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You are a better man that I am! I build the steering 15 or 16 different ways over about 4 days, and I mean 15 or 16 times at a cost of and hour or more for each build! I was trying to get the clean real look and real (ie. number of turns of the wheel) operation. And I hear you on the paddle wheels, I just didn't like the look of paddles if they are more than one plate thick. So about the bell, I ordered a number of odd chrome parts off of bricklink to try, so this time on the design of the bell the pain was that each test trying to get a better look, took a bricklink order wait for shipment to me cycle, so I worked on the bell off and on for three months before I got to the current look. First credit where credit is do, the ships bell idea I got from this thread Useful Fabuland, Belville and pieces from other themes?, Useful parts, even for SYSTEM builders!! by ZCerberus and his bell on his ship the Arbiter I/II: as nice as his is, I wanted a round bell top, so off to peeron: search peeron dome 2 x 2 533 doesn't come in chrome, I tried (bought some PearlCopper ones) NO search peeron dish 2 x 2 I bought 4740 in chrome it worked poorly and looked worst "flatish" NO search peeron round 2 x 2 what's this: Electric Light Reflector Round 2 x 2 x 2/3 I bought a couple of "x85"s I never knew of this part! wait.... Hey this works OK, and it looks better, not perfect but until I find a better way, SAY if any of you see a better way ...... So the parts list... note: the pics are linked For the bell it self: 1 ChromeSilver 70973 1 ChromeSilver x85 1 ChromeSilver 382 3 Gray 4274 bucket plug in 4274 through x85 insert the cut T of the Sprue from 382 (I wrapped 2 turns of scotch tape around it to make it thicker and stick) my mount: trap 2 Black 6541 on the harpoons with 2 4274s 4 black 4589 2 each on each side of the mount 5 black 3623 one above and below the "4589-6541-4589" and the last on the top of 2 black 3665 make 4, 3 high legs of 12 Black 3062b edit -- opps forgot 2 black 3070b on each end on top of the 3665s top it with 1 black 3399 in the anti-studs!! see picture above NOW a building tip at: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/88405 hope this is clear kurt

I am glad you enjoyed it, I like viewers who can appreciate the details, their praise is worth more! I had my fleet in texlug area at the Austin Maker Faire, where thousands of people came through looking at all of the lego's on display, and most common question was --- "Are they all made out of legos?" -- Duh! http://www.flickr.com/photos/thethiers/295...57608198393413/ http://www.texlugsa.org/blog/2008/10/20/post-maker-faire/ so thanks again!

Wow! people no questions on how I did some of these things? I figured that the working ship's wheel steering would cause excitement, and generate a number how did you do that questions. I may go back and rebuild some of my older ships to have working steering. I figured that curved inverted stern would cause how did I do it, and attach it, questions. Even the ship's bell: I figured would cause questions It's not like I am on this forum much. kurt

Maybe you and... Are talking about the paddle-wheels? paddle wheels gallery I am glad that you like the the newest. Although the 1840's aren't that new! However, it's not common to see any side-paddle-wheel sailing steamships modeled in lego, in fact the only other one I know of is the USS Potempkin, 21 Gun Steam Sloop of War "Can't wait to see more MOC's of you in the future!" have you seen my other MOCs? Kurt's ship MOCs Thanks for the praise! kurt

I am you glad it. My sails are just paper (see the above discussion) but I am glad you like them, I think that what people like about my paper sails are the billowed shape (ie. wind filled) I can easily form in them, Is that what you liked about them? I glad you like the ship's wheel, I do too, I like that it looks close to correct: vs mine: and I like that it works!! The ropes on my ship's wheel goes down through the wardroom below: To be taken up by the "wooden" reels connected to the reduction gears to the rudder on deck(s) below the wardroom: I like my lighted binnacle(compass) stand too... kurt

