Stoertebricker

Nice colours and I especially love the roof. And yes, there are not enough flag forms. Can you share this one? Could be used more then ;)

I have seen several different approaches for filling frames with lego, this is a good one, I really like the old smile faces, you can make your own story way easier with them. Here you can decide, is the guy angry or happy to meet King Kahuka, I see him happy :D

Great galleon! Do you have a deatil picture where the bow tranforms into the side? Would like to know more about the angles there.

It has a nice shape already even it has not the smoothest surface compared to others but I like that you can see it is made from lego and not using prefab pieces as well. So I am confident it will turn out fantastic!

Wow, nice, the video shows it´s full beauty! Great feature with the cannons which open the gun ports! But where did you get the brown small octopus?!

Wow, thanks! Nice article! As this has popped up I can tease an other motorized ship here which I will publish soon, I think you can guess, savvy?

When you scroll through the foto in the flickr album you find the Dying Gull moored in the harbour. There was a guy looking like your pic on board but he immediately ran to the tavern so I could not catch him on the foto It was always planned to form a city. I tried to make it modular (although the ground shapes are quite different) but when I can continue the harbour I want to be able to shift the different parts. Yes I have heard about that town. Looks very nice but quite small on the fotos. When one day I make my dream come true - a sailing tour through the caribbean - I have to make a stop there!

Damn it, the people around here will find everything (before someone mentions it: the pier is floating in the air at two poles, it is due to my showcase where its displayed which has an edge there...) Yes the spanish are reboulding the army because they are spread so rarely through the the official sets and I did not want to rip the crew of my Armada Brig and I needed some for my Aztec - Temple of the Jaguar, which will be shown here the next months, too. The Imperial Armada will be ready and take control back when the harbour is back from an exhibition in around 4 months. I will update some photos then!

This small sail ship: https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/92cc4e64-35e1-48aa-a991-2c4ef1aaea12/application/727d7efa-dfae-44ce-b37e-05d5ab65690a

Ay seamates! I got some new fotos but had problems with the background due to size, hope you will enjoy anyway: Bienvenidos a Cartagena! Lower your anchor, take a bottle of rum and relax from your adventurous voyage through the caribbean sea! Puerto de Cartagena by Captain Störtebricker The harbour should reasamble the harbour of Cartagena de Indias which intense impression has burned into my mindn after a visit there. The city was one of the first foundations made by the spanish and became one of the connection point for the gold and silver routes. The fortifications of the city have been raided several times until they have been build as strong that no one could conquer them again. In 1585 the famous pirate Sir Francis Drake did so and conquered and looted the city. In the same year the main cathedral was finished, too. So I hope you can see what brought me to this idea. The harbour consists of 3 parts (by now...): El castillo: The fort on the hill could welcome you with a big volley so be sure that you are coming in on a frienndly mission. It is situated on a rock with a cave underneath to hide some stuff you dont want to bring into the harbour. For pirates a skeleton shows then how they will be threated. The main tower is already been demolished and now converted to a small barrack. In front of the dorr there is a trap door throwing you into the cave. The fortress should be way bigger but for me it works as representing the first corner of the main fort. The doors lead you into the city... The colonial warehouse: With the warhouse I tried to reassamble the famous colonia architecture. I features a fishing gear shop and a warehouse whti a big balcony. From there you can have a nice view on the main square in front of the cathedral... The cathedral: The main cathedral looks like a fortification but due to the rich inhabitants it has nice stained glass windows. But these inhabitants do not belive very much in god but more in gold so the altar is filled up with all the treasures stolen from the surrounding natives all around the caribbean. So come in and take a closer look! The cathedrals has detachable roofs and can be accessed by minfigs on all levels. Besides the cathedral there is right now the tavern from POTC but it can easily be removed to continue the pier to expand the harbour... (which I hope I can do!) All in all I hope you enjoyed your stay and be ready to set sail for your next adventour! - Captain Störtebricker (More fotos: Flickr Album Puerto de Cartagena )

ANd again another one How much time do you spend each week on this ships? I even cant take fotos of my creations due to lack of time... Would be awesome to see her in real bricks one day as well! Keep on and we keep on following the progress!

