Frank Brick Wright

Thank you all for your feedback! It is very much appreciated! You are right, I abused language but take a look at this (from wiki): An earlier tradition that gave Romulus a distant ancestor in the semi-divine Trojan prince Aeneas was further embellished; and Romulus was made the direct ancestor of Rome's first Imperial dynasty. He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid. He's an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. So he didn't found the city but he brought his family to the current location About the interior, you see, in a slightly larger ship I would be able to make a hold. You can count with that on my next! Thanks for the blog! Actually I must disagree with you as she is almost exactly minifig-scale (1:50) I've followed the plans and scaled them (for the sake of example, take the beam, 6.4m in the original. I have 17 studs=13.6cm which would be 6.8m at 1:50 scale. Ok, I have an error, but not that much!). I do agree that she is crowded tough I like her this way. The biggest reason for this is that the guns take too much space if the gunports aren't opened. I've checked that she had a crew of around 30 sea-men which is the size of mine. Another issue is that minifigs aren't at scale with real men, so each one takes more space than you or me would take Well, I'm not sure if I understand your question, but my ship only has one gun-deck, so I haven't built anything atop of those guns. Thank you all!

[pid][/pid] 144B *EDIT: Please scroll down or click here for more and better pictures* *Historical context* I am presenting to you all my latest build: Æneias, an Iris class french schooner from around 1820. She is a 14-gun gaff-rigged schooner based on the plans of La Recouvrance, a well-known vessel which sails from Brest. I have followed both the lines and the rigging of the original ship, since I had abundant free plans.There were 5 Iris-class vessels and they were originally used for mail-transport and latter for protection of merchant ships. In case anyone is wandering, the name is from the classical hero Aeneas which is said to have founded Rome (go remember school stuff! ), though I have chosen to write the name in latin. **Acknowledgments** I would like to thank: Cb4 for the amazing hull design, most credits for the hull go to him; Captain Blackmoor for the efficient and neat designs on almost every torso of my crew — credits to him!; Captain Green Hair for overall support, great assistance and expertise on ship-building: Thank you so much Rick! The prow figure (which, by the way, is Dido ): The stern is one of the ares of which I am most proud: the curve is recreated using an intricate SNOT which places studs in 7 different directions. The brick-built 12 powder cannons (each one consists of 12 parts): The crew (around 30 sea-men), the armament and the provisions: For maintenance reasons, she is almost fully modular: Finally a view a clear deck, focusing on the capstan:

About the chasers I guess I was tired because I don't know why I wrote that. It clearly is nonsense: chasers were very common, I apologize Now on the capstan, I'll quote Foremast's Jack tutorial, which is a fantastic reference: Yours isn't quite fore of it, is it? I don't want to discredit your source, the Achille, as is also one of my favourite ships but I have never seen in any model a capstan so aft… I'm glad I was helpful!

Double post too sorry!

Great job on this I think you have been doing an excellent job and she is turning out fantastic! The carronades and the overall shape are great I would like to suggest a couple of notes for improvement, tough. The masts are a bit too technique and the way of attaching the yards is quite complicated and requires a lot of parts. I would suggest you take a look at Perfectionist's Next Gen way of attaching them (he's not the first to do so, though, but there I know you have good pictures), especially the yards at an angle — if you are going to keep your LDD plan, of course. Then we have all the white, but that has already been said. Another point for me is the hull shape. It is alright but there is a here and there where it could be corrected: Take a look: you have a central section of A LOT of jumpers, then 4 jumpers, then 6. The curve should be progressive , say 20, 6, 4 and not 20, 4, 6 as you have in there. Also, the capstan would be in the bow of the ship, which would ease a lot raising the anchors Getting all that way with a cable would be hard! I'm not very sure about the cannons on the bow in the top deck — I would rather suggest chasers below — though I believe that they brought sometimes cannons there to fire during a chase. This points being said I would like to add that the tilling really makes her smooth and nice. The platforms for the shrouds are very interesting too! Moreover from what I've seen the galleries are going to be great! I hope this honest criticism helps you and I'm looking forward to see the end of the project, keep up the fine work!

Lego tatoos… Cool, what an original idea! And what about… Lego tatooed?

I am so sorry but only now I noticed this topic. My brickshelf folder with the photos was deleted by the moderators of Brickshelf No idea why. I hope this time they aren't deleted!

