Wellesley

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    First of hopefully many entries.
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    Index: LEGO Ideas Support Thread - Pirates

    Wellesley replied to leafan's topic in LEGO Pirates

    The Unicorn is a nice entry. I just found this USS Niagara. Won't be necessary to add it to the Index due to it being expired in 2016. But I thought, some of you might want to see the ship:
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    Hey fellow Corries, is there an active trading fleet with protection? I will license two unarmed trading vessels soon. The free Class 2 license and the other one from the PA Cup. Both have zero firepower, but I would like to get started in the MCRA. Also, if there is someone who could give me some basic tricks or things, I should consider, I would appreciate a PM. Greetings, Wellesley
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    The Ymir is finally finished: My biggest disapproval are some of the reeflines. I had to change the rope after two sails and the second coil always faned out. It was only today, that I realized, one cord was missing, the first was made of four, the later only of three. It doesn't stand out that much where the rope is uner tension, but the reef lines are just hanging loose. Well, I can (should) live with that. The rest turned out quite to my liking. The next ship will have better backstays, though I made friends with the 3-lenght technic pins after all. Tomorrow I will make some more pictures, with sailors and background. As well as an official entry.
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    Thank you Professor! The lighthouse and the crane are my two favourites. After seeing pictures of curving the wall with help of the round bricks, I always wanted to build something similar. The lighthouse started as a medieval tower. That's nice to hear. Thank you! There is one black bird, a Capercaillie, which to 90% is a copy from this diorama. All other birds are my own creation, though the root idea behind them was using hands as beaks, like I have seen at flickr once. I'm especially happy with using the droid legs for the cranes and the heron. Thank you very much as well for the kind words.
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    Introducing my main Character: Nathaniel Stienhouwer
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    Oh wow, now I just realized you wrote shipS, as in plural. And the 4-5 referred to their amount, not their class rating. I must have been a bit confused to not decipher it yesterday:D Then I'm even more excited. I also have two new ships in mind, both copying designs and techniques from other builders. But it would be better to first finish the frigate and make sure, the Lydia is in a shape, I'm ok with. I was a bit stupid, all the time I was trying to add a third mast and extending the deck, but I could also just set one or more likely both masts a few studs astern.
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    If you need detailed shots of a certain part, just tell me. Good luck with the build!
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    @TomSkippy Great to hear:) Looking forward to see it. Do you want to give any little hint or spoiler about what we can expect?:D
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    "mirroring the coloured stripe at the bow" Just a continuation of the stripe. I watched the ship with the red stripe from a distance and felt the urge to add a little bit of colour to the forepart. It looked "unbalanced". Though in any case just one plate thick, I wasn't happy with the results, I was best to leave the bow as it is. I then removed all colour together and am quite content. Hope, that was easier to understand, its always a struggle for me to come up with comprehensible depictions. As for the Lydia, I'm less concerned about adding a third mast, more so about how currently the deck extension turned out. But as I'm writing, I have another idea, maybe later I have time to try it out and post pictures.
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    @kurigan I'm sorry, if you read it this way. I had no intention to discount anyone, let alone you. I purposely wrote it that way, because I wanted to collect opinions with more attention to the colours alone, precisely because I thought a lot of people would give different advise with and without considering historical accuracy. Even if I cannot always incorporate it or decide against a suggestion, most times my questions involve a deep interest for accuracy. So this time I just stated that the question has another focus. If there was any second thought in the formulation, it was an early excuse for showing a picture of the green stripe. I really appreciate your responds in general, precisely for their informational value. Hope, we can rest the case, I admit that it was not the best phrasing. Anyways, I'm all back to black now for another reason, namely the problem of mirroring the coloured stripe at the bow.
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    As long as I have to wait for the missing bricks, I work a little bit on other ships. I would like to have few opinions on my frigate's colour scheme variations. Not so much about the historical accuracy, more about what you really prefer, shape and colour wise. The four versions of the colour scheme won't be the only choices I consider. The green scheme was just the quickest to achieve. I'm open for new suggestions (here you find the place for historical accuracy): Also I have to choose between two versions of davits. I'll probably got for the black version. the white looks nice, though it would fit the next century better. Looks more like a metal davit to me. And just as a little bonus a picture next to my SotL: And I finally made some pictures of the "Lydia". I tried to incorporate the suggestions, but I hesitate to cut the ropes. If I want to add a third mast, I will have to change the mast positions, but before that, I want to be sure about what I'm doing. I don't like the current version that much, the original was better in my opinion. Though I admit that she was front heavy. Maybe shrinking the foresails would do her justice as well.
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    [WIP] - HMS Providence - 34 gun frigate

