Pirate Captain

[Pirate Maniac]

Hey all,

Some may know me from MCN (Minifigcustomizationnetwork) as Viking Maniac, just to let you know.

Here is my first in what I hope to be a long line of customs, my Pirate Captian. The gallery is public so you can look at all the pictures.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=247316

Hope you like it,

Alec

There you go X-D

[Bonaparte]

I'm very happy to welcome a pirate customizer to our community!

Thats a nice sword you have made. Can you share us some of the tricks for making a sword like that?

The overall figs looks very good! Can't wait to see more customs from you.

Do you only plan to make pirate customs or also Napoleonic soldiers, British officers, ..... ?

EDIT: Did you already have a look at our Pirate torso LIBRARY?

[Mister Phes]

Greetings Pirate Maniac!

That's quite a nice mini-figure you've created there and should definitely have a picture of him in the first post. So if someone could size that picture down it would be much appreciated.

[Pirate Maniac]

Thanks all X-D

At the moment I am sticking with just miscellanious (spelling is not my strong point) pirates, but I will be moving onto British Red coats, I'll make my own decal for them though as I don't want to spend a lot of money on bricklink. That library looks brilliant and will be of great use, thanks for sharing that :D

The Sword: I used one of lego's old long antennas with the ball on the end, and cut a length off of four centimetres. I then sanded the whole thing to make it thinner so it could fit in a one centimetre length of tube styrene (if you don't know what any sort of styrene is then I suggest consulting MCN), I did this to prevent a lot of glueing so the whole thing was strong enough to be played with. I then continued filing to make the blade pointier and then rounded off the end. I then got a Bionacle ball that fits into thhe arm sockets and such and cut it in half for the bell gaurd, drilled a hole in it and slid it onto the blade, it was glued in place afterwoods I checked it fitted.

If you have a section where I can post a tuatorial then I shall make a more detailed one with pictures and such.

[Mister Phes]

At the moment I am sticking with just miscellanious (spelling is not my strong point) pirates

I recommend Dictionary.com for spelling assistance - I use it a lot! The latest version of FireFox also has a built in spellchecker that checks your spelling as you type like Microsoft Word does - very useful too.

At the moment I am sticking with

If you have a section where I can post a tuatorial then I shall make a more detailed one with pictures and such.

That would be excellent. Create the tutorial in The Great Library of Honduras. If you scroll down you'll see other Tutorials there.

[Starwars4J]

Welcome to EB! I just saw your topic on MCN earlier today and was thinking that the pirates over here would love this when...much to my surprise not only did Bonaparte post in your thread (I had no idea he was a member over there!) but you posted here!

I'm sure you'll fit in very well X-D

[Pirate Maniac]

Yes I did notice that Bonaparte posted, I didn't know he was a member either X-D

I'll do a tuatorial today, hopefully have it posted aswell. I'll do it on a sort of barbaric cutlass theme, with a big blade and such, but I will have a pge with recommended materials and parts to achieve your own designs.

[Maedhros]

Hey and welcome!

I really like the scabbard but I

[Pirate Maniac]

Have you put a greatsword beside a minifig? It's taller than him! ;)

If you scaled down the rapier to a normal ratio, it would be about the same size as a dagger, and if you look on Brickarms.com all of Will's weapons are immense compared to the fig, in lego terms it's just normal sized.

[Maedhros]

Have you put a greatsword beside a minifig? It's taller than him! ;)

If you scaled down the rapier to a normal ratio, it would be about the same size as a dagger, and if you look on Brickarms.com all of Will's weapons are immense compared to the fig, in lego terms it's just normal sized.

That

[Mister Phes]

Unless you're using 4+ Pirate mini-figures X-D

You'd have to be insane to do that though.

[Asuka]

Wonderful! *y*

Just perfect for an Errol Flynn style MF.

[oo7]

Very creative work you have here, Mr. Maniac. I think the handle would be better a little shorter and I am wondering if you have considered painting it. I hope you continue your pursuit of the long line. :)

[Wout]

Nice fig, I like him

Hello and Welcome on Eurobricks :)

[Mister Phes]

I think the handle would be better a little shorter.

Yes, just a tad and that would increase the length of the blade slightly. A "balanced" sword gives better performance apparently. Would it be easy to shorten the handle?

[Pirate Maniac]

Hmm.... not unless I had to destroy the whole sword really unless by some, then again ABS plastic is very strong and only one bit of the sword is glued. I'll just make a new one X-D

I'm making a bricklink order today anyay, and that reminds me can someone please give me a link to a good piratical brinklink store today?

[Mister Phes]

I'm not aware of a BrickLink store that would be classified as "piratical", but if you could specify the pieces you're after then no doubt someone here could point you in the right direciton.