General MOC-Discussion, WIP-Help, and Teaser Thread

[Justsomebrix]

Hi all, just wanted to share this 10+ year old thread I found from another pirate forum, where some members discovered the lego pirate community 

https://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/ships-lego-built-by-members-of-classicpirates-com.19403/

[Jack Sassy]

On 11/22/2023 at 12:15 AM, Justsomebrix said:

Hi all, just wanted to share this 10+ year old thread I found from another pirate forum, where some members discovered the lego pirate community 

That be an interesting find indeed. Thank ye for sharing! 

[Sebeus I]

On 11/21/2023 at 11:15 PM, Justsomebrix said:

Hi all, just wanted to share this 10+ year old thread I found from another pirate forum, where some members discovered the lego pirate community 

https://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/ships-lego-built-by-members-of-classicpirates-com.19403/

I see there's a lot of my stuff featured.

Back from the day when I was spewing them out, one MOC after another 

Makes me sad to see how less productive I am today...

[Jack Sassy]

On 12/7/2023 at 1:43 PM, Sebeus I said:

Makes me sad to see how less productive I am today...

Even if ye don't make as many ship models as back in the day, they still are some of the most detailed and beautiful ones out there. Personally, I adore yer models. 

[Sebeus I]

On 12/10/2023 at 1:00 AM, Jack Sassy said:

Even if ye don't make as many ship models as back in the day, they still are some of the most detailed and beautiful ones out there. Personally, I adore yer models. 

Thanks 

[kurigan]

            I’m having a bit of a bad day today and I thought “Lego used to make me feel better…” So, I sat down to try and build something, just something, anything, just to do it. There sitting in the way, though, where she’s been for, literally, years, Chaser. Unfinished, dusty and neglected. Not what I want to work on. I don’t know if I’ll ever want to work on any of my ships again. I just can’t care; I can’t find that love in my heart anymore. They just sit there collecting dust in this state. I actually worked on Chaser a little bit late last year, but I couldn’t tell you where that motivation came from. Here they are, then, in their current and perhaps final state. I don’t know what to do with them anymore or why I bothered.

Spoiler

 

 

[Jack Sassy]

On 2/21/2024 at 11:31 PM, kurigan said:

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Yer models always have exceptional detail. I am sad to hear that you have lost interest, but the way I see it, in life, one has to do whatever they are passionate about. I would be looking forward to seeing more of yer MOCs.  

[_R_R_]

I'm necroing this thread to quickly show a little project I've been working on from time to time. 

So long story short I've reworked the Black Seas Barracuda from POBB into a Black Pearl. The reason for this is simple, I love the Barracuda's modular design which gives the option to detail the lower deck and I didn't want to go for a massive ship. To me the charm of Lego is when things are compact but you can still tell what it's meant to be.

Because of the recent Fortnite PoTC skins I'm more hopeful that we may yet see a new Black Pearl some day so I'll likely never get around to building this in real life, which is why I wanted to post it for posterity I suppose.

The hardest part was rebuilding the quarter deck and captain's cabin, I was inspired the video game design in this case. I also changed the position of some canon ports and added a few more for better accuracy. The masts and deck were also slightly altered.

Below are some pictures comparing my Pearl to the original set. The last picture is a quick montage of what I had in mind for the MOC, my goal was to create a diorama piece with the Pearl on the water being attacked by the Kraken. I used Dr Brick's Kraken design for the tentacles.

I hope my fellow PoTC/Black Pearl fans enjoy, it's not the best or most accurate Pearl MOC and it will likely never be finished but I like it's simplicity. 

Edited July 3, 2024 by _R_R_

[Jack Sassy]

On 7/3/2024 at 8:29 PM, _R_R_ said:

I hope my fellow PoTC/Black Pearl fans enjoy

She looks good.  I do wonder, how would the ship look should there be added another hull section? To me the new Barracuda seems a tad short for a frigate. 

On 7/3/2024 at 8:29 PM, _R_R_ said:

it will likely never be finished but I like it's simplicity.

I say, go for it (as long as ye have the resources for such a project ), I think that this kind of Pearl could satisfy your need for a new one. 

[Yperio_Bricks]

20 minutes ago, Jack Sassy said:

I do wonder, how would the ship look should there be added another hull section? To me the new Barracuda seems a tad short for a frigate. 

Oh yes, i would like to see that too!

[Elephant Knight]

On 7/3/2024 at 11:29 AM, _R_R_ said:

I hope my fellow PoTC/Black Pearl fans enjoy, it's not the best or most accurate Pearl MOC and it will likely never be finished but I like it's simplicity. 