    Wellesley replied to Robin_IV's topic in Pirate MOCs

    Wow, I totally forgot about the new rendering. Incredible work! Tell me, when you are done building it in real bricks. Can't wait to see a video from Held der Steine about it:D I myself find it harder to build digitally. I would like to claim the missing haptic component to be the reason, but most likely it is just lack of practice.
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    [COR - FB] Spudkirk Harbour

    Wellesley replied to Spud The Viking's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas

    Both your Spudkirk buildings are very clean. I really love the ramp going down into the water. Must be all my memories linked to such stone piers. Also a very neat little cannon. Unfortunately there is not that much contrast between its trail and the cobblestone. The only little negative critique would be the roof of your stone tower. As you say yourself.
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    I'm waiting for the last bricks to arrive, so I can build the belaying pin rails to then add brails, sheets, clewlines, braces etc. While attaching the travellers of the jib and the following staysail, I thought both yet especially the first to be too small. Now, that they are running without any auxiliary means, I'm a bit happier with their size and shape. Just the foot of both could be more horizontal. Would you recommend any changes? Speaking of horizontal, one mistake I always make is planning too much height for the yard sails. Therefore I was forced to set them as high as possible and the yard lifts are nearly horizontal, which just looks wrong. While I could just cut off a bit of the foot of every yard sail, it would change the proportions of the sails. So I just ignore it this time and hope to be smarter next time. As you can see here, I kept nearly all gunports. The reason was her later purpose to sit in a shelf or somewhere at eye level. So most times I will only see her outside and I find the full broadside most beautiful. For the BoBS, I consider reducing the gunports again though. As a future freebuild it won't matter anyways.
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    Flickr finds

    Wellesley replied to Wellesley's topic in Pirate MOCs

    flickr-member James Pegrum also builds some nice ships. Here are a few examples, I'd recommend to look through his photostream, if you are interested in british history: The Mayflower: An early medieval ship: Various MOCs: The HMS Beagle with some phenomenal sceneries:
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    I really like the shape of the white bottom part and the black stripe above it. The bow looks a bit too much "bend inwards" for my taste. I'd go for a vertical solution. You could change the postions of the capstan to sit just in front of the main mast. Then you still could have a prefab rowboat sitting on deck between the foremast and the capstan. At first glance I thought, the masts were ok, but that would be a really huge gaff sail. Why not take a picture of a brig you like and roughly measure the proportions?
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    I'm still happy with the shape of the bow of my two-decker, after I rebuilt the entire construction, using the quarter saucer base. The part also exists in light gray, though I think, you would have to widen the foredeck a few studs.
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    @Bodi built my all time favourite illusion scale ship of the line hull. Unfortunately he is a bit stingy with photos:/ @TomSkippy Speaking of prefab hulls, did you only mean the old version or will even the new flat one result in a too tall and bulky bow? I might have to buy some of the new ones myself, always wanted to try them out. Also I want to get the hull from the viking ship:D
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    Brig o war moc

    Wellesley replied to Captain_Brickbeard's topic in Pirate MOCs

    @Anders T Huge thanks for that awesome link!
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    Maybe you could try a mix of hinges, brackets and round slopes like Wesley used on his Persephone:
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    So now I have to decide between five different gunport arrangements. Would like to gather some opinions. The first would be a continuous stripe without any, but maybe in a darker colour and a diminution towards astern: The second would be four gunports close to each other between the masts: The third option are three gun ports in the fore part of the ship: The fourth would be like above plus another gunport astern: And finally the fifth would be to change nothing and keep all gunports, not thinking too much about scale and recoil or historical accuracy (at least I have not found a brigantine rigged ship, carrying 18 guns): Of course I could move some gunports, if someone has a good idea, but the current design allows quick swapping of all the shown options.
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    Would be nice to know what exactly TLC (sets from the The LEGO Company?) and MocYourBricks refer to. Here just some pictures of designs, that could work for a brig: Several similar techniques but sometimes distinctive differences. I'd recommend to look at more pictures of each ship.
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    A New Settlement

    Wellesley replied to Dzoni90's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas

    Faboulous work! Poor workers, having to dig into the hardened frozen ground.
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    Flickr finds

    Wellesley replied to Wellesley's topic in Pirate MOCs

    Well, I have a few in my gallery, but they are either already posted or from eurobricks-members.