I am totally speechless. She is an absolute oeuvre d'art. I think you have surpassed the Lego dimension and went even further to something better and better. Your rigging is absolutely tremendous. I can't see very well because of the distance at which the photos were taken but your rigging is extremely complete. Two small additions I could suggest (I don't know if you are planning on adding them, as she isn't already finished): 1. I have seen those telescopes over there near the cannons I hope you are going to make these ones: 2. I don't know for sure if you are planing on adding more of these ropes but I thought it would be worth mention nevertheless as I think it is the final touch — next to shrouds and sails — that she is needing You actually have some ropes alongside the masts — 3 or 4, I can't perceive very clearly. Mast had plenty of ropes near the base, if you are interested I can provide you more photos of these ones in actual ships Again, fantastic one, you deserve the attention of the entire lego world!

I might been seeing it in the wrong way but at a first look I find your structure intriguing. Were you inspired by Sebeus technique? If not, they certainly look very identical. Now I don't quite see how will you curve the hoses if the structure is interconnected from stern to stern — at least without stressing the parts. This looks as an issue to me as the only place where it looks possible to curve the flex tubes is at the gunports — and then not, because you have those which you really don't want to get stressed. As an advice I would strongly recommend you to not pursuit this building method only in LDD. It is a new method, quite interesting and with potential, BUT it has not (as far as I know) been tested in the brick in a finished ship with any rate of success. Trying to anticipate the problems that appear with real bricks is extremely hard when hoses and/or hinges come into play — I can assure it based on personal experience. I have also found plans of a 12 Gun English Sloop I don't know how close this is to your reference ship but it's interesting nevertheless. This being said, and taking a look at the plans, I confirmed my first impressions: the distance between gunports and the waterline is too small — it should be almost 3 times the gunport height at the farthest point (!) At last, and considering you have a small budget — so do I… — I would buy some hoses of different sizes and a couple of plates with clips to play a little with the bricks and try some structures before considering submitting a larger order without any idea if it will work or not. I hope this feedback was helpful!

Sorry for bumping I found this website. It contains detailed and high-resolution plans from Architectura Navalis Mercatoria, by Chapman. I thought it would be interesting for anyone in search for plans to have this vast and FREE collection to use *EDIT: My apologies, I indeed misspelled the link*

I had made some designs of what a complete cross-section of a ship of the line would look like a few months ago when you showed your technique to us What's great about this is that it easily allows to build a minifig-scale ship. Minifig-scale would be around 1:45 if you consider the average man to be 1.80m. We can round it up to 1:50 for calculation purposes. If you want to build a ship-of-the-line with, say, 12m of beam then you will get 30 studs of beam. In my photo you have 32 which is quite close and IMO the best size to use with this technique. Bigger is also possible but if you get smaller it will be harder. Since you get only a few different angles you can work with (plus you can use normal bricks like 1x2 for the middle sections of the ship where the curve is almost parallel to the horizontal plane) in a smaller size the shapes starts to get distorted. About the deck height 5 bricks is around the perfect height, more or less and varying from ship to ship, so yours is right in there About the build in itself I specially like the rudder, I don't entirely figure out how it is attached but it certainly is very clever! I might be wrong but the only thing that pops up to me is the length. I think she is a little too bulky, even for an East Indiaman. I don't know in what precisely are you basing her and an East Indiaman is a wide concept so it is quite possible her length is alright I'm very curious to see how this evolves, keep the fine work!

NOTE: This thread should be used for indexing purposes only. All discussion can be done in this thread. I've visited Vera Cruz in the last few days and as there is basically no material from ships of this period neither in the internet nor in books — plans weren't used to build them, in the very least — I thought it would be interesting to have some detailed photos of an accurate replica for anyone interested in building caravels. By accurate I mean that the proportions and shapes were kept. She does have a motor — it is necessary due to legislation, for maneuvering in the harbour — and the old capstan, for instance, isn't working. Still she is quite interesting because it is not easy to build a replica of a vessel as old as this one. Caravels started their oceans trips circa 1450, which gives them more than 500 years of history. Instead of resizing all the photos I decided to upload them in higher quality — about 3500x2600 — to this brickshelf folder where the interested can see them.

Wow! I really like a lot your first design! The last one is cool too but I guess it won't be too stable would it? The gaps are nice too and really realistic. Perhaps that's an advantage that this has over the 1x1 bricks turned upside down but the spacing is more correct in the last way. I've done it in this simpler way but I'm pleased with the result Thanks for your suggestions, I like them a lot, I'll consider including them in a next ship.

