Admiral Croissant

Done. I did once buy a cheap chinese plastic set for fun. It then also became very clear to me that LEGO makes far better products. So I voted for "no"(that I never buy other brands) because I will never do it again

I recently had a look at the index, and I found out there was no tutorial for making sails the way for example Green Hair, Perfectionist and I do it. In this tutorial I will mainly focus on the main topsail because if you know how to do that one, all the other sails will be a piece of cake as well. The first thing when you want to make sails is of course looking for reference. There are some good books about ships but there are also many good drawings on the internet. Then you can (if you want to) put a piece of cotton or other cloth (linen for example) in a bucket with tea or coffee. I used black tea. Coffee will give them more this colour. I use tea because it looks more stained like these sails (although these are a bit too dirty IMO). But perhaps the stained look is achieved because I folded the cloth in the tea. With unbleached cotton this is of course not necessary, and perhaps not smart but I've never tried it. After soaking, it's smart to iron the sails so you don't have all the wrinkles in it. Next thing is to decide the scale of the sail. In this tutorial I'm making the sail twice as large as on the picture: In that scale you can make the outlines of the sail: Then you can add vertical lines. On minifig illusion scale 1cm between each line looks realistic. But Greenhair and Perfectionist are using more space between them and that doesn't look bad either. On the right half of this sail I used a darker pencil than on the left halft to show you the difference. I think the lighter half looks the best. Now on to the horizontal lines, which you can see here: Note: not all sails have these horizontal lines. It depends on the ship you're making which ones do and which ones don't have them. The space between each line is about 1cm, so that makes 2cm on my sail. Next thing is too add spots on the place where usually are ropes. I believe the ropes are used for taking in the sails. Adding all those ropes is too much work IMO (although it has been done), so to give the impression of them, I add these dots. Here are the ropes on a picture: When you're finished with that, the next thing is too make the outlines brown. This is not neccesary, but it looks quite nice. It resembles the rope on the edge of the sails, like you can see on the bottom of this picture. Be sure to make these lines quite thick, so it's easier when you're cutting the sails out. Of course, you want all the lines to be visible on both sides and on exactly the same place. When you're very good in measuring, you can just draw the same thing on the other side. Another (perhaps easier) way is to place the cloth on a window (or a light table), so you can easily trace the lines. Even easier is to trace a few important dots on the edges, so you can connect them on your table. Drawing on a window is quite hard. Now you can cut the sail out. One of the last things is to varnish the edges. This is to prevent the sail from unraveling. I always use revell varnish, but perhaps nail polish or glue works fine as well. If you dont want the sails to be modular, you can also put glue all over the sails and let it bend in a certain shape like wind blowing in the sail. Use about this much: And the final thing of course is to sew the sail on a yard, and put it on your ship: Finally, for making jib sails, there are different line patterns: The one on the left is the most common. The one in the middle is quite rare, and the one on the right is more modern (clipper era and later). Comments and questions are always welcome. Good luck!

I usually prefer MOC's, but I like this MOD as well. You assembled the sets in a great way and your choice of minifigs is also good. And there are some nice scenes going on. I only think the fisherman is a bit out of place because he looks too modern. But that's just a very small detail. Good job over all.

Very nice! The minifigs themselves are awesome of course, but an army of them is even better. And you also made a nice MOC around it. Well done.

I think Gannet is a bit too modern to be useful on this forum. Pictures of HMS Warrior and HMS Victory however, are always welcome.I already put a link to your visit in Perfectionist's HMS Victory thread. But I leave it up to Perfectionist to decide where additional pictures can be posted.

Agreed. It's a nice ship, but the stern can be improved. I would make the poop deck more narrow in the back en let it get wider towards the front. And I would make the poop deck longer, almost to the main mast, like on this ship. Also, the sails at the bottom of the masts are usually the largest, and upwards they get smaller and smaller (as you can also see on the picture). Outside of that you did a rather good job

Yeah I wouldn't make the forecastle higher. As for the figurehead, I remember Blackmoor's Fourageux once had a Poseidon (or sort of) as figurehead. Maybe helpful for inspiration. Here is a picture.

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I agree with you. At least, if BlaketheAdmiral had posted them himself, he should have made 2 topics.But on flickr finds we usually don't get many comments, so I decided to do them in 1 topic. Otherwise we probably would have had 2 topics with both 2 or 3 comments, and these great MOC's don't deserve that

Not stupid, probably too lazy to read other people's comments This is what Zeek said on page 2 of this topic:

Aalak, in the future please don't quote large pictures like that which you can already see on the same page. Also rather write "by the way" instead of abbreviations like btw. Thank you

No on the Ares they look good. It's the gunports with the red circle around them. The one with the green circle (which Ares has) looks good. But the one with the red cirkle seems to have the shape I made in red on the picture. But it could be due to the camera angle..

