Admiral_Wig

I may remove the computery bits, its only a minor thing and easy to remove. The rest of the ship will be standard styling. Though i must admit to being tempted by the minifig AK47's i found the other week on t'internet. The ships value should be increased by

Well........ Let me see. My ship is a somewhat random affair. I'm not sure which time period it would fall into. I'd prefer to think of bob the time bandit (see other ship and the dodgey looking explorer with the earpiece whos meeting with the admiral) and blame him for the mysterious additions to the ship. I.E. GPS etc. She only has one gun deck. The second deck is dedicated to holding the

I followed the instructions for the thumbnails and look how they turned out!!!!

Well so yes. This is the ship that is going to eventually be finished and EVENTUALLY have a structure that is the same instead of 3 different styles on the walls of the hull of her..... I enclose a few pictures and will add more when i get chance and when i get back onto building again. ^^^ Part of the treasure. Initial indications from previous build attempts show that she should hold approximately 100 of these coins. Easily. The hull is of a BSB (same as my brig sloop of war) and she will have 2 decks. Arguably 3 as the area above the cargo hold will be treated as a third deck surface to gain access to the fore and aft areas of the ship. The lower deck is the gun deck. I chose to have the lower deck as the gun deck rather then then upper deck as it allows for more damange to be inflicted on the lower hull, you try floating when your hulls full of tastey big holes!!!! The next deck is the cargo deck for the main treasure in coins and there will be a stash of several treasure chests full of gold and rubys too... In the pic ^^ you can see the storage technique i'm using to contain the coins and then there will be a cover/roof over the top of the coins to keep them all secure, there is a ladder built into the wall at the end and on the side of the section that is built there though its difficult to make out at the moment due to all the black lego... Down the centre is a walkway which contains additional arms stored here out of the way but within easy reach if needed to repell borders!!!!! Only one deck section is there at the moment. I started off with the tumbledown effect starting on the lower deck leading into a vertical section of hull above but i decided i didnt like this look so i changed it for the other side and i have a vertical wall with large gun port covers so as to give the impression from afar that there are infact no cannons, a nice suprise to be waiting any pirates that get near without being noticed by the escort! N last but not least, for this post at least.... The captains cabin/armoury..... There are steps running down one side from the main deck to the cabin and then going down another level to the gun deck (which did i mention is very spacious and altogether more pleasant than on the escort ship even though it doesn't contain quite as many cannons! The captains cabin (currently manned by a civil war general who got a lil lost in the grand scheme of time but thats not so bad as the computers and sophisticated GPS and tactical radio systems hes using to stay in contact with his guardian ship!!!!!!!! But i guess we'll get around that somehow. Dodgey dealings with the admiral on the other ship could be related perhaps?? I'm open to suggestions, as you can see theres a fair bit of work to be done and i have now run out of sloping pieces for the walls. 8-|

Yer brig sloop of war seems to be the way. N as to making it longer i quite like its length now and i think adding more length would mean more masts which i dont feel like tackling just yet, plus the only source of hull sections i have is the other BSB i have which is being built into the sister ship for this one. Thanks for the comments and suggestions though.

I've just taken more pictures and with my proper camera and will upload them on to brickshelf tomorrow (going out now) but if you want any specific angles or pictures feel free to ask and i'll take a few more. I will consider shifting the guns but it will be a while probably coz its a pretty major effort for a relatively minor change. Plus i wana get more on her sister ship done. I'm really not sure on my second ships structure at the moment, the cargo requirement is the main thing she was originally built around and then i added in a nice spacious gun deck below the cargo deck. Now its just a case of getting the gun deck right and sorting out my tumblehome effect stuff. But i have the cabin nailed. Although it does have a somewhat eclectic crew. The main cabin is currently inhabited by a civil war general.... and also has a comunications centre with computer systems and GPS to enable smooth co-ordination between her and the escort ship. lol ahem. I'll hopefully post more pics and a new topic with the work in progress tomorrow. Oh and i'm not fussed about keeping it close to the original BSB, that was a nice ship that i love muchly but i just want my ships to be finished and cool. :)

Ah yes fair points on the overly tall wall, i admit to again being lazy there when creating that part of the ship. I'm not entirely happy with that tbh. I like the unique location of the cannon enabling inventive firing by said cannon but its fixed and behind that overly tall wall. Hmm N i'm always open to suggestions. As has been mentioned things can be pretty much always improved on as new things come out and new techniques become available. This ship originally was incredibly square but now it has all the nice slopes in it its turning out pretty nice. The ship that is going to be escorted is quite special you see it will be carrying my gold and silver. Oh so elaborate and i shall have to get down to making at least half the structure complete so you can get an idea of what i'm trying to do. Its based on exactly the same basic hulls (from another BSB). watch this space!

Yer any suggestions would be welcome. And thank you for resizing the picture, tbh i was feeling lazy when i put it in. :)

27b This is my ship. I sorta called it a frigate but to be honest thats probably not entirely accurate. Shes designed to be the escort for my second ship. Which due to excessive and repeated rebuilds is still lying next to her sister ship with half a structure and a lovely captains quarters and thats about it.... But back to the ship in question: Based on a BSB she has had her armament somewhat upgraded and her armour and her structure modified too.... key features include... > a massive increase in armament from 4 cannons to 17 cannons. 2 of the cannons are chaser cannons and the rest form a fairly formidable broadside. > sloping amour to both increase protection and to hopefully deflect cannon fire! > Increase in crew so she now carries a select crew of marines, armed with semi auto rifles (which they seem to have pillaged somewhere along the line as a replacement for their original flintlock rifles) > twin deck, admittedly the lower decks pretty cramped but what they hey the increase in firepower is worth a lil sacrifice in comfort for the crew!! Apologies for the poor quality pictures and i know there aren't many but i'll get my proper camera sorted out soon to take more pictures. The crew is pretty select and standard although at the moment on the ship they do have a somewhat suspect looking courier on deck seemingly making some kind of deal with the Admiral. Whatevers in the case warrants a body guard so only time will tell what secrets and possible future upgrades are contained within the case..... Here is the Escort Frigate Brickshelf Gallery.

I thought only my lego ships and crew had strangely out of place items. I'm assuming the garage will be the first thing to go????? Pretty cool looking house though. Really must get round to posting my pics of my ships....