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probably Charly, Khan, Kor - or all three of them as part of a disguise from Garth of Izar! Come to think of it - this is one of the few good possibilities of using the costume-minifig - great idea!

Historical accuracy, custom decals nicely applied and great hats (hats are important!) I think this is a great job and really should be [bloggedcp][/bloggedcp] soon!

Okay, some time has passed and I've decided to do some tutorials based on your requests. The first one will be: Sailing ships - Tech-specs and workings describing how dimensions and proportions are done, how gunports work and where to find capstans and stairs Followed by: Sailing ships - merchant ships From the gallon to clippers - dimensions, crews, armaments and cargo-positions Coming to: Rigging and sails From jibs to topsails - functions, form and positions of the most important part of sailing ships

[pid][/pid]192B Ambush in Russia - 1812 von RockNRoll200 auf Flickr I've found this small but nicely done and vital vignette depicting an Cossack attack on a French supply party. Considering that there have been made some very good MOCs made about this part of the Napoleonic Wars, lately I thought you folks might enjoy it! It has been posted on Flickr by RockNRoll200 - clicking on the picture will show you more!

Oh, good lord, this is a great idea! And very well executed, too!

I love your lighting and photography - someting I will never learn, I'm afraid! My favourite part is the dark-grey ornament just below the roof. Colours, pattern, complexity - great! And while I love the SNOT-floor with all the great patterns, I maybe would have put in one or two pottholes - just to make it look a bit more - you know - used. Anyway: great work!

Hello folks! I have been working on this little station for quite some time now. The station is a combination of an old, ruined railway station that has been augmented with an airship-docking-part. So far, it features four vehicles, two waiting areas with a lounge for the wealthier passengers, an engine room for powering the docking clamps and other small things. The station is modular and fully playable on the inside. I hope you like it! Comments and criticism are welcome, as always. More pictures are in this album! Back 1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Front 2 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Front 3 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Inner 3 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Action 1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Vehicle 1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Vehicle 2 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr

Done. From a social-science point of view they need to work on their questions but this was fun

Thank you! Merchant ships would make a fine addition, you are absolutely right - and regarding your question: I don't own the right to make tutorials here all by meself - that would be terrible! I would be very interested in reading more other tutorials and sure I could learn a great deal from every single one

okay, so it is technical details, actually. True story, I have not been very particularised on those. Thanks for the input so far! I will try to adjust the existing tutorials accordingly. More things?

hello folks, As you might know I have made three tutorials on features of historical sailing ships. Those three tutorials (frigates, caravels and small sloops O' war - I know, shameless advertisment ) always consist of three slightly different sections and try to tell about the structures, the functions and the equipment of the the respective vessel types. My questions to those and future tutorials would be: are they helpful when building a ship or thinking about it? Do they answer your questions or raise more? Are there some parts that are irrelevant to you and what would you like to see added? And finally: What types of ships would you have to be put into a tutorial? Galeons, clippers, late galleys, carracks?

PART III Different equipment & functions While many smaller ships of war seem to be much alike at a first glance, their equipment and functions can be quite diverse. The brig is THE classical historic pirates’ ship. Brigs are fast, manoeuvrable and provide much cargo space but can still sail on many rivers and most lakes. They are ideally suited for coast raids and hiding up a river where bigger frigates could not follow. For that reason many brigs could be seen having large well decks. Well decks are those parts of the weather deck that have a removable cover. They were normally used for loading and unloading the ship. Smaller brigs also used to have their galleys there so the smoke and smell could be exhausted more easily. Needing a relatively large crew to be operated, brigs would also be the ship of choice for navies. Those ships would have an appropriate crew to counter any boarding attack. As brigs would only be useful for close combat and lake-based battles due to their relatively weak hull compared to frigates, they typically would carry relatively small calibres of guns. Later brigs often carried carronades and swivel guns only. However, the same numbers of crews that made brigs attractive for navies made them poor cargo runners in comparison to schooners as the trading companies would prefer smaller (and thus cheaper) crews. Brigs would often carry 12 pounders and carronades, sometimes even 24 pounders. Their crew compliment would be around 130. Schooners would normally not be engaged in bigger naval battles. Their weak hull and their sleek design would let them not carry many guns. The typical calibre for a schooner would be 3 pounder cannons. However, their versatile rigging qualities and the small amount of men needed to operate the ship made schooners an ideal cargo runner. Schooners would often have either bigger well decks or housings for precious cargo. They could be refitted to be anything from a blockade runner that manoeuvred bigger blockade-vessels out to fishing-ships and coastal patrols for smugglers. Speaking of smugglers: Schooners tended to be the vessel of choice for those people that wanted to avoid making contact with authorities. Later schooners that would be equipped with small carronades and a primitive hull-plating could be used in small flotillas to hunt down pirating brigs as they normally outmatched their speed. Schooners saw their golden age in the United States where they were ideal for reaching companies that were not located directly at the coast. A schooner would be normally operated by a crew of 25 to 40 persons. In a naval battle, a ketch would normally play a supporting role. Their stable manner of construction allowed for some hit to be taken and thus they would be used much more often than schooners. They could be equipped to carry fresh water to blockading armadas and often had the capability to carry dozens of living animals. A well-known purpose would also be the bomb-ketch. Those vessels had huge mortars that could bombard the enemy over great distances. Some later ketches even carried primitive rockets (although those were more meant for psychological warfare and remained in a somewhat experimental state). The typical armament of ketches would be 12 pounders and carronades. A ketch needed 35 to 50 sailors to be operated. Ketches would also be quite popular among scientists who could use the extra space and stability of the ketch for their expeditions.

