Captain Braunsfeld

Very helpful ... for me to man my airships! Thanks!

Good stuff!

Did the parrot kill the pirate?

Hey, this is kind of "retro", isn't it? But that doesn't mean it is bad - quite the opposite. These redcoats and bluecoats got me into the pirate theme! Great stuff. Thanks for posting!

Looks good - I like the torpedoes!

Great stuff. Tank, Balloon and Plane are my favourites!

Looks promising - Thanks for sharing the work in progress with us. Not sure about how far black and yellow should go. I'll judge once the work is completed :-) Masts? Should be ok with 2x2 round bricks. Keep going!

What a beauty! I am impressed (and envious ) The rigging is truely fantastic!

This is great. Well done! I especially like the key role, which the monkey is playing

Great stuff! Beautiful design. I haven't managed to figure out how you've done those decorations in red and blue - looks marvellous. You asked for "suggestions on suitable minifig crew parts which work with flesh colored heads and hands". Well, I've been using the cavalry guys for the heads - they came with "The Lone Ranger", but they have white hands, except for only the lone ranger himself...

Great stuff! A few things, however, look a bit too modern for me (the metal sliding door?)

Great. Wow, what a lot of work must have gone into sails and rigging. Respect!

A good one! I've been a fan of the musketeers for a long time. Can you show us how the guys in red look like from the front?

Hi, I am looking forward to see how this will progress. It's going to be huge (8 midsections)... but I saw that you seem to have enough cannons. I like the colour approach. It seems, however, that the lower gun ports are a bit too far behind the rest of the structure (does this sentence make sense?). It seems to work out better in the upper deck. You can split her in parts - I tried that with my last ship and was disappointed in the end about the (felt) lack of stability. And my ship was much smaller. But it's your choice anyway

I got them as a present from my brother-in-law. He says he's found them in Legoland Windsor some years back. The only model I know of, which made use of these, was the star destroyer (version 2).

Thanks for the feedback so far. Let me try to answer all of your questions: @HomerJSimpson: 1-2 pics to follow below. @ManInATopHat: Well, this is what I am complaining about - the design approach forbids to access the lower decks. However, you can access the captain's cabin, as this is at least one "modular" part I managed to keep alive for this ship. By the way: The hull is separable in the middle (although I am not so sure whether this was so clever (as I complained about lack of stability...)) @Sebeus I: Ok, you caught me. I only had green hinges left... But you can actually wind up the anchor! (Ok, you've presented a more elaborate approach to that ) I have made a few building mistakes on this one. Or, to put it differently, I have deviated from the tutorial, being interested in what the design change would lead to. So you will find some hull sections being 4 studs long, which did not turn out too good in the end. Going for 5 or 6 is much more clever. @CaptainGoldenHook: The white hulls are coming from this new "friends" ship (and I found them on bricklink). So, here are the pics: You can see a bit of the interior. There are some more guns on the lower deck. here is how to access the captain's quarters: And this was taken while work was "in progress" (was a beautiful ship by then) (and, as I said, you can pull it apart in the middle.)

Hey, this is beautiful. Great work! Great custom cannons too - good use of this new round plate/brick! Very very nice.

And now it is more or less "complete". With a garden: and a maze and some strange inhabitants

[pid][/pid] Cannon MOC Other 3C Hello, we have seen some interesting custom-made cannons and mortars recently which got me inspired to create something myself. So, here is the Royal Horse Artillery testing out the latest mortar models: Some detail shots: I have always loved the Royal Horse Artillery (I used to have some plastic soldiers) and so I am very happy to have recreated them here. (I had the grey barrels for a long time not know what to do with them...) Have a nice Sunday! [New pics (October) below in the post!]

[pid][/pid] 160A Ahoy! I'd like to present to you my new frigate which has been inspired by the work of our friend Sebeus I. The ship is called "The Blue Mermaid" Here's the little story to go along: Captain Jones was getting uneasy. For three hours he had been standing still to get his watercolour picture finished. Most of his crew had disappeared to sleep under deck. The few guys remaining and waiting for the painter to finish were the navigator, the first lieutenant and two strange guys. One was obviously gone crazy as he kept feeding his strange "Norwegian Blue" parrot. The other one was even stranger. He had boarded the ship with the aim to find the "Temple of the Monkey God" (wherever that would be). Surrounded by these guys, captain Jones felt a bit uneasy... but at least the painter was almost done, sailing beside the "Blue Mermaid" in his small sloop. End of story. As those who have seen some of my ships can tell, I have been following both inspiration from Sebeus I and the tutorial of fellow captain Green Hair. However, I made a few modifications which made the overall build more complex for me in the end. I have used custom-made cotton sails this time. And custom-made cannons. I really find that the CGH-Tutorial approach gives all these ships nice shapes but lacks stability. And you can never really access the lower decks which reduces playability. So, I might return to my old slope-based approach and present you some more of my reshaped old ships (if you give me some time ) Your feedback is welcome!

Hi guys, here is an update. I managed to find a solution for the missing sail design - I used the TLG approach as presented by the Sea Cow. I think I will apply this approach to other ships of mine. Another addition: custom made cannons: (they had been missing on the lower deck) One more picture: So, what do you think?

Well done - this is good! Inclusion of a monkey is, of course, mandatory. Good idea to spice up the octopus with those eyes!

Nice work - great stuff!

Superb! This is really great - and absolutely inspiring. I also like the slope-based approach (with which I have done most of my ships) - and the door-use for the dock. Give us more!!

Hi Sebeus, the monkeys are, of course, sitting on horses: Every governor's mansion would have decent horse statues, right? The garden section currently looks something like this: My children have decided that there has to be a maze as well.