if you could buy just the hull parts without needing to purchase the entire set. you could also brick build your hull. 31109 is only one stud wider than the old small hulls so I bet some creative tinkering you could get it a bit smaller and still looking good!

I really like how those angles come together at the rear! Are you planning to make your own sails for this?

Thanks to everyone who organized this contest! I used to check this website when I a wee lad and I remember having a blast looking through the wonderful entries for the pillage the village contest. I decided to check back in when the new Eldorado Fortress was announced to see if there was a review and I found the contest, which I could not resist entering! I apologize that my entry was outside of the rules, I did not realize there was a certain style needed to be maintained to be considered a remake, I just kinda winged it until I was happy with it. On another note, I think that banning digital designs would be a mistake. Lego is an expensive hobby and I'm sure that not everyone has a huge collection of parts that they can just pull from on a whim; many of the entries that I voted for were digital and I am glad to have seen them! I also enjoyed a lot of mini entries and seeing what they were able to do with so few pieces. If there were another contest I think a mini build contest would be a real hoot. Thanks again!

Wow that big gun is slick! I really like the fez part at the end.

In my quest for cannons smaller than the official spring loaded variety, I have come up with two options that I quite like. I have seen some other common cannons that use the 1x3 wing and I think that is an absolutely perfect piece for this job. What I have done differently is using the 1x1 round stud with bar to attach the barrel and bring the sides in closer. This makes the footprint of the gun almost exactly 3x3. And here is a peek at how the inside goes together. Another even smaller gun I've been working on. This one uses the candle stick for the barrel for a very small point defense gun, ideal for shallow water merchant vessels. The two halves would go together with a piece of flexible tubing cut down to fit into the clip and then the open hole in the 1x1 round stud (I just don't know how to model that in stud.io). While this canon is very cute I'm still on the fence about trying to build it irl. It seems a bit silly to have a deck gun so small instead of a swivel gun; but I guess whose to say there weren't some captains who made poor decisions!