High praise indeed, and many good questions, I will try to answer them. "It's got a perfect line!" well when you have an accurate drawing and you follow it, to scale, fairly closely (with a few calculated changes), I do think you get a better looking model. "I like how you managed to build this on a standard hull and still made the deck so very wide." the early fast packet steamships (see packet ships) wanted to go as fast as possible, to achieve this they made their in-the-water hull very long and narrow. Why? because the speed of a hull through the water is proportional to a constant (called a Froude number) times the squareroot of the length of the hull at the "moving" (not resting) waterline divided-by the width of the hull (ie. drag). The Zavala was built in 1836 as a "fast" (for her time) packet steamship named the Charleston she had a hull waterline width (beam) of 24 feet and a waterline length of ~190 feet, ie. very long and narrow. However from port outside paddle-wheel shell to outside starboard paddle-wheel shell (measured from the scaled drawing) was ~50 feet. The scale of my model was set by the width of the hull center pieces (16 studs) with two rows of inverted slopes on each side (16 + 4 = 20 studs) (see the reply I made above about scale). The "paddles" are a 2x8 plate with holes, in a 9 stud inside width paddle-wheel shell, so 11 studs outside width paddle-wheel shells, overlapping one stud with the side of the hull, means a overall width of 40 studs. "It must have taken some time and re-building to get the line of the ship looking this good." not to bad all-in-all, other issues took much more time, like the steering!!! (I should have never wanted it), and the ships bell! "Might I ask how long you've worked on this beautiful vessel?" off and on the last 2 1/2 years, it's been my major lego project all of that time. "I would do two things differently: Go for 'real' sails out of canvas iso paper and go for 'real' rigging using ropes." I had, as you might recall back in the lugnet pirate days, thought of making sails from cloth, but everyone keeps telling me how much they like my sails... maybe some day I'll try make some cloth sails for one of my smaller ships. As for rigging, I tried a number of "looks", I will write more about that later, I need to run. Thanks again, and good to hear from you. kurt

I am glad that you like my ship, and I did work hard to make the walking-beam steam engine(s) look good, as well as work!

No, I could have easily fitted a motor in there, but then how do I power it? If I use a battery then it will always be dead, (I don't play with my models, they just set there) so to avoid that I have to wire to the motor to power it. What have I gained? The hose is just as easy. And then I have not trapped a motor in this model (motors are not cheap!). Good questions! The RTS Zavala is approximately minifig scale, it’s 1.2 feet per stud. The scale was set by the width of the hull center pieces with two rows of inverted slopes on each side. That set the beam width width, and on the original Zavala that beam width was 24 feet. Working off of the drawing from the INA article: I then could know the length and width of the model in studs, I could then figure out how many hull center sections.

Thanks, I do try for accuracy. Why haven't I tried to make a brick built hull? I have tried a number of times! Both with the CAD tools and with bricks in hand. I just have not been satisfied with the results, the fairness of the lines just wasn't there for me. I am glad you think it's beautiful. I will work on getting a movie made and uploaded somewhere. I am using the standard 2557c01, N x 2560, 2559c01 hull parts, so I don't understand.

I hope you enjoyed being "stunned". And now I have the appellation "Pneumatic Pirate"? That sucks err.. blows... kurt Awesome is good! I like building MOCs where nothing like them has ever been seen before! I put more research in to RTS Legitor. The books I have on the Texas Navy made me aware of the Zavala, I had been planning to model it for some time now. The design challenges are what made this MOC so interesting. kurt I am glad you enjoyed it, however it has no motors, just an incoming air hose (you can see it in a few photos) it comes in through the hull on the side. High praise indeed! Have you seen some of my other ships? Kurt's ship MOCs

