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  1. Bart
    Neat little house, I like the water drum on the roof. Not a big fan of what you used as road. At first glance I thought it was water.
  2. Bart
    Interesting! The ability to bet would be fun :)
  3. Bart
    No need to restart fully. I think I can take out the yards and there running rig (halyard, topping lifts and braces) easily and then put up the mast with standing rig. Then put the yards back up, and re run their running rig. I'll try tomorrow. The aft mast is still standing.
  4. Bart
    Don't give to much approvals for something I haven't even finished yet. I've had those knowledge a while, just never really showed it here :D btw. Nice Eslandola banner with the coins!
  5. Bart
    I (am training to) work as a engineer in the merchant navy. Those sailing pictures on flickr, are mostly when the volvo ocean race visited Scheveningen last year, I went to have a look. I would love to own my own yacht, or work on a true sailing ship, but that is a plan for later. So no don't work with sails, but I've had some lessons in school, and we where always playing around with the school boats. And I've an very high interest in the subject (modern and historical). I'm not adding ratlines. it doesn't fit the scale in my opinion, if I want to do that correctly I should add lower shrouds, (at least four in total) No it's not halyard, those are connected in the centre of the yard. (I've got those too) and used to hoist the yard up and down. Topping lifts are used to rotate the yards vertically. They are connected to the ends of the yard and go up (forming a triangle) Braces are used to rotate the yards horizontally. These are also connected to the ends of the yard, but go aft to deck or to a mast behind it. Your snow is coming along good too!, and yes cutting out sails as if they are filled with wind does add. I'll check my stash if I have those wing plates for cannons :)
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    Bregir I try to be as realistic as possible with my rigging. I've the knowledge about it, and like to do it, so I try to counter balance my small amount of bricks and therefore smaller hull. My build is based on a existing ship type 'kof' I'm positive I can get it back together, the yards weren't tied down with knots yet. I only ran all the lines trough their designated eyes, so I should be able to extract them easy. Relieving me of 5 lines per yard. And as you say this gives the opportunity to do something about the deck, or change some other things, I'm not happy with the way the topping lifts (is that the correct English name?) are belayed on deck. For the curious people, go check Flickr, I'll post the ship here as part of a challenge II build, that might take a while. I'm still on an internal debate on whether to add sails or not, as I only have paper to my disposal, and its a pain in the butt to do them on a square rig, (compared to the canoe-outrigger latteen sail) Somebody sad to stiffen the mast with rods, but that's not the problem, it breaks where the cylindrical 1x1 bricks meat up with the 1x1 eye plate. Oh and nice cannons! good idea with the wheels, hadn't seen that one yet. the carronade looks good to me too. I'm still on the lookout for an idea to have a 3 stud long base for a canon with wheels ;) Maxim, I don't think everybody is opposed to your business model, it's just they weren't prepared for it. I'm okay with you earning some db's if you work as a broker on the ship market (But you'd better make a good moc about a ship broker soon ) if that is aloud by the BoBS lords Might be that earning db's for updating the Index is a bit to much for some people. But if you make a 'for sale post' for it etc and make db's for that it should be good. If players don't want you to earn db's then they can't have a post in the 'for sale' part of the Index, and have to sell it themselfs. anyway I'm not opposed to the idea.
  7. Bart
    Thanks, I had the whole rigging done, except two fore-aft sails. then I bumped into a stay to hard and the whole mast collapsed :S :S :S Now its a tangle of ropes, mast pieces and spars. (some pictures of before this accident on my flickr)
  8. Bart
    That is set as short as possible :P otherwise I've got 'moved' pictures a lot. But I'll try some other settings next time :)
  9. Bart
    True on the mast heights. Do you have any examples of ketches with squares? The ones I find are bomb-ketches, (which are more three masted ships with the foremast removed kind of designs)
  10. Bart
    Thanks, Damn man you are right, from the left, there is natural light, from above a ceiling light with a yellowish appearance due to a milk shade glass thing around it Because the sun was shining right into the window, I closed the white curtains, making it a white diffuse light. But that was too dark so I turned on the ceiling light. I didn't touch them with my computer, posted them as the camera made them. Looking forward to your post then :)
  11. Bart
    Thats a nice looking tower-fort! I like those walls too :)
  12. Bart
    Beautifull ship Mike, well designed hull. I'd put the forward sail with the (now forward) point upwards. I think that looks better. I'm looking forward to plunder it :D :D My first idea was Brigantine, but no squares on the aft. I'd say its a Schooner Brig (aka Hermaphrodite Brig) With an Ketch I'd expect a fore-aft sail on the forward (main) mast too.
  13. Bart
    Sneak peak on the ship that is being build. Sneak peak, rigging. by Bart, on Flickr Bart
  14. Bart
    I'll await the results :) tip (also to others) if you google "specific ship term"+Lego you'll end up on Eurobricks a lot of times :D
  15. Bart
    it also depends on what scale you are building. Does the barrel brick look good, or just a tube brick. (I personaly don't like the ones which use the big cone) do they work together with 'normal' cannons? brick build or the lego ones. This one is very nice: http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=74023 another on EB, (one but last picture of the post) http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=102453entry2071979
  16. Bart
    If I remember correctly there is a cannon index in the pirate forum. Maybe some EB archive master can dig it up :) :) Otherwise a carronade is of a large bore short barrel design.
  17. Bart
    Really nice beach. I don't know what else to say :)
  18. Bart
    I would say the whole flotilla would move along at the speed of the slowest boat. otherwise it's not a flotilla if one ship goes ahead or into additional ports. my opinion. You can also use an higher class A vessel as an escort. That opens a spot in the maximum flotilla number of 3, for more cargo room.
  19. Bart
    Yes I didn't have those cones in brown, (or any other colour) and a sloped brick just didn't work. So I took the gamble. I had it build before I thought of the size limit, and I first had it straight on the water, but that looked horrible, I found diagonal worked best.
  20. Bart
    I just saw the glass blower and now this, wonderful! I'm in awe. Excellent two editions to Bastion. You might want some security around all that liquor though :D More alcohol to smuggle :D I can guess about future builds along this line, plantation, barrel maker ? If you check my previous build: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=119457 You'll see an liquor/ale merchant in the streets :D :D Excellent design.
  21. Bart
    Very well designed and build! It really looks like a glass blowing workshop. The scenery is good too. How did you make the fire?
  22. Bart
    Neat little build. I like how your story line is progressing.
  23. Bart
    On the above, maybe in the fraction thread. We can add maudier and others to the list "friendly, indifferent, hostile" Or is that something for later in the game?
  24. Bart
    You can pay things as 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 doubloon If apples cost 1/16 doubloon a kilo. When you make 20 db/month, you can buy 320 kilogram in apples, With an average of 12 apples in a kilo, that would give you 3840 apples/month or 128 apples a day. That should be enough even for Felipe De La Manzana
  25. Bart
    Thanks on the explanation on the ship thing.
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