Legogal Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 Amazing! The last photo is perfect! Looking at all the sails and rigging makes me dizzy...just like when we had to climb to a scary height in rough seas to change the massive sails of the tall ship I crewed on for a month in an earlier life. Congrats on a lovely build! Quote
Staslegomaster Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 Thanks for your fast and detailed replytю When you finish her try to upload it in LEGO ideas.Your military ship will be a pearl of UCS. If I am completely honest I don't see a purely pirates set getting anywhere close to the 10k support though it's a dream of any LEGO fan. -And The Flying Dutchman - as large as yours - can prove the possibility. I think pirate Lego Ideas are always worth trying. Perhaps LEGO fans will support pirate projects not only because they like them but also just as a way of telling Lego we are still here and let them not forget us. I am trying to have fun with my Lego and want everyone else to enjoy it too, in whatever way they choose. LEGO ideas is the best chance for fans to create the same set as yours. Quote
Mpyromaxos Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 You have done amazing job!! One of the best ships that i have ever seen!! Loved the sails and the gundeck!! Quote
sdrnet Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 Absolute masterpiece! I would love one day to admire me too one day in my living room such a work! Congratulations, really incredible job. Quote
Staslegomaster Posted March 31, 2016 Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) I like old front sails because they have printing on both sides, so it's easy to take their pictures. Modern sails have printing on one side only, which doesn't look nice. As in yours - 70413. You take nice pictures now. Please advise how to take good quality pictures without flash and back lights (It's not allowed in LEGO ideas). Edited March 31, 2016 by Staslegomaster Quote
ejred Posted March 31, 2016 Author Posted March 31, 2016 The one question is... Where's Captain Kirk??? Lol just kidding. Now now, it's "HMS" not "NCC" or "USS" or whatever Especially love the captain's qaurters... (apples and peaches haha ) I couldn't pass up the nice gold lettering. The other officers wonder why he is reading that book, but no one has yet had the courage to ask him... Amazing! The last photo is perfect! Looking at all the sails and rigging makes me dizzy...just like when we had to climb to a scary height in rough seas to change the massive sails of the tall ship I crewed on for a month in an earlier life. Congrats on a lovely build! Thank you--that means just a little bit extra coming from someone that has actually done it! I've always loved sailing ships as a concept, but working this project had made me very eager to take one of the tall ship sailing cruises that are offered here and there. When you finish her try to upload it in LEGO ideas. I'd like to, but I seem to perceive some blowback against people uploading big MOCs that LEGO definitely won't approve into Ideas. But I agree that it would be nice to show Lego that sailing ships and Pirates deserve more love. Right now I'm just crossing fingers and toes for Beagle to be approved. But if it fails I am interested in seeing if there is a way to create an Ideas set that would be plausible as a set, advance the Pirate theme and not be considered too overlapping by LEGO. Perhaps if Beagle fails, the best thing would be to retry it with a lower piece count. I think it's a shame the designer didn't actually build the model, and that he used the brick-built sails. It's a beautiful ship, but still probably did not present the best possible case for LEGO to produce it. You take nice pictures now. Please advise how to take good quality pictures without flash and back lights (It's not allowed in LEGO ideas). Thanks! It was a lot of work--though I started from zero in photography knowledge, and for all I know there are much better approaches. What I did was this. First ordered a "photography kit" from Amazon, I think it was $100, includes backdrop (w/ frame) and several floodlights. That created decent lighting conditions, with light from several angles--which was crucial with so many inside spaces and sails. Then I put my camera on a tripod, turned it to "manual", turned off flash, and played with settings. Mostly used "ISO 80" with a bit of a lightening effect (my camera is so bad you can't actually set fstop or aperature, you have to play with different parameters to approximate). It often helped to back way off and then zoom in--this seemed to improve the focus, as well as maximizing the background coverage. Partway through I found my smartphone took quite good pictures in difficult conditions, even though handheld. I still used the regular camera for most pictures, but "hard to get" ones (interiors or from atop rigging or mega closeups of crew) I used the phone, and it was surprisingly effective Finally I just used the Flickr built in tools to do cropping and simple color and brightness balancing My other nitpick is that the prow looks a bit too straight up. OK, I've been experimenting with some alternate prows First I just created more angle at the bottom, while leaving the side-pieces the same: Then I tried rebuilding the side-pieces to make them less of a "right angle" I'm not sure whether that is an improvement, but maybe I'm just used to how it was. I guess I will keep tinkering. (side-note: I can't believe how few round plates LEGO makes in yellow, it's a real limitation) Thoughts/suggestions? Quote
ejred Posted March 31, 2016 Author Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) one more tweak Edited March 31, 2016 by ejred Quote
Cousarmy0001 Posted March 31, 2016 Posted March 31, 2016 I wasn't bothered by the original, but I think of your tinkers, the last one looks best. Quote
BrickOn Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 Such a masterpiece, a truely impressive build. The level of detail is fantastic, not only the ship itself with the decoration (love the black and yellow colour scheme), but all that rigging, the interior, the crew, I keep coming back to take it all in. Quote
