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Cool, thank you sir!

It's from the set 7881: Also, there's an even bigger hull in the set 7880, so maybe I'll use it someday too (although I'm slightly discouraged by how hard those hulls are to work with ):

Thanks! Yes, it is very wide. I suppose it is playing-friendly, if you play with it gently - some parts are quite fragile, especially the bow.

Thanks for that! I generally think that Duplo is vastly underestimated by AFOLs. There are some gems among those pieces too! I have some Duplo bricks myself, and there are a few among them which look like something I could use in the future!

The exhibition of Wawlug in Warsaw, which ends today. Here's the section with Pirates:

Thanks! The hull does have a unique feel compared to standard hulls. If only it was easier to work with. They do, and I intend to test my ship in that regard. But that won't happen until at least after the weekend, since I'm taking her to an exhibition tomorrow!

Thanks! Well, the captain's cabin is fully operational so there is some interior after all. With this hull you have to make a trade-off between play value and structural integrity. That's nice to read, thanks! I was aware of your ship when building this. Yes I think it's important to cover all the Duplo studs, and then I covered most of the normal studs with tiles and other stuff, so that's like a double cover. Thanks, I appreciate the comment! Yes, I think it looks cartoonish, but in a good way. I'm taking it to an exhibition this weekend so we'll see whether it looks good next to other ships. Thanks! Fortunately the hull itself uses pretty standard colours, so it wasn't hard to merge it with System bricks in terms of the overall colour scheme.

Thanks for the comment! Yes, it indeed has a similar feel to it. I really like the look of this Duplo hull. It has very realistic colours.

Hello there. For quite some time, I've been planning to build a ship which uses one of the Duplo hulls. So when I got the chance to buy the hull from the set 7881 at a really good price, I hesitated no more and finally started to fulfil my plans. The result is here, and it's called the Hippocampus. By the way, it's also on Instagram so feel free to follow me there, too! I must admit, this hull is a weird thing to work with. It has nice curves and an overall great shape, and the colours are really good. Unfortunately, those curves also mean it's pretty incompatible with the shapes of most standard "System" bricks. Therefore, I had to use a lot of weird angles to pull this one off. Still, not everything fits perfectly, there are some gaps here and there, but overall I am pretty satisfied with the final result. Nonetheless, it was a real challenge to try to make all of this fit together, and while I am tempted by the vision of using the even bigger Duplo hull which is also available (the set 7880), I don't think I'm ready to live through all this stress again. Plus, 7880 has a much less realistic hull. So yeah, it's definitely time to give Duplo a rest for now. Anyway, as hard as it was to use it, I really like the bulky shape of this hull. Combined with standard minifigs, it really gives you an impression of a robust, durable vessel and a worthy adversary in a sea battle. Which is kind of ironic, considering that the techniques used to attach System bricks to Duplo make it rather fragile. The captain's cabin is accessible by removing the roof. In here, you can also see that the ship uses a total of three Duplo bricks. The first and the second one make up the hull, which separates in two. The third one? The captain's mirror. There are also two hatches in the forecastle section. Below you can see one of them opened. Although some minifigs or cargo can be put in there, it is in fact occupied by the structures holding the bow of the ship together. And here's the bottom hatch opened. A ladder is visible, leading somewhere to the lower deck. What's on it, however, is up to one's imagination. And that's pretty much the whole ship. Once again, it was fun to build, but also really, really cumbersome. This Duplo hull really isn't the friendliest piece to work with. And I can't even begin to guess how many times the bow or the stern fell apart during the whole endeavour. But I think it was worth the effort! That's all, I'm relly interested in your comments about this rather unusual design.

Well, I like this tavern a lot! Just imagine all the action that could happen here. Instead of being on different floors, Broadside and Redbeard should sit together and have a nice conversation for a change. Those front arches are really well done, and the whole building just screams "I'm part of a larger city".

