Ingmar

Well, I'm very glad to see your works, Perfectionnist, I looked at each one of your pictures carefuly, and I enjoy to see the improvement of your frigate step after step. First I wanted to say that my heart was not conquered by the broadscape of the hull, looking a bit one too sligthed and light for me, but finnaly, once the differents walls get connected, the apparence is stronger and satisfies the thirst for realism. I also wanted to comment the stern and the bow, because if the idea of using tubes in order to design the headrails looks great and provide beautyful results I had never seen before, I think that the stern is the bad point of your ship. Even if the use of curved slow and tube to design a round cabin is a very good and aesthetic idea, I prefered the preliminary design. I wouldn't allow myself to say it is spoiled, but I'm quite shocked, like it was ready said, by the angle oh the cabin that seems very separated of the hull, and as a consequence, too massive and heavy for the stern part of the hull ; it doesn't looks very harmonious. But I guess by catching a brief glimpse of your collection that you own a great number of parts and that I'm not going to give lessons since I don't have a very important experience and a limited collection. Nethertheless, Your ship is full of innovations and nice details, the design of your masts with brown bricks is welcome, the interior seems to be fancy to such a point that deserves your login name, and the general atmosphere is complete to bring us onboard. I won't miss the next steps, and I hope that the main deck will be as nice and original as what we had the pleasure to see. How do you plan to make the sails ?

Some more details and improvements are about to be added, but there won't be fences because I wouldn't have enought of those parts, and I like the temperance about ornaments. I will create a thread just for this ship once it will be all over, I don't want to monopolize the topic and post too much pictures. Of course I'll show a lot of pictures of details and of the interior when I finish it.

Thank you very much, I kept the pink stool because I didn't know how and where else it, and it is finally quite well hidden in the sub-cabin. Well, I finished the hull with the two stripes and the main deck, I put the masts on trying to reproduce the shift between the two parts, and install the smaller canons. Since I took the picture, I've been working on modifying some details such as inverting the shift on the masts, curving the top of the stern by deleting the ornament part and adding tiles, and overall cuting the sails. Note that the aft part of the deck is detachable in order to access to the cabin. I'm also waiting to receive the last parts from bricklink and going in town in order to buy the ropes for rigging. What do you think about it ? I really like you for sharing with us such techniques, good luck for the end of your tutorial

I don't agree with those who think that the colour scheme is not good, in my opinion the red and the yellow stripes get very well together, even if it is not a historical reference. And, of course, I think it is greatly important to remember that you built it with a reduced collection of parts and that Bricklink is not an obvious solution. I also notice a great improvement compared to the other pictures taken during the building that we could see in the CGBH's thread, where the cabin was not realistic at all and the shape generaly chaotic. Your ship looks quite original but above all very honnest if you say that you had to sacrifice your useful parts, I don't know if I would have been able to do so in the same situation. The lake of ornaments is not a problem I think, since a sober ship can get an impressive style, but in your case it is true that that the stern is quite sad, and the bow a bit one weak... Well, I don't have a lot of experience, but if I had to provide some pieces of advise, I would suggest you to build a consistant bow, to improve the stern that look wired with this angle, and last but not least, try to make the deck in one colour, because it looks very confuse with that patchwork. Finally, your ship is a very good surprise and quite original but you have some things to improve in order to make the next update interesting, and I'm sure it will be very nice too with an integral rig Just a curiosity I'm wondering ; which set are your canons taken from ? I had never seen this model before..

Thank you very much for your explanations Captain, it seems a bit clearer and more fascionating right now. I took some photos to show my progression, and finally I had not other choice than white for my stripes, since yellow parts became quite rare in my collection, but I have to confess that I'm quite seduced by this colour, and for the moment I don't lake of any part at a critical point, so that the construction is very well, to such a point that I even dream of building a second frigate with yellow stripes and that would be more faithful to your instructions. First, this a pic of my old flagship, Hermes, sent to the break-in after one year and a half of faithful services and severals improvements that costed a lot of cannons. The design was to close to the traditional lego sets, quite naive and the solidity was severly decreasing because of the weak technologies used in its conception. Secondly, the hull taken from the Hermes was very useful to start the building of the new ship, and I was very surprised to realize thatI disposed of a biblic abundance for the parts requiered in this step, so that I keep quite self-confident for the idea of building a second frigate after this one. Finally, this step presented some problems that I was not really expecting, because since I don't have the parts to build a sufficient number of mini-cannons like the ones that are shown on the top-desk of your instructions, I have to use traditionnal cannons that are a bit too big for the holes, so that I just had the place to fix them on the hinges, but it will be impossible to hide them into the hull. Also, the walls are ready to receive the second white stripe and the supports for the top-deck. And of course, designing the headrails is always a pain, but in my case I had never do it by that beautyful way before, that's why that part of the ship is very, very preliminary . Finally, the red stripe on the hull is more original and nice that what I was expecting, I don't know if I'm really going to paint it... Something very important for me is to respect the minifgs rights and to provide them a vital space in each one of my creations, that's why my cabin will be considerably personnalised so that it allows the officiers to sit down and up without any problem, in spite of the lake of privacy, but consequently I think that the cabin have a unpleasant squared-aspect from the exterior... Hoping to see your works very soon, Perfectionnist ;)

