Sebeus I

Last weekend I was present at Brickmania Antwerpen, I contributed to possibly the largest pirate layout ever. 12 ships, 4 fortresses, 2 small islands and over 1000 minifigs filled the scene, a scene to remember I'd say. Besides the pirates there were many other things to see/do, I provided links to some galleries at the end of this post, be sure to check those out if you want to see more of the whole event. Contributors to the Pirate Layout: J.L. Hornblower La Luna Fortress + Army + baseplates Damaximus Mpya Stedor Bonaparte Eldorado Fortress + Prince of Whales + Minerve + Xebec Synbiote Islanders Island + small farm Sebeus I All other ships and responsible for posing minifigures, ships and creating action scenes diddesen (didier) Lighthouse Jean Marc Nimal no pictures alas... Unfortunatly Captain Greenhair was unable to show up and contribute... There were over 6000 vistors during the weekend. There's so much going on in the layout, too much to describe in one picture so I've taken several, yet most of it can be described in function of a battle between redcoats and bluecoats, enjoy . The French frigate Minerve has engaged the british brig Intersector, the redcoats are in for a hard time, the Minerve is bigger and more heavely armed and it gets worse... The minerve is backed up by the Zephyr! Yet hope is not lost for the redcoats... The mighty Prince of Wales is turning about to join the battle. Eldorado Fortress keeps watch over the naval activities and serves as a base for the redcoats. It is being supplied by small trading ships. While the battle at sea rages on something is stirring in the east... Mpya Stedor, the mighty Kaliphlin port city! Hundreds of riders are mobilized to support the redcoats on land. Backed up by a Xebec to provide coastal defense... ...Which is more than welcome since one of the british battleships stranded earlier... The battle takes place at the notorious French fortress known as La Luna... Hundreds of redcoats are preparing to fight the battle of their life... So are the bluecoats... Both sides have vast numbers... Yet at La Luna seaside life just goes on. Farore's Wind is preparing for battle and will soon join the Minerve and Zephyr to counter the Prince of Wales... However, a third party has risen to claim the sea... the Flying Dutchman will be making the outcome more uncertain than it already was. I took my job as action scene and minifig poser most serious Kids like to see these kind of details. But my favourite scene was this one: I hope you liked it, either way you should have been there, my pictures really don't do it justice. I should have known, my pictures are never of great quality when taken with artificial light, you can check the rest of the pictures at Brickshelf. Hopefully Damaximus will provide some of his pictures as well so I can update this post. Besides the pirate layout there were many other layouts, stands etc. It was often very busy so I had to guard the layout a lot, I used the opportunity to take pictures of it. If you wish to see more of the event than just the pirate layout you can check out these galleries: hanstolhuisen Tomsche MichaelOzzie Perhaps some other Belug members will also be posting detailed reports about the other layouts. Special thanks to Belug member Tomsche for providing some of the pictures I used in this post.

It was a very fun event, nice to have met kabel, I will be posting pictures of the pirate layout in the pirate forum later. In the meantime here's some pics of Damaximus' white palace (as the visitors called it). Don't forget to send me some pictures you took from the pirate layout

There are many ways to replicate water in lego, this works well I think.

It's beautiful, astonishing, the shape is very smooth, I can already say this is one of the best lego ships I've seen so far. I'm very curious, how did you attach the hull planks? I haven't seen any lego hull like it before, I tried a technique involving flex tubes and clip plates but it always left gaps, your hull looks watertight and shows a great curve, please enlighten me .

I see my Islanders rock! First time I see the finished Islanders banner, I love it .

Thanks, I'm glad it didn't disappoint in the end If you wish to see a really big shark-shaped submarine I suggest you check out Taseden's WIP. (I see he hasn't updated his topic, you can see his recent progress at the Sci-Fi wip topic.)

Maybe it takes some time for a new video to appear in the weekly results? If it does I suggest you just wait a few more days and then search again, it's also possible youtube filters your own video's out of your searches, since google took over youtube it has become much more personalized... regrettably maybe.

This is... Awesome, when I saw the title I was thinking; is this what I think it is? And it is, exactly what I was thinking (I didn't expect it ). I love the footage of the trains progressing towards the crashsite.

