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On the very first quote you don't have the part behind it, so it messing up all the other ones!!!! Edit: You fixed it!

Nice to have snow-- eh Norrington? Next time let's only get it at about 4 inches at a time!

I meant change them to 3 stud spacing!

Change those guns! I also think the bow is without question the hardest part to do! Sloping down the front if you can do it I think looks best!

I think a blunderbuss would look more like a sawed-off single barrel shotgun with a large flared muzzle. I think that the DUPLO Pirates gun would look more like a blunderbuss... here is a picture of the DUBPLO

Well we certainly didn't get the amount we were expecting here in the Metro!. If the wind stays down, you will have school for sure!

I am not a huge fan of any of those. This is actually what I was advocating... It is okay.... maybe a 6x6 area is just too small for a good roof!! I did a couple other versions as well, but they sure do suck... a lot!

Guns are counted on both sides of a ship. A 74 gun ship, therefore has 37 on each side... or probably more accurately, 36 or 35 on each side and some chasers. You mean "Long Nines", not "Long Niles"... they are cannons that fire nine pound shot.

Phes makes small MOCs, but he is an expert. Welcome to the forum, you are one of several from Minnesota on this site! I hope to see the Interceptor soon!

Meh, I already got it!

Well Since I have edit powers on my own first post... maybe I will!!... or will... haha

Never mind, you can't be in my Empire then! Anyhow, I am not sure turning the roof is is that much different. Now he will have the more protection from the elements, true enough, but rain is going to run down straight onto his torches!! I still think it should just overhang the sides by a stud with all 45 degree slopes!!

I voted for that one too

Yeah I do!!!... wanna join my Empire? MLCAD Empire of victory! I mean we already have the midwest connection, and you have used the MLCADs before! I think the Dame du Loup and the Arbiter II could seriously own the seas! Plus, Maybe boney would join the Empire as he has been using MLCAD a bunch lately. If we added his ground forces and his ship, The L'Orient could be a nice addition. I will make a pact with you. We can kill all the Spanish and use Fort Brighton as our homebase!!!! And if you're nice, I can share 2% of my plunder!

Here is the links to the parts library: Parts Library Even with the library though, there are still some parts missing... Red Imperial Flag, Door frane for jail door, rowboats and a few other random pieces I have wanted!

Hey thanks Berry. You certainly do manage to travel all parts of the forum! I hope that it will be unique amongst the ships here and will be one that will inspire users and give them some good ideas on how to build cool ships of their own!

I have turned you! and Phred said he hated Empires... well an empire with boney and Phes can't be all that bad! As for the ship... the crew's quarters would almost certainly be below the water line, so it is hard to get one on a LEGO® version that still looks not to bulky. Besides which, crew often just slung hammocks between the guns at night anyhow! As for the Tumblehome, your new favorite topic... well I have used the taller ones on both the Venganza (Old Arbiter) and the Covenant. I used a different approach, but I think both ships are okay. I guess though realistic and better than going straight up, as LEGO ships, I would go with whatever works the best, even if not historically accurate.

I agree with Evil Pirate Phred, the further back you can make the main mast the better. Get it as close to the cabin with out getting in the way as you can, and I think he is right, about the mast up front too. Move it up a little bit so you have plenty of room for a sail plan for the masts, and enough space to place your evil, Piratical guns! We don't see many color sails up in here... so I think it wouldn't be half bad to go with a solid color for them!

I agree, the upper deck should tilt in, instead of out... the only problem is that the ship might be too narrow for a ship of her size... hmm... I am getting an idea... maybe tomorrow I night (I am booked solid until then) I can show something a little different!

Ah, well Maybe I will try it out in red when I build it. I most likely have more red pieces than green pieces anyway, I just thought for it to actually look like a tail, it would need to be green.

Well if I do a lot of designing in black, I often have the black pieces. But some times I will know there is a special piece I need to incorporate or a piece I am unsure that I have. As such I kind of buy the ones I know I will need and if they are black and non specialty I trust that I will have them. If I don't have the pieces I thought I did, then I try to rework the design on the fly when I start building. Perhaps my situation is unique in that I do not have the pieces at hand, so I am only guessing at what I will need. I also have a LEGO® Imagination Center near by, at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. They have 'pick-a-brick' there so sometimes a bunch of plates, bricks, slopes, or windows will be available. It is kind of a crapshoot as to if they will have the right pieces in the right colors though. Some times you strike gold. I for example got about a dozen black windows, 80-100 Red inverted slopes, and about 50 2 x 2 dark gray flags there in one sitting, but upon other return trips, nothing worth buying! Either way, I probably will end up spending $200 or $250 in US dollars in various parts for the ship. That isn't terrible considering the ship will have well over 2000 pieces in it, and I think I will have enough left overs for a final ship in the Royal Navy!! This isn't a bad idea at all. There aren't a huge amount of people who use MLCAD, but those of us who do or have might benefit from it. I am not sure something as complex as the Arbiter II would be a good option as it has dozens of submodels, and some of the submodels are made of other submodels... it would probably be more daunting than useful. Then again, there are enough submodels that you can work on sections of the ship quite comfortably. The ship you see is made of 8 submodels... Bow, Midsections 1-6, stern. Each of those sections is made up of submodels... the stern for example is made up of several submodels... rudder (not pictured), windows, left and right sides of the cabin walls, and a quarter deck. Likewise the quarterdeck is made of several submodels... the steering column, navigation table, compass stand, bell holder, swivel guns... so a library with the parts to a section of the ship could be useful! Small things, things like the Phes's sentrybox are much more useful and will help develop the talents of our users! I would think!

If you are talking about the angled parts, at the bow, believe me, it was no picnic. It can be very difficult to get things set at the right angle, so that whole assembled definitely needed to be its own submodel. Well I guess I thought Mermaids needed green tails! Maybe it is unclear what exactly that thing on the front is... but it is supposed to be a mermaid tail that wraps around the bow, perhaps it is either unclear or just not very well designed. I might withhold a final decision on it until I build it, because the green probably won't be as 'electric'.

This is Correct. Ace is 11 or 1. To the ship! This is a very nice start, but as a steam engineer, I would think this ship would be... uh... steam powered... Sounds like it will only be sail powered... is that a fact? Also, the small LEGO® prefabbed hulls or only 12 wide, but that hasn't stopped people from arming them to the teeth! Number of guns, however, shouldn't be the primary concern as speed can be a great weapon in and of itself! just do what seems to fit right!

Well the one on the Imperial Trading post is because there is a floor underneath it! Even the roof on the building in the back has some strange storage stuff under it... In my Imperial Harbor I tried extra super hard to make sure that the gray floor plates didn't show on the sides of the buildings! If you go back and look at the CADs or the construction to see what I mean!