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  1. Wellesley
    Nice ship. Excellent shape, I like the upwards slope towards astern at the poop deck. Cool colourscheme and nice figurehead. Are these all official Lego sails? Great job! What I would consider is changing the yard beneath the bowsprit into a dolphin striker. Like here: But overall a lovely ship.
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    @Bregir Thanks a lot, seems to be the proper type name. Well, licensed ships still can be seized, right?:D Now l have to license my other gifts, too. If anyone from Eslandola or the Sea Rats wants to license the Fishing Boat or the Pontoon Crane, just message me. It will then be available for your usage. Back to the Orion, this will be her stats: R M G C $ H 3 5 0 0 1 0 How much space does one cargo unit equal?
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    Well, now it is official, she's in the race:) Will add stats and a storyline later, when I have a better overview. By the way, does anyone know how this ship class is called? Found the plan only by accident.
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    Finally the last faction receives its gift. I had some of the black ninja glider wings and originally wanted to use those to build a Xebec. Then, searching for some pictures of jib booms, I came across this plan: Looked like a fine inspiration to me. I intend this to be a pilot or survey boat. She is called Orion and hopefully is a great addition to the Oleon fleet. I had so much luck with the bricks this time. Wasn't going to include any blue originally. But I had not enough red tiles, so I assumed that blue would provide me with the necessary pieces. That is where the railings originate from. Didn't even know, I had these four flexi tubes. And then even in the right length:) The only thing I had to give up was trying to slope the door a bit. On this scale I have just not found a solution for a smooth transition. Too many visible gaps beneath the roof and not enough space to fit some cover techniques. Greetings, Wellesley
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    @Bregir This is a plan from 1953. Seems indeed to be a fairly new invention. Here a few results from a quick search. I still don't know the exact terminology, would be nice, if someone could clarify the boom's name. And of course from the Pen Duick, which was the inspiration for this build:
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    That jib boom might not be that common, but I have seen one often enough. It may have been developed after the time of the coalition wars, but BoBs has its own timeline and I love to see some variety of rigs.
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    Nice shape, cool colours and some great designs. Like the headlights, simple yet effective. I really like the jib boom and the astern dark tan railing.
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    This is the updated, better version of the headrails. Here you can see two catheads of different length. Which one looks better?
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    @TomSkippy I changed the toppers from blue to black and covered the lower parts with tiles, using a technique @Legostone showed me.
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    @kurigan I stumbled upon your entry post in the MSW forum and from what I've read it seems that you were sometimes criticised for breaking the system and not that popular amongst the LEGO community. How can that be? Your ships are the best I've seen so far. There are other models that are way more famous but not that convincing and not even close to yours. Guess it is the same old story about presenting and hyping. By the way, is there any ship related project, you are currently working on?
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    Inspired by @Legostone's technique to embellish the narrow prefab hull, I wanted to give it a try myself. I always liked the white hull parts, but didn't know how to cover the black part properly. Thanks for sharing instructions. I copied the base nearly without changing anything. From then on I just followed my guts, looking at some pictures of brigs from time to time. I want to rig the vessel as a hermaphrodite brig/brigantine. She can now hold up to 18 guns, but due to the scale I probably won't arm her. Or I will have to come up with a new gun design. Still have to change some colours. Unfortunately I have to buy tons of new bricks again. Same goes for the names, I don't have any R-letter tiles, therefore my HMS Argonaut currently carries the name HMS Sjælland and on the photos of the brigantine you see the name Styx while actually I want to name her HMS Ymir. I was forced to come up with a new capstan design. It was worth it, but I'm not happy with it being all black. Will have to change at least the cone to white. Again, the headrails are quite enormous. And I'm not that sure about keeping the shape this way. Especially the turn of the lower rail. It mimics the headrails on my frigate, where it fits the design. What do you think, should I keep it or change it into two parallel rails? Greetings and happy Easter, Wellesley!
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    Hey, Giuseppe! That's a hard decision. The overall black scheme looks great, but could appear a bit 'heavy'. The grey stripe could work, but in this case, I would change it towards the bow. Astern and in the middle you have a fine curve in the line, which suddenly stops and goes straight around the bow. Have you considered another colour like dark green? Also, independent from the colour choice, I'd change the jumper plates, that extend the middle part of the hull beneath the gundeck into black, leaving only that continuous stripe of one plate height. At the lowest part you have a plate of lenght four, which is too short I think. Instead I would use four grey jumper plates above it. In general I would pay attention to the lower sections of the stripe in the middle always being longer than the outer ones. But for a first ship MOC, that is a really great result! Looking forward to see more of it. I found pictures of a 10 gun brigantine, that could give some inspiration:
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    Excellent MOC! So many fine details, yet still on the first sight one will be able to identify it as Lego built. The classical roofs put a fine touch to it, in my opinion. The torsos for the guards turned out very good. What kind of paper did you use?
