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Thanks, for finding this creation and sharing it, Z! I think the editing of that picture is exceptionally well done! One of the best I've seen so far! The ship itself seems far less amazing, but it's very decent and you can clearly see it's a frigate. Athena is a great name by the way!

First of all congrats on finishing her! By far not every good WIP on this forum ever gets finished You've given her very good proportions and a flawless colourscheme, so from distance it's a superior ship. However there isn't much detailing, so looking closely, it all looks a bit simple; no shaping of the hull, only moderate detail on the bow and stern, the gallerys are rectangular, relatively simple mast and yard design, no rigging(!)... and so on. However you've been stating that this is intentional, so I don't want to nitpick on it too much! Admiral Croissant is right about the lowered yards though. You could also make full sails from white Lego plates and tiles in LDD; that might loook a bit better. In representing the basic impression of a 18th century frigate she is doing a very, very decent job though, so I'd say: goal achieved! In case you might be able to build her in real bricks some day; I'd be glad to see her and very sure she'd turn out a lot more detailed, since you apparently got the skills it takes!

That's a groundbreaking technique you developed there! It is extremely well fitted to this xebex kind of ship, bit I could also imagine it to work really well on a galleon or a flyt or any other heavily curved ship! Too bad it doesn't really allow for any real interior workings! What makes it even more awesome is the fact that it is very very similar to the construction of a real ship with the framework, so even unfinished it makes a great "ship under construction" MOC. The proportions and hull design are superior! Is it made in any specific scale? There's just one little thing you need to do to make it perfect: TILE IT! Thanks a lot for sharing, I'm sure this will inspire a lot of people (including me)!

Way too much black IMO, even for a fantasy ship. The swivel gun and overall proportions are quite good though!

Nice little battle scene! It's very interesting to see the combination of fleshies and the good old bluecoats! The musketeers fit in quite well too. The variation of torsos and faces for the pirates make them seem quite realistic.

Beautifully made with a lot of in-dept detailing! Way superior to any fortress TLG made. The wooden roof looks really good in combination with the stone base.

Lovely idea for keeping the famous Admiral in our minds! Your giant army is put best into place like this! The golden base looks very good too!

Congratulations! You've been a blogger for so long, you really deserved it!

Hmm to be honest I think a custom decal would work much better here, however with the existing Lego torsos in mind I can understand your choice as it has something like the fleur-de-lys in it. The musketeers look great though! I do spot that only the first row has the new white printed hats! Maybe it would be a good idea to paint the rest by yourself? if you do it properly I think nobody would see much of a difference! By the way, the size of your army is very, very impressive!

Well the picture is quite blurry, but from what I can see the hull shaping looks quite promising indeed. I do think however you should lower the lowest line of bricks at the keel astern, so that the transition from the keel to the underwater part of the stern becomes smoother. Hope to see some better pictures soon! Keep it up!

Your houses are getting better and better with every update! However Fort Brighton East still seems to be one of those "never ending" projects. Is there going to be any sort of an interior? Would be quite a waste otherwise. I think dark red would look much better on the last house instead of the normal one. I would also either add window shutters or change something about the window frame color (black?). But it's still looking very good! I'm just nitpicking here. Keep it up!

Quite nice! I really like the custom dark blue French uniforms! The minifigure posing looks very natural to me. Maybe you could improve on the dead tree a bit, but apart from that it's a very nice battle scene.

Very nice to have such a tutorial! I imagine it to be a lot of work and it's great you share it with the Lego community! Since you are a designated landscape expert I couldn't imagine a better person to do this.

NOTE: This thread should be used for indexing purposes only. All discussion can be done in this thread. When I visited HMS Victory in mid-February 2011, I also took a look at the figurehead collection at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard opposite of the famous vessel. HMS Princess Alice (steam-propelled packet vessel; 1844) HMS Glasgow (50-gun fourth rate; 1814) HMS Malacca (sixth rate frigate; 1853) HMS Albatross (steam-propelled sloop; 1873) HMS Illustrious (74-gun third rate; 1803) HMS Calliope (brig sloop; 1808) HMS Apollo (fifth rate 46-gun frigate; 1805) HMS Minerva (fifth rate 46-gun frigate ; 1820) HMS Actaeon (sixth rate 28-gun frigate; 1831) HMS Eurydice (sixth rate 26-gun frigate; 1843) HMS Orestes (18-gun sloop; 1824) HMS Centurion (second class twin-screw battleship, 1892) HMS Espiegle (10-gun steam sloop; 1900) HMS Warrior (74-gun third rate; 1781) HMS Bellerophon (74-gun third rate, 1786) HMS Black Eagle (Admiralty steam yacht; 1831) HM Yacht Victoria and Albert II (Royal steam yacht, 1855) HMS Grampus (74-gun third rate; 1784) HMS Carnatic (80-gun third rate; 1823) HMS Asia (84-gun second rate; 1824) HMS Bellerophon (80-gun third rate; 1818) HMS Blazer (steam sloop; 1834) HMS Madagascar (43-gun fifth rate frigate; 1822) HMS Rolla (10-gun brig; 1829) HMS Victory's original figurehead before her great repair in 1800 (104-gun first rate; 1765)

Very, very nice looking ship with a lot of detail. I'm in awe of your capstan design; i like the second one best! I followed your build for a while and it's certainly one of the most impressive here on the forums with comparatively quick progress! I would also like to add that the size of your ship is just about right; looks really good! Not quite as monstrous as a minifigure scale one, but it looks really nice and realistic for the size of a minifigure plus the proportions are pretty sweet too! I can't add much here; personally I would go for headlight grates and some sort of modularity. I'm always using the pearl grey Lego guns, but your MOC cannons look great too; and much more to scale.