Alas, I didn't have time to build my 'Flying DutchVan' (to counter Wachutu Chief's Black pearl ) I still haven't checked out all of the entries yet, the extended deadline for voting is most appreciated .

Yummy, I love it all, don't forget to give yourself some credit .

Well done, it's nice to see someone actually did part of the giant dish of outer cloud city.

I like the background coming in from the windows, it really adds to the vignette.

Thanks . I'm going to expand the tutorial with some examples of how to integrate the capstan in the deck itself.

[pid][/pid] Capstans Welcome at my first tutorial here at Classic Pirates, in this tutorial I will try to convince you that there is no argument not to have a functional capstan on your ships. (On condition you have a ship big enough to support one ofcourse and I heard some people are allergic to Technic so I guess that's a valid argument as well). This working capstan design applies perfectly for a frigate in CGH style. I will use a prefab hull for this tutorial but I want you to keep in mind that it can easely be applied to costum hulls as well. This guide will be quite basic because there just are so many different ships, every ship needs its own approach on how to integrate a working capstan. I will start with a simplified construction of a capstan used to haul a singe anchor, then I will extend to more complex and versatile mechanics to eventually allow you to operate two independent anchors. So without further ado, let's get this party started. Operating 1 anchor: You'll need a capstan, it doesn't have to be this one but make sure it connects to a cross axle. But if your really want this one... Another capstan: By Phred An anchor with a winch (also cross axle based). You can use the capstan for other things besides the anchors as well but I'll get to that later. Some usefull technic parts; This is a useful construction; But if you don't have the black part you can use this alternate construction; Now... The implementation of a working capstan takes place at the very beginning of the ship-building process. It's important to place the capstan at the best location of the ship. When starting a new ship I usually start by marking the locations of the masts (I covered them with green round plates to make them more visible). Yellow marks the possible locations of the capstan, keep in mind that the capstan has a volume too so you'll have to reserve some space near the masts. To decide where you will ultimately place your capstan you should consider what else you want in your ship, a staircase and grates perhaps. AT this point you have to know (more or less) how the deck will look. Personally I find it most practical to place the capstan just behind the second mast (on a three mast ship that is), that way I have plenty of room for grates between first and second mast. What I'm going to do now is probably not historically accurate. I will not connect the anchor winch directly to the capstan. I do this for practical reasons, you don't want anchor cables running through the ship, trust me. What I'll do is much more reliable, the anchor winch should be placed as close to the bow as possible (as close to the place where the anchor will hang from the ship), this way there's less chance of complications with rope/cable getting stuck within the ship. Instead of a direct cable connection I will make use of a flexible axle. First attach the capstan to the construction mentioned earlier (this is temporarely, you can detach it later to work on the deck and so on). Then you place this construction in the ship on the place you wanted the capstan (the main reason to attach the capstan already is to make sure it doesn't interfere with the masts). As you can see the capstan is connected to an axle running through the ship. Technic bricks are useful to run through the masts and other obstructions. You may wonder what's the universal joint is for, I noticed some of my ships tend to bend a little when building larger, the joint assures a smooth axle turning. Now the anchor can be hauled up using the capstan. Operating 2 anchors independently: Now in order to provide multiple independent functions to one driving axle, operating two independent anchors with one capstan for example, you'll need a mechanism to shift gears. LEGO Technic provides us with a very easy-to-use system consisting out of these key-parts: Clutch gears: Gear 16 Tooth with Clutch (you need atleast 2). Driving Ring: Driving Ring (you need 1 for each pair of clutch gears). There's also a technic switch available which makes it easier to make the driving ring hatch into the clutch gears: Changeover Catch But I've seen multiple alternatives for that part at the Technic forum, still, I like to use this part over alternatives. In this picture you see the left gear clutched to the axle on top, neutral in the middle (no gears clutch) and right gear clutched at the bottom. connecting the clutch gears with other gears allows you to operate multiple axles, I will now integrate this system in the hull; Note that I just picked a random position of the 'gearbox', you can easely place it practically anywhere, in front of/ after the capstan, in the bow (like I did for my Frigate. Again it's important to think about how your ship will look and what features it will have when choosing a location for the gearbox (The switch was taken out for a better view) The red axle connectors are used to block the gears in one direction, this allows you to pull an anchor while preventing it to fall back down. This isn't always needed though, usually, because the official anchors are so light, the friction alone is enough to keep them up. I used yellow axle connectors to show how to operate the switch, as you can see the lower one allows a rotative motion to switch gears, this means you can attach this end to another flexible axle and thus move the location of the switch away from the gearbox. To illustrate how it works I made this short video: UPDATE: 21 December 2013 The previous construction was built very symmetrically so it would be easier to see how it works. However, when applied to a real MOC ship you don't need to see how it works, the more compact you can build the mechanism, the more space you gain for interior and/or other functions on your ship. I have therefor applied this capstan mechanism to a current WIP of mine to show a more practical example. This is a three-mast ship, the capstan is located after the foremast (very common location for the capstan on a historical ship). The capstan itself will be mounted on the brown vertical axle. The red axle connectors with gray axle towballs are used to block the anchors in place (so they don't fall down after you hauled them). As you can see the gearbox for switching anchors does not lay in line with the ship's length this time. The switch itself is concealed under the yellow technic plate and will be operated by turning the light grey axle. I intend to attach a barrel to the switch axle to hide it on deck in an elegant manner. On this picture you can see the anchor blocking mechanisms, these are connected via several gears to the previously mentioned axle towballs, which will be accessible on deck. Sigh, I really don't get it, when I watch the movie on my camera it's great but when I upload it to my computer it becomes dark . So, this was it, for now. It's my first tutorial so ofcourse it's not perfect, any suggestions to make it better are welcome as well as questions (which may inspire me to expand this tutorial or explain part in a different way). Combine this tutorial with Build a frigate with Captain Green Hair! An interesting link for more about capstans; Capstan by Foremast Jack - - - - - - - - - - - - - I will expand this tutorial later with a sollution for modular ships (yes, a modular ship is not a valid argument not to have a functional capstan so if DPW is reading this... ).