Staslegomaster Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 The additional pictures look great as well. The details are just marvelous. Many thanks for your advice - it'll help me to improve my photography technique (I hope), though my poor vision doesn't allow me to work on the computer with photos. Your ship is huge. But did you see Yamata - a Japanese flagship or LEGO Titanic? Quote
ejred Posted April 3, 2016 Author Posted April 3, 2016 ...love the black and yellow colour scheme... Thank you! I'm pleased how the colors came out--along the way I was thinking maybe I should have done a tan deck instead of reddish-brown, but in the end I was quite happy with brown. It is lucky that yellow-black is a good-looking and historically accurate color scheme, since so many parts are available at reasonable prices. Brown, Black, White and Yellow is basically the palette I think, otherwise it will be too expensive and difficult to get what you need. Even then the lack of round-corner yellow plates and yellow window lattices caused issues. I've been looking at the US "Great White Fleet" from the late nineteenth century and they have this color they call "buff" which seems to be a fairly saturated pink/tan type color. Mauve maybe you'd call it. Anyway, there really isn't any LEGO color like it, and many of the closest ones are available in only a handful of pieces, and those are very rare/expensive. Tan could sort-of work, but even then some of the pieces you need are rare, and if you use tan for the superstructure, then it's not clear what the deck color would be. It makes 18th century British sailing ships look easy! I keep coming back to take it all in Much appreciated--in trying to make something appealing to people online it seems there is a lot of pressure to reduce the build to one perfect photo, but I didn't really find that possible. So I appreciate those willing to spend a little time browsing Your ship is huge. But did you see Yamata - a Japanese flagship or LEGO Titanic? Yes, there are some awesome ships out there. The Yamato is great, and there are two USS Missouris and HMS Hood that I've really liked, and there's a builder Jim McDonough who does all kinds of large naval ships, but especially WW2 Japanese ships. Some great aircraft carriers like USS Truman and USS Intrepid. Liners like Titanic and Queen Mary. The Titanic broken in half and sinking someone did recently was jaw-dropping. In the Age of Sail there have been I think at least a couple of Victorys, including the very nice one the BrightBricks people did. But unfortunately still we don't have enough big minifig-scale sailing ships I think. Hopefully we can correct that I definitely did not aspire to working at that size level--I don't need the hastles involved in moving, transporting or photographing something 15 feet long, 5 is plenty! Some of the ships I aspire to do from more modern eras would be close to 10 feet, and it just seems like too much of a logistical nightmare, even leaving aside the serious issue of cost. Quote
Staslegomaster Posted April 3, 2016 Posted April 3, 2016 The most impressive sailing ship I remember now is the flagship of the Sweden Royal fleet WASA. I wrote about it here when saw a LEGO replica. There weren't words enough to describe it because my jaw dropped too low to speak. The same with your ship - it deserves a big exhibition. Quote
Captain Edward Posted April 4, 2016 Posted April 4, 2016 Haven't been on Eurobricks for quite a while but it's good to see that there's still a lot of activity. It's very nice to open the first thing that looks eye catching and to see such a wonderful build. Have to agree that it sometimes looks a bit too straight, but it's lego we're talking about of course I couldn't have done it any better! You should be very proud of this build! Quote
ArchitectureFan Posted April 10, 2016 Posted April 10, 2016 This is very very impressive - a masterpiece! Quote
Mike S Posted April 10, 2016 Posted April 10, 2016 This is quite an impressive ship! Brickbeard better beware! Quote
daben Posted April 19, 2016 Posted April 19, 2016 Amazing work. I would love to have your master builder techniques. Have you post it on LEGO Ideas? Quote
ejred Posted April 20, 2016 Author Posted April 20, 2016 Amazing work. I would love to have your master builder techniques. Have you post it on LEGO Ideas? Thank you! I was thinking about putting it on Lego Ideas, but two things stopped me. First, when I look at the Ideas discussion thread here on Eurobricks, it seems many people complain about "people posting Ideas that are great MOCs but could never be a set." And second, it seems Ideas projects need a lot of "marketing" and my social media presence is anemic. On the other hand, it is tempting just to show Lego there is support for something like "UCS Pirates" Quote
jim7564 Posted May 4, 2016 Posted May 4, 2016 beautiful ship,especially like the detailing on the masts,one part of most ships that is so often overlooked,getting the bow is a nightmare to get right,i am building the Trincomalee which i think is one of the many sisterships to the Surprise.as far as i know the replica Surprise(master and commander) is some 35ft longer than the original which might account for the different bow on the plans to the photo of the replica,i am working of the frigate Diana plans which is supposed to be another sistership Quote
ejred Posted May 29, 2016 Author Posted May 29, 2016 Couldn't resist wasting time photoshopping some vignettes of the ship. I hope you like them. HMS Enterprize - At Sea HMS Enterprize - Cracking On HMS Enterprize - A Brisk Action HMS Enterprize - Home Port HMS Enterprize - Fire as they Bear! HMS Enterprize - To Death or Glory! HMS Enterprize - Taking in a Reef Quote
Columbus019 Posted June 11, 2016 Posted June 11, 2016 Wow, I guess that it is sailing where no man has gone before! Great MOC Columbus Quote
Divine Posted June 11, 2016 Posted June 11, 2016 Wow mate, shes an absolute wonder! Love it! I was going to ask where exactly do you buy these sails from? For lego ships? Would love to build one but have no idea where to buy these sails from are they custom ? Awesome work mate! -Divine. Quote
BrickCurve Posted June 11, 2016 Posted June 11, 2016 Incredible! I love how you did the water- thats a new technique for me. Quote
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