Admiral Starwind

The holes on the side of the ship are infact gun ports. I decided to modify this ship and make her 1800's worthy i'm also stripping down her top deck and making it more antique. i have been using MLCad since i first joing eurobricks and that was my first experience with it. As for my monitor i'm running a CRT 17" display.

In an effort to do some more original ships. Well this is the Russian military training ship called the Pallada but of course that is the translation of her name. Anyways here is a picture of the real ship. And here is the hull that i have so far designed for the ship and yes it is a brickbuilt hull and good freakin lord did it take along time to figure the angles out and yes i realize its not quite accurate and the staggering of the white and black is to give the illusion of the ship being curved down. Now yes i do realize that you cant get the masts in that color but seeing as i cant afford to build all these ships im designing i dont think it matter the only difference right now between my creations and your guys is that mine arent real....yet but they do conform to the rules of gravity and the lego universe they are struturally sound....except this one....for the moment. Plus i still have to figure a way to make the bricks form what i want and that takes just as much work in MLCAD as in real life....if not more (stupid program). Anywho tada. OOOH BTW this ship will feature custom masts not sure hwo but keep an eye on the thread for updates. In retrospect i am going to redesign the stern to square it off at the white section as this is how the real ship looks.

As for a design of a smaller cannon if you check out my thread on the St Lawrence i implemented smaller cannons on sliding rails in and effort to save space and i think they would work well as a substitute as well as the rig i designed should be able to handle othe muzzle sizes.

It reminds me alot fo this ship Minus the height and number of sails.

Done mr Phes

So yes it's open to make any ship from POTC movies from the Dauntless to the Black Pearl.

Hmm 35 - 44 hours roughly alot of the inner detail of the ship I left out but if i actually build it i'll fill that in then. THe stern was rounded in the previous version due to the fact that moth the model and pictures i've seen have a very rounded aft but in order to accomplish the angles i had to compromise slightly.

With all the revisions about 11 days start to finish

Well She's Done as much as i can do her in MLCAD

Updated more accurate stats about this beauty including actual length and bredth. The St. Lawrence had her keel laid on April 12, 1814, and was launched on September 10, 1814. British naval commander James Yeo commissioned the ship in the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Upper Canada. Master shipbuilder John Dennis and nearly 200 shipwrights built her in under 10 months. The St. Lawrence's 112 guns on three decks qualified her as a first rate, larger than Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar nine years earlier. She measured 2,305 tons burthen, and she carried a crew of 700. In way of armaments she carried thirty-two 32pdr long guns and two 68pdr carronades on the upper deck, thirty-six 24pdr long guns on the middle deck and twenty-eight 32pdr long guns, four 24pdr long guns, and two 68pdr carronades on the lower deck. She had a gundeck of 191' 2" and breadth of 52' 6".

I like the sails and i liks the fact they are white sails...good show m'boy. There might be room for you in my navy yet.

I'd call that more of a blockhouse or outpost myself but looks nice

My only guess is that when it got transferred from it's covetted sheet in a bucket to a garbage bag for ease of transport someone must have hucked it. I dont know i have "discussions" regularly with my mom about this i am not pleased.

Well i redid the aft section of the St Lawrence and yes the third mast is still there i just have it ghosted to get a better look at the the new sculpted stern. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/toyotawo.../redone_aft.jpg

unfortunately no i do not have the pieces i need to build them as i usually despise technic lego and quite a few pieces of this are technic and if i ever find my collection its pretty much all old school 80's lego.

nothing much except i have yet to see it be done plus it matches the colors of the royal british navy uniforms.

ah i see

Call me crazy but i don't get it

Well i plan to redo the stern of the ship but what did you think of the scale of the minifig? And actually yeah that should work for making new masts i'll see if MLCAD has that part in it's database.

It look interesting but at the same time looks very fragile and i like to play with my legos from time to time or take them dwon from the shelf to show someone. As for how wide, porbably twice the width of mast base section at the base and working up getting smaller. Although i understand what you were saying abotu the sclae lemme show you something. Meet Bob: Now see bob on ship: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/toyotawo...s/bobonship.jpg you have to click on this one as its too big to post in a thread. As you can see the scale isnt all that far off.

Yup it would and the biggest problem that you run into is with the case of the St Lawrence all the pics i have found show you only part of the masts and doing some rudimentary trigonometry based on the shape of the rigging i can tell the lego masts would need to be widere and i would need about 2 middle section then 2 bow sprits and then two top sections to get the right height and where you cant do that the masts will always be too short unless i designed my own and based on what others have done i have yet to see a homemade mast desing yet that i like that looks good. The problem is the number and size of sails the ship had i mean this ship was HUGE plain and simple i would aslo need to make the ship wider which is where then you run into needing a brick built hull *sigh* like i said this is merly a prototype if i could figure out a way around the limits of the lego masts and hulls i could do the piece of canadian history justice.

Well the andromeda was put on hold when i started the st lawrence and the Decimator is about 10% complete and i am working on an idea for a completely brick built hulled ship its just in the planning stages, There is an idea for a ship that i have that is kind of more a fictional ship rather than based on anythign from reality and that one is rather odd to say the least can't really say too much other than if the execution is right it will do for the pirates what the bismark did for the germans.

DO you really want to know? lol well gimme a sec *grabs his calculator* well it would be about 10 - 11 mid sections long to accomodate the standard 2x2 gun port and cannons and the ship can house minifigs at this current time only the guns are scaled down.

Well due to lack of funds all thats gonna be pumped out is designs at the moment but i hope to eventually finish the starwind at least.

Jiminy Crickets, that thing is huge! Excuse me for asking if you've already stated so, what is the relative mini-fig scale of this ship? Mr. Ska, what conclusion have you adopted? The scale i think you mean how many mid sections and what not? it takes 8 8x16 mdi sections and is about 14 bricks high to the railing. She's a scary 1.2 meters in length due to the bowsprit and widow maker sail. And to the tips of her tallest mast...so far is just over half a meter high. So hopefully that answers your question berry if not ask again and i'll try to answer it better. And GRRR yes as i look at the stern castle it looks like megablocks now so i'll have to redo it at some point probably today or tommorow depending on how the day goes.