Wellesley
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Hello dear shipbuilders, now I finally have uploaded all the photos again. https://www.flickr.com/photos/150321535@N08/albums Take care! (Seems as if brickshelf is up anyways)
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I really loved the picture but was freaking out as soon as I read the title! Awesome
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Hey there, now about my long boats:) First I tried to build the long boat for my ship like Legonardo. On this pic you can see a newer attempt, which was oriented by the one from Captain Green Hair and Errorist. I didn't have a lot of those round bowed bricks. But then I decided to just buy them online and improve the boat. Didn't find the right coloured bricks for the rudder but you can easily attach one. You also can add a bowsprit and a mast, if you want to use it as a little cutter or change the era of time, the boat is floating in. Greetings, Wellesley! P.S.: I still think that the long boat from Captain Green Hair and Errorist looks best.
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Hey, I really like your white flag head, the tack and the throat. Very smooth shape, excellent rigging! Maybe you could try to change the blocks for the halyards. For my gaff I first just used these bricks: 62462 First I didn't like that Lego redesigned them with a slot. But you can twist a rope, you are using as halyard, into a loop and put it through the slot. Then just fix the loop inside the tube with some axle. The rope won't have any problems to move, the tubes offer enough space, Lego put a groove onto the inside where the slot sits. You can see the two ropes vanishing into the gaff near the peak. I also used this technique for the yards, as can be seen here. Anyways, awesome work! Glad that you restricted the colours to those four. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Thanks! And the fleet is growing:) Will have time to work on my frigate the next days. Will update some photos, if it's worth it. Got huge problems with the old prefab bow, which has these ports at each side. First I used them for the anchor chains, but they actually are too astern for them. Anyone got some ideas how to work with them? Otherwise I will build a bow on my own. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Hey, I will buy some lighter green papers soon, to take more greenscreen pictures. Does anyone know huge scaled pictures of marine paintings or ocean photography? Would be smarter this time to collect the backgrounds first, before only having shots, in which the angles don't match with the horizons of the backgrounds. Examples of such misfortune can be seen in my comment above. Is anyone interested in specific angles or shots? I will cut the ship out anyways and can send you the lego ship element, if you want to use it for own photo editing. Greetings, Wellesley!
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As a rat owner's brother I have to say, that it's just awesome. Looks very natural. I love all of your animals!
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Battle of Waterloo: "Steady lads!"
Wellesley replied to Gary The Procrastinator's topic in Pirate MOCs
Nice MOC! I usually don't like changes in the style of games or toys etc. I'm really nostalgic, when it comes to my childhood and I don't want to see other people changing the things I've known into another shape. Like I stick to the first version of red- and bluecoats and my figure's skin definitely is yellow. But the Lego horses really are an improvement. They are a perfect example of how progress should be made. Greetings, Wellesley! -
I created some scenes on my old (you can tell by the dust:D) frigate and aswell on board of the "Bulwark": Here are some greenscreen pictures, still training my skills: Wellesley!
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I just finished the first greenscreen pics. It's not always the same perspective or scale but at least im getting better. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Finally Brickshelf has made my new folder public. I did these photos here to try some pictures with paintings or photos as background via green screen. As I first have seen the taken pictures I was afraid that my green background wasn't lightened enough, but now I already created some pictures and its working. I will first gather some green screen edited pictures before uploading them, as well the cut out ships for free usage. These were some of the better pictures, still have to go through all two hundred I've taken. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Nice use of prefab hulls for bigger ships. Could become one of those heavy frigates they used in the early 19th century around after the states joined napoleon in the war against the kingdom. But the stern looks more like an earlier frigate. Anyways, keep it up. Now im nearly finished with my ship of the line and the technique i used for my hull works well for the astern part of the ship, but actually with more hinges and use of newer bricks for the bow, my ship wouldn't look so edgy out of some angles. Maybe I will rework the shape step by step, but with the rig standing, it could be a hard task. If anyone has some ideas, which techniques or bricks for changing the bow would fit in the overall design of my ship, I would like, if you would comment in my thread. There are so many vessels, like this here, which have a better shape of the hull than mine. Thought it would be cool to use a design with almost classical bricks to stay in the lego look. But actually it seems to be better to stick with all you can get. Greetings, Wellesley
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Astonishing work, keep it up!
