Frank Brick Wright

There is obviously an issue with the shrouds, as Skipper just said. Its nice to see a ship built using different a original techniques and yours surely turned out pretty well! The stern is especially amazing and quite an inspiration! Perhaps the masts are slightly higher than what they should be but that's not really an issue. In next ships I think that if you build the hull with half stud offset she will be ever smoother

This indeed a fantastic build and at a totally insane scale Overall I think you are doing an excellent job, she's already looking impressive I'm not sure till which point this is a good idea but I think the prow-figure is too small for such a ship. I know replacing the minifig would imply some crazy sculpture (of course you don't have to go for human shapes so that can easy the task) but an accurate prow-figure would have around twice the size of yours.

Fantastic! Absolutely marvelous Brown doesn't get very odd in the shrouds but doesn't belong there I'm always up for custom things and if you don't have that much experience in that its time for improving I don't see any advantages of getting a worser model but 100% Lego instead of a fantastic FD with fantastic rigging! Also the sails… I guess that you will have to go custom there anyway. As for the longboats I don't recall the exact scene in the movies but I think that some larger boats would be better. I'm not saying Lego prefabs but IMO something at that scale. Their place should be in top of each other in that gap (don't recall its name right now ) you left in front of the main mast.

You surely master the picture-taking process! That last photo is an oeuvre d'art by itself, one can almost see the reflex in the table There are, however, two thing I think you could have worked out better. I know I would have been more useful while in the LDD phase but in real bricks one gets a better perception of shapes and colours. The first is that arches in the stern give her a, hum… too gappy look. I don't like particularly that piece because it has a huge gap on it and with so many together… I just think it looks weird after such nice curves in the hull. The other thing is the prow. I feel that your intention with cables is quite good but you need more to add more detail, with just two it looks quite incomplete Bows are possibly the hardest part of vessels as they are very curved and detailed. I think you could go for a look more similar to this: Other side suggestion: I am currently building and planning a vessel with the same technique for the tumblehome in the gun's deck, with the hinge bricks. Two ideas: instead of placing a lot of hinge bricks you could place some panels 1x2 between them, to save parts (hinges are expensive). The other is that the 1-stud difference between the deck's sections is way too much. It looks slightly blocky. It is quite hard, but to get a perfect shape I think one must offset the plates using jumpers I'm not suggesting to start building her again (far from that!) These are just some considerations that can be of some sort of interest for future projects. She is looking great already anyway

Something I forgot to say at MOCPages and I just remembered: that bottle so intact when the rest of the ship is destroyed is extremely amusing! Nice MOC!

You must have spent a fortune buying all those dark tan plates, but the result is simply outstanding. That colour is indeed amazing for decks. (your pattern at the prow with the light tan seem slightly too geometrical, perhaps you could disorganize it a bit) Besides that this is surely an impressive vessel and is amazing to see the progress as she starts to take shape

Your project is indeed amazing and its proportions are of colossal size I cannot fully understand the proportions you are following; the HMS victory measured 15m in its maximum breadth, which would correspond to something like 30 studs, approx.. I might be mistaken but you are using around 50studs, which is a quite significant difference. If you weren't building her to be suitable to minifigs I would get your point, but you are designing your cannons and placing the minifigs in the deck in minifig scale, so I can assume that you are actually building her that way. This was just my first thought on the ship. She is indeed a fantastic vessel and is looking great already, very promising too. Welcome to the forums!

Fantastic! I love it If I had any small detail that I would add it would be placing two mechanisms for each side of the ship, I mean, firing each one separately, because that would be what would happen for real. But this is an amazing build I never thought something like this could become real

I must say I think you did great progress in this ship from the last ones. The half stud between the hull sections surely gives her a less blocky look. Now there are of course some thing to be worked on. While the stern is great the prow needs extensive work. I think the design you are there using looks too straight and blocky — I would go for slopes, curved or not. Also I would extend the prow curve to approach the bowsprit, I think it is too horizontal now. IMO while the cannon design is fantastically detailed although I think the cannons are way too small. Also the pins you used to simulate cannons in the lower deck (they are cannons, aren't they?) need some spacing between them. It would have been virtually impossible to place three cannons in such a small space. It is nice to see that you recovered enthusiasm from the catastrophe! Keep working, you have a promising vessel here

This isn't much of an update, but I decided to post it anyway as there isn't a tutorial of this technique yet. If there are requests I might consider doing one. Now this is to show the LDD of the begging of a ship. Please attend that this technique in LDD is extremely torturous (getting the hinges aligned is quite something). I just wanted to share the image with you all, and if anyone wants I can share the file (if I'm able to). This is also to show the infinite possibilities of this technique. In the posts of cb4's xebec someone complained about its incapacity of building interiors. Good news! In this model I am able to even build the hold (quite easily in real bricks, approaching craziness in LDD, thus the small section built). Here you see the largest width of the hold would be 20 studs (!), which is a pretty good number. Also I have 8 bricks of height from the hold to the gun's deck, which, if slightly extended, allows to build both the hold and the orlop at accurate (and pretty decent) heights (we never get to see orlops in lego ships). Just in case someone can't see it I also uploaded it to flickr:

That's it Now it looks perfect

I'm currently having an issue posting pictures so I can't show precisely what I mean. But it is easy to explain. A normal ship has the prow curve with two distinctive and opposite curves. It is easy to see here. The ship gets a curve turning inward and then outward, if seen from the bottom to the top. Yours appears to be only inward. It was to that that I was referring to.

