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Ah a cannon ball hole! Build the scene on board the ship accordingly? I think the best you could to repair this would be to patch it. That would be the real life way to deal with a hole in your sail... Sewing it closed, would warp the shape of the sail, the stitches would have to a good few millimetres away from the edge of the hole, so that the weave held together and that would result in a crease in the fabric, that would look way worse than the hole as it is. I'd probably ignore it, but if you think it's going to fray more you could treat the edges to prevent further fraying.

I like both fortresses for different reasons. The original works much better a toy, the raised baseplates mean that you can build and pack a way quickly and its just more playable. I didn't have the original as a kid, I only had pirates who resided on the outskirts of a large paradisa complex, but I guess it's the same deal - slightly different play scenarios. I kinda think the new set is a great re-imagining but it's built for nostalgia and displaying, more than playing. I like the fact you can arrange it in different ways... although my partner insisted we had to have it in the original config for the new set up because the big pier is too short to dock one of the big ships and needs extending... I have a lot of the new bluecoats because I got back into lego just before the 2015 wave came out, so I majorly stocked up on all those set and the chess board. So I like them for that reason, but the readcoats are probably my preferred faction. I like ri have a mix of both old and new, but mainly whatever I got my hands on.

Ah yes, technically the Imperial flagship came out during my dark age... but it was not sooo long after retirement and I found a fairly decent deal second hand and my partner found the little one around the same time. I'm currently looking at the Caribbean Clipper, there is someone selling one near me, but also for a similar price there's an original black seas barracuda with an incomplete soldiers outpost... sooooo decisions.. It was very hot for one day and now and it is way more comfortable in the basement... but perhaps I just suck at any heat/humidity. Also it's a good excuse to start a new project.

It's been a while and in this heat I've retreated to the coolness of my basement... where most of our lego lives... And somehow I've found myself obsessing over my pirate lego set up. It's way too cramped and all of the factions are living completely on top of each other. So I figured I could double the size of the set up and give everyone a bit more breathing space to plot their next move... Here are the before photos: And here is the start of the reorganisation... The current plan is to have the redcoats and bluecoats on one side (they are not friends but the redcoats currently only have one fort, but all the ships), a volcanic island in the middle inhabited by islanders and the pirates on the other side... I might acquire more sets while I'm building but I think my main focus while be on building up the island. So any tips on how best to get all the bricks needed to build up my rocks are welcome :) But if there is something missing that you think I really need, I can use that to justify the other purchases I want to make?

I found a weird lego base plate - kinda - in a second hand shop and would love help identifying it. It's two 48x48 base plates, attached to a solid piece or hard board, backed with a grey plastic veneer, and edged with a thin black plastic (coming off in places). There are four counter sunk drill holes in each corner. Kinda looks like this was produced for a shop display, or was this available to buy at some point? And one more pic of the back (sorry can't work out how to reduce the size to any smaller on my phone).