Thanks for the link, I want a 6x6 with axles equally spaced, both front and rear axle would be steer-able, I have a pretty good Idea about transmitting power into the axles (it involves 5 differentials and 2 XL Motors). For front and rear axle I use live axles but it's mostly the suspension of the center wheels I'm struggling with, I was thinking to use independant suspension for the center wheels but I'm not sure if that's appropriate for a heavy duty vehicle. Anyway, I'll check out some MOCs first to see how others do it, thanks again.

I'm looking for 6-wheels motorized vehicles (or 8-wheels), something in the nature of a 9398 Crawler but instead of 4x4 it's 6x6. I'm building one myself and I'm having trouble finding a good sollution for the suspension. I don't think my english is good enough to provide a decent explanation of the problem so It's probably better if someone could give me (some) links to older MOCs featuring 6 or wheel Trial Trucks.

Congratulations on finishing this ship, I liked following the WIP, great presentation, the pictures really catch a fantastic warship .

Loved the Black Pearl variant . I might try some other Idea's later as well.

We all live in a yellow VW van! So it's a submarine, a VW van fully adapted to the underwater life. Note the round windows and periscope . Be careful for its harpoon cannons.

I'm in, definitely, great contest Idea.

No but it isn't really black either, it looks black in the pictures (which wasn't intended). It's some kind of dark metal color (I don't know the proper name), the jet packs from the mandalorians in set 75022.

Great job!, you managed to put it a great deal of deatil without making it look too chaotic, that big ship looks awesome and so does the interior of te building structures .

Nice, I like that first picture, great atmosphere.

I upgraded the moc with pillars to create a 'floating platform' dimension. I do'nt think I'll chaneg much about it now, I have so many other plans...

Thanks, sorry for the late response, the dark jetpack is from set 75022 (mandalorian speeder) and I was indeed inspired by starwars battlefront .The white curved panels are from a city horse trailer (the set also included a black/red SUV), uless you mean the white arches used on the doorway, those are from some old Belville sets.