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Ended up using the interchangeable hat wig for the lieutenant in my company of 26th foot and the second in The Duel: From posts:

I ended up picking up 80 - 90 of the boots. Thoughts after seeing them en masse? From this post:

Gorgeous build and awesome photos! Like @Professor Thaum said, those are some great minifigs. I like the use of the egg yolk SNOT color

Hey @Comrade_funny - Welcome to Eurobricks and pirates! MOCs are where it's at - you get to use your imagination I would suggest buying some bulk color sorted LEGOs from ebay - can be cheaper than Bricklink and you get a mixture of parts that can help with your imagination during MOC builds. Lots of pirate theme MOCs are white, tan, dark tan, reddish brown, gray, yellow heavy. A fun thing with @Ayrlego's MOC style is you don't even need baseplates You just build the base with bricks, plates, and SNOT (studs not on top). For minifigs, it can often be much cheaper to just pick up their torsos on Bricklink and supplement with legs/arms/heads from other minifigs. A classic torso might be $0.80 while the full minifig would be $4. Cheaper still would be to just print your own torso stickers on your home printer.

Those are some stunning renderings! Nice work!

That's super cool!

Thanks! @Ayrlego's WIP with the tree roots going over the edge of the base inspired me to do a "living edge" where the gray rocks jut vertically through the multi-tier black border. The rest of the cliff face was fun to put together.

Yes, please! Thanks! I built the semaphore rig out of a mast w/ yellow technic arms connected with friction pins. Because the arms were yellow I wanted to add a little color below to balance out the sparse landscape.

Task 11: Strategic Outposts 1: Semaphore Relay on Hussar's Isle

Semaphore Relay on Hussar's Isle Licensed as a large commerce for Corrington

Royal Navy Intelligence has begun deploying semaphore optical telegraph stations across the Brick Seas. Relay towers with a semaphore rig at the top are built within line of sight of each other to allow rapid textual communication between islands and ships. Hussar's Isle, the north-western-most of the Rider Islands near Cocovia is often the first sight sailors behold, and an important strategic location for both civilian and military navigation. As such, the admiralty has made it a priority to get the semaphore tower there operational as soon as possible. The intelligence officers at the Hussar's Isle semaphore tower scan the horizon looking for Royal Navy ships. Once communication is made with a ship, they relay messages quickly on to King's Harbor. Two soldiers stationed at the island's outpost run supplies up to the relay tower. Built for GoC Strategic Outposts. OOC: I love the Horatio Hornblower book/movie where they raid a semaphore tower and thought it was an aspect missing from BoBS that could add some more color! Process shot:

This is great! Love the double neck guitar

The sea can be a tempest for even the most hardy of crews and it sure is tediuous to keep track of all of those ships, I'm sure. The militiamen didn't find any additional crewmen while combing the beaches, but they did find one very soggy messenger bird that still had a message attached to its left leg. To their credit, the seven blueys in the Fort di Legno stockade are very polite in accepting warm meals offered, but don't provide other useful intelligence. Captain Brickleton did think it was interesting that such a fine and obviously expensively-made bicorne washed up on shore alongside the wreckage. Thanks!

Thanks @Fraunces - You can see more of the fort here.

A MOC showing an Oleon shipwreck wash up on shore at Elizabethville An Afternoon Shipwreck

As part of Captain Brickleton's Seventeen Point Plan to bolster the defenses at Elizabethville, he instructed the militia at Fort di Legno to keep watch on the sea at all hours. A squall raged all night and into the morning. As the sun rose, the militiaman on watch spotted a ship on the horizon. Using his spyglass, he couldn't quite make out the ensign flying behind the ship, but he could see that it was blue. By midafternoon, the storm had moved offshore and it became quite clear that the ship was listing hard to port. The militiaman notified Second Lieutenant Bolton and he went to Captain Brickleton with the news. Over the next 24 hours the ship began drifting closer to Lacryma and it also began breaking up. A full 48 hours after the ship was first spotted, the first bluecoat seamen in the water began reaching shore. Captain Brickleton stripped down to his knickers and swam out to help them reach land. Once ashore, they were taken into custody and given a warm meal. In total, seven bluecoats made it ashore, though the militia patrolled the beach for the next week looking for signs of any additional crewmen. OOC: I've broken a lot of reddish brown plates and tiles in the last month, and I wanted to use them in a MOC! Also wanted to try out some new tree techniques

Some final pics of the fort from the HMS Silverthorne thread. It is now slowly meeting its demise back into sorted bricks.

Looking good! Do you know at this phase what vegetation/trees will be part of the build? Or does that come in during the final phase?

Task 2 - Oaken Shield 2 - Sloops for the Royal Navy - HMS Silverthorne

For submission to the Glory of Corrington - Oaken Shield - Sloops for the Royal Navy Commander McBlock congratulates newly minted Midshipman Studson on passing his exams. He'll be able to join the crew of HMS Silverthorne Members of the admiralty arrive to see the HMS Silverthorne off on her maiden voyage. Midshipman Studson is quite nervous. The marine sentries have learned to not lock their knees - they'd pass out from the long hours on guard duty otherwise. The members of the admiralty admire the size of the new sloop - they think that Corrington may need to roll out a few dozen more in the coming months. Once at sea, Marine Major Tileson tells Lieutenant Sloping the tale of when he led a raid on an Oleon semaphore signaling tower. Commander McBlock takes a moment to savor his first command. Seaman Crockett heads up the rigging so they can make way The crew of the HMS Silverthorne is ready to put the new ship through her paces HMS Silverthorne is offered for license to Corrington Royal Navy

Fun to see your SNOT base as a WIP - thanks for sharing! I think the water wheel is going to look great, and am glad you're going with autumn colors again.

Don't worry, @Darnok - I have a couple final BotBS builds tied to this fort still to post :) Just planning to have it pass into the sunset following that. Working on a big three-master that needs the fort's shelf real estate

Time to break this bad boy down - never really finished it, but I want my bricks and 64 x 64 baseplate back to make new MOCs!

Great idea Darnok! Can you sign me up for Dec 5?

Yeah the sewage coming out is a nice touch Nice build @Brickwolf!