The ship is called Anne's Mercy and it was built by BHs (tantiss_by_bhs on Instagram). He didn't make any official galleries of that ship, but you can see some more images here: You can also take a better look at his tavern which was a part of that exhibition. He made quite a nice gallery of it, which you can see here (in fact those three pics of the ship are there too): https://www.flickr.com/photos/127227004@N08/albums/72157715281118448 Just a little teaser image of the tavern:

That explains a lot, thanks! I will remember this in the future. On a side note, is it OK to bump an old thread if the MOC presented in it has been modified/updated? Or will a new thread be better?

Thanks! I'm really glad I picked it up after 5 years and finished the job!

So, just out of curiosity, is it OK to insert 1920x1080 images into your post? I always thought it was considered inappropriate and cluttering up the page, while smaller images are easier to scroll through. Then again, EB cannot generate thumbnails to larger images, can it?

I'm sure at least a few of them have - which makes me wonder how the pictures weren't too small back then. There were more easter eggs all around. E.g. there were several Santa Clauses hidden here and there, and nobody knew their exact number, as this was a collab project. Thanks! Hopefully next time we will find more room for Pirates, since I know I'm not the only one who could bring something (I have no islands as of yet, but other builders do).

Well, as (some of you) requested, here are some photos of my ships at the exhibition which took place last weekend in Warsaw, Poland. It was organised by WawLug which is the registered Lego User Group of Warsaw AFOLS, and which I'm now officially a member of. You can find out more about WawLug here: https://wawlug.pl/ https://www.instagram.com/waw_lug/ https://www.facebook.com/WAWLUG/ Although there were some plans to bring other builders' ships too, due to limited space I ended up as the sole provider of Pirate-related stuff at the event. And this is what my part looked like: Since all of these ships were posted here at some point in time, here's a list of names from left to right, each linking to its respective forum thread: The White Damsel, Juggernaut, The Devil Lady, La Volonté, Repentance, HMS Eternity and El Mono. Some more photos: Overall, I think the exhibition was a great event and there were visitors of all ages, who took a lot of pictures of everything, obviously. Some of them even remembered having the original Black Seas Barracuda or Caribbean Clipper back in the day. Anyway, if you're interested in pictures from the whole exhibition, which was packed full of great MOCs from great builders, here are two galleries uploaded by other WawLug members: GALLERY 1 GALLERY 2 And, finally, a film: Once again - a splendid event and two days of great fun. Hope to do this again some time, hopefully with even more Pirates.

Seriously, I have no idea. I never tried to be historically accurate. All my ships exist in a fantasy world. Actually, although my comic series is currently on hold, I consider all my MOCs as existing in the same "universe" as that story. Which in fact does not take place in our world's past. Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you like it!

Then there was also the summer exhibition organised by LugPol, where we used printed water instead. The same will be used as the sea at this month's exhibition.

I definitely will. In the meantime, this is what it looked like back in April (four of those ships were mine, the other two and the islands were built by other AFOLs - all great stuff). I took this photo shortly after the exhibition ended and just before collecting the models (this only shows the part with Pirates, the whole exhibition was much bigger, with trains and town and Star Wars and a lot more):

Thanks! This one will be in Warsaw, organised by WawLug (registered LUG of Warsaw AFOLs). Depending on the Covid situation, it may be just people looking at LEGO models standing in another room, behind large windows in a shopping mall. A similar event took place in April and it worked pretty well.

Thanks for the feedback! Now I'm really glad I finished the build after all this time.

The comic is currently suspended (again... ) for an indefinite period, but if it returns one day, then I think it's very likely that we would see her. Thanks, it was indeed tricky to install the yellow ladders in this position, but I'm really satisfied with the result.

Thanks very much! Glad you like it! Yeah, I agree it could use more. On the other hand, adding one or two more would leave almost no empty space on the lower deck, so the solution I used is a compromise of sorts.

I didn't really think about it, but it would have to be French. Yes, it really is that easy.

He's the captain, obviously. And by the way, if you're interested in what it looked like for the almost 5 years it spent unfinished in storage, LOOK HERE. This was its condition before I resumed work a few months ago. It had a lot more black back then; I replaced some with yellow to make it look less boring. And HERE IS another work in progress picture from a slightly later time, when I was experimenting with the ladder windows...