I'm sorry but I really can't stop wondering what would be the best colour for the tripes, between white or yellow (maybe it would be possible to use yellow-sand bricks, but it is a very rare colour in my collection) ? I saw some paintings and think that there are not significant differences between french, spanish, russian and english fleets in the 19th century , but I don't know what would the most realistic, what do you think ?

Hello, I don't know at which point European countries and more precisly France are represented in eurobricks, but I just aim at seeing what the imaginations and parts of all the AFOL are able to create with bricks, and why not inspirating me of everything I will found on this wonderful forum that I have been watching since I discovered some pics of the greatests scale models of ships I had ever seen in my life, on Brickshelf, but I don't know if I will be a very active member since on the one's hand I know I'm able to loose hours and hours watching the wonders you built, and on the other's hand that my collection is quite poor, my builded city neglected for some years, and that I cannot build all the things I dream about (fortunatly, if not I wouldn't do much other things). I think you'll easily notice that I'm not english or american and that my way of writing is not very natural, but it is still a pleasure for me to enter a world such as eurobricks, because when I was a child, and then a teenager, and today a young adult that has ever grown up with a strange passion for the lego, I've been wondering for a long time if somewhere in the world a community could exist around the theme of the danish bricks not such as a game, but as an incredible passion for the building and model making ; let's don't forget that lego is unmistakably the best game in the world : 8 2x4 bricks are sufficient to make a number of combinations that allows the mankind to qualify it as close to the infinity ! Of course, my favorite themes for lego are the old collections of the 90's : Dragon and Lion castles, Blacktrons, Space explorers, Trains 9v, but, obviously, the Armada and the pirates : I won a Barracuda set in an official competition a very long time ago, and it was my first lego box, and the begginning point of an aventure that I still try to perpetuate today by making models from legos, but moreover, the subconscient reason of a passion for the thematic of the naval battles in the 19th century. If I spend much less time "playing" lego than in the past, it is because I got involved in an other creative activity that is the writing, and sometimes the drowing, but me pleasure when I get building something new is deeper and deeper insofar I grow up and realize the thin link that exist with artistic creation and the unleashment of imagination... I thank all of you for giving life to the lego as a kind of art, and for achieving the child dream of persons like me, who realize that Adult Fans Of Lego do exist. And, lastly, I thank for having read me and whish you'll have a good day

Nice and true are the only words I think about, building short stories from lego scenes is a rich idea when a single pic is so meaning and sensesful as this one ; I would be very curious to see other experiences like that. The new uniforms are pretty but not as charming as the old wearing of the armada, and the colours of your scene are greatly arranged, those pics nearly enabled us to catch the rising sunlight and the different noises of the romantic forest.

I've been looking at your wonderful undertaking since I found the pics on brickshelf from France, and more since I realized that with some efforts and sacrifices I have got the parts to take part in the adventure, because I'm found of war ships of the imperial period, and because legos can take a large part of my time. However, for the time I got involved in the building of lego ships, I never found a technic so developped as yours, that's why I'm very interested in trying to follow your instructions and seeing the result, the reason why I finally decided to sign up to eurobrick. But in order to follow the challenge with more passion and more satisfaction, I would like to make a bigger ship than a frigate on this model, such as La Mort Royale, that's why I would like to ask you if the building strategy for adding a second deck and a second-floored-cabin is the same than the instructions shown in the thread ? Obviously, if I succed in following the way, gathering the parts and improving the technologies of construction, I'll take some photos and share the result with thope that it is satisfactory. For the beginning, my problem is exactly the same than Vladimir, because I don't have any stern with the right colours, but I think it will be ok to cheat with a paint layer.