Sebeus I

Those extra gray tiles, maybe they are supposed to be placed on the grey studs on the top ?

That rigging looks terrific, I can only shiver when imagining how much work it must cost Keep up the good work!

Since this tread is up now anyway... Other, I'm not looking for a fight, I'm setting out for a quest, searching for a treasure island relying on an old map. Nevertheless, I will make a stand against any pirates, sea monsters or even imperial forces that get in my way

Remember, Friends delivered that nice wig you can use for spanish commanders (link) Besides, I completely agree with Sinner, completely different target audience.

That would be a very good Idea indeed, I'll make it happen

Wow, it's practically a whole new ship, it's like double the size of the previous version The cabin looks very nice.

I've always wanted to make a castle but I never got the chance because most of my parts were in ships already. I can forget about a gray castle, most of my old gray is in my Flying Dutchman and I barely have new gray so I chose Black For the rest I completely relied on the raised baseplate from 6090 Royal Knight's Castle, a set I got for my 7th birthday (you can imagine that's a great memory of mine ) The green raised baseplate already has castle prints which makes my castle look bigger than it is I'm thinking of making a castle based on this one but in its "former" glory (flags, knights and stuff).

Those are nice, I like the yellow one most (the shape). I haven't made many ship boats yet, I only have these: They are very small so they would fit on my ship (the prefab longboats were a bit too big) but obviously a bit minimalistic

That stern is coming along great, I'm very curious how you'll decorate it, there seems to be an extra compartiment between the arched windows and the cabin, is there ?

That interior is the best, I'd love having a ship like that.

Nice, the headrails smoothly follow the hull curve, clever to use bars between the stern windows, I guess that excludes the possibility of interior The deck is beautiful, sweet dark brown. I think the stern galleries start a bit abrupt, it would be very nice if you could angle that part: I see that that would not be an easy task, considering you fixed it to the ship pretty good... What you could do instead is adding some color change in the brown where the galleries start, add some black perhaps.

I do not know much about the historical context, I do know that these ships where used both as merchant ships and battleships, I see an East-indiaman as a ship class in between Frigates and Ship-of-the-lines. I'm not going to use my ship in war nor trading, I find it a perfect ship for expeditions/exploration, the spacy hold allows for long voyages and independency, incase there would be a pirate attack there is a fully accomodated gun deck and armory to rely on.

This is a very good review, atleast very useful for a builder like me, the presence of rare colored parts is an important factor when I decide to buy a set. I agree, it's probably to make them stronger, I have a lot of the old ones, neither of them is broken but some of them are deformed, so much they are not usable anylonger. they also tend to warp a little bit on themselves. Yet I think the ridges reduce the range of applications for this part.

Very nice, great details, some in-trench shots would be nice, you, like from an TIE fighter perspective or so Oh and while I'm here anyway, "SI", what does that stand for ? everytime I see SI I think it's about me, wow I got blogged ? wait this isn't mine, oh it's that other guy

Ah, that picture will be very useful. In terms of my collection there's an easy answer; all of them Well, not entirely, I used all of my 2x1x3 and 2x2x3 slopebricks which is: About 44 of these : (though I often used two 2x1x3's instead, 44 would be ideal) 22 of these: Furthermore... You need about 60 in these slopes (can be combined with wider ones) (60 is a number when you would only use the thin slopes). Actually it would look nicer if you used these ones in 90% of the cases then you wouldn't have the studs on the side and 120 of these (also to be combined with wider slopes, which I strongly advice btw) (120 is a number when only used the thin slopes). And then you need some inverted slopes as well, for the keel. Besides slopes there's also a great deal of SNOT parts involved, Like these (in most cases its color is not important) and these (color is more critical here as part of it is often visible at the underside of the hull). I'm considering making the hull in LDD as well, it's relatively simple... well, easy to say for the builder Nothing like my dutchman's hull, trying to make that one in LDD is simply crazy.

Very nice, very special sail plan, it looks very agile, kind of agressive, makes me want to make this kind of ship too

Better ?

