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Thank you guys for all the nice comments! Thank you for such an elaborate comment! The building limitations you're speaking of were only affecting the inside (e.g. the design of the table in the cabin) since I made the outside first and always gave it a priority. I always felt that putting coloured bricks inside MOCs to "fill them up" would be a waste which is why I made that interior even though it's small size is a bit silly. Of course my desire to add guns behind every gunport and be able to remove them was the driving force here initially. The fact that such a build requires more time and "publish or perish" seems a valid principle in the world of Lego MOCs too might make me move on to smaller, land-base side projects in the near future! I'll also keep Achille with the closed topdeck, but that doesn't make the interior unnecessary! Besides I'm working on a solution that allows only the removal of the sides so that you can present it with full sails while showing the interior. The gunport technique shouldn't be a miracle since I explained it in the very first post of the WIP topic. I hope others will find inspiration in this, as I love to see ship MOCs, but I also hope that Achille won't be seriously challenged! No unfortunately neither the capstan nor the steering works, which is also because of the removable topdeck. I always wanted to be the one to make studding sails first, but Admiral Croissant was quicker; and he reminded me to add them too! As a side-note, mine are simplified, while he made them the exact, accurate way. Pattex Repair Extreme Gel. It is an amazing glue and very easy to use, besides it's quite powerful and transparent. I was really lucky to find it for this purpose since it saves a LOT of time and makes the rigging look better at the same time. Yes, you got a point there. I thought about using Lego parts first , but found them too clumsy. Besides when you're using custom string and sailcloth already the step to metal hooks isn't very far. Thanks, sigfigs are fun; I think I should use mine more often! The next one(s) may take a while, and will be (significantly) larger too. Yep, the grates are indeed made from headlight bricks as are the gunports. The stern was the most fun part to build for me, hardest was the rigging! Oh-oh I was afraid of that discussion from the beginning and it doesn't seem to end. Even though it may seem odd, historically it's the correct flag for the pre-revolutionary France. I thought I put that in the title. But honestly, with all the breaks I took the concentrated time I worked on her probably was just 3 months. On the other hand life is busy and few will be able to devote much of their free time 3 months in a row. Well I guess it's probably the most time-consuming way to build something with Lego! But it's great fun building such ships and I wish more would do it! Of course you can! As long as you give credit you can take whatever you like. Some parts however (tumblehome + jumperplate technique, toilets, some deck details) are taken from other builders (CGH, Admiral Bejaune, Admiral Croissant and Captian Blackmoor) while others are trivial.

Why do you have a problem with adding one, just one (!) tiny little sentence? When there really isn't a better way to do it, then the technique certainly deserves credit. Otherwise there's just no motivation to share detailed pics of your MOCs, which wouldn't be good for the community; but it does happen a lot already! Why should anybody want to share a certain way of putting bricks together, on which he has worked for hours if not days and all he gets is that others use it and claim it as their own technique, because that is what essentially happens when no credit is given. No credit means that the builder claims he did it ALL by himself; i.e. if he didn't that is the false statement you're talking about. Believe me, it isn't fun to take all those pictures, resize them all manually, load them up to brickshelf or flickr and then find out that as a big "THANK YOU" others use your efforts and claim it as there own which, after a while, may give THEM credit by a third party. I am not as fanatic about receiving credit as I am about the establishment of clear rules concerning this matter! And I'll continue to fight for it, even though it's unpopular with some.

Quite interesting, the price for that Maersk blue helmet must have been very high on BL!

Yumm, I love the typical Galleon feel you're giving her, especially the stern! The zero tumblehome there isn't realistic, but it's a very interesting solution I haven't thought of. I recently bought a book "Spanish Galleon 1530-1690" in Portsmouth historic dockyard a few weeks ago, it might be quite helpful for what you're doing here (I've always wanted to build a Galleon too ). Actually I think the high stern + poop Admiral Croissant suggested are a tad too much. But yours are a little low indeed at the moment. As a side-note: The Golden Hinde of Sir Francis Drake looked fundamentally different, with a completely different colourscheme, a higher bowcastle and less elegant lines.

