Capn Frank Posted March 28, 2016 Posted March 28, 2016 The Oleon Royal Merchant Fleet is expanding mercantile trade getting in on the action. They'd be part of Challenge 2, but they're 3 studs too long. Class 3F Naval officers Commodore Karl and Captain Kaleb are commanding the Olean mercantile vessels. What could be better than one new merchant vessel? Two of them! That's right folks. These are not photoshopped; they're the real deal. Commodore Karl and his crew (left) command The Prophecy; Captain Kaleb and his crew (right) command The Divination (sunk!) The sister ship is The Benefactor. Along with the ships' bronze cannons. Some shots of the ship: The tiller is fully functional, and easily turns by the 4L bar. I will need a new design for the tiller if I'm going to attempt this on a 16 wide hull. I will licensing The Divination as a 3F. Robinnilsson403 is going to under-licensing The Prophecy as a 2F. Thanks for looking. Quote
Captain Dee Posted March 28, 2016 Posted March 28, 2016 Fantastic work Phred! The classic white/blue colorscheme is lovely and you have really done a good job building on those small hulls. The level of detail is really good - the tiller, decking, smoothly tiled railings, built-up stern, semi-custom rigging, etc look great. They're like more realistic versions of the old Armada Flagship, and of course good-looking twins is better than one by herself! In purely realistic terms what would these be? Caravels of some type? Excellent work and may the winds forever be in your favor. Quote
Kolonialbeamter Posted March 28, 2016 Posted March 28, 2016 Been waiting for the 'Twins' all evening Worth it! These are splendid, Phred! TLG just knew Oleon was gonna happen when they produced these hull elements. Great color scheme, they look fairly fast, nice sails , and I'm still amazed how you managed to jam a SNOTed deck into these tiny prefabs Thing is, they'll never get captured, as enemy captains will always be confused, thinking they're drunk, like: 'Great, now I have to deal with four ships!' Too bad for Challenge II, though. Quote
Capn Frank Posted March 28, 2016 Author Posted March 28, 2016 Thank you for the complements. In purely realistic terms what would these be? Caravels of some type? I would say small Caravels. They're based upon Caravels for sure, but they're too small for actual caravels. Quote
The Sarge Posted March 28, 2016 Posted March 28, 2016 Very nice! Twins are always better... Just one question - what's in the lanterns!? Quote
Captain Dee Posted March 28, 2016 Posted March 28, 2016 In purely realistic terms what would these be? Caravels of some type? What I meant was beyond the BoBS ratings how would they be classified. Obviously they're rather small, but they make some pretty good illusion-scale square-rigged caravels anyway. (I'm not totally familiar with that particular rigging but it's the first thing that came to mind.) Quote
Kai NRG Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 Great ship, the blue and white look really pretty and the rigging is well done! Quote
Elostirion Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 Nice job on creating those twins, I really like the style of the deck (especially amazing on a smaller ship) and those brick-built cannons are superb as well! Quote
Captain Becker Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 What a pair of beauties you've presented us here Phred! Truly a great addition to the Oleon´s merchant fleet, and great job disguising the cannons by the way. At first glance they almost cant be seen, and when you do, they do look like they actually made of wood rather than bronze. Nifty I would say, very nifty indeed. Captain Becker Quote
BrickOn Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 They look awesome, I really like the SNOT deck and the colour scheme looks fab for Oleon. Also good use for the for those white pieces at the top of the masts, not sure what they are called but I want to steal that idea and use some for the same purpose at some point. Quote
Franco Clarke Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 A lovely pair of little ships, making great use of those accursed blue/white armada flagship hulls! Quote
blackdeathgr Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 Twin ships with white hulls! What could go wrong with that?!?! Excellent snot technique and a very Oleander color pattern Quote
kurigan Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 Merchant vessels my Mega Blok! What need do merchant vessels have for such prominent bow chasers, and brass ones at that? I call shenanigans! Clearly Oleon intends to dupe their rivals into a false sense of security. If I were in any position of authority amongst those other nations, I'd be sure to see this pair of ship killers to the bottom forthwith! I kid of course. I must admit that I wasn't exactly overwhelmed until I noticed that they were a matched set. The SNOT deck as well as other features do lend these beauties a certain high quality. I do like the working rudder/tiller. In my experience I've not found any brick which really makes a convincing tiller on any larger of a scale, at least not with out modification. Perhaps on your larger builds a simpler tiller hooked up to a wheel and reliving tackle system may be in order? If I were to throw my humble two cents in to the conversation about their classification, I might note the similarity to xebecs, despite the square courses. Perhaps they represent some sort of polacre? Quote
Bregir Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 Beautiful merchant ships, Phred. The snotted decks are great, and their overall shape really nice too. I like the rigging, and including the spritsail is a great detail! The working tiller takes it up another notch. I will agree with Kurigan that their bow-chasers makes me somewhat suspicious as to their true purpose. As does the uniforms - rather uncommon on traders! Decks flooded with men and they would be effective privateers.... The use of tan for the cannons doesn't work too well for me, but that doesn't take away from their nice designs. As to her type, I agree they look like caravels, although they would typically carry lateens on all masts. However, my sources (wikipedia ) tells me that later caravels carried square sails on the fore-mast. They would normally carry three or more masts, though. And Kurigan's suggestion that she might be a type of polacre, well. I think that would normally carry three masts, and further have more square-sails on the main. Thus, I think caravel is the most accurate description. As to EGS-rating, I think 3F is pretty accurate. Well done, and really cool that you made two! You can never have too much of a good thing! Quote
Capt Wolf Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 Lovely use of the old Armada Flagship hull pieces! Perfect for Oleon. And I really like the SNOT decking. Attractive ships. Well done! Quote
Capn Frank Posted March 31, 2016 Author Posted March 31, 2016 Thank you again for the complements. Just one question - what's in the lanterns!? They're just + 4X + Perhaps on your larger builds a simpler tiller hooked up to a wheel and reliving tackle system may be in order? You are correct. A working wheel would be easier for larger vessels. If I were to throw my humble two cents in to the conversation about their classification, I might note the similarity to xebecs, despite the square courses. Perhaps they represent some sort of polacre? For the rig, I was referencing Caravels. A Polacre-base rig would be accurate for these vessels. I think a 5F could use a Pelicanina Rig. It has a gaff rigged mizzen and fore. That rig does look odd, but could look pretty cool too. The use of tan for the cannons doesn't work too well for me, but that doesn't take away from their nice designs. Tan was used because of my lack of pearl gold round bricks and cones. I hope to remedy this in a future BL order. Quote
TitusV Posted March 31, 2016 Posted March 31, 2016 That looks pretty cool! Nice there are two of them (more to slaughter ) Quote
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