Frank Brick Wright

This is epic! So I saw your entry at MocPages at I must say it is really cool, the yellow cone at the base of the building is really clever And this ship craziness? Building how many ships at the same time? I lost the count Your technic ship does look amazing, I'm sure it will be even better than the previous one. I would like to suggest new features but I'm not sure if any of them is applicable or is just to insane: guns firing after you pull something, rotating the masts instead of the sails to catch the wind trough some sort of mechanism, open the door of the cabin by rotating something (in the interior, perhaps), but I guess all are just too crazy Perhaps one day you should make a rudder commanded by remote control, it would be fun!

I know Google Sketch, is a good free digital designing tool, but for lego? Any reason for preferring it to LDD, it hardly can be an easier built! The ship does look very nice, though Google Sketchup has a huge problem: its hard to distinguish components with the same colour I cannot understand very well the stern of the ship, for instance, though it appears to be nice.

It does look nice though the photos are indeed small. Check out the tutorials on this forum (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18451) for posting the pictures. You need to upload them to a website like flickr or brickshelf and then deeplink them.

The overall shape is very good and it is nice too see that you respected the proportions of the ship. The sails are remarkably well done. It does need, however, some work on both the bow and the stern. I know this parts are the hardest on brick-built ships, as they get very round, but yours seem too blocky. The colourscheme is also great, nice work.

I really like the spirit of the building, the cliffs, the island down there and tons of islanders! It is also nice to see variants in waterfalls (everyone builds them with the same technique) though I am not sure about yours. I think it needs some white for foam, perhaps you could place trans-clears tiles over the snot-plate. Anyway it is a sweet scene, keep it up!

Saw it too at MocPages (you're one of mu favourites ) and it is indeed an amazing MOC! Both the dragon and the monster at the river are fantastic, they look incredible realistic, great job

This is delicious! Great job, the first photo is incredible (small remark, the middle mast is a little too high in relation to the others, which can give it a little disproportionate size)

I think that the only way of making a game such as Evil Stevie's is either through a computer program (like Sid Meier's Pirates) or using maneuver cards. I'm not sure if anyone knows a game called Wings of War, which I believe is the kind of game we are aiming at, though it is with planes. As you can see in the image below it basically consists of a card game, in which every plane has a card and a series of maneuver cards, determining its next position. It also has an angle range, determined by the clearer ares in the plane card, and a distance range. The game is played in rounds of three cards each, being the maneuver cards chosen at the begging of the round without the knowledge of our opponents moves. I'm not sure if I was clear enough but this is the basis of the game, plus each plane (or ship in our case) has specific strength, movements and range.

I am always impressed with you. Not only you possess fantastic skills and an insane number of parts as you create new and great techniques… Imo this round walls technique you invented is fairly the limits of lego in what concerns roundness, and you reached it! What is even more surprising is that you take time for sharing your amazing building process with us common mortals instead of using it for yourself. I cannot express in words my admiration for you.

That's really cool! Do you think you would be able to build a larger ship using that technique?

Dark tan is definitively better… But is extremely rare and pricy I feel the same as you about tan, it does give a brand-new look to a ship, though I feel that if it applies to a XVIII century ship it is pretty decent, because ships of these period used to be far more cleaner than their precedents. I guess, however, that for a galleon or an old ship, as you stated, brown would be better.

This is being a very interesting build; the stern looks amazing already, though I feel that those lamps are a little too large. However the bow still needs some work. Besides being unsure of those curved slopes there I am sure the upper deck in that section isn't correct. As you can see from this picture it is a much more triangular surface than a curved one, especially with the shape you conceived. Consider using some bow plate or simply building that forming a triangle with ordinary plates. I also like to see that tan colour in the deck Keep working!

I find the environment of the build, the islanders, the small yet detailed canoe, the statue with the parrot, very interesting Another nice entry!

Yes, I guess tan's price is a counter reason for using it… I think a good option would be, in general, to build interior decks with brown (like gun's deck) and top decks with tan, since it requires fewer tan parts and seeing a tan stripe in the side of a black ship is weird. And surely lots of tan gets weird too because the ships starts looking too light and clean

I have found that the far majority of the ships built are made using mostly brown/reddish brown plates for the decks. However, while doing some research for my current ship, I noticed that, surprisingly, for ships from the 17th century and after that the usual deck colour would be something between dark tan and tan. In case this being truth, is there a reason for reddish brown being preferred to tan in terms of historical accuracy?

The floor is impressive! Rarely we came to see a reproduction of a Caribbean Port and even more rarely an almost studless one! The combination of dark and light grey bricks is iamazing.

Many thanks!

This is of infinite stupidity, I know… But I actually can't distinguish between some colours very well so I can't consult colour tables and I need to know the name of the blue colour used in the Imperial Flagship (bricks 1x2, 1x1, 1x4). Can someone help me please?

Ouch! That curvature from the top view is perfect! One suggestion though: have you considered using the technique you used in the Amor del Comercio instead of chairs, slopes or anything like that? Because the lower part of the hull is a little too vertical, but seen from above is fantastic. Great job!

So I have designed a new prototype for my gun's deck Those technic pins will be used for the ringing; you can check this reference picture where you see they existed, though we almost never see them in lego ships… Can someone suggest me a 12 or 18 pounder cannon design? I'm terrible at designing objects. Lego cannons, beside being 24 pounders, are expensive at BL and I only have 7…

I thought you were describing my room… After all you aren't

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (this is me excited ) I really like the first one, I won't care for gaps. I'm just not sure how you would do to make a solid ship in that way… But the second one… It is like a much more simpler (and yet, extremely elegant) of cb4's technique. I cannot say this is worse than the technique I'm using for my ship… It is accurate… It is kind of tilled… It is strong… It requires so few parts… It is perfect! I wish I had started building my ship later, so that I could have done it this way A good advice: when building ships using these technique, to achieve a perfect curve, consider matching each slope section to the ships plans. You will that besides being easy and accurate, the overall effect is increasingly better, though your new Pearl is fantastic! I just hope you finish both your ships now! NOW!

How can we kill a helmeted kraken? He's protected from everywhere! Great laugh! Fantastic

Bow thickness varies a lot, from ship type to era built. It depends greatly on the kind of ship you are building. Even if you are not going for historical reconstitutions, I always suggest you take reference pics from the Internet of ships similar to yours. Let us suppose you are building a XVIII frigate (like I am). Then a good, well documented example is the Unité/Surprise. You find a picture from the bow. I placed it here for your pleasure Let us also say that you are building the gun's deck 6 bricks high. After some simple math, I got this proportions: Model ship: Prow: 0.4cm Gun's deck: 2.05cm Your lego ship: Prow: ? = 1.17 (approx) 1 brick Gun's deck: 6 bricks This is just an example of the kind of work you can for your ship. So in fact 1 stud wide is the most accurate

I really like your capstan with the brown monocles, its really elegant, though the choice is of course yours. About your idea for gunports it looks nice and adequate but Im concerned that if you replicate the same pattern through the entire ship, then it risks losing its natural, random and uncared look typical of the FD that you had already captured