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Thanks! There are a lot of new pieces in fitting colours to achieve nice looking ships in this scale. I prefere this style of building hulls, because it creates nice curves without to many steps inbetween (and fits my budget, these ships cost 100-200€ in Bricklink orders). But when you get to project sizes like your recent ships the steps get lost in the sheer size of the build.

Thanks! I have already some bluecoats lined up to man the ship. Right now, I am in the middle of reorganising my parts collection, but when I‘m done I will order whats missing. Fortunatly, I have already the designs for the sails, that is always the worst part for me.

A lot of the missing parts in reddish brown for the hull construction of my corvette have now become available with the recent One Piece sets. So I tried a new colour scheme, this time as a blue coats corvette. I also made a few alternations to the stern and made the main deck fully enclosed and added railing. The grating design is inspired by the recent Black Pearl. I would have liked to add a little bit more yellow, as it is the primary accent colour in bluecoats sets, but unfortunately, some pieces like the curved flower stems are not available in that colour yet.

I totally get all that criticism with the minifigs, Barbossas faceprint is just terrible. I remember some YouTuber explaining how TLG decides how to incorporate Minifigures, I think it was Tiago Caterino, and basically he said the Designers work with a set Budget for every set and then have to compromise for that. So for example, every leg print takes more of that budget, as do new part molds for hair pieces, so they don’t give leg prints to certain charakters to accomodate the budget. That is why they always have a mix of differently detailed minifigures. And then there is the reasoning to have somewhat imperfect minifigures in sets to then have „improved“ versions in future sets as another incentive to by those. That is why I don’t think the Interceptor is off the table, maybe not next year but in two years and with better printing for the crew and Jack the monkey as an exclusive Charakter. The Bagend set this year had a lot if the same charakters as Rivendell and Sam and Frodo were even included in last years Barad Dur. But you are absolutely right, that is a terrible practic, TLG is charging premium prices for mediocre products, just because they can. There are way more casual collectors out there paying those prices without giving it a second thought.

Yes, the proportions of the sails don’t look right, because they used the same ones multiple times. There is also not enough space between the fore and the main mast. But maybe it is not that hard to add another hull element to fix the proportions.

The back of the box also shows Cotton walking on the spars, so it is indeed an intendet feature. But you can also see how some of the rubber rigging pieces are already warped. Is there a reliable method to straighten those without damaging the piece?

Could be a Disney thing and not on TLGs part to decide when to reveal. Maybe Disney wants to reveal something big PotC-related and wants to tie in the set reveal, maybe together with other merchandise stuff. There are also rumors going around about a new movie, so maybe it is related to that?

I don’t think it is made of copper, on close up shots you can see the structure of cracked wood. But it might be painted in a copper based colour, wich then oxidized over time. A lot of other models use a similar colour, TLGs sandgreen seems a bit to saturated compared with pictures, but I think it is the best match. Overall it would be really difficult to depict the weathered look of the pearl with legos colour palette, but the black colour overall fits the ships theme. I am curouis however how TLG might depict the Dutchman, it seems really difficult to define a fitting basecolour. Mocs and other brick models use all kinds of different colours, but I haven‘t seen one yet that depicts the ship accurately.

Oh, I wasn’t aware of that piece, thanks! I‘m going to order some to see how they can be integrated in ships. But it could be tricky to integrate them as stable masts, I‘m curious how TLG connected them to the upper mast sections.

Well, there is this fight scene in the third movie on top of a yardarm. That was on the dutchman if I remember it correctly, but maybe the dutchman is already designed and has that method as a feature for that scene and they put the same style yardarms on the Pearl for concistency.

Yes, those mast pieces seem to be new, the holes don’t match up with those old ones: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=48005&idColor=2#T=C&C=2 But i can’t tell from the pictures if they have an open backside like the other mast pieces 🤔 so it could be that the masts look worse on the view from the other side. I am also a bit worried how the lower sails are attached to the rigging, those rubber pieces seem terrible for that purpose.

At least the sail plan is accurate, but they seem to use the same pieces for both masts an the mizzen mast topsail (they are flipped so that the wholes in the sails are on different sides). They should be smaller on the fore and mizzen mast. The main staysail has the wrong shape, it should have four corners and not three, but they just reused the foremast staysail. I can’t tell from the pictures if they use the same piece for the mizzen Mast sail. The space between foremast and mainmast is also a bit to short. The backshot confirms that the part below the waterline is build upside down.

I don’t think that image is extremely distorted. Overall I like this model, but the normal hull pieces have the same width from stem to stern. The pearl as all ships of that period get gradually thinner towards the back at the waterline while the maindeck for the most part stays the same. That makes the angle of the hull steeper towards the stern. Unfortunatly that’s impossible to recreate when using a hull part that retains its width over the whole waterline. TLGs solution was to have a less steeper angle at the stern. That way we get a pearl with „a lot of booty“. Edit: Grammar mistake

I love this build, the hull shape is excellent and great use of the banana piece. I also like the only one stud wide bow, that fits very well. And theleaf piece works perfect as a hammock. Great build!

Thanks a lot!