Matteo1130

I simply love those galleries! Not really that lowering direction backwards, but the shape is great. I think I might stole have been inspired for finishing my main project's hull. Can't wait to see all of the weather deck details from the LDD version in real bicks, they're beautiful.

Great return! Maybe we'll see those hulls in some "kings and queens of the sea" episode!

Wow, thanks!

Hi all! I'm writing this to ask you if the Lego company did some kind of a geography, between pirates, bluecoats, redcoats, oropacos or armada territories. Or if some user made something like that, not inspired at the real world, but just at an hypotetic Lego world.

I like the overall look and the amount of details! Nice custom guns, I made exactly the same design as yours on the right, and seing it on a completed moc has been a real satisfaction (I believe it was La Forgeaux.. on the weather deck, maybe in 2009, but I'm not very sure), can't wait to see it also on this ship of yours!

Excuse me for my poor english language.. I meant: a ship with all guns on the same level was called corvette. All guns were often outwards, so the weather deck and the gundeck were the same thing. Sometimes the captain cabin was on the same level, some other times both galleries and stern were under the gunline. French built lots of these three masted square rigged ships. After capturing by english those ships were heavily reworked, another deck was built to cover the guns and some other gun were added on the new weather deck; this way, even if there was a single "official" gundeck, after reworking the guns were placed on two levels (gunline and some on the prow/sides) and those ships changed from corvettes into frigates. The famous HMS Surprise, reproduced in the movie by the HMS Rose was an example of this treatment, because first she was the french corvette L'Unite and didn't had all the 28 guns of the finished Surprise. This is what I've found time ago.. hope to recall it right. Backing to this beautiful moc: I think it's a frigate, because of the weather deck covering the gundeck an the guns placed on two levels (gunline and a couple on the prow). I once was worried for her to loose the aggressive look she had without the weather deck, but for what I can see she had not rised too much in tallness so the look is safe and sound!! Headrails looks great and well proportioned to the overall structure, clever way to close the gap between stern and galleries! EDIT: example of a french corvette: http://www.velierimodellismo.net/prodotto-144948/ASTROLABE-art-773.aspx http://www.artfinding.com/Auction/Model-of-the-corvette-Astrolabe-In-carved-wood/52140.html?LANG=it

Niceee! The only thing I would change is the weather deck. An half covered weather deck would make her look like a french corvette, now her just looks like a real frigate.. an looses a little of her aggressive look due to her original low profile.. The best would be with changing guns with brickbuilt ones to represent 12pdr and get more walkable space. But this is just IMHO, the ship looks awesome as is!

Unfortunatly I don't have any lego in the house I live in. I've to wait since I'll come back to my girlfriend's parents, were I've placed my workstation, to see how many pieces are still available.. hope to have enough to start something, because I have some pretty clear idea about how the bow and the railing will look, and even some mod, the only thing I'm never been good at, is making the stern, but your version is so great that I'm trying to get how it's made I also have a completed moc (small cutter) that I haven't post (yet).

According to the Royal Navy classification, your ship is a brig. Two vertical masts (main mast placed backwards with the spanker) and a bowsprit. The overall look, by the way, reminds me more of a late 1600 ship... The moc is really nice, looks very playable and seems to be built to get involved in some dioramas about life on board, really like it :)

This ship is becoming fantastic. Lot of features, nice overall looking, and using a few pieces. Do you think it is possible to use this technique on old type hulls? I've got these bow/stern 5 mids I don't know how to use...

Have you already a plan about how the theadrails will look?

This is amazing, as I said for Sebeus, the small ships are the hardest to build. Yours looks like an original lego kit, the completely playable hold is great (the dog and the other items are very interesting) and the horse as figurehead surprised me because his body hidden in the bow takes a lot of place, so with a different figurehead you could have the chance to get an extra room.. I mean, the space available in that hull is very poor but you had enough to hide more than an half horse! Interesting thing you made this moc without any weapon in this forum ruled by redcoats vs bluecoats vs armada vs pirates etc.. I don't mean to offend any other user (I'm a bluecoats supporter myself), but it's nice to see a "simple" ship anytime, even if called HMS.

Looks promising. Thanks for sharing your techniques!

I like the overall look! Since you've made some real progress, let me leave some other criticism (hope not to offend you). The stern is really better now ; the "top" would be adding another couple inverted slopes at sides of the windows.. or maybe with a bracket each side you may have 1 or 2 studs protruding for placing some wedge plates vertically. This way the windows will look "framed" in a slanted surface. The bow is well done, but in a ship that size a brickbuilt headrail may look ver big. About the rigging there's something to change (to me). The spanker is too tall, the higher rod could be placed on a lower ring and both the rods (in Italian "gaffa" and "boma", I don't know the english correct name) are a bit too long... My critics are IMHO of corse.. in case you want to improve them it could be a good idea to ask "confirm" to some skilled shipbuilder on this forum :)

Edit: sorry, replied on the wrong page

Agree. In my cutter there isn't any tumblehome. It is built just with small bow+stern and all the guns are uncovered.. and looks great to me. Your moc looks splendid as is, nice clear lines. Edit: the only thing I would change is to make the gunline rounder, not by changing the shape, but sligthly changing colors. For example you may change from white to black a plate to separate the white line from the brown hull. You may also change the black line between the gunline and the hull: now the change between black and brown is really dramatic and straight, simply changing some plate in a different color you may draw a soft line, creating the illusion of a slightly bent hull. But this is just a suggestion :)

Welcome! Hope to see your mocs rise the right flag (the bluest possible) :) even if in LDD..

I hope it too.. just the time to project a brig and order pieces and I'll do that :)

This seems to be a golden period for new ship mocs. The captain cabin interior is really nice, the overall look is a little bulky, but not bad. I like the playability :) This is a brig by the way :)

Great :) I know I could look very selfish, always asking someone else for new comics... I've got some nice ideas myself, to make something both ironc and serious for a short series, but I'm changing house and the time is poor..

This is really a good news! If you're working on something better than this I'm really curious!

Great to see a new redcoat fort... this way blues have something to destroy with their ships! Ok, baking serious again, this is an excellent job, windows are great and so il the roof. The rocks are very realistic.. but about those technic pins: you might have kept this project for the actual competition, it's great and it surely had a chance. I think you should ask admins if you still can partecipate and find someone to make a team with.

Wow. Really a great work both for play and display. I know I'm repetitive, or selfish... but it would be also great for hosting a comic ! Can't wait to see her finished in bricks.

First I want to thank all the users who make comics in this forum, great work! Second I was asking myself about this thing: in every story I read there are "sigfig" like captains or officers (whatever, blue/red/pirate). Have anyone thought about creating a comic based on simple sailors interactions? I think it would be a nice change of point of view.. F.A.Q.: Q: Why don't you do that? R: I don't have enough pieces yet

It was my first pirate set. In fact I stil have all the discolored pieces.. and remember how the cannon always shooted in a corner between two walls to avoid the loss of the ball :D Edit: nice observation about prices.. but I don't think pirate had a great success those years: in Italy there was a famous breakfast cereals brand who gives a pirate or castle minikit for free for every four "points" collected. It was enough to buy two cereal boxes to have a free lego minikit.. there were probably a lot of items unsold..