Plaid Beard
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Steal away! I'm not actually sure where I got the idea for it - seems like I saw it on someone else's project, but I don't really remember. The main reason I did it was because I ran out of roof slopes, but I ended up really liking how it turned out. It would also explain the lack of trees on the grounds.
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Thanks! The roof took a while to figure out for many reasons, but one of the difficulties was that building the roof that way makes it ever so slightly longer than the actual space allows, which was fixed by.... well.... just jamming it in there between the two upright peaks on either end.
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I love your confidence! I also love this scene. You've done some great work here. I agree that this would make an excellent set - it's the kind of thing one could play with or just sit and look at. I especially like that your sunken ship is actually fleshed-out instead of being a bare skeleton like a lot of TLG's sunken ships (which I still think are cool). Very well done.
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On the Bluecoat-held Caribbean island of Sainte-Salacious lies the most ancient and prestigious Académie des Mousquetaires, where the bravest recruits for the Bluecoat Army receive their training as musketeers. While at the Académie, recruits learn swordsmanship, marksmanship, some light typing, and occasionally are beaten with raw fish. When they graduate, the recruits join the ranks of the most elite unit of the Bluecoat Army, the illustrious musketeers, who dream of little else but the day when they will meet their Redcoat foes in battle, and then afterward type up the after-action report. The building, itself, was built in 1562 by the Spanish as part of the monastery of Saint Salacious, who was martyred in the 9th Century while trying to introduce non-alcoholic beer and anger-management to the Scots. The island was named by the Spanish explorers who landed there in 1517 and contracted trichinosis from eating the local wild pigs. And now, here is my MOC, which is part of my larger building project to document life on the strange little island of Sainte-Salacious: Sometimes the musketeers do charity work, such as this musketeer teaching swordplay to a young street ruffian as revenge for the boy's mother saying she doesn't date soldiers. The monument to the greatest musketeer of all time..... whose name escapes everyone.... The Bluecoat guard on the left is not overly thrilled to be wasting his youth guarding a door, while the guard on the right is just plain tickled not to have been posted to an actual combat unit. The roof comes off for ventilation on very hot days. Apparently. A bizarre little ritual, but a necessary part of the training. Apparently some of the bricks in the wall started to separate when I carried it downstairs to photograph it. Ah well, free lighting. I had wanted to use more vegetation in the courtyard, but I'm saving my trees for a different project.
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In a past life, his torso and legs were apparently stranded on a desert island. And I found his hat in a crack in my living room floor, oddly enough.
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Thanks! The sleeping head came from one of the collectable minifigures - it was a guy in pajamas with a teddy bear. One side of the head was yawning and the other side was sleeping.
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Good to meet a fellow GN! I didn't realize I'd spelled it wrong until after I hit the post button. I went back to the full-edit mode to fix it and found that I couldn't. If anyone can tell me how to fix it, I'd be obliged.
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Not sure if this is the right forum for this MOC, but it is our time period and it is made from pirate Lego! This is a MOC I did last year for practice, and I liked the way it turned out. It's a scene from Washington Irving's story, "Rip Van Winkle," which is about a guy who goes hunting in the mountains of New York in the 1700s, gets drunk and bowls with the ghost of the famous explorer Henry Hudson, falls asleep for 20 years, and wakes up to find his entire world changed. It's a wonderful story, and I do enjoy illustrating scenes from Irving's stories with Lego (he also wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"). Here's a good shot of the bowling pins (I think they actually were playing 9 Pins in the story). When Van Winkle woke up after 20 years, he thought someone had stolen his musket and replaced it with an old, rusty one. When he wandered back to his village, he discovered that most of his family was long gone, and that the American Revolution had taken place while he napped.
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Wow. Never would have thought of that! Extremely well done!
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I like what you're doing, too. Your colors are really looking good, and the overall layout is working well.
