Flavius Gratian

Sir Edward Summeridge July 618 AE Jameston, Celestia Dear Sir, In response to the Royal Society of Navigation and Discovery's request for additional funding, I offer to purchase bonds up to a value of 200dbs. The expansion of Corrington and advancement of science is in the interest of every loyal citizen. I trust that you will be of service in facilitating this transaction. I have the honour to be, &c., Lieutenant Lawliet Lavendwood, HM Royal Navy, HMS Intrepid

@LM71Blackbird I really like the first ship! It looks very fast and sleek. Although, you might want to move the cannon, as it is now it will hit the gaff and spanker.

The next part of my Celestia rescue expedition has been posted:

Deep in the jungles of Celestia two native scouts spied out from the top of a ridge. Many foreign travallers had entered the jungle a few moons ago, and although some had left many still remain. Indeed, down at the bottom of the ridge they could see two foreigners, insolently trespassing on the natives domain. The scouts decided to bring reinforcements so that the strangers would have to pay for their transgression. "Herrrhem" the sound of somebody clearing their throat suddenly interrupted the scouts. They turned around and found that they had been surrounded. Lawliet thought of what luck they had to run in to some natives so close to the camp. Well, not just luck: Ohtli had definitely help find the tracks. "Tell them to drop their weapons!" he told the Myzac interperator. Ohtli made some incomprihensible sounds, and the two natives looked chocked to see somebody so close resembeling them. They probably had not noticed him at first. One of them said something in response, which gave Ohtli a curious look on his face. "What did he say?" Lawliet asked. "He wondered why I'm with you, since I seem to be one of them." "Tell them that the only way they'll live is if they drop their weapons and answer our questions!" This time the natives complied. "Ask if they've seen any other strangers looking like us, recently!" Lawliet continued after they had surrendered the spear and bow. "They say that they captured seven men like you, a few months ago, that are still kept prisoner." Suddenly, one of the natives gave a sinister smile, and laughed, saying something in a distinctly mocking tone, that even Lawliet could pick up. "He ahm, he says that the prisoners will be sacrificed to the gods at the coming full moon. To bring fortune in the coming war." "Bring them back to the camp! We need to figure out everything they know, and leave as soon as possible. They will show us the way to their village." Lawliet ordered. As the men left, the jungle returned to its peace and quiet. Except, of course, for the two travellers at the bottom of the ridge. They continued completely unaware of the danger that had just been averted. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is the continuation of the Celestia rescue expedition. Jungles are not my strong suit, mostly because I lack parts, and this time most of my brown bricks went to building the ridge itself. However, I think this build is mostly for the story. Hopefully I can finish the story line with something a bit more impressive in the next build. Thanks to @Bregir for letting me use Montoya and Baker to spice things up! Considering how many figs are currently gallivanting around Celestia I thought it would be fun to have some (non)interactions between them.

A really nice ship! I think you've done a great job including small details, such as the anchor which I always forget. The rigging, as usual is superb! I can't tell you enough how amazed I am by the fact that you manage to it just using string. I assume you used paper for the sails? Some comments: while the hatches do look nice, I don't really understand what they represent in real life. Do you possibly have any pictures of examples? I think you should have used some kind of inverted slope for the prow instead of a normal rectagular brick. As it is now, it looks a bit strange being entirely vertical. Finally, I wouldn't want to stand on the poop deck; that railing barely covers one's feet! Oach! How late in the workprocess did that happen?

Thank you! I thought it was a fun idea, and an opportunity to develop Lawliet's family a bit. Hope she makes the navy proud! Thank you! I surely hope so! *touch wood

27 April 618 AE, Fairworth Hall The Earl of Wentham was sitting in one of his studies in the Lavendwood family country house, Fairworth Hall. He had just recieved the month's issue of the Kings Port Advertiser, when his eldest son, Vicount Altridge walk past. "Altridge!", Lord Wentham shouted, clearly upset. "Yes, Father", the Vicount aswered as he entered the study. "Have you seen the Kings Port Advertiser?" Without waiting for answer he continued, "The Wentham has been lost to those pirate scum! It's an outrage!" "Disconcerting news, indeed" Altridge answered, "This is a hard blow to the Navy's ability to keep our sea routes safe in the colonies." "Yes, yes, of course, but you are missing the point. It's much worse than that. This is an insult, a slight upon my honour! Sinking the ship named after me is a direct, personal attack on my name - our name." "I thought the ship was named after Wentham county?" "I am Wentham!" he slammed his fist on the desk. "The county and the Earldom are one! This must not remain unanswered! I will send word to the shipyard to immediatly begin construction of a new HMS Wentham to avenge the old, and to restore my honour." _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So this is my small build to sistership the HMS Wentham. I hope @Bregir can fill in the proper forms so that she'll be ready for the coming MRCA round. Since I've finally started using Bluerender, I took the opportunity to update the original post with rendered pictures as well.

