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Hello everyone, I am happy to present my entry in the "remake a Classic Set category", Sabre Island Redux. This is version 2.0 of my entry, after addressing the main comments and suggestions that I received from the Eurobricks community! A big thanks to @zinnn; @Horation; @iragm; @Third Navigator and @durazno33 for their feedbacks! Sabre Island Redux 2.0 by Gregory Coquelz, on Flickr The main concerns were: 1. the water base was using a mix of wedges and rounded plates, making the contrast with the rounded sand base a bit confusing --> this has been fixed with a wedges/straight angles only water base 2. the water base was too small to allow the boat to stand next to the dock --> this has been fixed with a larger base on the dock side 3. the mix of white profile and dark red masonry bricks was too heavy --> I find myself guilty of trying to "over-texture" my builds from fear of ending up with bland walls. This was a simple fix, remove the white profile bricks, and soften the impact of the dark red masonry bricks by adding a plate above or below them. 4. the small roof using 1x1 round bricks was too "thick" --> While I liked my original solution, it was a also bit flimsy. In the end, I re-used the design from the new Eldorado Fortress for a more compact and simple solution. 5. the soldiers had no way to get to the upper floors --> this one gave me quite a headache as the original set did not include any ladders or stairs so I had to come up with a solution that would not change too much the original set look I was going for. At first, like any self-respecting AFOL, I came up with an overly complicated solution using a rounded wooden staircase see here), but this felt more like a MOC than an official set and it was too different from the original set so I scrapped that idea. In the end, I used this simple 3-wide staircase just as the comments that I had received suggested! For the access to the tower, I came up with this pivoting ladder as a solution that is both functional but also not too intrusive on the design. As I was working through these changes, I had to raise the upper floor by a couple of plates, this allowed me to make the upper floor modular for easy access to the ground floor - yay, an extra play function! Overall, I think this is a much better build than my original version. I rarely revisit my MOCs as I tend to loose interest as soon as I am done, but I am very happy with this result so a big thanks to the Eurobricks community for the feedbacks. I have hidden my initial version of this build behind the below "spoilers" tag for anyone who wants to compare the 2. Thank you for watching and best of luck to all in the contest!
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This is my reimagining of the Classic Pirates set 6265 Sabre Island. 6265 Sabre Island Reimagined by Nicholas Goodman, on Flickr 6265 Sabre Island Reimagined by Nicholas Goodman, on Flickr
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[pid][/pid] Here is my Review of the System Pirates set; Sabre Island. (6265) This set was released in 1989 and features 3 Minifigures; two imperial soldiers and one officer (Lt. de Martinet as stated by Lego) This set has 92pcs. It comes with the island and a rowboat. I have even more awesome System sets on the way! Let me know what you think of it, and leave your comments below!
