Captain Green Hair

Welcome back cutlass, always need for more pirates harr! *sweet* Your miniture pirate looks very healthy, congratiulations with her! *y*

Ok, before i start i should say that rigging a ship takes a lot of time and patience. I will explain my technique in the following pictures. First the rope, this time i use household rope from the local grocery store. You can use any rope you like, it should be about 2mm thick. Next we need some parts, in the upper left you see parts i build in the hull, to tie the rope. On the right there's the planking to make the rope ladders, red being the hull. The pins are to add thickness to the lower end of the rope ladders, it makes it look like it's smeired in with tar. We'll start withe the rope ladders in the lower section. Take one rope for the entire ladder, so here i needed 5 times one length. Use the pins in the lower end as shown, be shure to tie them tight, when finished it should look like this: Now to make the ropes even we tie a rope around the top end as shown: When you have done all the masts it should look like this: Now we shall tie down the bowsprite as shown in the picture: Next we'll take a long rope to fit all around the top of the masts to the back of the ship. Start by makin a small loop at one end: Now tie a rope around the lower bow, with the loop end in the middle: Now go all the way around the ship, note the black catroll in the rear: Now we'll tie down the masts in the middle, be sure the ropes don't hinder the sails / yards: Now we'll add a rope to the top of the bowsprite: Now we'll tie down the foremast as shown, again beware not to hinder the yards. I haven't used catrolls here, so i can simply add the foresails later: Now tie down the masts on the sides, note the ropes with the black catrolls, do this for all the masts: Now for the second part of the rope ladders, note the start point, the black antenna on the side of the platform and the long black pins: For the third and last part of the ladders we'll add the ratlines. Just tie 'm off with a single nut, weave them in and tie them of with a single nut on the other end. Be sure to tighten everything, cause errors are hard to re do...: Next we'll tie down the yards, in the picture is the one on the bowsprite, do this for every yard: Well this covers the basics, you can always add rope as you see fit. I do add a lot more, i just wanted to show you the basics. After all the steps it should look something like this: Well i hope this was helpfull, good luck!

Well my pirate addiction started when the first line came out. I must have been 7 or 8 years old when there was a large pirate show in a local warehouse. There was a large ship on display, i just had to build something like that, so i did. This was my first ship, and its too bad i don't have any pictures of my old MOCs..... My parents didn't buy me any large pirate sets, so i just had smal ones with a few MF's. Over the years i build many ships until i was 12 or 13 years old. Then i had a period where i was building a lot of technic stuff, always wanting to make working MOCs. When i was 17 i joined the army, but i came out pretty soon. Too much rules.... I couldn't go bak home and rented a room, this was ony 12 square meters zo i couldn't really build.... When i was 22 i finally was able to buy a house and got all my lego back *sweet* Then i build the Denise and the addiction began.... After building some large MOCs i decided to make a pirate world, so i build the ships and fort as seen in my BS folder. Now i'm building as much as i can, and a ot lof money goes in momenterely... I love the pirate theme, but history and adventure and trains (especially old ones) have my attention too!

Aye that's a nice vinyard....must stea..err try a barrel sometime! :-D

That's a cool looking snowbike, love the rear tracks! *y*

And...?? *wacko*

I'd love to see the old brown pirate hulls back and indeed Shako's!!!! And if anyone at TLC calls Parlee again, i'll chop of his arm, yargh!

I hope your father is doing better Imperial shadows, best of luck!

Those are quite impressive armies you have there! *y* Love the Dutch *sweet*

Really cool review, those guns look awesome! *wub* Can i hire you to kill some shark, they keep eating my crew when they fall overboard...

Harr yes another nice story of one of our members! *y* Funny he didn't tell anything about selling weid apparatus in my harbour....irritating little man :-P Bad pirate puns on!!!

That's cool, must be a lot of usefull stuff in there.. *wub* But, i'd propably rip it apart in 1 minute.... :-D

That's a cool army you have there doctor, i'd feel pretty safe livingin tabletown! *y*

Sounds like a cool challenge, is there an entry thread?

You're a real spammer, aye!

Sweet, i like old firetrucks, in fact i like everything historic! *sweet*

Wel... err..if i have to choose, i'd say a minifig scale ship would be nice.....but a bit expensive i think.... To see the POTC theme come out would be nice too....

Cool story and the picture quality is awesome! *y*

That's a cool looking marine! *y* Great weapon, helmet and armor! *sweet* One thing i don't like is his black underwear pulled over his trousers...

Definetly the CC! *sweet* Wonder who voted DS....??

That's a nice car, love that color, looks like it's unpainted metal! *y* But there's a small hole behind where the doors would be, is that intended?

Err yes, i brought some to the studio, they only had crystal champagne, but i'm not some girly rapper yargh!

Harr, the captain's right here, some story ey? Still i would have liked to sit in that bubblebath with some hot chicks and kill that pike dude with me blade yargh!

Great deals, no money.... :'-(

That's a prety need vehicle! *y* Maybe you can add some detail, like missiles sticking out of the pods and some grills on top and so... That amount of monorail would supply a large base ey? Love those! Edit Bonaparte: Please don't quote the entire first posts when it has tons of pics ;-) Edit Captain: note taken;)