Perfectionist

Excellent, as always! I'm esspecially fond of the F106 since the cockpit shapes seems so perfect. The Thud has probably been a bit more tricky, and the camo looks very much like Vietnam: The service history of the 105 there wasn't quite glamorous though. How long does it take you to make one of those? Do you disassemble MOCs after posting? Thanks for sharing!

Looks very much like the Friends hairpiece! As for the governor: has anyone tried to paint it grey or white yet? IMO the shape is perfect, just the colour doesn't look so much like a wig.

Great review, very clean pictures! The set itself seems rather boring to me, though the price tag seems ok. Maybe those yellow technic stoppers proof useful at some point.

Admiral Croissant's Tutorial is by far the best for this matter. you can also glue strings that where historicaly used for the reefing of large sails:

Well a display like that is really nice, but not everybody wants the need to put brickbuild water around their ships. Besides this can be quite a hassle on very big ships, like for instance Sebeus' Dutchman. This is very true for brickbuild hulls exceeding a certain size. Got to stress that point. Well, that's mostly because prefab ships tend to be rather small. I can remove the prefabs from the bottom of my ships and they stay intact without too much trouble. Pretty much everything else you said is wrong or confusing too. No, obviously it cannot. But kurigan doesn't seem to understand.

1.)I estimate about 6000-6500 for the frigates; 1200-1500 for the Sloops and 2500-2700 for the other two ships so it will be more than 20.000 bricks for all of them 2.)Yes I glue the ratlines onto the shrouds, this isn't really new, I did the same with Achille about 2 years ago. I never had many issues with loose rigging, I just pull everything tight and it stays tight. Here's my mortar: Really? A viable option would be dark red: But I still prefer red, since it works better with the blue: Well, you can have a quick look at her too if you like: Next time I'll start posting detailed pics of one ship after another; guess I'll start with the bomb ketch.

I to want your tigers! And those Lions! Man, I really haven't thought about Lego animals, but now that you're bringing up the topic I have to agree that we really do need them! Your renders all look fantastic, the only slight bit of criticism I'd have is that the legs of your elk and moose seem a tad long. Thanks for bringimng this up, and yes let's hope this gets real.

Wow, there comes the first good-looking ship build on 8 midesections! I've always thought that 7 is the max and actually I still do since you're really stretching the max here. If you'd put her in some brick water like SuperSirLink, she'd look just as fine as with a brickbuild hull; which by the way she almost does. The colour combination is really great, which already has been the case on your first, "sausage style" ship and I really like your stern. For exhibition purposes the interior is less important than finishing the ship, but it would still be nice to have some; and your cannons really need wheels. C3PO as the figurehead is funny, but I'd change that in the long term. But I'm assuming you'll improve her a bit here and there when you've got the time? When you give the masts some more time, please consider that the topsail yards are a bit too large. No, that's accurate since railing on these ships was quite low. Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to anything you post from now on (and esspeciall to MOCs ).

Thanks for bumping this since otherwise I would've missed it! Your port indeed looks impressive. I wonder how large such a port would need to be to hold larger MOC ships, or even something collossal such as the Fourageux? I have to agree that the waterside grey-with-black-bits-rocks could be improved, I'd suggest a combination of grey and dark grey, and some green or even dark green close to the water to resemble algae.

Looks pretty nice. I agree about what others have said regarding the boat and spanker sail. The blog is deserved and something to be proud of. I'm looking foward to your next creation!

I do like your attempt at creating that smoke purely with Lego elemets. What you could do to make it look even better is to extend the size of it by using more skeleton arms.

Oh my, what misfortune! But then again what luck! This is really a situation where I'm not sure which is greater. All that pubilicity is incredible! But the whole ship into pieces... I wouldn't take that as easily as you do. My compliments on that! I only hope the rigging wasn't damaged too much. Need any help with that? After all I'm the first and so far only one to apply that technique succesfully. Keep us updated on the repairing process please!

Looks very clean and detailed. Certainly one of the best small ships. Are you planning to add ratlines to the shrouds? That would look really awesome! If you glue them it can be done in 3-4 hours.

Quite interesting find, thanks for sharing. But I'm not entirely sure if that's worth blogging?

Yeah, I've discovered this guy on Mocpages a while ago. His ships are super accurate since he's using real plans and building them in true minifigure scale (actually I believe his ships are a tad too big for that even). The techniques used are very unique and sometimes fantastic, but on the other hand it often looks rather unstable. With that brig he's now showing that his creations can at least to some extend be build with real bricks, but I'm a bit worried about that masts, they look like they are going to fall apart any moment. If his entire fleet was ever built in real Lego it would be so stunning that almost nothing could come close. But I believe structural problems and escalating costs won't allow for that to happen. I'll be looking forward to see more MOCs from Anders T, and I hope he'll finish that brig, including sails.

Really nice! Your ship has a very unique look to it that distinguish it from pretty much everything else that's floating around here. I do regret I haven't written something earlier. The interior is probably the best I've ever seen in that scale and the stern looks fantastic. The presentation is first class and the way you made the water seems very effective, although rather expensive. I'm not incredibly fond of the bow, but you've used some very interesting techniques there. I like how you've too used 3mm tube for the headrails, but I still believe that can be improved. The sails show fantastic craftmanship of a kind unseen on Lego ships before, although they aren't terribly realistic (too small and too white). The rigging is very clean and nicely done, but the string is a bit too thin. Congrats on finishing her and for reaching the frontapage of course!

