Captainkiwi

Noice! I love the cannons and the contrast of the black and brown. Keep it up

Hello everybody I am from Canada and am 11 years old. I like Pirates and Castle the most

Does this mean I've been frontpaged?!?

New Zealand? Nope I live in a small town in Canada Would you mind sailing the Grandeur here?

I have been inspired by many things, but what inspired me the most was Master and Commander: the far side of the world which i am watching right now for the 50th time.

I got this game one month ago and im hooked! A great buy even if you don't like strategy games.

I think it's quite fun for a strategy game. It takes some time to get used to it though. Thanks for deeplinking my pictures!!!

You can see the finished product now. It is on my post "Le Vigilant" in the pirate MOC section.

I started this 2 days after I took apart my first ship, The HMS Royale. I used some of the same features, but Incorperated some new things like the slanted stern, new sail arrengement, and another mast. The name "Vigilant" is a french word meaning "A watchful eye" I thought it was a nice name for a Privateer. Deeplinking didn't work for me, so I just put the links here. Enjoy! overview: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405466 stern: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405468 figurehead, a one eyed bull (relates to the name) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405470 broadside: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405470 deck: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405472 side shot: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405475 Another shot of the deck: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405477 side of the stern: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405482 The captain in his cabin: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405485 Some goods : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4405487 I hope you enjoyed this one. I'll probably keep it alive for a bit longer.

Nice brig. I really like color scheme of the IFS

Wow! It is going along very smoothly. You put some good techinques into it and I love the Darwin and Fitzroy figures.

All of this sounds great, but where are the rest of the pictures?

I think you've pulled this off well so far; especially for such a unique ship. But... i think that you should get rid of chewy.....

This is a hard one, but my vote goes to Z Cerberus' Barrister's Office.

Sucess!!! after two hours of building my brains out I found a good technique to make a nice slanted stern. It blends nicely with the rest of the ship, and it looks quite a fair but like the HMS Surpise. I will get some pics on my brickshelf and post a WIP picture in the MOC category. Thank all of you for the help!!!

Thanks! I will look at the index, and If i dont find any ideas I will ask Admiral Croissant for more pics of Le Vesta's stern. But.... I can't really use The build a frigate because I don't have all the parts, and Can't order off the internet because my dad says so

That is what i want my stern to look like, but it does not show what hinges he used so slant the windows. The rest gave me a good idea and im going to get to work

Yes, that does very well help. My main idea is a frigate stern that is slanted at the back. I want to use 5 windows, 3 at the back and 1 on each side. My overall goal is to make the stern look like the HMS Surprise. I have been working on if for quite some time, but I just can't put my finger on it....

Now that I am half way done my second ship I realized that I am not the best stern builder. On my last ship, my stern was more of a boxy shape than slanted and beautiful. I am hoping for people to post their tips or pictures of sterns so I could build off some ideas to make a better one. Hopefully this is where i post this...

What i meant by getting organized was making my brickshelf viewable, but know I know that it's not a big problem thanks to you!

Thank you for realizing that! I just made it today and I do not yet know that much about the site. I will go to the help menu and try to get things organized

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=425252 This is my brickshelf page which includes the new pics. I am also now working on an english frigate with an improved broadside.

This is truly a perfect frigate. I love the positioning of the masts and the perfectly symetrical headrails. Also, many frigates I have seen before don't have that certain "frigate" shape, but you did it perfectly. Keep making ships!!!

Looks pretty good. I like the fact that there are some good details all around and they are REDCOATS!!!!

I'm 11 years old and I started liking lego in 2002 when I recieved my first set which was the legend of Black Seas Barracuda. When I was around 8 I started to love the classic pirates and castle lines so I started buying them off bricklink and ebay!!!! Now I have like a gazillion classic castle and pirate sets