Cousarmy0001

Right? Twelve years... this makes me want to go back and see what the oldest post on the site is

I see! Still, a very good effort, I quite like her. I also just noticed her stern ends with a middle hull piece. That doesn't happen very often here, and I'm always interested when I see one. There have been some very interesting ships designed that way, and this certainly falls into that category.

Impressive! Very well detailed, with a lot going on for a ship built on the standard hull. The color scheme looks great as well. I'd like to encourage you to step up a bit on your next project, and try to have the hull expand amidships, and contract towards the stern, as ships of that period tended to do. My only critique of this is that the hull is straight down the sides, but it would probably take so much work to change that for this ship that you'd essentially have to start from scratch. I think you'll be even more proud of the results if you do that.

I'm going to disagree with Roadmonkey. If you're following the sail plan in your August 29th post, you'll want to keep your mainmast where it is. If you're going to go with fewer sails up front, though, then you'll want to follow Roadmonkey's suggestion and move it forward.

I always get a kick out of these! I especially like the little gangway that opens in the hull. A very clever touch!

I have to say, I prefer the yellow and white to the green and white. It looks really good, I hope you get a chance to build it!

I like it! Small, and decently detailed. I think Kurigan would be proud.

Holy crap! I just realized those are all built on rowboat hulls! Brilliant!

HOLY CRAP!!!!

So I think this should be considered the "Game Over, Man!" class in BoBS :-D Simply amazing, man. I usually try to offer critiques and advice when somebody posts a finished product, but I simply have nothing for this. I don't expect to ever see anything this great again. I'm almost kinda sad to see the project end, as I won't have anything else to look forward to on this. The best I could possibly come up with is to suggest tiling the deck. Honestly, though, she's great just the way she is. Might I trouble you for final measurements, and a closer picture of the stern face, as well as the prow?

I've got nothing that wouldn't be in the movie. Sorry, man.

So how long until we see this behemoth on BoBS?

So I was looking over the pictures again, and my eyes caught on the ladders between the upper gun deck and the spar deck. What did you use for the top rung?

LOVE IT! This is one set that I always wanted as a kid, then finally bought as an adult. And then my ex-wife smashed it and several other sets to pieces during an argument. I still haven't been able to get everything back together, and possibly never will.

Put them on imgur or flickr, and link the BBCode from each image in your message. At least, I think it's the BBCode. It's been a bit since I last posted a picture, and I can never remember which.

Could you? Along that line of questioning, is it possible to tilt the bottle and still have it sit correctly in the stand, or would the stand need to be modified in some way? Also, when you say "making the bottle bigger", do you mean that it needs to be longer in order to accommodate one of the larger ships? What I'm forming in my head is borrowing ideas from one of your larger ships (kind of an ironic statement), but chopping a gun deck so it's more of a frigate than a ship of the line. I suppose I should just buy the set and then figure things out for myself, huh?

So I've been thinking about buying the ship in a bottle set, but I have to say I'm not all that impressed by the ship itself. Would you happen to know if any of these ships would also fit into the bottle from that set?

I've been wondering if we were ever going to hear from the great CGH again! As usual, an excellent job, sir!

As if there haven't been enough messages on this thread about thread bumping already....

Terrific job! Perhaps the best fort I've seen on here- primarily for its relatively compact size! I also really like the sideways bricks giving texture to the exterior walls. Very well done, sir!

I agree with the others, an excellent first go around. A few questions/suggestions, though some would require quite extensive work to pretty much everything that isn't the bow or stern. Is there tumblehome? I can't quite tell from the views. There are a number of techniques on this site that can create the effect, and not all of them are incredibly complex and difficult. I don't know the name for it, but ships of that era had a teardrop shape that ran the entire length of the hull, rather than straight lines like you appear to have here, or exist on pretty much every official Lego set, and all but one of my MOCs. I'd recommend looking into some of those techniques as well. Lastly, you might want to pick a different method of making the spars for your rigging. I used the same design you're using, as it was the only one I knew of when I first started making MOCs, but there are a whole bunch of other ways that look WAY better. Aside from that, though, the ship looks great! I love your color choices, and the detail level is very good. Even as is, I'd like to see this ship take form. Given what you'd done here, I'd love to see what you could do with an interior on this ship- though that would probably be really difficult to implement on this design.

At the risk of channeling Kurigan, have you looked into a brick built hull?

It would seem I have been looking in the wrong place indeed :-) I am quite impressed by Oscuridad, by the way. Very well done, sir!

I would suggest that this build should have its own thread.

Oh, it was moved! I was sitting here like, "How the hell did I miss this? I check this forum at least once a day!"