Oh why, this is turning into a German thread Welcome to Eurobricks, Cee! I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay here!

Oh wow, that's a thing of beauty! I especially like the engines-section - it looks very functional What about vulture as a name?

3. Ninja Nin's Underwater Bank & Money Transfer - 3 points 10. Spacy Smoke's Sunken City Corner - 2 points All are great entries! Good luck everyone!

If they feel fine about toasting Cylons then the shower will be the least of their problems I updated the first thread with a small impulse set and a prober box-picture for the nasty shower-set, arr!

Those folks are having way too much fun shootin' down some poor aliens Simple but nice! Are there more stories coming about that team? Because it sounds like a really nice storyline.

Hey folks! As you might have noticed I am really into Battlestar Galactica and the spin off, Caprica. So after I got some nice feedback on two MOCs of mine posing as actual TLG sets, I decided to give another idea a go. In this thread I will publish MOCs that try to recreate BSG, Caprica and the new spin off, Blood & Chrome in a manner TLG would have done it. As I don't own any licenced sets I heavily depend on you guys concerning the authenticity of the sets. The whole project is also a good opportunity for me to learn how to make decent decals. I would like to know whether you would consider this to be realistic sets if TLG ever made BSG a licenced series (obviously not!). This would include the size, the numbers of minifigs and the style of the packages and of course the choice of scenery. Hit me hard, I'd love to get this right! All BSG pics of mine can be seen here Set: 1 officers' quarters (Battlestar Galactica) Size: small minifigs: two Officers set von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Total 2 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Additional 1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Showers 1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Cushions 1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr The first little set is a test version. It is supposed to be one of Galactica's small quarters for officers and pilots. It features two pilots, an ace and a rookie. If the set is turned, there is room for two pillows and the back turns into a small shower. additional: a Caprican lifestyle magazine, Gaius Baltar's book, a helmet and two pillows Set: 2 Viper MK 1 (Blood & Chrome) Size: medium minifigs: two ViperMK1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr ViperMK1 back von HMSCentaur auf Flickr This set features an early Viper and her pilot, Lieutenant Bill Adama as well as his chief of operations. The set also includes some maintainance gear. additional: a pistol for Adama and some tools Set: 3 Libran Orbital Shuttle (Blood & Chrome) Size: medium minifigs: three Colonial Shuttle von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Colonial Shuttle back von HMSCentaur auf Flickr This set includes a small and old orbital shuttle and a tiny terminal as well as four minifigs. additional: a pistol for Adama and a briefcase Set: 4 Daniel Graystone (Caprica) Size: Impulse Set minifigs: one (and a robot) impulse set daniel graystone von HMSCentaur auf Flickr Graystone 1 von HMSCentaur auf Flickr This impulse set features Daniel Graystone and a small working place as well as his robot-servant Serge. additional: a tool and an information CD

Oh the joy coming from this! If your MOC was a set, I would SO buy it! I can imagine legions of scared women in front of this, doing what the Mecha does to be left alive - brilliant!

Yeah, I know what you mean. I really suck at photographing, my camera sucks at photographing and I don't have proper backgrounds - this always annoys the crap out of me when presenting my MOCs. I'll try to set up something like a studio but I am afrad I really don't know where to put it.. might need some time to re-organize the rooms

Thank you! It is, isn't it? I had just watched the last POTC movie and said to myself: This wreck-thing must be done soon. And now it has already collapsed two more times - I really need to fix it better to that bloody rock. And thanks to Pavel as well.

I am really happy that you decided to post this, Corioso! This is a very vivid scene and I really like how you and stiker499 put so much effort into giving every minifig a different action and purpose - the photography is also very nice. I think this should be [bloggedcp][/bloggedcp] in the near future!

Man, that is awesome! The level of detail is incredible. You've got to have square-eyes now!

This thread riveted me and so I am doing my first post in the Technic-sub-forum although I thought I'd never do that due to a total lack of Lego-Technic-skills... well done, folks This idea intrigued me. I am sure that people have already tried this but I wanted to make my own experiments - so far it turned out to make a good fan but did not show any sign of movement. A hull that is stable enough to withstand the tractive force of the rubber band necessary to make any difference also makes it too heavy and bulky. I have ordered some new technic-parts now (first ever since I was a boy) and will do some more fun-experiments with that. On a sidenode: combining this with this without fixing the propeller to the motor makes a fine flying rotor blade flying for some good meters in a fine, stable manner

Yes, you are quite right - the direct link towards the picture says the same - with embedded I meant the actual website it would be displayed in as showing them directly from the website's server doesn't seem to be wanted.