67b I am pleased to announce my newest MOC The RTS Zavala Steamship-of-War This vessel is a side-paddle-wheel sailing steamship. The model is almost 4 ½ feet long (1.36 meters) and it uses 13 hull center sections. Although called a schooner, the Zavala is more properly "hermaphrodite brigantine". Some drawings of the Zavala show 3 masts, but the best research (the INA article), however, confirms that she had only two masts. My model of the Zavala has working Lego pneumatic side-paddle-wheel walking-beam steam engines; it also has a working ship's wheel with steering gear reduction to the rudder. Things I like about this model: the curved inverted sloped stern, the full length gun deck mounting 24 cannons, the ship's bell, the boats, the way the schooner's gaff sail booms attach to the masts, the steer down the length of the hull, the curve around the bow and along the sides, and the paddle wheel shells. As you can see, the RTS Zavala has her guns run out and is firing up her boilers (two pneumatic air-tanks) - no doubt she has spotted her prey. -- begin edited in BE SURE TO -> checkout some of the posts below (esp. #16, #18, #21) Parts list and construction details on the ship's bell here. Parts list and construction drawing on how to attach your boom in the middle of the mast here. NEW! The links to the uploaded videos are here. RTS Zavala was Nominated for Best Sea Craft at Brickworld 2009! AND WON!! -- end edit The TWO paged brickshelf gallery is here. Some links about the real Texas Navys Zavala: Wikipedia entry for the Texan Schooner Zavala INA Article about the Zavala starts on page 10 Texas Navy ship list NUMA article about the Zavala enjoy kurt

Well, It's been a month since I posted the instructions for building the Black Pearl-lite. I had hoped someone might try them out. I guess not. I have been asked multiple times for building instructions of my MOCs I firgured that I would do the Black Pearl-lite's instructions because it was both smaller and simpler than my usual MOC. It was still some amount of work create the instructions. I thought this forum, the most active Lego Pirate Forum might test them out. Oh well... kurt

please tell me if you find any mistakes in this! 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Yes they are. "When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to go." Philip Ahn played the Shaolin master in Kung Fu who said that to Grasshopper. kurt

Well I have updated page 23 and added page 24 I had to find a number of hard to find LDRAW models! Someone needs to try them! kurt

There is a thread here MLCAD vs. LeoCAD and another tread here MLCAD vs LEOCAD These and other choices are listed here Category: LDraw Viewers And Editors I like LeoCAD because of the spinable zoomable 3D view. kurt

This ship was drawn with LeoCAD. LeoCAD saves pictures as .gif files, I used Picture-it to convert .gif to .jpg and to add the page number. But on a few of the pages I used paint-it to read in the .gif file to add lines for black string or the jib sail and then write out the picture as .bmp file which Picture-it can also convert to .jpg file. As far as I know there are no .DAT files for the sail parts. You can do the same thing I did, if you wish. kurt

Good point! I'll add that link. No there is not currently a page 24, I need to draw up the crew (of 4) and add the last sail... means downloading more .DAT files for the torsos and heads. I am not too worried, these instructions should be good enough! kurt

Thanks, I hope someone will, it will only take them a few minutes, it will taking them longer to get all the parts located. kurt

About the name: Black Pearl google images both the ship and the Black Oyster Pearl Black Pearl-lite google images Patton "[about his pistol grips] They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol." Memorable quotes from the 1970 movie Patton My ship is the "lite" version! As to the sails, yes they do look good! kurt

Thanks, I like it too. I hope someone uses the instructions. Thanks for adding the pic! kurt

I know. kurt

The Black Pearl-lite a gaff-rigged sloop (revision 2) with building INSTRUCTIONS!!!! at http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=234896 View the instructions for building this ship I made a few color changes of bricks from black to red, the arch in to the cabin and the bricks to each side of that passageway, in the ship's wheel pedestal and at the top of the prow. When I first build the Black Pearl-lite I had wished that everyone could hold it in their hands for a moment to look at it. I thought that maybe I should give y

I figured-out something the brickshelf gallery is here http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=228800 more pictures of the Flying Dutchman kurt

I agree with Legeaux, this is an older ship. I still don't see much that I think is that much better. To get width with sheer in a lego ship is not easy to do. Many are doing better on the width with inverse slopes. SNOT work can make a big difference on the bows. But sheer is still not offen seen. Credit most go to Stephen Rowe's HM 20 gun Frigate Minotaur as the first lego ship I know of to go for sheer. I still know of very few large ships with sheer. kurt