Wellesley
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Battle of Waterloo: "Steady lads!"
Wellesley replied to Gary The Procrastinator's topic in Pirate MOCs
Nice MOC! I usually don't like changes in the style of games or toys etc. I'm really nostalgic, when it comes to my childhood and I don't want to see other people changing the things I've known into another shape. Like I stick to the first version of red- and bluecoats and my figure's skin definitely is yellow. But the Lego horses really are an improvement. They are a perfect example of how progress should be made. Greetings, Wellesley! -
I created some scenes on my old (you can tell by the dust:D) frigate and aswell on board of the "Bulwark": Here are some greenscreen pictures, still training my skills: Wellesley!
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I just finished the first greenscreen pics. It's not always the same perspective or scale but at least im getting better. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Finally Brickshelf has made my new folder public. I did these photos here to try some pictures with paintings or photos as background via green screen. As I first have seen the taken pictures I was afraid that my green background wasn't lightened enough, but now I already created some pictures and its working. I will first gather some green screen edited pictures before uploading them, as well the cut out ships for free usage. These were some of the better pictures, still have to go through all two hundred I've taken. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Nice use of prefab hulls for bigger ships. Could become one of those heavy frigates they used in the early 19th century around after the states joined napoleon in the war against the kingdom. But the stern looks more like an earlier frigate. Anyways, keep it up. Now im nearly finished with my ship of the line and the technique i used for my hull works well for the astern part of the ship, but actually with more hinges and use of newer bricks for the bow, my ship wouldn't look so edgy out of some angles. Maybe I will rework the shape step by step, but with the rig standing, it could be a hard task. If anyone has some ideas, which techniques or bricks for changing the bow would fit in the overall design of my ship, I would like, if you would comment in my thread. There are so many vessels, like this here, which have a better shape of the hull than mine. Thought it would be cool to use a design with almost classical bricks to stay in the lego look. But actually it seems to be better to stick with all you can get. Greetings, Wellesley
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Astonishing work, keep it up!
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Hi mates, it's been a while since my last post, because I didn't work on my ship for a long time. But I could manage to spend the last days in april at my parents house and get some things done. I think with help of the photos of her current shape you can imagine the finished vessel. But I still have to rig the bowlines at the main and fore topgalants. I added clewlines but renounced the buntlines. I bought some green 2x1 m papers to build a ground and background for greenscreen pictures. Does anyone can recommend a programm for doing that? Here some photos, as always in my brickshelf are more photos. The crew contains 36 sea soldiers, about 100 sailors and a bunch of officers. I will place them later. If my frigate gets finished, I will probably just split the crew to man both vessels. And of course, I still need longboats, the prefab row boats are a little bit too small, but I can use 1-3 of those anyways. http://www.brickshel...gi?f=555974&n=0 Greetings, Wellesley!
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I will do the masts and the rigging like on my ship of the line (previous page). I will upload some new pictures, when I've finished adding the bowlines. The square rig is nearly complete, the only thing I wont rig are the buntlines.
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Beautiful, you really mastered the small hull. Doesn't look too high or narrow. Wellesley
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Hey there, wanted to share some photos of my two ships. From the ship of the line just a little scenery. I put a sailor into the shrouds and he threw a beautiful shadow on the sails. And then my new frigate. She will get her own thread soon, but I don't know how constantly I will work on her within the next few months, so I present you the pictures here. First I had a black/yellow colour scheme. Thougt that would fit with my first ship the best. But soon I had to discover, that i ran out of a lot of certain yellow bricks, swallowed by the "Bulwark". As well the red gunports would look better with a black/white design. Instead of hinges I used jumper plates again. I thougt it would be good to stay as closest as possible with the ship of the line design. But I like how she turned out. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Lovely nature scenes, awesome birds! But I hope thats not supposed to be corn? Anyways, omg these birds:)
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I love it. Still looks like the classical Lego Castle design with improved shapes and very functional, seems, that one is able to get access to all spots.