Ok, first of all, here is the Brothers Brick blog entry I mentioned. Sorry, but it is extremely unlikely that someone comes up with exactly the same technique or even 3 of them, even more so when they are very specific and sophisticated. Probably this isn't so much of an issue in building land based MOCs where every single one is special in it's very own way, but in shipbuilding the amount of specialized bricks concentrated on a rather small place means that the use of specific techniques is what distinguishes a MOC from others much more than elsewhere. Also the amount of time it takes to build a highly detailed ship is significantly larger (usually several months), i.e. more time is spent on figuring certain things out. These achievements can however be copied in just a few minutes. The fact that CGH is a well known builder here, a staff member too, and also made a tutorial shouldn't be an important measure for judging weather he deserves credit or not. It only makes it more difficult to steal from him. What does make his techniques so significant that they are always worth being credited however is how many possibilities they offer; and how widely they are used by other shipbuilders. Just think about how far you can get on a combined tumblehome and hull curve without him: not very! I'm much more concerned about maydayartist's technique for making the sides of the ship. He did make a tutorial on how to achieve the plank look with log bricks; and now all of that knowledge, the hard work he put in is used without referring to him in any way. Really, this isn't personal in any way, but I feel that as a matter of decency there should be some basic rule on how to give credit and deal with other's ideas and techniques with which we can all work. This discussion may shift the focus a bit from pif500's ship, but I think it's important nonetheless.

There has been an entry in the Brothers Brick Blog that very much encourages builders to give credit and i'll link to it when I'm home (on my iphone now). This really isn't supposed to be captious, but an attempt to call for something that should be self-evident. None of the three techniques I mentioned are well-known and they are very specific too. If no credit is given, the builder creates the impression he invented them all by himself; which, in this case, is wrong.

That's a rather nice ship you got there and well worth being blogged, BUT I reckon that you used techniques from maydayartist ( wooden side walls), Captain Blackmoor (lantern) and possibly myself (headrails) without giving any credit in any form. I am not impressed.

Interesting question, when you look at the oversized sterncastle of the IFS it becomes quite clear however, that it would not perform very well in heavy seas, unlike the SES which has some tumblehome there.

Looks a bit fragile, but they are easily recognizable as PotC figures, and they may also be inspirational for building figureheads in minfigure scale. Thanks for bringing this to us!

That is a wonderful contest! And the prizes are fantastic too! I'll probably enter when I find the time. Thanks to the staff for making this possible!

I guess a 4-wide window clearly is too big here. Sorry, Kabel, I underestimated the amount of trouble you're having with that part What could work would be to gradually reduce the tumblehome towards the stern and then use these (yellow ofc) in SNOT to both fill the gab to the stern and serve as part of the ornaments. The window should be rather easy: just use any of those Captain Becker suggested, I'd prefer this one in white, put a sticker on it for the lattice like Admiral Croissant did on his Vesta (direct link to his explanation) and be creative with all sorts of small yellow elements (fumes, minifig hands, flowers etc.) for the yellow ornaments around it. I don't have bricks where I'm now, so I can't attempt to build a model like TazManiac did. Hope that helps.

I voted for the BSB figurehead, because it's the only proper one on the only proper ship set Lego has ever released (excluding spaceships ) The yellow parrot of the Caribbean Clipper has it's charm too, but it's not a "classic" motive for a figurehead! The first pirates line was the best! You're really fond of polls, aren't you?

I didn't notice the new figures to be inferior in terms of quality; in fact I replaced all the arms and legs on my old figures with new pieces since they didn't age very well. The arms are likely to split from where the hand is put in and the legs tend to loose tension; also yellowing is a problem with white parts, but I guess that's still true. I didn't notice any significant missprints on my new figures and I have lots of them, while there are quite some on the old figures. So in a nutshell I'd say the quality of minifigures has rather increased. It's true though that, at the same time, the battlepack and collectible ones are inferior, but not by very much. They still do not have missprints, as least I didn't came across one that did. What worries me is the different, softer plastic material, but only time will tell if that makes them age worse. However I do agree that the old minifigures were way cooler! That is because some of them were bluecoats!

What a great way to introduce yourself to Classic-Pirates! Of course your figures have the advantage of better proportions compared to the "fat" minifigures yet it's still obvious that you took inspiration from those in the 2009 Pirates line. The only think that bothers me is that they cannot be posed and look a little fragile.

It's nice to see how the "Rum Room" inspires other people. The idea you have there is rather classic and the execution isn't too fancy either but it's still nice to see more MOCs! I hope you keep up building them!

Very nice idea! I like how you made a subtle tribute to Zorro and an outstanding MOC at the same time! Esspecially the modularity amazes me. I'm also quite fond of the stools on 1stud instead of 4. The piano is nice too! Great stuff, you make me want to build something landbased which I didn't for a long time since I was afraid it wouldn't be goo enough.