Not a good idea to quote my post including said picture than, eh? Didn't know about that policy change; deeplinking used to be ok.

I must say I really like the hinge you chose allowing for both vertical and horizontal movement, a feature not every swivel design has. Quite clever part usage here! Also the technic pin makes the gun barrel look very realistic! However I notice the hinge should be directly below the barrel. click me I'm using my own swivel design, however it isn't perfect either as it extends too far from the railing, something your design doesn't. Nice idea, thanks for sharing!

Hey there, I just noticed my frigate has been forgotten to be added to the index, chronologically it should be after Vesta and before Surprise. It would be nice if a classic-pirates.com crew member could fix that. Thanks!

It's so that those countless threads don't get bumped and mess up both the discussion and the forum. Also I wanted to keep it possible to add more pictures at a later point without having to reserve posts for that (picture limit of 61 per post). Actually I'm rather surprised you ask this, since keeping the forum in good order is more in your interest than in mine. There are already many pictures of those two ships (78 of Victory and 59 of Warrior). The only area not where there are no photos of is the captain's cabin which is behind the steering wheel on the topdeck (there is a picture of the admiral's cabin though). So as long your pictures aren't showing something something spectacular that can't be seen so far there would be no point in uploading or linking to them. And yes, HMS Gannet would indeed be too late. I felt Warrior to be the borderline since she stll sailed most of the time and used mainly muzzle-loading guns. But I might be wrong here snce there is no clear border of when the age of sail ended. The Warrior probably is just at that borderline being both a sailing ship and a steamship. And since I did visit HMS Victory in February which is probably much more recently than your last visit, you are in no position to correct me here. It was definetely forbidden to take any photographs on board, no matter whether on the topdeck or down in the hold. I took them all secretly and at one point was even close to being excluded from the further tour which is why I have only three pictures of the topdeck taken with my iphone, not my camera (I added quite a few from wiki commons though). The official argumentation of the guide was that people who take pictures would not listen to him and his safety advices. Quite egocentric indeed, but maybe a new policy. Well, I had a good look on those pics and they didn't show anything not yet covered by the index, so I decided to get rid of the link. Now that you're promoted you can of course edit all of my posts, but I still feel that there's no point in having very similar pictures linked to or added to the index since it only adds confusion. It took me quite a while to sort the 2234 pictures I took and make sure that no two very similar pictures would be uploaded; and I also edited the posts a few times to make that sure. So please understand that I want to keep that order. Pictures showing completely new aspects would however be welcome. In case they are of ships already added to the index I think we should discuss it first.

I've been looking forward to finally see some detailed pictures of how she looked before her utter destruction! Since rebuild is somewhat doubtful and there is a stunning Lego model of her in the making, these are extra valuable. As CGH mentioned in his WIP thread the replica isn't entirely accurate, at least the aluminium masts are too thin. Thank you for sharing!

Congratulations Admiral! Nobody I can think of has deserved a promotion as much as you, giving helpful advice everywhere and being most active and helpful! I am certain the forum will benefit from you even more now!

Awesome! Those are really good pics. Somehow the Batavia reminds me quite a lot of the Vasa, which shouldn't be surprising since the original was build around the same time. Thanks for the suggestion, but I won't make a list of replica ships here since there are simply too many of those and only a few are accurately build. If the historical accuracy is good enough for the index should be decided on a case to case basis. For example the Golden Hind replica in London is fairly inaccurate as there are no plans of the original ship it's in fact a fantasy product! In contrast to that the replicas added to the index so far have all been constructed according to original plans; and of the Amsterdam even the wreck is found. Still only Batavia and the Hermione have wooden knees wile the others use iron for saving money. It's really great you've taken the initiative here and made those two threads! I only wished others would follow your shining example! By the way, Admiral, I noticed you've put "Historic Ships" instead of "Replica Ships" in the title. No that it's a big thing, but it might be quite confusing for some as I inteded to use that description only for original, surviving examples like the "Trincomalee".

What a pleasant surprise! I did not think about that ship. Of course some footage of Batavia is very much appreciated as I heard so many good things about the accuracy of that replica. Amsterdam would be great too. You are really helpful here; as pretty much everywhere on Classic-Pirates!

Phred, I honestly would very much like seeing some of these scans as the author is Brian Lavery who also wrote AotS: Bellona and was involved in the making of Master and Commander: The Far side of the World. However I do believe that since the author is still alive and not dead for 70+ years all of his work is protected by copyright and would hence be illegal to upload to a public place on the internet! But thanks for showing some interest for this!