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The Tall Ships Races are a competition hold since 1956 to encourage friendship and general interest in sailing. Tsis year they started in France and are going to Cadiz, La Coruna and next to Dublin. The ships left Lisbon today. I thought that with so many sailing ships fans around here it would be interesting to post the photos. I spent quite some time in the docks visiting the ships so I have a reasonable amount (about 300 ) of photos so if you want to see something specific just ask. The ships on the docks (not all of them but still…): Rigging nightmare The river is quite full: Europa under sail: Criola: Vera Cruz, a replica of a portuguese caravel: And Europa preparing to fire a broadside at the mighty Sagres (portuguese ship, also) And of course, this Royal Navy officer at the steering wheel! If you are interested in photos from Russian, Belgian, British, Dutch or Polish ships also (specially if you are from these countries ) don't hesitate to ask!

Well I've been trying to do it again with the border, yes… I guess it is pretty impossible at that scale and useless after all If no-one comes with a better idea I'll probably stick to something like this as it also turns pretty nice as well.

About the bow there isn't much to do at this stage. I'm going to use hinges and having it slopped would make it quite hard to build on. However that *should* be the part of the ship with the steepest vertical curve so I will recreate the sheer with the hinges when they are in their place About the stern I've solved mostly all the problems you pointed out. I've finally ended the hull which means I am working on the decks (finally!!). I would like to ask if someone could suggest me a solution for a small problem I have in here: This is how it looks right now. There are missing a plate or tile here and there (I don't have them right now) and the bell isn't in its place — the boarding nets are also missing. I'm using this grille design, inspired from Foremast Jack's for the grilles but I can't find a way of making them as in here, near the mast: Please notice the available space, those grilles should be squares of approx. 2 or 3 studs per side.

She is fantastic? And so near of being finished… How many bricks do you esteem that went to her? On a side note, my only suggestion of improvement in a future ship is the cannon design. They look reasonably nice but I'm not specially fond of them for two reasons: in the first place they don't allow for vertical rotation, which is not very accurate, and moreover the base is a bit odd, adding that it is not very easy to distinguish between the several calibers. The skid beams are very accurate and good, I don't think I have seen them before in Lego ships. Can't wait to see her finish and the addition of the small details missing (rigging, etc) Already one of my favourite ships ever made.

This is also interesting. The design is from BigBoy, the guy who built that fantastic HMS Victory. The image is too large to deeplink it.

I had no idea what a tjalk was so I googled it Will it be having a gank (I have absolutely no idea if this is the technical name for that yard on this ship, I mean this)? Else, how would you attach the spanker sail? My favourite part: I like very much all the tiling, it look fantastic. Are you using any ref-pic? I would like to take a look at it if possible I would point this and that but I am not very sure of how if I am correct, so I'll just point one thing out: if the boom is "locked" in that snotted half-circle it wouldn't allow for much rotation would it? Besides that all the issue is in the masts as you said, I guess: that black cone looks a little off, as the passage between 2 studs wide mast to 1 stud wide. Perhaps using a prefab mast piece is an option? I don't know. I love it, as if the colourscheme wasn't enough the hull-brick-built-thing is perfect, great shape

That shrouds I can perfectly see why that technique is difficult, it is everything so small… but the work surely compensates, FANTASTIC A small note: your aft-most mast is quite oblique in comparison to the deck plane, I believe that with sails that angle would tend to be reduced but it won't be totally compensated, IMO it should be more perpendicular

I agree with Admiral Croissant on the chains, they look quite odd IMO. Since that is already part of the custom work I would (at least I plan to do so in my WIP) extend the ropes from the shrouds to the desired place and glue them to the side bricks. Purists will hate it but I think it turns quite nice and more realistic On the other side with your dead-eye's technique that is not very easy to do. The grille is also a nice addition. Are you intending to glue the ratlines? I've tried them inspired by Perfectionist and I am very pleased with the result. Getting the technique right takes some tries though and also some fingers glued but its rather easy ofter some attempts and the end result is delicious. Keep up the excellent work!

Something like this, I guess Thanks for your feedback!

I have a mac too and it is about the same thing to resize pictures than in a normal Windows or Linux. Where are you deep-linking them from? Flickr? Brickshelf maybe? If you are using Brickshelf — way easier, IMO — you just need to resize the pictures you are uploading by changing their size. If you don't know how to change the pictures' size you can do so in Preview, the default application for pictures, by selecting Tools and Adjust Size… where you can put 800x600 pixels.

Much much better than the original! It is relatively small yet full of detail and life, I think its fantastic, great job My only suggestion: aren't those side ladders a bit too close too each other (the gap between the steps is too short)?