Nice, congrats, I voted, too. We have to take every chance to show lego the demand on the pirates theme :D I am also looking forward to the small sail ship gwp which should arrive this summer!

That are some neat ships! The rigging is very well. The horse is quite funny but for me it somehow does not fit because the ships looks so realistic all around... The tug-boat uses the old parts in a nice way, too. Only the front window line could be done better when using diefferent windows but the old ones have their own style, too. All very different. The yellow boat I have as well, as a kid I never had the figure and no catalogue showing it, I was always very confused by that boat and where it came from!

True, the 5th movie was not the best, but better then the average movie I think... and it was POTC at least ;) I can agree that it looks more like a MOD as I have to admit I just startet the same way MocYourBricks did but I went for different approach for the hull. I left out the gunports but instead follow more accurately (in my opinion) the deck line with the rails and the window on the sides of the stern. My mast is also tilted backwards and I prefer the old masts due to a "cleaner" look to the new mast-pieces, 2x2 round bricks would have be to thick. You can see it in this sketch: For the stern itself I went more for my imagination and equiped each lantern with a gull. It was my first try to build a small sloop which should look like a "real world model". When I see the sketch I forgot to add some gulls to the fotos!

Thank you for the remark, probably I will fix that in the future. Then the devided spinnaker can even be used and have some functionality. When I built the ship > 3 years ago I only tried to make something more square shaped with original lego parts. But first I have to finish my other projects...

Thats a huge ship, in this state it looks a bit flat from the side but that can change with the proceeding. My fav is the pic with the larboard battery gun where you have assembled a true gun port with strings and ropes holding the cannons in position and even using original lego strings for that!

Wow thanks for the examples, I even learned something today! My thoughtwas that even for a vessel focused on combat it would be an advantage to have a full deck on top of the cannon deck but HMS Mars is a good example that it is not needed :)

Hello there, finally I got some time and (a bit to much) sunlight to get some fotos of one of my finished projects: The Dying Gull, commanded by the famous Captain Jack Sparrow on the search of Poseido´s trident in POTC Part V: 20210516_160515024_iOS by Captain Störtebricker, auf Flickr Here you can compare it with the "orignal": I have to say that the idea to make my own MOC from this ship came by viewing a video from the very good MOCer MocYourBricks on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHGfHT9yK5g But I thought it could be improved by using the old mast parts, different hull line and for sure making some nice sails. I included a working anchor, steering-mechanism and detachable storage lid as well as a brick-build cannon. Here are some more pictures, take a look at the flickr album to see all of them (give me a hint which is the best and I will add it here, dont want to flood the topic :D): Hope you will enjoy it! Aye!

So it took very long but today I got two new shots from the sides , i will try to improve my fotos to get it better and better! Here is the one with full cannons side as wished and without blue cast:

I think I agree on that, or instead of colours I would change the very symetrical "main building" in a way that its more asymmetrical. Otherwise good use of the parts which came with that set wave!

Nice build again! Somehow I am not sure about the deck, it feels a bit deep inside or its missing a second deck on top the cannon line for the pirates to run on but probably your last build is burned into my mind... so, probably I am just confused that there is just another build like it

Quite an interesting colour scheme, nice use of the big pirate ship piece. So nice build which gets an story on top! Somehow i think you should colorize the sails as well, probably going for some green to fit the dark green accents?

Very nice layout! The only criticism I could find is that the colour distribution of the houses could be mixed up a bit, one side tan/yellow with black roof and the other side with lot of sand green. Otherwise its only missing some bigger ship with lots on sails

Great work, love the old brown! The only thin I am missing is a pic with the gun port open to have a broadside ready to shoot! The sail and rigging is very well done, probably you should add an self made flag,too. Then there will be no trouble between bluecoats and armada!

I refer to this sentence from the original post about modified parts. I think these parts look great but still I never would cut parts to solve a lego-construction-problem. Unfortunately I did not came up with a better solution so I use ropes instead. In my understanding: shrouds are the ropes which connect the masts to the hull due to stability, you have used the special brown "ladder" pieces for that and modified them.