Nice minifig combo, the crown on its belt fits. I made a masked musketeer a while ago, as soon as I got the CMF musketeer

Very nice, the black looks special on a galleon I think, the decks look great, nice stern as well, that crows nest looks very good, I love the telescope mounted on it. No offense but this wouldn't be true for the lego versions of these ships, I saw the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in real a while ago, one of the best ships I've ever seen and heavely armed as well Btw, how come your ship doesn't have cannons ?

I had Dread Pirate Wesley's ship-of-the-line in mind when I chose colors, If I would have made a white hull I would used different colors though. Originally the archer's stuff was there as an alternative for gunpowder but eventually I realized that didn't make sense either, gunpowder can be kept dry by taking precautions and then there's a moving ship, strong wind blowing, etc, not really ideal conditions for archery Still, I wanted to fill my ship with lots of things, there are supposed to be three pairs of snowshoes somewhere in the hold (probably in a chest), a pitchfork, some magnifying glasses and lots of hammers, keys, wrenches and other tools, you can't have enough equipment Yes, I saw it even on the Black Pearl plan itself, too late though, I don't have much experience with the underside of ships It's something I will definitely pay attention to on future ships. As for this one, it would practically require a new hull design, I don't really see a simple way to correct the hull without taking it apart. Someday I will build a ship-of-the-line, at this point I think this type of hull is perfect, I would build it in white and ofcourse with some better curve near the keel instead of those flat parts . Not anywhere soon though, I have plenty of Idea's to get started now but I lack the bricks

I decided to post my progress anyway. I entered my ship in the Jolly Rodger Contest a while ago but because of the deadline I didn't have the chance to put much detail in it. So I decided to demolish a great part of it to start over again The ship itself is based enirely on the Black Pearl, exterior and interior alike, I only changed some colors and added some details (I will add chaser cannons for example). Current state: As you can see it has a complete hull, no waterline model this time. I have made an interior sketch but I forgot to reduce it's size so here's the link As you can see there is the hold, on top of that the gun deck and then the weather deck (which will also hold guns) Starting with the hold: The hold is pretty spacy, lots of room for cargo, I can accomodate 4 horses (or cows), on these picures it holds 25 barrels and some chests, nicely placed against the sides. Near the bow there are two compartiments reserved for goats and chickens... I don't have goats nor chickens so I used a pig and a brickbuilt chicken Then there's the foremost staircase (leading to the gun deck). it is situated in the main hold where also the cargo is stored. The main hold goes up to the second staircase. then there are two cells (brigs). After the brig is some more space for cargo and at the end (near the stern) is the armory. The armory is actually Jack's rum storage :P The brig is functional ofcourse and there's one on each side. The main hold. A part of the cabin, exactly the same as my old Black Pearl, I just knew it was a good Idea to keep the stern section (I demolished the rest). It fits perfectly on my new hold, which makes sense because both ships were based on the same plan (the black pearl plan). All right so far you have only seen the hold. the gun deck will rest on tiles so it can be taken out to reveal the hold. I recently managed to make the hull strong enough so it doesn't need the decks for extra strenght. There was a price to pay though, the long bars in the armory for example (they are an extra connection of stern and the rest of the hull, before they were added the stern tended to hang over a bit too much). There's still a lot of work to be done, difficult work, it's hard to keep the tumblehome while the decks need to come out

I would never dismantle a cannon, for actual firing cannons I wouldn't use my recoil construction either btw, I found out that the end of a cannon fits in a techic hole and sticks, my mechanism is based on that. This will however result in a big external construction so I'd only use them when they are under a deck in a ship or in a castle wall. I must say though, I haven't spend much thought on it lately, it seemed more interesting to focus on the recoiling and sound (and some people even want me to make them produce smoke... yeah right, I'm not exactly planning to get a smoke machine ).

I'd like to see some cars in normal colors: dark blue, silver, dark green, lime green. I have enough bright red and bright yellow cars already, besides, a yellow car is relatively rare.

Ah, there it is, you've come to the right place for pirate-advice As I said earlier, that cabin is awesome.

Yes, a contest such as this is a great way to build outside my comfort zone for a change And the deadline is pretty far away too Let's see, "must include sidewalk"... right, it probably won't be a very smooth sidewalk in my entry, I barely have enough grey tiles.