Captain Green Hair

Excellent video, I really enjoyed watching it. Thanks for sharing!

That's what I would do, shouldn't be too hard I think, just put some axles in there.

Call Lego and tell them about your project, they might be able to help you.

Excellent model, well done! Wow, did you design the bus?

Thanks guys! Did you not notice the black plates in the floor, nit just handy for posing stuff? Cheers, I love printed bricks. It has become a collecting habit and there are some of my favourites in here.

This is such a nice model, I love it! Only question I have, is if the galleries aren't a bit too long in comparison to the rest of the ship? And please don't use black masts, it does not look right IMO.

This looks promising! Any updates?

That is quite a nice model, are you planning to make it in bricks? If I may do a suggestion; I'd make the yellow line follow the line of the ship at the rear. This part is now straight and doesn't fit in with the curvature of the middle.

Happy birthday guys! Hey am I on time this time? Cool. Have a great day!

If you read the statement below, it mentions a 0,99 bid per piece. I think it is either a typo in the price, or indeed they are trying to restock.

I really like the way this is developing, looks very realistic! Especially the signs and all the cars out front look the part for me. Can't wait to see how you do the interior, I need inspiration for interiors.

Better late then never, happy birthday guys!

It is an angular masterpiece Etzel! I quite like all the angles colours, the angles detail and the angles fact that it looks quite lively.

I will name it Bølgerammer, which freely translate into wave rammer or breaker. I think it sounds cool and I thank Quarryman for his help finding the name!

I forgat your brand.

Thanks guys! Ah yes, I've seen images like that, and also with the shields like I made them. I simply do not see a way of making this look nice on the ship, I also lack more shields. (It costed quite a fortune to build the ship from scratch, I had no Vikings before I started) But thanks for pointing it out, perhaps somebody will do it on the next model. Dang, I should have known that, but just didn't think of it. Luckily it is an easy change, thanks again for helping me! Thanks for the link, I've placed it in my bookmarks. To keep this one company, I'll make a Knarr as well some time.

Thanks for all the kind words people! Indeed, though most people don't know they were that way. It is also a fact that they integrated very easy and well into other cultures and communities. Vikings were all over Europe once. 1: It is Lego, everything is detachable. 2: There are some extra shields in the weapon crates, I stuffed them literally. There is no room on the side any more, so if you have a good suggestion of how to bring them... I'd also like to know where you got this info from, as I have read nothing about it during my study before the build?

I thought it was a store selling tram tracks! Crazy ozzies... This is a good start, looks very neat in scale and detail.

Aaah, now you to? Welcome to the XXX club!

It was that time of year to build a different kind of ship, this time I choose to make a Viking Drakar, also known as the longboat. To make the model, I've done a bit of studying into Viking history and I will tell you a bit about it. I'll start with a shot of how this ship would be if it were docked. A much as I like the Viking hulls, they are a bit too low. It was a bit of a puzzle to find a nice way to make them slightly higher, I hope you like my solution. You can see the yard and sail on the rest and the oars in their holders. They would not have anything on deck. To make space for cargo, they would simply remove some deck planks, so they had an open hold in the middle of the boat. I've left some cargo in the open hold and the sailor chests are also still in the boat. The boat would not have tents on it, though the sail could be used to cover it. It was most common that the Vikings would bring A frames to make tents on land. The boat would not have benches, instead all sailors were allowed to bring a small chest with personal belongings. They'd then use these to sit on while they were rowing. Next to that they would bring their shield and weapon. Common weapons were axes, swords, pikes, bows and even clubs. The helmets in the picture are most correct, the vikings did not have horned helmets. The chrome is a custom Brickforge helmet, the other one was made by removing the neck protection from a castle helmet. I do think the horned helmets look cool, so I decided to use some as well. The rigging is period correct and is fully functional. The sail can be hoisted, when it is in top, the rope that holds it up is attached to the fence behind the mast using the hook you can see in the first picture. The yard can turn both horizontally and vertically, as it has to be able to go under the stag lines. Vikings would almost always sail under the coast, in good weather. And here we go, full speed ahead, off to plunder and loot! The figurehead is almost the same as set 6018, with some personal touches. I made the scaling in the neck with some 1x1 round plates. A shot from the rear gives you a good look at the rudder. And finally, this is what it would look like if a bunch of Vikings would raid your village. I could have posted this earlier, since I finished it late last year. But in November we were at the Brickmania show in Antwerp, and some smart Belgian that goes by the name of Errorist, pointed out to me that the rowers were facing the wrong direction. They should be backward instead of forwards. Dumb mistake that I have changed now. Well that's all, I hope you like it!

Cool, send him my regards when you see him!

I'm not sure if this deserves it's own thread, it would fit nicely in 1 thread with your business plain thing IMO.

To me it looks like one of those unmanned droid fighters the US uses.

You could also make a WIP thread and get some feedback from the community, we do have some good builders in here that might be able to help you.

I know, I know, I know! Is it..... Crocodile Dundee? Nice one, really takes me back.