Bart

a bagpipe !! I so want that one.. but still waiting for s5 to hit the stores here :/ Bart

amazing. my first thougt; wow you have a steady filming hand. then I read all the postes and I was ¿huh? its not real? Bart

I love the full round big belly shape of your ship :) I have visited the Batavia a few times and I can't wait to see you build it out of lego bricks. Bart

As you suggested in your question, capstans vary in function. Usually the main capstan is used to lift the anchor and that can be in a way cb4 showed you via the link. but it can also be a different set up, mainly depending on the size of the ship and anchor. If the ship has more capstans they others are mostly set up to do a variety of chores from hoisting launches and barges to lifting yards and setting sails. they never used axles, always ropes (cables are thicker ropes) that go around the capstan. If the ship has only one capstan it would have been use d to hoist the anchor, and maybe the main yard if the set up made that possible, but a ship having only one capstan would probably not be very big so that it was possible to hoist the yards by hand. The maximum number of capstans I have seen on a ship are three. the main capstan central operating the anchors one in the forward part of the ship, under the forecastle. to operate the foremast. this one usually did not reach up to the weather deck. and another one in the aft mainly operating the main mast. if someone wishes to correct me please do so. About the anchors, I think you should compare with pictures to see how big your anchor should be and then choose if you use a prefab or go for brick build. that is the easiest way to do it. I could go have a story about weights, shapes, ship size, wind surface, bottom type and so on. But that wouldn't help you. So I say go for the optics on this one. Bart

Back then you sad you would redo the experiment again when it was finished, you still up for that? Your ship looks great, all those details, the way you made the rigging workable, shape, crew, and so on. it doesn't bother me at all you didn't make a brickbuild launch, the three prefabs look good too. Bsrt

read trough this thread; click there is quit a discussion about how to compare lego ships on it. Bart

I can't see the pictures either, with any of my webbrowsers, and everything is uptodate. but if I click your link to the brickshelf it says the folder is not public. maybe that is the problem? Bart

it is really looking good, the bell, the working capstan's for the anchor's, the smooth lines and accurate shapes I only don't like the gear system you use to control the rudder. Bart

credits to google, click

wow I just looked trough all the 12 pages and just wow. those latest houses do remind me of the liberty store in london mabe a nice sort of insperation, London. there are loads of old buildings there. (houses, stores, churches, bridges, castles) Bart

Great looking ship, really like the way you used a square sail as a spanker also a great eye for detail on the whole ship Bart the English name would be skeg

Very neat solution with the 1x1 rounds, I envy your brain for thinking of those things :) Looking forward to the next update. Bart

She keeps getting better and better, good job Bart

Nice way of using colours, the green combined with the red sails look very good if you ask me. Bart

It looks amazing. Very good setting on the beam, and great eye for detail. Just wondering how did you make the shackles for the chain? i.e. how did you connect the non-stud side of the "brick with arch 1x1x1" to each other? Bart

I like ;) Your scenes are getting better and better. I had to look twice to see how you made those mummies fly, and I love the posing of the skeleton with the hair, it really looks if it just dropped dead there. about the winning, I think the mummies will win the first fight, but the British will find a way to kill them undeads and come back and finish them off. Bart

on second thought I totally back up Sparks on his choice for film based musketeers, the whole Lego mini-fig is not historically correct, as far as I know it is not supplied with Muskets. And this is a 'what if' topic so anything could be :) Bart

Looking fantastic, very good photography/photoshop skills with the lighting. Bart

Looking good, I love the black and white colourscheme, it makes it look like a ghost ship or those old shipmodels made out of bone Bart

I love your scene, looks exciting. but why didn't you arm the musketiers with muskets? I thought they had those. I think that would be a more honest fight, now with only swords. Although the british infantry line were also musketeers ;) so the best question would be would the French or the English win, as they are both musketeers; soldiers armed with a musket. Bart

I've been thinking for a whole day how to reply to this.. But the only thing that keeps coming up is what has been sad a few times before; Simply amazing, the size, the details, how everything seems to be just wright and fitting just fantastic. Bart oh I forgot to say, with your crane, I really feel that it is a believable design and that it does not collapse the moment you hoist something up.

The British will win, although I doubt that the samurai will run out of fear like many of the British opponents in the rest of the world. But the British infantry will over run the samurai. Bart PS please edit your first post the writing is just horrible with all that capitals

Looking good, I like your brick build hull. are you going to complete her rigging? Bart PS this might be helpfull; click this click-able

I do remember the outpost Moc, and I have to say this comes up to the standards you set yourself to :) I love it, the tube use for arms is also good, at first I didn't notice till you told us. Your small canon design is one of the better I have seen, great chose of bricks there. Bart

Like this? I thought you wanted to go for easy rigging? But it also would be great if your ship would be able to change the rigging. But did they carry all the necessary equipment, to re-rig, with them all the time? The extra rigging wires, the topmast pieces, yard's, sails. That sounds like a bit of space wasting to me, and it makes me assume that some Xebec's where rigged with lateen sails and others polacre. But that is just my opinion. On the thought that this is not the real world, its the Lego world, it still would be nice to have your ship to be able to re-rig :) Bart