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Hi mates, it's been a while since my last post, because I didn't work on my ship for a long time. But I could manage to spend the last days in april at my parents house and get some things done. I think with help of the photos of her current shape you can imagine the finished vessel. But I still have to rig the bowlines at the main and fore topgalants. I added clewlines but renounced the buntlines. I bought some green 2x1 m papers to build a ground and background for greenscreen pictures. Does anyone can recommend a programm for doing that? Here some photos, as always in my brickshelf are more photos. The crew contains 36 sea soldiers, about 100 sailors and a bunch of officers. I will place them later. If my frigate gets finished, I will probably just split the crew to man both vessels. And of course, I still need longboats, the prefab row boats are a little bit too small, but I can use 1-3 of those anyways. http://www.brickshel...gi?f=555974&n=0 Greetings, Wellesley!
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I will do the masts and the rigging like on my ship of the line (previous page). I will upload some new pictures, when I've finished adding the bowlines. The square rig is nearly complete, the only thing I wont rig are the buntlines.
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Beautiful, you really mastered the small hull. Doesn't look too high or narrow. Wellesley
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Hey there, wanted to share some photos of my two ships. From the ship of the line just a little scenery. I put a sailor into the shrouds and he threw a beautiful shadow on the sails. And then my new frigate. She will get her own thread soon, but I don't know how constantly I will work on her within the next few months, so I present you the pictures here. First I had a black/yellow colour scheme. Thougt that would fit with my first ship the best. But soon I had to discover, that i ran out of a lot of certain yellow bricks, swallowed by the "Bulwark". As well the red gunports would look better with a black/white design. Instead of hinges I used jumper plates again. I thougt it would be good to stay as closest as possible with the ship of the line design. But I like how she turned out. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Lovely nature scenes, awesome birds! But I hope thats not supposed to be corn? Anyways, omg these birds:)
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I love it. Still looks like the classical Lego Castle design with improved shapes and very functional, seems, that one is able to get access to all spots.
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Hi Mates, from tomorrow on I will have a lot of time to finish this vessel. Already planning a second, a frigate around 20 guns. Just ordered the first parts. Some Information: - I will use brown prefab hulls, but propably with brickbuilt bow, stern and some middleparts (got the Blacksea's Barracuda when I was young, will add three more midsections, I ordered today) - above the brown I will work in black, with a white or maybe even yellow stripe for the battery. - red gunports - brickbuilt masts, a lot of round yellow bricks left from the ship of the line Photos of the "Bulwark?" will follow within the next days. Wellesley
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Well, thats funny. I didn't come up with a new name yet. But for some ideas I looked up the royal navy's list of ship of the lines between 1785 and 1830. And there is not only a Bulwark class, it's a 74 gun ship of the line class as well. :) Anyways. Some Ideas? Not sure, if I would choose "Invincible", probably a lot of vessels with that name. Maybe "Unbrickable" instead of "Unsinkable". Wellesley
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Just a quick update: I named her "BULWARK" because of the thick hull. And the flags I ordered from www.schiffsmodellflaggen.de arrived. I really can recommend their work. Greetings, Wellesley!
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Congrats mate! If it helps, tell them you would have at least one buyer! :)
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I salute every Soldier of the Lego-Napoleonic-Era! I think Red- and Bluecoats will ever work as French- and Englishmen. Even without any further customizing. The more I appreciate those Prussians, Austrians, Russians, Spaniards, Swedes etc. Awesome work Captain Braunsfeld! They all look amazing. Somewhere here in the forum there was a thread about LDD customized troops. Those were epic. For my british soldiers I created some papercoats (maybe they still are a bit too long). I changed the legs to light grey and left off the epaulettes. And for my few french infantries I came uo with this new helmet design (Wheels from the old Lego racing cars), because I had no shakos left. They will get papercoats as well (using the prototypes for my british navy officers) and maybe I will change the epaulettes to yellow or brown ones (only have one red epaulette). Anyways keep it up and go for the baltic uniforms! Wellesley
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Happy new year! (which actually could be any time in the year and the modern day ritual is awful. Anyways... I managed to make some huge progress during the past days. I started with the sails and I'm satisfied with the results. I reworked the fences on the maindeck and added a cabinet and an armoire to the cabine's interior. There are more pictures in my brickshelf folder! Greetings Wellesley