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I'm from Poland. About the nearest supplier - I haven't checked lately. Actually I never ordered anything by bricklink and I'm not 100% sure if I know exactly how it works. :$

A website. And a really nice one.

I think it's something like the guns we saw on SES's bridge... Yes, that looks a bit strange to me as well. But on the other hand the ship looks more mysterious with this ghost at the bow.

Well, so I have a KK piece! That's something new...

How about this one: The Final Duel Two mortal enemies meet in a fight to death. The set includes two figs - a pirate captain (probably Red Beard once again, considering the character of this set) and Governor Broadside (well, Woodhouse would fit too but I just don't like him as much). They meet on the ruins of some fort the pirates have just destroyed in which Broadside was staying, they are fighting on the top of the fort's wall. Their armies are busy fighting each other, or maybe most of them have already died/escaped. They are both wounded (I'd like to see some new torsos and faces - Broadside's uniform torn, bruises and wounds on his face, the same for Red Beard) and have just one sabre each, and the duel begins. The loser will fall off the wall into the water (the fort is on the shore) where a shark is already waiting.

I agree, plus it has more nice details, like all those hatches (8 including doors!), is more universal (no skull and crossbones printed on sails) and much more good-looking than the SES. Yes, it's one of the best sets ever made. And it's finally winning in our poll thanks to you. A place it deserved from the very beginning. Black Seas Barracuda forever!!! :)

Modify it a bit and it becomes great. When built according to instructions it has some faults like the silly way the rear sail is attached (there's no way it can actually drag the ship forward, when it's attached only in two points!), anchor with no winch, bridge with no ladder to get to it... But the Spaniards look great, so do the sails, and I like the white hull very much. Check out my just a little improved version here.

Aren't the rats a part of every ship's crew? :) Only this week! For every 2 ships sunk you get a free pizza.

They have lots of those hull sections there but as I wrote in another thread this wouldn't pay because of the shipping costs.

For the same reason I don't use bricklink... The shipping would be too expensive compared to what I'd want to buy.

Note that the ship has custom made cannons - there's not enough room for original cannons to be put on both sides of those narrow hulls (I assume the gun ports are on both sides of the ship). And yes the ship does look tippable because of that tall stern section.

Maybe not literally food but seeds or cuttings. As for the monkeys it's really a problem, however my crew will soon think of something. :) Oh wait a minute, the ship doesn't have any assinged crew yet... Rats!

As I said I have no idea, I just got it in a big bag of various parts. However it's safe to assume that it's from Castle theme on which I'm no expert.

This is exactly what the guy on that page wrote. If only I could find it again... I'll try.

What about the Imperial Flagship? I once found a page where a guy who was an expert in sailing described all Lego ships and compared them to real ships, and said which of them were the most realistic, and named the types of the vessels. It was more than a year ago and I can't find it now.

Thanks for the information. What about the one with the bull on his chest? I used it because I thought it would fit a Spaniard nicely (Spain -> corrida -> bulls).

Let me think... They can transport monkeys to Europe and sell them for circuses or something like that. :) Apart from monkeys: money, jewels, horses, weapons, food. They can carry supplies for the colonies for instance.

And who exactly is this guy?

Some of this torsos are of origin unknown to me, probably from Castle, but I'm not sure... I just got them in brick packs I bought from various people. Is there a Fright Knight torso here? :)

It will be universal - the ship can transport money, goods, animals, maybe barrels of rum or slaves - depends on what they wish to trade...

This is quite a nice explanation. As I see it now, it is the same guy who appeared in the previous sets (all the variations shown by mister_phes) and served under Red Beard, then during the crash you mentioned he lost a leg (hence the pegleg in Pirates Perilous Pitfall) and then he mutinied and became a new captain.

Yes, unfortunately such middle sections will always stand out a bit. However that doesn't refrain many MOC builders I know from using them. Note that the big merchantman I'm still working on (I've been today but it's still not ready) doesn't have original middle sections at all.

I have no idea, I just typed "Armada" into the brickshelf browser and found this, no data on email adress or anything though.

That's a good question indeed. Owner of (at least) two Armada Flagships and (at least) one Armada Sentry and who knows what else should have at least 7 Armada minifigs...

The folder's here. I found this one on brickshelf lately and I must say it's one of the best custom ships I've ever seen. And here's why: 1) I've seen many giant ship MOCs using wide hull, but this one uses Armada Flagship's narrow hull, which isn't usually used as base for ships this huge and complex. I'd say it's harder to use the narrow hull and still make a big ship withs lots of details 2) Clever use of parts - there were only two Imperial Armada sets released by Lego and parts of that sets are used here (note the Armada Sentry's green door, plus the MOC is obviously made of two Armada Flagships). 3) Great colour scheme. Just white, blue and green, not like in the Armada Flagship which was a mixture of colours. Here it looks much more monolithic. 4) It represents the Imperial Armada, the smallest of all subthemes (again, only 2 sets), yet it shows a big vessel can be made in this subject. Congratulations to its constructor - Nyanta. Lego should print this picture and hang it on the wall to look at what they might have done hadn't the Pirate line and Imperial Armada subtheme been discontinued.