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    Found this by accident. And personally I wouldn't do it, but this Minecraft bow could make a well sized anchor.
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    Here is the current design of the upcoming 50 gun ship. It surely will take some time (money actually:D) The pictures only show the shape, the structure will include more technic bricks, improving the stability a lot. I hope, the transition appears to be a bit smoother, once it is all black and stretched along the entire length of the hull. I'm just semi-open to new solutions, because I'm quite stubborn about the idea of building it in a way that is close to my other ships. In this case meaning all studs head up, not too many brackets. But still I wish to hear your ideas and thoughts. Greetings.
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    If I can modify the question into 'what theme I would add into the Lego-Movies', I'd go with Fabuland. Just the way depicted here:D Could work with a live-action movie, too^^
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    Oops, thought that I had already thanked you for the clarifications on the terminology and the detailed critics, @kurigan I reworked the beakhead to make it just a little bit smaller. But I will leave the figurehead there, given that the ship isn't historically accurate anyways and the scale is more in the range of the illusion scale, which makes a handful of details hard or impossible to integrate. Therefore I take the freedom to include some other things, like in this case, a figurehead or the unusual doors on the gundeck. For smaller ships like yours, the minifig scale truly give marvellous results (at least with your building skills). But I've chosen a smaller scale for my cutter as well, to fit the other vessels. If I had a ship like your's in front of me, I would probably be a bit more enthusiastic about realism. Even my newest project, which actually starts with a plan, will only be based on an actual ship, but have some changes. Only the rig, especially its proportions, is something, I really take my time for. A frigate or ship of the line in minifig scale would be to big for my taste (or wallet?), a post-ship or brig would be the biggest I go. If at all, I really came to like the minifig illusion scale. Tomorrow I hopefully get the rope for the rig, I'm not content with the one I used on my previous ships. This time it really is made for model ships and not to cord up packages:D
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    Yeah, why don't people ever get it?:) Sehr schönes Schiff!
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    Wow, the smoke on the stern view picture looks very good. Guess that is where our brain's appetite for fractals comes into play, automatically converting the information of rather huge but well placed bricks into small details.
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    Thanks! I'm sure, instead of using this brick one could get a better design with different towball parts. Right now it is a little bit chunky, that is why I built the middle log (which is okay anyways). @Roadmonkeytj Here you go: I've never watched Waterworld, but now searched for some images and yes, there is a huge resemblance.
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    What could it be, that keeps the Sea Rats so diligently rowing? Seems like a huge swimming platforms. What could be its purpose? Well, it surely is a crane. Are they going to search for sunken treasures? Looks like they found their destination, now going to support the construction with its four anchors. Another ship approaches. Well, now it is pretty clear. They came all the way out here to do some trading. Without regulations or restrictions, you know how in some harbours more delicate "stuff" or weaponry is rather undesired by the authorities. An Eslandolan fisherman looks by, selling some of his catch. The whole day cargo is traded, loaded and unloaded. Later some natives come around. The chief seems to be quite interested in some of the new firearms. __________ The crane was inspired by @Fraunces Native market.
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    The Eslandolans/Eslandians must have trade in their blood:D They get a gift and somehow manage to additionally get gaff and sails. Here you go:
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    Those citizens of Belson who have enough free time to stroll around the harbour districts of the the town, by chance are able to see a special announcement, hanging around in some taverns, offices and the dockyards: "People of Corrington! Again a new vessel has left our royal docks, testing its manoeuvrability and defiance against the rough elements of the sea along the homeland's shore, before leaving the Merlonic Sea on her route into the east. A fast sailor, being designed for important message delivery and transportation of the most honourable of our men. Heavy armament gave way to a smaller draft, still keeping high seas appropriate stability. Though only guarded by two marines, being selected for their precision, this smaller draft will allow the "HMS Lipizzana" to hide in shallow water, avoiding conflicts as being instructed to do. Quickness and stealth were the guiding principles for this vessel. Surely not the last ship to help ensuring our Queens generous protection over the world. Quite often these days ships travel far into the adventurous east and back to Corrington's familiar ground. Take your chance and sign on, a variety of tasks promises work to fit anyone. The admiralty!" _________ I thought about adding bowlines, don't know yet, what would you recommend? For now it is a free build, I will licence the ship later on (class 2 I think), when I feel more at home in the game mechanics. Still working on my main character's introduction, which can take a little while. R M G C $ H 4 4 0 0 3 1 Greetings, Wellesley
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    Being your first ship(?), start smaller;) But don't use prefab-hulls. I would suggest a two-decker, way easier to figure out the height-width-proportion. But the techniques you see on this beauty will work on any ship of any size, I guess. I especially like the division into several hull-sections connected via pins.
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