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Caribbean Brig MOC (6274 Caribbean Clipper)
Plaid Beard replied to PeroTheLegoman's topic in Pirate MOCs
Let's hope so. Until then we'll just have to keep building our own! -
You're very welcome! I'd never have been able to build a ship were it not for the help I got from folks on this forum. The only one of my ships I've posted is the one I'm linking below, and it's an 18th-Century schooner. My frigate and my galleon are basically done, but I'm just doing some detail work on them before I post them. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=111842
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Howdy! and welcome! Looks like you're off to a good start, and I love your dedication when it comes to going all-out on cannons - one can never have too many cannons. I recommend a three things for starting a ship-building project. The first thing is to study pictures of ships that you might like to base your design on so that you have a general direction in which to go. The second thing is to look through pictures of other Lego ships that folks have built to see if there are any neat tricks or techniques you want to "borrow" from them. And the third is to study the frigate tutorial you'll find at the link below to see the outstanding techniques of an amazing builder. I used this tutorial for two of my custom ships. http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=30622 As for the gaps, I had to use jumper plates under some of my decks to offset them slightly, then I filled in the gap along the side with 1x plates. This meant that the topside decks that were at different levels didn't line up with each other, so I used jumper plates again to connect those. I think you can see how I did that in the picture below (which I may need to resize because I think it might be too big). It's a lot easier with a ship that stays straight from fore to aft, but on a project like my schooner where the ship narrowed from midship to stern, I still don't have a great way of filling in those gaps. Fortunately the schooner was too small for a tumblehome so I didn't have to mess with that. For me, it was also difficult making the connection between the tumblehome angle and the forecastle, but I played around with that until I got it more or less right. So in the picture below you can see how I used jumpers to connect the higher deck to the lower deck. The reason they are offset the way they are is because my schooner narrows from front to back, so the decks have to get gradually narrower as they get closer to the stern. However, you can use this same technique on a ship that stays the same width from front to back because as you go higher each deck needs to be narrower than the one below so it fits into the narrowing angle of the tumblehome. http://www.brickshel...08_223231-1.jpg Looking at the pictures you've posted thus far I'm really excited about your ship. You've done a great job on the tumblehome. Getting that angle to connect with the sterncastle can be tricky, and while I've seen a lot of different techniques for that, every builder can do it differently and make it work. Good luck!
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Caribbean Brig MOC (6274 Caribbean Clipper)
Plaid Beard replied to PeroTheLegoman's topic in Pirate MOCs
Love it! I really like the way you did the furled sails. You did a great job with making it look like the CC, but throwing in your own twists. And I do like the scene you placed it in very much. -
Thank you! One of the minifigures on the ship was the fencing instructor in my ecole des armes (which was possible because of the fencing swords that came with the musketeer minifigs), but you're right - they are perfect for merchants. I have a lot of work to do on the galleon. I had it completed and ended up tearing pieces off it to make my frigate, plus I want to rebuild it because I feel like it's a little lopsided. But galleons have always been my favorite ships - I've been studying them since I was a kid, and I always wanted TLG to come out with one.
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This quotation would make a great t-shirt!
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I'm looking forward to hand-picking a crew for this vessel. I have almost 30-years'-worth of Pirates sets from which to draft a crew, as well as many custom figures I created, myself. I will be a nice project for an upcoming rainy day.
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Love it! The monkeys are especially well done.
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This is just incredible. The water, the sea creatures, the rocks - I'm very impressed! I'll be watching out for more of your works!
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Thank you all for your comments and support! The color-scheme was tricky - I actually completely tore apart the ship and rebuilt it several times before I got a color-scheme that looked okay. My research books helped some with picking colors, as well. I also do plan on making custom sails for it when time allows, and I'll post those photos when that project is done. And now that this one is finished, I can finally turn my attention to finishing my Bluecoat frigate and my Spanish galleon.
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After many months of planning, research, reading, studying, building, rebuilding, tearing-down, tearing out hair, and experimenting, I finally am able to present to you the Yankee topsail schooner Lady Kathryn (The Kate, for short). Brig - Two Masts - Two Square Sails on the Main 21B The Kate was built in the shipyards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the 1720s, and transports cargo from New England to the Caribbean (with the occasional smuggling run to the French at Québec). She runs heavily armed to defend against pirates, and sails fast close to the wind to outrun Royal Navy revenue patrols. I chose the figurehead I did because it looked so much like the young friend of mine for whom the ship is named. The captain's cabin is not yet furnished and finished, but it's going to be a while before I can get around to that. Being thrifty Yankees, the old, ripped blanket in the bunk gets patched instead of thrown away. I tried quite a few building techniques that I learned from studying other ships on this site, so thank you to ALL of you who have posted pictures of your creations so fellers like me can learn from your talent and experience. Hope you all like it! By the way, if there are too many picture, please let me know and I'll delete some. This is my first major MOC post and I didn't know if there were a limit. The windlass is functional and raises both anchors. The Kate flies a flag associated with Colonial New England, the Pine Tree flag. Building the binnacle was a giant pain, but I like the way it turned out. She's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with her. Building her gave me the opportunity to buy a LOT of amazing books on 18th Century sailing ships, and schooners in particular.
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This is a wonderful little scene. I love the way you captured the classic feel but put your own twists in it. Your water is excellent, and I'm a big fan of how you made the little scene of the pirates digging treasure. Well done, and thank you for sharing!
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Howdy, and welcome! When I first started building my own ships, I did a few things. First I thought about what type of ship I really wanted to build, then I began researching it. I read books, looked at a LOT of pictures online, and scoured this site in particular for hints and pointers on how to make my ships look like I wanted them to look. I also studied the excellent tutorials on this site for how-to hints, which really helped my novice building skills. The amazing builders on this site have really helped me think outside the box when it comes to achieving the looks I'm after for my projects. Good luck!
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Speechless. You've blown me away. Absolutely amazing.
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I am a pretty huge fan of this MOC. The detail you put into the sand astounds me. Very well done!