HMS Phoenix

[Claus von Nassau]

63d

hi,

i would like to present my first ship

claus von nassau

Edited September 21, 2009 by SlyOwl

[Guss]

are you pictures already uploaded somewhere ? I think there is a tutorial that explain how to do.

Edited September 14, 2008 by Guss

[Claus von Nassau]

i'am new here and i cant find the tutorial, my pictures are uploaded on my computer, do i need to upload them on brickshelf???

[Guss]

you need to upload them on internet, like with Flickr or things like that , I found the tutorials, here they are :

Click here for tutorial page

[Admiral Bejaune]

Why don't you give us a little description of your ship while we wait for the pics?

[Claus von Nassau]

that is a good id,

its a 4 deck gun ship/trade vessel, 1 deck for the cargo and 3 gun decks, the base is based on a bsb, whit the collors of a carribean clipper, its even hard for me to tell. i've started in 2006 and for now im still not ready.

i've just uploaded a few pics on brickshelf, but the folder is not jet public........ help please.

claus von nassau

[Guss]

it takes a little time to your folder to be public, don't worry, you can already give us the link to it, we will see it when it will be public.

1 deck for the cargo and 3 gun decks

wow that's going to be a Huge ship.

[El Bucanero]

You can find more info on posting pictures and deeplinks here.

Four gun decks, that sounds interesting for sure!

the base is based on a bsb

Does that mean you've build it on prefab hull pieces?

[Claus von Nassau]

i've build on a prefab hull, with 5 centre pieces,

this is the link

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=342527

don't expacked to much of the gun decks cannons are hard to find en very expansive

claus von nassau

(please forgive me my bad english, i'me from holland)

[Guss]

K we'll see your "beast" when public, and don't worry about your English, I'm French ^^

[Claus von Nassau]

thank you,

how long wil it take before my folder is public?

its not a beast is, its not even ready, i'm now working on the 3e gun deck, witch contains the small 5 pounders 9 on each side, the 2e and middel gun dek has 20 pouders 4 one each side, and the 1e gun deck contains 50 pounds hull breakers, 5 on each side. total for now 36 gun frigat

[El Bucanero]

Yes, that's the brickshelf folder you just posted, but you should click this and try to post a deeplinked images, so we can see them without having to wait till it's moderated.

(please forgive me my bad english, i'me from holland)

That's cool, I'm from Holland as well.

[Claus von Nassau]

Pictures moved to first post!

that fun, i've seen your ships on bs and in the comics, i realy liked them, when does a next episode come?

Edited September 14, 2008 by SlyOwl

[Guss]

that's a nice ship ! 2 decks are already enough I think ! It will be a real floating canon if you add some more ^^ I can't wait to see the result, It will be a superb ship !

[Mister Phes]

Welcome aboard Claus von Nassau! You've got quite a mighty ship there!

May I also recommend our How to perform a batch image resize Tutorial. Threads with an image in their first post usually get more attention so this is something you might want to take advantage of. Bare in mind we prefer the images to be in .JPG format and no larger than 800 x 600 pixels so as not to burden those with slower Internet connections and smaller monitor.

If you want to display many images in the one post then try using thumbnails, we have also have a Creating Clickable Thumbnails Tutorial to teach you how to do that.

Those tutorials should be of great help when it comes to posting images in the forum!

[Norrington]

It's an interesting ship, to be sure. I do believe that you are the first one to touch on the fact that Naval ships weren't black with yellow (and later) white stripes, but rather they were a shade of dark blue. I think that the stern needs work, but otherwise it's very good.

[Claus von Nassau]

I love comment so please, what do i need to do on the stern? al tips wil be touhgt over and perhaps i will youse them to good youse

[Norrington]

For one: it doesn't look like it's finished. I might comment that it's to high, as Naval ships didn't have very high sterns. Of course, with Holland and it's flyuts, they do seem to like those high sterns. Also, given how high the the side of this ship is, I might suggest using some tumblehome. Tumblehome is the sides of the ship sloping and getting narrower as they go up. Here's a good example:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=59005

Here's the HMS Victory in her 19th century Victorian paintjob, also a good example:

As she looks today, in her Trafalgar splendor:

[Captain Zuloo]

It's an interesting ship, to be sure. I do believe that you are the first one to touch on the fact that Naval ships weren't black with yellow (and later) white stripes, but rather they were a shade of dark blue.

Norrington, he's not the first one - we all have thought about it often, but no-one has enough dark blue bricks to finnish a ship in the proper colours. So sometimes you will see blue and yellow, but mostly, because most people seem to think it's closer, black and yellow.

Anyway, Good ship. I really look foward to seeing it built. Just one thing - I don't think in the rear lifeboats that the ladder should fold down into it. I think it should just stay permanantly down. But keep up the good work. I would like to use your ship in Oceans on End exept my dek isn't big enough.

Regards, Captain Zuloo

[Bonaparte]

A mighty vessel this 2 decker of yours.

The colors remind me of a Spanish gold ship transporting the gold from the New World to Spain.

Did you foresee a possibility to open the ship so the inner deck are accessible?

Are those torso decals your own design?

Some suggestions:

- It think the part above the red line is too much. It makes the ship too high as mentioned by Norrington.

- I would also get rid of the part to the right of the green line or at least remove the slope. This slope looks unrealistic and I don't see the need for it.

[Claus von Nassau]

Hey guys,

thank for al your advice, there's comming a 3e cannon deck on it, in facet, so that it wont look to high, and on thad will come the cargohole,. i need to order such a plate.

to bonaparte, those torso's are not my design, i've got them form your torso library, ive just re colerd them.

greetings

claus

Edited September 15, 2008 by Claus von Nassau

[Captain Zuloo]

thank for al your advice

No worries Claus von Nassau! Glad to help. That is what is great about Eurobricks. It's such a great community!

[Claus von Nassau]

Hey, guys

i've just started to build my third gun dek :pir-skull: , with te third gun deck on it, the hight of te stern doesn't stand out, i've just orded some extra parts, cause i ran out on some items, i hope i can give you another look at the ship, somewhere next week,

claus von nassau

[Captain Zuloo]

Well we all look foward to seeing the new additions!

[Monkfish44]

Fantastic ship so far! I can't wait to see it finished, I don't have criticism because I havn't built a ship yet :)