Building ships is probably one of the hardest disciplines in MOCs, if you take the (custom) rigging and sail making effort into account, it's quite possible the hardest; but then again that's not Lego. I think this is an important point that has not yet been mentioned: rigging and sailmaking regularly takes more than half of the time that's needed to build a ship (though only a small portion of the costs) and also a great deal of skill and creativity, but it's strictly speaking not building Lego. Why do I think building ships is so difficult? Well I guess it's a number of factors: - There are curves everywhere (in 3 dimensions) and we all know that bricks are straight. - Ornaments on historic ships can be very elaborate and are often impossible to make with lego. You can try and imitate the overall impression, but it's quite tricky. - There isn't much space: sailing ships have always been cramped and putting all of that detail into a MOC is impossible; even in minifigure scale, so you end up with a fraction of it that's still difficult to make. - The rigging makes it difficult to make your ship modular, the only viable options are to make either the sides or topdeck removable both of which compromises the rigging and build quality in some way. - Even Minifigure Illusion Scale (=prefab) ships are rather large compared to other MOCs which incresases construction time and also costs. No true minifigure scale ship has ever been finished, but Captain Blackmoor comes closer every other day. - For building ships you need many specialised parts, which further drives both build time and costs. - You'll also need a ton of very specialised techniques that can't possibly be all invented by one person, so one way or another you'll have to copy some from others before adding your own touch (in the past I've tried keeping track of credit, but given it up by now due to lack of interest ). - Then there's the rigging thing; take Vesta as an extreme example and you'll immediately know that that's hard. - The same applys to sails. Of course for instance building vehicles in Minifigure scale or with integrated technic functions is also a very hard discilpine that I have great respect for, but you don't have that rigging madness. I also have to agree with Captain Blackmoor that a lot depends on the amount of detail you want to achieve, however a mediocre ship looks like a house with masts while a mediocre castle still looks like a castle. By the way, I'm currently into the rigging process on 8 ships More on that later.

Quite simply the best PotC Flying Dutchman I have ever seen made with real bricks. I don't think there's much else to add. Congratulations!

First of all thanks for all of your efforts, I haven't seen anybody else spending as much time with tutorials as yo do, but I'd still like to clarify some details: I think this is a bit too strict, while it might be true for the typical 3rd rate, almost all 1st and 2nd rates have a tumblehome which is curving inwards much more on the middle gundeck than on the lower gundeck. HMS Victory is a good example: Also HMS Trincomalee has a tumblehome that is starting to curve inwards quite a bit below the gundeck (on the orlop): http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5022/5558105951_c656aa1e8c_b.jpg Similarly the space between gunports cannot be strictly nailed down to for instance 2 times the size of a gunport; it could also be 3 or 2,5 times times that size. It's just uncommon to be more than 3 or less than 2. I don't mean to prove you wrong, your tutorials are very long and helpful, but they should be more accurate if you really want to help people with their MOCs.

I'm quite surprised for how much the IFS is sold on ebay! If yoor looking for MOCs, Bricklink is your friend and your imagination (and wallet ) the only serious constraints. For a little Modding the Black Seas Barracuda is probably the most beautiful and best value for money ship. Practically it's an Imperial vessel with the wrong flags and crew.

Congratulations, Big Cam! Since you have very regularly put in such a great amount of effort into all of the EB forums (unlike e.g. me ) my guess is that there could not have been a more dedicated candidate!

First off all I am very grateful that you've considered expanding the historic ship index, I've feared it wouldn't be of much use but hopefully you've proved me wrong. If you read the INDEX thread carefully, it should become pretty obvious that it's not meant to be a complete list of all historical ships and replicas out there, but simply a compilation of all the ships the members of classic-pirates.com have taken pictures of. In other words: If I'm looking for ships, I can use wikipedia, but for pictures that are readily available and can easily be linked (!) in the forums (external links may cause problems and are often bigger than the allowed 800x600) there is this index! Also, you don't have to ask or make suggestions, you can easily contribute to the index by uploading your pictures, linking them to a thread and put in these: Soon, either myself or a staff member will edit my post and voilà, our index has grown by one more entry! Also consider that since it's your thread you can always edit if you have better pictures. I'm really looking forward to any additions and I hope everybody who might find the index useful does too!

I can see some interesting ideas, but the overall colorscheme and shape seem pretty messy to me. Maybe a look at some real ships might help you? Keep it up!

It's certainly looking good, but may I ask you how stable your rigging is? After all you have to consider that the topmast, topgallant mast and sails will add considerable weight. Also moving the MOC around may cause poorly constructed masts to collapse. I'd also like to note that by lowering your hull by one brick the guns are now much too close to the water; I liked the previous version better. Considering sleekness I'd recommend to lower the structure above the upper gunports, about where the working area is located (between the fore- and mainmast). Also take into account that minifigure illusion scale ships will always be "fatter" than both minifigure scale and historical ones, simply because the decks are too high relative to all other measures. Your ship has always been and always will be one of my favorite MOCs in progress, so I'm really looking forward to any progress made.

I am amazed to see such a mighty fine vessel built on the small prefabs. I don't think I every saw a better MOC build on these! Many have said it already, but I have to note that your sails stand out; i.e. they are simply outstanding! Rigging is good too. I also love your choice of colors; just as much as I enjoy my way of making headrails becoming more popular The showcase is great, I've build one too for my frigates, however I found it very heavy and prone to scratches. What are your experiences? Great build! I'm looking forward to seeing your next MOC.