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Just noticed how you used a dark blue plume to simulate a spilled drink below the table. Cool!

I thnik the problem with the arm-legs is a) they are too thin and look like the minifig is wearing tight-fitting leatherpants or something, while in reality many people of that era seemed to have have favored loose fitting clothing which makes for a more baggy style b) the hands as feet just look like the bioengineering from the movie Aeon Flux with Charlize Theron

-1 for false advertising +1 for the actual MOC, though Needs another background, though. Maybe black, then play with some colored lightning? All in all, a solid, lively, fun little MOC. What exactly are the two sailors in the bottom left doing? Is the left one feeding fish to a drunkard who is lying on teh table?

Truly interesting techniques you've used there. The shot and smoke coming out of the soldier's pistol and the little twig growing from the cliff made out of brown arms are really clever. The minifig hands and arms as feet and legs look strange because we all know them in this place only from those monkeys :) . The waves made from legs are decent, I'd say. Thanks for posting it!

Wonderful ship! I love it! The colors are great (ok, it's mostly grey and black, but it's the Black Pearl, right?), the three lanterns in the back are great, the sails are just awesome, and the overall construction looks massive and sturdy. Great job! The Lego Company should just pay you to produce this version instead of building their own with far less details and pieces

I liek both scenes. Just the right amount of details and the construction is pretty much flawless. The pistol looks really big in the first MOC Now do a third one with the fictional story of Jack's rescue by two turtles and a few strands of hair from his back!

PETA (Pirates For The Ethical Threatment Of Animals) is not amused!

You might find some inspiration when you take a look at the offical LEGO pirate sets. This one here is actually called "Shipwrecked Island": http://www.peeron.com/scans/6296-1 . The instruction manuals from LEGO System pirate sets typically have alternate part configurations, so you may find some ideas there as well, especially in the ship instructions. One example is here: http://www.peeron.com/scans/6250-1/16 It would probably be best if you start with a 32x32 blue plate, then put some yellow/tan plates for beach or grey bricks for a rocky reef on it. Vegetation like a palmtree and small plants can be added too. I would include at least one large mast from the former ship that gets used as a lookout. Also, a little hut made from one of the ship's hull sections or the cabin sounds good. Try to go for an interesting layout by adding little bits of wreckage here and there, as well as a hungry shark roaming the waters around the wrecked ship and the unlucky sailors holding on to it Some survivors are most likely commanded by the captain to save the chest full of spanish gold from sinking along with the rest of the ship, so be sure to include a few minifigs!

Wow, what a big scene. The fortress is amazing. Those minifig legs as part of the construction and the plastic sprues as vines on the palm trees are really interesting.

Small, but effective. Those MINIFIG hands look really BIG in such a scene

A good, solic construction. Maybe some single grey bricks here and there would help break up the vast blackness of the fortress walls ;) The sprinkled water to simulate a rainstorm is a really cool idea. I hope to see that one more often in the future by other MOCers as well! It's not always sunny weather in the Caribbean

Good work! The roof construction in particular is very convincing... Looks just like old weathered wooden planks used in such makeshift huts The only thing i found odd is how the SNOT technique on the pier looks a little strange because it is so smooth and reflective, which is unusual for wooden floorboards that are not polished

Cool microscale "diorama". The clouds are absolutely ubercool.

It certainly is not among the most beautiful ships around, but i have to admit that the way you used all those random parts to make something easily recognizable out of it, like a ship, is really ingenious.

This MOC is big enough for three seperate scenes, so i salute your for your great work. The round tower is constructed very good, I've never seen that kind of building technique with alternating round and normal bricks before. All the small "stories" you hinted at in your original post and the clever use of different facial expressions really capture the feeling of a lively port/fortress scene. This whole scene is on par with the official LEGO catalogue pictures released in the early 90s. I just hope Admiral Broadside will visit this outpost soon and bring some much-needed discipline back to this place. Drunk soldiers losing their hats at the pier, meal breaks while on guard duty and secret romances? If Brickbeard shows up to raid this fort, the government troops will likely just surrender immediately. Outrageous! Edit: I especially like the Weather vane and the soldier peering through the monocular. His pose is very realistic. Also, i think it's kind of funny that two guards would look for a thief who climbs on top of a building just because he stole one single fish They'll probably hang him for that terrible crime!

Really cool set. It would even fit in a LEGO convention or museum. A nice balance of structures, water, and vegetation/beach. The excellent diversity of small sub-scenes really make this one stand out. There isn't a single corner in this MOC that doesn't have a little story to tell of it's own; even the islander in his hidden cave in the jungle fits perfectly into this mini-world. The cool selection and diversity of different colors also makes this very realistic looking. I'm giving it five out of five sharks! :shark: :shark:

I can imagine a little MOC depicting the last dran-out fight between Sparrow and Jones high up on the masts and rigging, all while both their ships are being drawn into the great maelstrom. Only a couple of pieces for the masts and upper part of the sails would be needed for that

Saw this on theawesomer.com, unfortunately i can't watch it from my location, but if you live in the U.S. you should be able to:

It has already been frontpaged, no worries ;) Bricklink prices might be different in Germany, I paid about $3 per hull piece, be it stern, bow or middle section.

I don't understand why it is an old topic? I says "Posted Today, 07:55 PM" in the OP Anyway, here's my take on it

This is a great idea! Hopefully this can get others inspired to do a comic of their own; after all, most LDD set files are readily available, so it all comes down to thinking of a intriguing story to use them in. Some ideas: Perhaps you can use photoshop or Gimp to enhance the look of the LDD images, maybe by using a poster edges filter on each frame. I think there also are free programs or plugins to add comic speech bubbles like those seen in real comics and grahpic novels. Maybe i'll try to make a LEGO comic myself

Thanks for your kind remarks, sledgehammer and Legoking! No, this question has not been asked yet I think it took me about one week total, building several hours each day. I had to stop for periods of time when I had to wait for bricklink orders to arrive. Other times i spent a few days just making sails. Then there's the fact that practically every ship was modified one or two times until it looked good enough for me. So it's really hard to say i guess The room i was building these ships in was just a huge mess, with LEGO bricks strewn all over the place over several square metres of carpet floor, multiple half-built ships sitting here and there, and me in the middle of it all, tsearching for specific pieces i needed at time and all in all trying to organize that project somehow

Don't have time too write too much right know, but here's my short comment anyway: Cool stuff, the choice of colors is very neat. The skeleton cave is a nice detail. The only thing i would modify is the overall boxy shape of the whole rock outcropping, but other than that, the rocks and the bastion looks very good.

Yes, and i think the ESPG rules also differentiate between these two hull sizes in their ship class table.

There is no "hard" definition for that. You just looks at the ships you have on hand and see which ones are relatively broad and which are rather slim. I think the rules somewhere mention the underlying principle: Long and narrow means faster, short and wide means slower. As a sort of standard i would suggest the following guidelines: Wide hull, one or no center section: Wide Wide hull, two center sections: Regular Wide hull, three or more center sections: Narrow Narrow hull, no center section: Wide Narrow hull, one center section: Regular Narrow hull two or more center sections: Narrow But really, you should just go for what works best for you. If it looks wide, count it as a wide ship