CaptainMoore

I actually was thinking of trying to part a cheaper Imperial Flagship with white hull, I would need to check what it could look like

I like the coloring, but were there any ship of this period with a white hull? (Except the Armada flagship that Lego gave us)

The Scarecrow from 75685 could be interesting as a shipwrecked soldier

She looks so good My wallet is anxious, but I definitely can't pass on buying it.

What about using the Umpa Lumpa torso as orange imperial ?

Ah, that's sad. I get it

She is a beauty! Congrats! Even if I get that it comes from respecting the original color style, I find the black figurehead a bit sad and dark for the merchants. Maybe a yellow color, complemented by yellow on the flexible tubes behind, might be worth trying? I'm not sure that it would be better though.

@BrickPerfection contrats! She is a beauty I hope that the price will be in my reach, but it's already selling it good that you say that the building experience should be great.

Would my answeron the thread about switching the sails with the old one work for you?

Not a fan of the hair either, but the rest looks nice.

I'm juste a little disappointed by her hair, it's not new. Maybe not in this color but I definitely have seen it in yellow.

Based on the leaked picture of the CMF 27, we are going to get a pirate woman with a cockatoo.

I don't remember if I voted last year. Like last year tough, I did not have a lot of free time during the contest. I have read the first post about all the categories etc, found it really big/time consuming and after that, I have decided to skip contest-related threads altogether. The more new threads appeared, the less I wanted to open them because it would require to know what happened in between. I really want to thank anybody invested in organising it. I know this kind of stuff are demanding. I agree about having a subforum dedicated to it, but more because there were too many threads to skip when I wanted to look for something else. That might bring less visibility to the contest though.

I've completely missed that contest. I love that the Islanders got some love with Con-Briki, this is a neat MOC

I've never liked the look of that base, especially because of that color. I guess it was a pretty restricted choice due to the limited color palette during that Lego era. It needed to have a differentiating main color face to the imperials and ended up black. It's still a building, not natural rock, as show by the prints. For having a background story, you could imagine it's lava rock, and keep it black but with variations in dark grey and grey. This way you could get better details, and add brown here and there because there's always a wood structure