Franco Clarke

The level of detail there is superb, I agree it is worth a redesign to ensure that remains visible. Without her upper decks, she looks a lot like the 58 gun razees.

Nice to see an old build heading for competition at last, good thing she didn't suffer any damage whilst laid up.

I like the ingenious, yet simple solution to the stairs, I might have to steal that design.

Shaping up nicely, the flippers give a perfect nautical theme. I agree with your idea of adding some barnacles to break up the dark green arches.

A subtle, but worthwhile upgrade, are you planning to add cloth sails, or keep the brick-build furled versions?

Shame it isn't available on pick a brick, it'd be a great rifleman torso.

This is quite an incredible model, definitely a must-buy.

The hull looks good and ship-shape now, having struggled to move large single part models to shows, I agree modularity is the way to go. The new door is lovely and compact, the sunken hinges are a great detail. Finally, I love the little sketch you've done to plan out the build, makes it look like such a normal ship without all the sea life and craggy pieces.

Nice to see a comparison between old and new, I like all the extra crew you've made. If you wanted to bulk out the crew further, you could add some East India Trading Company troops, who could be more uniform. The stary windows are a great look, not sure if they suit the Dutchman, but they are very pretty.

That's off to a superb start, looks even better in the bricks than the digital renders. I tend to focus on the external appearance of a model when building on Studio, structure is easier to do with real bricks.

Other than the old glory days, pirates have always been an intermittent theme unfortunately.

That does look promising, the trees can certainly be useful.

Those gunports are superb, looking forward to see the mechanism to go behind.

That beefed up cannon carriage looks the part, suitably weathered and rough. Interested to see how you tackle the triple guns, at least those shan't need gun carriages. With the sliding gun ports, have you considered having them rotate out of the way? That might be more space efficient and easier to motorise.

There is a silver lining though, that the printed shako would've costed more, and thus made massing troops more expensive.