It's an excellent version of the Black Pearl! It's pretty good as it is. the basis of the PoBB is clearly there, and you have done an excellent job of turning it into the Black Pearl.  Looks so much nicer than the set, I'm glad you had it there to compare too.

[Elephant Knight]

I had some small black hulls, and one single middle section. For the large hulls, as the didn't make the small middle in black. But I thought to myself, Hey, I could use the two together. Here's what I came up with:

Black Hull

Black Hull

EKnight

[Murdoch17]

So I was thinking about taking the new Harry Potter ship (set 76440 minus stickers and banner flags) and changing some colors around and adding two deck cannons - if possible - for a Spanish treasure ship. I'm thinking about turning the dark red and medium blue to regular red, and the gold to black. (with some parts substitutions where needed) I may even add another small center section someday, if I can. A ton of gold 2x2 bricks will be going below decks in the hold as well.

The issue is, I can't picture if this will look good or not. I just can't picture the color changes in my minds eye. Thoughts on this color swap?

Full disclosure: this is going on an Adventures build as a ship-out-of-time thing, located near Dino Island. You can read the whole page-long story on Flickr here.

[thewatchman]

On 7/4/2024 at 1:29 AM, _R_R_ said:

I'm necroing this thread to quickly show a little project I've been working on from time to time. 

So long story short I've reworked the Black Seas Barracuda from POBB into a Black Pearl. The reason for this is simple, I love the Barracuda's modular design which gives the option to detail the lower deck and I didn't want to go for a massive ship. To me the charm of Lego is when things are compact but you can still tell what it's meant to be.

Because of the recent Fortnite PoTC skins I'm more hopeful that we may yet see a new Black Pearl some day so I'll likely never get around to building this in real life, which is why I wanted to post it for posterity I suppose.

The hardest part was rebuilding the quarter deck and captain's cabin, I was inspired the video game design in this case. I also changed the position of some canon ports and added a few more for better accuracy. The masts and deck were also slightly altered.

Below are some pictures comparing my Pearl to the original set. The last picture is a quick montage of what I had in mind for the MOC, my goal was to create a diorama piece with the Pearl on the water being attacked by the Kraken. I used Dr Brick's Kraken design for the tentacles.

I hope my fellow PoTC/Black Pearl fans enjoy, it's not the best or most accurate Pearl MOC and it will likely never be finished but I like it's simplicity. 

This looks incredible.

 Would you care to make a rebrickable file?

[TomSkippy]

I need an opinion:

Small Sloop. Should the mast and rigging stay slanted? Or should I straighten her out?

Also, what about length vs height. I'm not sure she can be more than 3-6 studs longer.

Thoughts?

 

 

[Murdoch17]

On 7/21/2024 at 12:48 PM, Murdoch17 said:

So I was thinking about taking the new Harry Potter ship (set 76440 minus stickers and banner flags) and changing some colors around and adding two deck cannons - if possible - for a Spanish treasure ship. I'm thinking about turning the dark red and medium blue to regular red, and the gold to black. (with some parts substitutions where needed) I may even add another small center section someday, if I can. A ton of gold 2x2 bricks will be going below decks in the hold as well.

The issue is, I can't picture if this will look good or not. I just can't picture the color changes in my minds eye. Thoughts on this color swap?

Full disclosure: this is going on an Adventures build as a ship-out-of-time thing, located near Dino Island. You can read the whole page-long story on Flickr here.

I thought you all might like to see this MOC I found while perusing Rebrickable today. This brand new ALT-MOC by user @Wurger49 of the Durmstrang ship that only uses two copies of 2024 Harry Potter set 76440 - Triwizard Tournament; The Arrival - as seen below. You can also compare it to the set in the quoted portion above.

It only uses just the two sets ship parts, (the carriages pieces are not used!) and is named the Mary Rose, in honor of the famous ship / shipwreck from the time of King Henry the 8th. (Click the link to see how it looks in real bricks - it's amazing!) As stated in my previous post about the original set, I'm gonna turn the dark red and medium blue to regular red, and the gold to black, with some parts substitutions where needed.

Thoughts?

Edited August 4, 2024 by Murdoch17
tag added now that I know he's on EB

[Wurger49]

16 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

I thought you all might like to see this MOC I found while perusing Rebrickable today. This brand new ALT-MOC by user @Wurger49 of the Durmstrang ship that only uses two copies of 2024 Harry Potter set 76440 - Triwizard Tournament; The Arrival - as seen below. You can also compare it to the set in the quoted portion above.