The point here is that you built a deck under the batteries deck. I don't think that it is possible to build a deck under the gun's deck in pre-fabs in a water-line model. I'm not very sure either about this being a water-line model. An average vessel would have that deck you build there wit something corresponding to 4-5 bricks high. You built it with 6, if I am not mistaken. This makes extremely hard to get the water-line look. Now if you check this picture below you will see that even if your 1-stud prow technique is quite interesting it looks wrong, i.e. the curvature is done in the wrong way. Also your prow should go higher; I think if you change this part of the ship you will be able to get a fantastic water-line look, since the rest of the ship is amazing (especially the stern).

I cannot agree with this. Ebay is, for my experience, an awful place to buy Legos. There are bids all the time, the owners of the sets often enough bid themselves and it is just an enormous pricy mess. Bricklink is, according to my experience, fairly cheaper. You are able to get the sets are reasonable prices and you have a HUGE range to choose from. If you want to by minifigures, for instance, you can achieve cheap prices by buying tons of torsos in BL and legs in separate, though if you try buying them as "minifigs" they will be quite expensive too.

The FD is hard to build because the original ship looks "natural", full of nature. Now replicating nature is a hard topic, because it is rather asymmetrical and does not follows strict patterns. I am not very sure of this new gunport design. I actually like it a lot but I don't think you can came up with a design and repeat it through the entire hull, you must vary and create changes so that the ship loses its ordered and symmetrical style to dive into chaos. Now if it looks like I am being too boring in my critics it is because I am sure you can came up with a perfect model of the original FD The galleries are looking fantastic, as the ship in general; it is nice to see the aftmost part of the vessel taking its definitive shape.

Unfortunately no I have the hull in the my shelf but I am experiencing a lack of parts and my budget has reached its limits for now… I hope to get some new parts — I desperately need the slopes of the prow to proceed — in the Easter holidays. In the meantime I have been drawing the stern of the ship in LDD to know the parts I will need. It is almost finished, perhaps I can post one or two pictures next week.

Are you sure you want to do that? It is of course your choice, but you had dedicated so much time to her that now it looks like a mistake… An important thing to consider is that this is your first ship. There is no way your first ship is going to be Perfect, for much time you dedicate to her. A first ship is always an important point in your Lego life, it is a vessel you remember through time for her qualities and defects. Shipbuilding requires experience; oneself cannot create a fantastic vessel without many previous builds. In my opinion you have achieved a lot with this build. I think this is incredibly good for a first project and it does have very nice absolute qualities. If you already have the parts I see no reason for not finishing her: I can assure you you will learn more by placing the bricks in top of each other and actually building and finishing a vessel than by a thousand years projecting in LDD. There are things that do not get replicated in the digital drawings. All this endless talk to say: the choice is yours but I strongly advice you, as a not-that-much-experienced shipbuilder but mostly as a friend to build your project of the Interceptor (Icarus).

This is overall a very nice ship, it does have very unique sails — still very nice — and a lot of details. I think the main deck colours and activity is amazing and looks very authentic. I do have a couple of suggestion though: 1) The bow seems somewhat too bulky 2) The stern could have a little more work Besides this 2 points there is no much else to say. I like the colour scheme in general, tan is a fantastic colour I love frigates and even if I can't tell precisely why, I think this is one of my favourite ships. I fell that is because you managed to get very elegant lines in a very simple — yet beautiful — way

I've seen this somewhere else… Well you have clearly designed a very unique vessel and an elegant one! I'm glad to know you are finally on your way to build her, I can't wait to see the next update! The masts platforms look lightly larger than what they should be but that's just a small detail. Tell your orders to hurry up!

This is a nice vessel! Not often enough we do see ships at this scale, this is a very original build I'm not quite sure about those slopes between the two gun's decks. I think they look somewhat odd. Anyhow the stern with the trans-blue glass is something unique too, I like it Nice build. That might be true, but you forced me to look up two new words in the dictionary

This is quite a MOC! Fantastic build as always. You have worked out the scene to the least detail with great skill. I specially like the interior, the gate and the roof shape. A small nitpicking: I feel the tower, in spite of having a nice combination of roundness and normal bricks, lacks some colour patterns. Perhaps you could have extended those dark grey areas a little bit more through the walls

Oh! She is taking her definitive shape so nicely! The grey plates in the side are great, as the prow, that section looks fantastic imo. The stern and the lower part of the galleries are also really nice. Now there is something I really dislike I think that masts are terribly awful. Black is such a strong colour and you have built your ship with pretty clear tones, tan and light grey mostly… Why don't you use bricks 2x2 round with huge technic axes uniting them for structure? At least that's what I would do. Perhaps you can even work on a mixture of and (or other variants) to keep the aspect of the ship. Moreover if you hate rigging and sails making (I love that ) the Flying Dutchman is the best vessel you could choose! You don't need to make her sails, I think it even looks better without them, and the ringing is very simple and basic, almost exclusively the shrouds (side rigging)

This is such a tragedy It is hard to see a build to which you have devoted so much time being destroyed. I think this can became a nice opportunity though. Consider the positive aspects: now you do have a lot of parts available and you have learned a lot with these previous projects, so perhaps you can undertake the beginning of a new build, ambitious in any way you like, and using all the new techniques and knowledge you have gathered from these past and amazing ships!

I surely kill you if you don't hurry up finishing your masterpiece I always like technic ships, the cannon feature is my favourite. Consider having some more light in the next time you record a movie though, the ship looks quite dark

It does look really nice! I specially like the sail and the tiled floor, alongside with all those viking minifigs! There are, however, one thing I dont like: it looks too organized for a viking ship, everything is in perfect order, the floor is completely flat and clean, without many boxes, weapons, etc, scattered around; at least thats how I imagine a viking ship Anyways great job