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Hi Mates, from tomorrow on I will have a lot of time to finish this vessel. Already planning a second, a frigate around 20 guns. Just ordered the first parts. Some Information: - I will use brown prefab hulls, but propably with brickbuilt bow, stern and some middleparts (got the Blacksea's Barracuda when I was young, will add three more midsections, I ordered today) - above the brown I will work in black, with a white or maybe even yellow stripe for the battery. - red gunports - brickbuilt masts, a lot of round yellow bricks left from the ship of the line Photos of the "Bulwark?" will follow within the next days. Wellesley
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Well, thats funny. I didn't come up with a new name yet. But for some ideas I looked up the royal navy's list of ship of the lines between 1785 and 1830. And there is not only a Bulwark class, it's a 74 gun ship of the line class as well. :) Anyways. Some Ideas? Not sure, if I would choose "Invincible", probably a lot of vessels with that name. Maybe "Unbrickable" instead of "Unsinkable". Wellesley
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Just a quick update: I named her "BULWARK" because of the thick hull. And the flags I ordered from www.schiffsmodellflaggen.de arrived. I really can recommend their work. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Congrats mate! If it helps, tell them you would have at least one buyer! :)
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I salute every Soldier of the Lego-Napoleonic-Era! I think Red- and Bluecoats will ever work as French- and Englishmen. Even without any further customizing. The more I appreciate those Prussians, Austrians, Russians, Spaniards, Swedes etc. Awesome work Captain Braunsfeld! They all look amazing. Somewhere here in the forum there was a thread about LDD customized troops. Those were epic. For my british soldiers I created some papercoats (maybe they still are a bit too long). I changed the legs to light grey and left off the epaulettes. And for my few french infantries I came uo with this new helmet design (Wheels from the old Lego racing cars), because I had no shakos left. They will get papercoats as well (using the prototypes for my british navy officers) and maybe I will change the epaulettes to yellow or brown ones (only have one red epaulette). Anyways keep it up and go for the baltic uniforms! Wellesley
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Happy new year! (which actually could be any time in the year and the modern day ritual is awful. Anyways... I managed to make some huge progress during the past days. I started with the sails and I'm satisfied with the results. I reworked the fences on the maindeck and added a cabinet and an armoire to the cabine's interior. There are more pictures in my brickshelf folder! Greetings Wellesley
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Hi everybody. Some changes. Now I use a chain as bobstay and the quarter deck is a bit longer astern and covers the steering wheel. The stern looks more simple, just left the lanterns. I started rigging the yards (will add stunsails later) and the gaff. More pictures in my brickshelf. Greetings, Wellesley!
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I did some scenery with my old frigate.
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Finally some more pictures. I'll probably have time enough to make some big progress when I'm at home again between Christmas and New Year. So here now a few pics. More new ones are in my brickshelf. I finished the design of my sea soldiers, too. And because I had no shakos but bluecoat torsos left, I tried a new helmet design, which fits well with the french infantries I think. Again I have to excuse myself for not rotating the pictures before zipping. Wish you all a "hyggelig" Christmas or Hanukkah! Wellesley
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Thank you both. The thumblehome was, with which I started years ago. So I never worried about that part, because it was like motivator, the centre my whole project was based on. It all started with these pics. The only problem was to get a round shape towards the bow and the stern. Maybe I'll rework the bow some day. So here now are a few pics, showing the headrails, the top light and an anchor. Hope they will be public soon. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Just a few changes, but here are some more photos. The headrails are finished, too. I just forgot to take a picture of the bow, will follow soon. Maybe then together with some updates on the rigging. Lack of motivation during the finale phase.
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Ambassador Project - Haven Guard Flag & Torso Designs
Wellesley replied to Mister Phes's topic in LEGO Pirates
These two are still my favorites. But somehow I have something against the printed legs in the lower picture. Why don't try the torsos from the second picture with the legs and epaulettes from the first? Also something different to mention: As I remember the common soldiers of the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Soldiers all had the very first standard Lego head. The simple smily face. I can't say why, but I never could change their faces and had to keep the similarities. I wont buy any new Lego sets, but will probably order some of the soldiers. Those then will be part of the happy face war faction, too. Greetings Wellesley -
Heyho Lego Pirates Community, I often search for Lego canons, because I still need 12 with the old grey pipes. But I wanted to share this auction, I found today, with you: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Lego-8-Kanonen-dunkelgrau-fur-Western-Piraten-Soldaten-Neu-2527-110c01-/191289636070?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item2c89c034e6 Up to 24 canons. Still very expensive. But at least a high amount of firepower at once. Wellesley