Actually, the stats for classes 9 and 10 are on the "About Ships" page. It's 33 and 39 respectively As said, they are on the page

A great first build! The most eyecatching aspect is obviously the statue itself. I had never thought of Hades this way but now that I see it, it makes perfect sense. Overall, I think you've done a very good job of making this small and potentially simple build interesting thanks to the arches, pillars and different "levels" (for lack of a better word)! I spy some thing on the backside of the shrine, could we possibly get another picture?

Very impressive work! She even looks larger than Royal Philip, since Dominance have more cannons I guess she must be. Very well done! My only criticism would be that the spanker is far to high up on the mizzen, so it looks a bit strange. I understand you want to fit the naval jack and the lanterns but I think that could easily be solved by angling the boom upwards. From the look of it I would say that the jack can also be angled a bit more to give room, otherwise you could fastned it to the spanker, which was also very common. See my Lady Belson for both the angled boom and attached flag. Secondly you might want to remove the support pieces on the back of the sails; it just looks a bit better that way. But these are minor things compared to the tremendous work you've accomplished! You have really improved! Long live the Queen!

Yes, I did see it, it's just that it's easy to miss. Thanks! I don't think I've seen that piece before. It's quite a few years since I bought any new lego sets.

Excellent build! It's truly befitting the RSND! It would have been nice to see the whole building, as it is now you can easily think it's just the facad. And what pieces did you use for the plants?

Welcome to BoBS! Fantastic to finally see Oleon live up to it's fanaticism! Your chatacters really capture the essence of the Inquisition; you wouldn't want to meet either of them on a dark night. I also joined Eurobricks specifically for BoBS, so we seem to be of similar mind. It can be overwealming at first but with some reading (and re-reading) of the rules you'll get on track. Also, everybody here is really helpful so just ask whenever you have a question. Looking forward to see your story!

Thank you! As @LM71Blackbird said, the sails are a real hassle, so this is about as much work as I'm willing to spend. I also view it as a bit of a placeholder as legosails are a bit strange. I'm trying to bring the different naval jacks into action, this red one is the merchant jack, I've previously used blue for naval vessels. Glad you appreciate it! Thank you very much! I agree the render worked well and she lookes quite close to the original. I hope so too! Thank you! Hopefully she'll earn some money!

Thank you very much! While I don't remember the exact time the sails took me, it was easily the single most time consuming part of the ship; probably a few hours.

Thank you! Thanks! I agree, though I've always thought it a shame that Bluerender doesn't visualise the lines between bricks

Since I've finally got around to using Bluerender I've updated the pictures

Lavendwood Enterprise Limited has launched its second trade vessel: Lady Belson

The Lavendwood Commercial Trading Agricultural and Manufacturing Enterprise Limited was experiencing good times and expanding. Sugar plantations in Port Raleigh were building up a stable financial base while the Western Wind II had repeatedly brought in good profits during trade runs. It was now time for Hugo Lavendwood to launch his second trade vessel: Lady Belson. A small brig capable of outrunning most large ships with enough hold space to carry cargo. She is armed with two long nine stern chasers to fend off against pirates and five 4 pounders on each side if she should get cought up. Finally, a capable and experienced crew will serve to keep her safe on the high seas. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So I've finally gotten around to using Bluerender! I thought it was about time to expand my trading fleet, as I've been mostly building for HM Navy. Now that it's summer I'll probably spend a lot more time on ship building, in fact I've already started with some work that will be posted in due time. Lady Belson is obviously based on Lady Washington. I was initially only going to use her as a base but then I thought those colours and everything looked quite nice so I took most of what Iiked. I used this as a tutorial of sorts to practice building ships with more than one deck, and I think the aft half deck works quite well! Comments and criticism is welcomed!

Thank you! You're definetly right that trees are a weak point of mine, I lack both experience and parts, so I usually try to hide them in the background. Storywise, I tried to continue from the previous accounts written about the Myzec. Glad you liked it!

As far as I've understood it, you first have a dice roll for the weather gauge which both gives a bonus to the winner (though it's unclear how large a bonus) and determines the combat style, so if I have chosen guns as my prefered combat style and win the weather gauge the battle will be comparing my gun rolls vs theirs, with crew and hull having no effect. Though I can't answer as to what happens with the order when there are several ships.

Thank you! I always love creating scene with lots of people running around, that's one of the main advantages of real bricks as opposed to LDD in my opinion. I bought a bunch on Bricklink so I expect that you'll be able to do it too! I wanted to portray the contrast between new fledgling settlements and the march of civilisation, glad you think it worked! Thank you very much! I will hopefully post the next part soon, so stay tuned!

Congratulations! It's very well deserved! Your hard work building up Quinnsville is really impressive and puts the rest of us to shame. The build is also nice, the details like the timber frame and the small terrace by the door really puts life to even simple builds! As well as all the interior's furniture and placement of the Brickford's personal belongings.

The rescue operation heads out into the jungles of Celestia.

Two small residences in the outskirts of Jameston