It only uses just the two sets ship parts, (the carriages pieces are not used!) and is named the Mary Rose, in honor of the famous ship / shipwreck from the time of King Henry the 8th. (Click the link to see how it looks in real bricks - it's amazing!) As stated in my previous post about the original set, I'm gonna turn the dark red and medium blue to regular red, and the gold to black, with some parts substitutions where needed.

Thoughts?

thanks for the mention, hm, gold really makes the model pop though

[Murdoch17]

So first some bad news: I will not be building @Wurger49's 2x 76440 alt-MOC, as I just don't have the ability to drop $300 on two of a LEGO model to make a MOC, as I don't have that kinda cash. So, I'm back to my original plan of making the original set's ship into a Armada vessel.

Here is my progress:

Here are the ancillary items for my upcoming MOD. I don't like stickers, so I'm replacing the stickered shields from the set with Castle ones. The flag was purchased from a resale shop in my area, and the cannons will go on the main deck of the ship.

These brick built sails are going to replace the fabric ones on my copy of Triwizard Tournament - The Arrival from the Harry Potter theme. I was heavily inspired by set 31109 (Pirate Ship) from the Creator theme on the design and feel of these new sails. (I just hope my measurements based off Bricklink's part listings are correct, or at least close. The triangular sail especially gave me the most headache in orientation and size. That one will most likely need heavy modification when being attached to the ship.) The sails are digital in this picture as the ordered parts have not yet arrived.

These totally purist Armada figs (six soldiers and one ship's captain) use a lot of neat parts. The legs on the soldiers, for example, came from a Castle figure from 2010.

For reference reasons, here again is the original vessel from the set. The colors I said I was going to change (dark red to red, gold to black) will not be changing.

Thoughts?

Edited September 12, 2024 by Murdoch17

[Yperio_Bricks]

17 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

Thoughts?

Speaking about the colors. It's hard to imagine how the final result will look, but i imagine red maybe is too bright and black maybe will dominate the other colors.

[Murdoch17]

1 minute ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Speaking about the colors. It's hard to imagine how the final result will look, but i imagine red maybe is too bright and black maybe will dominate the other colors.

Yeah, that's the same conclusion I came to myself @Yperio_Bricks.

[Cousarmy0001]

On 8/1/2024 at 3:09 PM, TomSkippy said:

I need an opinion:

Small Sloop. Should the mast and rigging stay slanted? Or should I straighten her out?

Also, what about length vs height. I'm not sure she can be more than 3-6 studs longer.

Thoughts?

Sorry for the slow response, I haven't exactly been active lately.  I say keep it slanted.

I also say can we have more pictures?  I'm very interested in the hull, and specifically the pieces making the bow.

Edited September 16, 2024 by Cousarmy0001

[thewatchman]

On 7/9/2024 at 5:50 AM, Jack Sassy said:

She looks good.  I do wonder, how would the ship look should there be added another hull section? To me the new Barracuda seems a tad short for a frigate. 

I say, go for it (as long as ye have the resources for such a project ), I think that this kind of Pearl could satisfy your need for a new one. 

Not my design but iv shamelessly adapted it and built about 60% of it while modding bits i didn’t quite like. 
 Coming along well. Still need to decide on interiors and figures. 
 Thinking of Patel and ragetti, Jack, barbossa, Marty and Cotten.

[Jack Sassy]

3 hours ago, thewatchman said:

Thinking of Patel and ragetti, Jack, barbossa, Marty and Cotten.

Give us a heads up about those, would be interesting to see which torsos ye considered for Pintel and Ragetti.

[TomSkippy]

On 9/15/2024 at 3:55 AM, Cousarmy0001 said:

Sorry for the slow response, I haven't exactly been active lately.  I say keep it slanted.

I also say can we have more pictures?  I'm very interested in the hull, and specifically the pieces making the bow.

She's come a long way.

You'll see more pictures shortly. It's been adjusted for the BDP. I had to straighten the mast since there are no mast or cloth pieces available, I'm pleased with how the brick built ones have turned out, but an angled mast isn't sturdy enough to hold them.

[thewatchman]

On 9/15/2024 at 10:33 PM, Jack Sassy said:

Give us a heads up about those, would be interesting to see which torsos ye considered for Pintel and Ragetti.

For ragetti I’m using the Sirius black torso. 
New Luke skywalker hair but I’m struggling for head ideas.