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  1. Mr. Townsend
    Captain Winfrit Townsend Esq., Bravest of the Brave Born of a merchant sea captain, Winfrit went to sea for the first time at age eleven. By eighteen he was skippering vessels of the various trading companies in Oleon. After generating a substantial fortune, Winfrit purchased a ship of his own. He then took up privateering to generate fame to go along with his rising rank in society. Levelheadedness and bravery in battle have been the hallmarks of Captain Townsend's career. Looking towards the horizon, Winfrit is optimistic of what lies beyond.
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    I was thinking this as well. I would enjoy getting to know all of the builders here in a different capacity.
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    I'm very excited for this game. Any updates on when it should be released? I've watched a few videos of the game play and it looks fantastic.
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    While browsing Flickr I came across this amazing 17th century mansion complete with a marching band and carriage by VincentKiew. Click an image to go to the album to see more.
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    Its great to see your pictures again Perfectionist! Glad to see you back.
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    Your ships are all very wonderful. I really like how you've build the interior to it. I wonder if how that could be built in brick with the interior accessible. What scale would you say your ships are? Minifig or slightly bigger?
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    These are excellent! I'm mighty impressed by the two line ships. Its very cool to have them both build at once and bet the look quite cool together. It looks to me like you raked the Kingman's masts and it gives it a speedy look. Brick on Mattb!
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    What a build Plaid Beard! Its packed full of so many details and small stories. The weather vane and chickens where my favorite parts.
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    Thank your Anders T. I'm very excited to try this technique on a bigger ship. Please, replicate anything your like. You did use that brick to very good effect. I normally have tried to steer clear of those due to the slot but I'll look back into the possibilities.
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    Gunboat 156 has her full standing rigging excepting the ratlines and is now ready for her canvas. In the end the sails will be fully furled but I couldn't resist making them as detailed as possible. Could a moderator please add a "s" to the end of the thread title. To make it "WIP: Townsend Small Vessels". Thank you.
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    I'm always a fan of a schooner and this is a nice design. I think it would look more high speed if the stern was streamlined. Do you plan to build it?
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    What an awesome ship you've made. The rigging and the sails are well done and look very clean. Quite the motley crew you've composed to wreak havoc on the seven seas. I pity the poor sailors who catch a glimpse of this fearsome vessel.
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    I nice little build. Reminds me that I should have gotten more of the captain figs.
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    Awesome MoC Plaid Beard! Its so clean and tiled. I'm a big fan. Statue looks great too. I enjoy seeing the monochrome combos people come up with.
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    I'm a fan of the more traditional white and black or yellow and black. I do have to say that the model you're using is quite dated. Newer hulls will in the very least make your lines smoother.
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    An outstanding and cleanly build MoC as always TBA! The lighthouse is very well textured to give it a weathered look and I love the minifig hands as broken rails in the railing. I do think however, that blue water may have complimented the build better as the trans clear is lost in the white. Build on!
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    Thank you gentlemen! I've seen several schooners left with a brown hull with a small amount of accent color like I've portrayed here. In the model I was looking at the dark blue was actually red though. Many were painted black with a thin yellow stripe. This is one of my favorite pictures portraying a few Marblehead Schooners. It always gets my imagination going. I really like the effect of the tension-ed bricks technique. It took a small amount of work for me to get the thing to stop falling to bits on me, but after completion its quite sturdy. I want to try it on something bigger. I'm thinking something as big as the USS Wasp. Kurigan was even able to implement a tumblehome on his sloop and if I go for this project after Matterhorn I will test this technique to its fullest. As for indexing this thread wasn't meant for it. I've created it for WIP pictures of ships I deemed too small to merit their own WIP thread. I expect to add more to it as time progresses. As each vessel is completed it will get its on thread for indexing.
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    An update of my Marblehead Schooner, Miss Elizabeth. She is not yet complete but is rather close to it. Some differences from the original version include shortened gunwales and the loss of the topsail on the aftermost mast. This ship is built with a technic frame underneath and a studs on top tiled deck. I tried to build this ship with a vertical curve while avoiding a stepped technique. Here is a picture of the original.
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    WIP Gunboat 156 Prior to the Pirates Collab contest I had started to build a replica of Gunboat 156. I parted her out to make my Marblehead Schooner. Gunboat 156 mounted one 24 pounder long gun on a swivel in the bow and four 12 pounder carronades. She was one of 5 Jeffersonian gunboats to participate in the Battle of Lake Borgne, a small naval action prior to the British invasion a New Orleans at the end of the War of 1815. Jeffersonian gunboats were notorious for being unseaworthy and difficult to man. Overall these vessels were seen to be a waste of federal funding and by the conclusion of 1815 none were left in service. This is the original version, built atop a technic frame like Matterhornand Pinnacle. The updated version with snot deck and curved hull technique inspired by Kurigan. A view from beneath:
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    Matterhorn has seen some progress in the last few months. The netting across her gunwales has been completed which was quite the time consuming endeavor. In addition the process of rigging has started and includes chains tied down into the floorboards of the gundeck. I followed Kurigan's example and used wooden dowels down the middle of the masts. The combination of the chains and dowels, which run through the weather deck, gundeck and attach to the the "keel", the masts will be extremely sturdy. I've also added two more boats to her compliment. Here you can view her stern. It is still a WIP.
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    What a clean build Dzoni! I really like the tiling and smoothness. The exterior is simple but fitting. Your torso choice for the guards is well picked too. I think I'll have to pick up a few of them for myself. Though its surely fitting for Samwise, I do however wish the shirt wasn't so wrinkled. Brick on!
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    Dark blue coats will most certainly count as Oleon troops. I personallyy own only 2 light blue troops from the new pirate sets but a proud army of dark blue. This was a driving factor in my choosing Oleon. Aztecs and Achu will be natives neutrals indeed
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    A ship is a lengthy project. Its never to early to start building. BTW I think blue is the route to choose here. Get your guns primed!
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    Thank you Captain Edward. I do plan to make Matterhorn's rigging more accurate then Pinnacle's. Pinnacle's rigging was made to look correct rather then to actually be correct. I want to make this rigging much more like the rigging Kabel has been doing as of late. I'll try to give some insight on my techniques and procedures for this process. The netting location does differ slightly between ships. Many would have it above the gunwales as a simple vertical extension. On this ship the gunwales are more of railings with a large amount of open space. With this being the case the netting has to supplement the lack of true protection.
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    These are some excellent soldiers Captain Braunsfeld! I think that ornate torso would really compliment the platoon well for officers. At the moment if you don't have those I simply think the officer's legs should be a different color. At the moment the green on green looks odd. The men's green on dark green looks great.
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