Good to know you're still bricking I agree with Aalak that the red looks better than the yellow line. I don't have much to complain about. Perhaps the curve in the front is a bit too much. As you can see here, there's almost no curve at all in the front half of the ship. But perhaps I'm just nitpicking And those holes on the main deck, are they gunports? Or just for letting the water run away? For gunports the shape is a bit strange IMO. Nevertheless it's becoming a very good frigate. Well done so far

I think they look excellent. I like the colours, and just like the rest I don't think they're too big. The diamond for the light is also clever even though it's perhaps too much pointed towards the sky instead of the road. But that's perhaps hard to fix. I also like the one with the all-grey parts at the front wheel more than the one with the silver parts. I guess that's just personal taste. Well done

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112D & 114B Flickr member BlaketheAdmiral has made a minifig scale (or close to it) version of both HMS Surprise and USS Constitution! We have invited him to our forum, but he didn't respond so far so I decided to post them myself. The deck colours and the interior could be improved a little IMO, but they are still very impressive! HMS Surprise: HMS SURPRISE by BlaketheAdmiral, on Flickr USS Constitution: DSCN5197 by BlaketheAdmiral, on Flickr And of course they are [bloggedcp][/bloggedcp]

Confirmed But perhaps if that's too difficult you could get the same effect by adding one more line to both masts. And on later schooners the angle is minimal anyway as you can see here. But, as you can see here, the angle is clearly there.

Looks excellent. It looks more realistic now the ship is at waterlevel And with all the barrels and things on the deck the grey headlight bricks don't bother me anymore. The rigging looks great as well so far. I only think that the blue 1x2 plates are a bit out of place. The rest of the ship is very realistic, but somehow I feel like those plates don't seem to fit there very well. Outside of that you did a good job!

Thank you all for the congratulations! I'll do my best to be a good regulator and to fill this place with croissants! Yeah sometimes life takes a strange turn Thanks. I've never tried that combination but it sounds like a good idea

Awesome Everything is in the same great style. The projector house and the curtains around the screen are very nice, just as the windows in the roof, and everything else. This MOC has an excellent sense of realism. Well done.

What exactly do you mean with "sails like that"?Do you mean you want the same colour? Or you want to make the sails and rigging moveable? Or you want the 'clouds' in the same way? Or just the same sail plan? Or all of those? Anyway, Aalak gave you a good explanation. But I did it a bit different from what he said. I did the "clouds" the same as CGH, but I used different types of string, and I knotted everything instead of using glue. I made the sails the same way as Perfectionist, but I made more lines (1cm apart from each other) and I made brown lines on the edges. (representing this rope) And I did sew the sails to the yards, but I didn't sew them on the ropes. I attached these to the lateen sails so I can also fold them up (as you can see here on the left) And finally, here are some pictures where I try to explain how I made all the sails modular and "braceable". Good luck!

Looks beautiful with all the rigging But if you'd like to make your rigging more perfect, I hace a few small suggestions: I believe I haven't seen those "red lines" on other ships, so I think they could be removed. You could add brace lines instead (I've made them green) so you can turn the yards. You can also see brace lines quite clearly on this picture. And you could make them moveable (like I did on the Vesta), but that's quite difficult. Non-mveable would look great too of course But outside of that your ship is terrific! I just noticed it hasn't been frontpaged so far. Let's change that. [bloggedcp][/bloggedcp]

And you can finally add the Amsterdam. I don't have pictures of other historic ships. I do have a few of a galleon in Italy, but it wasn't very accurate, and I have a few pictures of windjammers, but those aren't very useful either. So I'll leave it with this

NOTE: This thread should be used for indexing purposes only. All discussion can be done in this thread. I've visited this ship several times so I believe these pictures aren't all of the same day. Most of the pictures were taken in 2009. The ship is currently under repair until September 2011. You can click the link on the bottom of each picture to see a short description. Here is the official website, and here is the Wikipedia article. Amsterdam 01 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 1 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 2 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 3 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 4 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 5 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 6 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 7 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 8 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 9 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 11 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 12 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 13 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 14 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 15 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 16 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 17 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 18 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 19 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 20 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 21 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 22 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 23 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 24 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 25 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 26 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 27 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 28 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 29 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 30 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 31 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 32 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 33 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 34 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 35 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 36 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 37 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 38 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 39 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 40 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 41 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 42 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 43 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 44 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 45 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 46 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 47 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 48 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr Amsterdam 49 by Admiral Croissant, on Flickr