That is looking very promising already! The curve is very good and she looks sleek too! I'm not sure about the contrast of reddish brown on old brown hulls, but maybe that's just me; I like having one brown for the entire hull to make it look clean. As you're building the topdeck railing in a sloped way with the technic bricks for the rigging like on the good old CGH designs I assume you're not going to give her an interior? Well it'y your choice, you can build sleeker without one too. The tan tiling looks very promising; the only reason I prefer reddish brown tiles is that they're cheap on the PAB wall. Do you need help with filling out the hole in the bow part? You can simply put in a 2x2x1 slope or go for the more elaborate tile and hinge solution I used on Achille using these. Anyway: I wish you much success and: Have fun!

I think I made SNOT platforms quite popular! But as Aalak said: plan for spots to attach the rigging to. I also think he's right about the mast placement. She's generally coming along rather nicely, but I would strongly suggest making the 2nd mast section thinner than the lowest one, that looks far more elegant! Also the deck is far to wide at the stern; a rather common mistake: It should be smallest there with the galleries (brigs didn't really have any btw) being under a roof and also extending the stern to less (or at least not more than) the maximum width. Also the hole in the deck for the working area looks a bit small. How are you planning to make this modular with the rigging when the sides are build up and sloping on the topdeck in the typical CGH way? You could try to make the sides modular instead of the deck like Admiral Croissant on his Vesta, that would be easier to build too. But the ratlines would still need to go somewhere. Hope that helps!

Ok, well to make it short: If I were you, I'd have waited with the rigging until all the masts and proportions are as good as possible, ideally "perfect". I say that because I'm afraid your masts are way too high. This is another graphic of the famous HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool. It's been shown in this thread a couple of times; and I also had the honor to visit her quite lately, pictures will come when I have the time But back on topic: as you can see the main mast is about as high as the length at the waterline. Actually that's quite a lot, when I visited her I was quite amazed. The main mast's top is 46,6m above the deck. But at the same time the overall length (driver boom to flying jib boom) is 82,3m. In other words: the ship is significantly longer than high. The only historic ship with exceptionally high masts is USS Constitution, but she's not in her original condition of 1812 and neither a "true" nor a typical frigate. In other words: I think there's no way you can keep your masts as high as they are now, also aesthetically. Of course things a are a bit different on a Lego model. For instance the prefab hulls and the oversized minifigures make the hull appear more clumsy than on a model that is to scale. Hence higher masts are a natural solution to make up for that; and yes, they are about 20% too high on Achille too. But yours are even higher than that. I think the main mast should have it's royal yard a bit lower than where the topgallant yard is now. On top of that there would only be the flagtop, a thin bar piece like the lightsabre one, but longer. And of course all the other masts would be somewhat lower than that even; the foremasts slightly lower, the mizzen much lower. I'm not you, but that's my opinion. I'd also like to add that she's looking really, really good apart from that. Now onto the headrails: I am very fond of what you have done there so far, but there's still some fine-tuning that you could do. That's the headrails of Guerrière, an older design than on Achille, but I think it's easier to figure out where the 3mm hose goes. As you can see, the vertical hose parts are all attached to the hose parallel to the prow. The part in the middle isn't attached anywhere but on it's ends and is just for decoration as is the horizontal hose above the holes that are used for the anchor cables. If you're having trouble bending the hose, just bend them a little too much and it will come back where you wanted it initially. Hope that helps. Apparently you have more time available than I do, at least the last 2 months! That also explains why you've been so extraordinary fast in your progress! Great progress, I'm curious how this will look when finished!

I like that you're bringing so much variation to ship types lately, especially such small ones! I very much like the colourscheme, but maybe dark red would be better instead of the normal one. Also the sides curve far too much, as on your other WIP. I hope you manage to continue with your feet program. We need to sink more redcoat vessels for training purposes!

That is for the jolly Roger II contest on Forbidden Cove I believe. It's a bit cartoonish and very bloody, but well built and the hull technique isn't bad either!

That is a nice surprise, a nice ship WIP once again after a while where just too much LDD stuff has floated around! And it's part of a much bigger fleet too! If I may criticize a little: I think both the curve and the tumblehome are too much. In addition the deck should be wider in the middle while the tumblehome would be of a similar amount along the sides. Currently the deck is even wider at the stern where it should be narrowest. I also have to agree with Captain Blackmoor that the red colors used on the stern could be improved. But she's coming along rather nicely and I'm sure with two sister ships you'll find it much easier to make experiments and significant improvements (at least I did ).

Anyone care to fix the title? It is supposed to be "REVIEW", not "REIVEW"! As a set I always wanted this as a child, but now much prefer the BSB.

Another great MOC from one of my favorite builders here! As usual there's a lot going on and your minifig posing makes it feel very real. I also like the doors to the balcony and the plant inside! Using the droid arms as table legs is quite creative! I might steal that (with credit ofc) It is really amazing how true your proportions are to the picture!