legopirate83

Very Neat! it almost scares me!

Very nice mate *y* it looks like i have some competion in the huge ship building arena :-P

ill load them up and put them in there own folder on BS and as for how i sort? well i generally buy out walmart/target/dollarstores of their plastic baggies and cheap plasticware i have 3 or 4, 50 gallon barrels of unsorted lego 4 20 gallon rubbermaid containers of sorted OLD brown parts in bags and boxes in them 3 10 gallon tubs with a bunch of rare parts a few screw and nail sorting holders from the hardware store this is where i put my small quanties or stuff i use a lot of a bunch of boxes with bags and such a few cases with built models for display, but these arr broken down into bags so it stores easier total collection of minifigs in the 1000s maybe somewhere around 1900? most arr pirate or castle but my perfered method is using ziplock bags easier to move around and i wont lose any if its sealed shut ill load up some pictures with the scans

yes i can the design process was about 2 months or so, getting some good refference photos, and building small ideas that came to mind i also drew out a bunch of pictures of how i wanted it built i started doing the actual building/lego designing in late August of 06 that was when i started my first deck section but in total my time spent building it is 8 months (just building/waiting for parts to come) and the couple months prior so about 10 months in all and should only take about another month once i get the last bit of parts i need ill then put all my figs and my vignettes in it and, oh i dont know, find anybody who wants to play brikwars in the san diego california area if your courious about what brikwars is check out the website www.brikwars.com heres the rules and such http://www.brikwars.com/rules/2005/contents.htm

aye studs is there any thing else to measure in? ive tinkered with the idea of lego sails for a while but all my previous masts were to flimsy and broke if you put to much weight on them Dos Mas will be the exception, her masts arr strong enough to have a cat lean on them and not fall over (he thought it was a scraching post, silly cat) more vignettes done, and pictures will probably come this weekend *sweet*

of course ill probably end up making them out of tan lego plates but ill have to make two sets one for full sail and one for all rolled up sail im doing some testing on my mast strength so it should hold the weight of a few lego sails

FINAL MEASURMENTS/STATS 62 AT ITS WIDEST POINT 210 LONG NOT INCLUDING BOWSPRINT AND 80 BRICKS HIGH TO THE TOP OF THE MAST 104 GUNS (JUST BOUGHT THE LAST OF THE ONES I NEEDED) 13 DIFFRENT SECTIONS STILL NEED TO FINISH THE OTHER TWO MASTS ENJOY GEORGE

thanks P the only parts i need to do is the fore and mizzen mast then ill be done *sweet* but lack of parts to do them has slowed me down a bit so ive been working on some vignettes and such to put in the ship breaks apart into 13 diffrent sections not including the masts the rear splits off into 5 parts the main decks split off into 5 parts and the fore spits into 3 i used a male and female conncetion meaning my slide out parts arr the male parts and the main skeletons of the boat is the female so i have 3 females and the rest arr male i made it so it could be pulled apart and brikwars played inside or just on a few sections, such as back, front, or main only as for the lantern tutorial your very welcome, i just hope you can decipher it is there any thing else anybody is instreaded in? if so ill make up some tutorials for them to just let me know enjoy george

ooooo very nice indeed i like the modular parts

woooohooooo i helped make all those hotels in my tenure at legoland california they all came out very nice

Okay (not ok-ey) dokey ive put up the how to make a lantern in my BS folder if you cant read my writing contact me and ill help you decipher it i have two designs for my lanterns one is an easier version of the ones that i have on the back of me boat the other is a bit harder and arr the ones that im using i dont have a scaner so i just took pictures of it it is pretty easy to figure out hope that helps i also added that redirection to classic pirates in my folder as well enjoy

this is were i got my window designs they worked perfect for my design :) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=105665 although i did chang the designs a little to make it my own but credit goes to them for the ideas ill take some pictures of how i made my lanterns in the morning its a little complicated when you look at them but after you see how its done you will go wow thats really easy if it helps, most of my designs arr built off of the 1x1 brick with studs on all sides that is my most favorite piece and can usually be found in my designs somewhere

picture four consists of a large barraks door (part number 30223) and on top is a pile of gold coins, with a skeleton with swords in him, along with a mini scale i got this idea from the movie goonies with sean austin at the end with one eyed willy and his dead crew arr sitting around the table with gold dubloons all around and there is a package under the skeletons hands in this picture he is attached to the plate by a ladder clip and white battle droid arms on his legs picture five consists of a pirate wanting to change his cloths so he is rummaging through the foot locker to find something new to wear :-|

its comming right along how many guns is it?

ive put up more pictures *sweet* also i have made a few vignettes for my boat i built some carpenters, some people with bilge pumps, a few funny scenes, like a guy battling a horde of rats but lots of others as well these arr on 6x6 plates and 10x10 plates