HM Bark Endeavor

[kurigan]

This lovely recreation of the replica of Cook’s HM Bark Endeavor was created by Ashley Bognar & Mitchell Kruik, who are members of Ryan McNaught's build team, as part of a Lego layout of Sidney Harbor at the Museum of Sidney. It shows some pretty advanced techniques and attention to detail.

Mr. McNaught also provided some great sailing yachts for the same display worth checking out.

We’d love to have him weigh in on his creation and perhaps join our community so if anyone know Mr. McNaught please help us get in contact with him. Thanks.

[Cousarmy0001]

That Endeavor is brilliant! I wish they had more pictures of it there.

[kabel]

cool stuff, and funny that you posted this as I've just started another try at the same ship!

[Staslegomaster]

A super replica with a famous Harbor bridge in the background.

[Legonardo]

Mr. Mcnaught is a lego certified professional based in Melbourne, better known as "the Brickman", bit of a celeb in our corner of the world ;)

[BrickJagger]

An excellent build by Mr. Mcnaught for sure. I like the way he curved the sides of the ship while still maintaining a smooth appearance.

[Cousarmy0001]

I've set out to build a copy of this in LDD, perhaps to modify and build later on. It strikes me that the masts in this model are probably not very sturdy, and I'll have to design something of my own, but for now I'm a bit stuck on the upper hull. It looks like the yellow stripe is made with flexible tubing, but I really can't see how it's kept in there (barring cheating and using glue, or just relying on gravity, neither of which I can imagine a certified professional relying upon). Furthermore, I can't really see how he gets the upward slope in the blue 2x2 plates on the aft deck. Does anybody have any ideas concerning how these might have been achieved?

[kurigan]

not really sure but it looks as though the flex tube may be held on by string or rubber bands.

[Cousarmy0001]

not really sure but it looks as though the flex tube may be held on by string or rubber bands.

Well, that's disappointing. The masts don't exactly look sturdy, either. I've got it looking decent in LDD, and I think it would look good in an actual build, but now I'm running into how to do the decks. It's not looking good for an interior.

[BrickCurve]

It's a nice change to see him doing some smaller scale MOCs, he normally only builds The larger scale 'Lego land" type models.

Edited July 6, 2016 by BrickCurve

[kurigan]

Mr. Mcnaught is a lego certified professional based in Melbourne, better known as "the Brickman", bit of a celeb in our corner of the world ;)

Here I go groveling but: Then surely a builder of your caliber is acquainted with the master in question. Any hope of getting him to make an appearance on behalf of his work of art?

[Captain Green Hair]

Well mr. McNaught might learn a thing or two from our resident ship geniusses if hé is so kind to join us.

[Capn Frank]

I found Ryan McNaught on Flickr.

Worlds largest LEGO Sydney Opera House by Ryan, on Flickr

Here's another image of the HM Bark Endeavor. It's in front of some big, odd looking, white building.

[reload]

I just got a nice flickr Message from DStasny about the thread.

So hi Guys!

As much as i would love to, I cant take credit for it.

The ship was actually built by Ashley Bognar & Mitchell Kruik who were and are members of my build team.

I actually built that tiny small building behind the ship.

The model is certainly a beauty, and i can tell you about some of the model:

The model like the other models in the museum are designed to travel around so are glued for transport.

The mast actually has flex tubing inside it and the black 1x1 round plates have the hole in them, so a single tube can fit nicely to give it support.

The yellow flex tube around the hull is indeed held on by LEGO string

As for how the hull was done, That im afraid i have no idea, im suggesting a good dusting of Elf tears, Goats hair and a smattering of gold gypsy coins

[Cousarmy0001]

In my LDD attempts, the hull has actually been the easy part. It's more trouble than it's worth IMO to get the deck angled right in LDD, and I don't know how they would get the masts to angle in the right direction while the deck is sloping in the opposite direction for the center and aft masts, but I think if I had the bricks in person it would be relatively easy to get done. I'm not certain one would be able to build an interior, though, given the irregular distances between the sides of the hull. I stopped on this project shortly after my previous comment on this thread, but I may pick it up again later. Here's some pics of what I have so far, though.

That's cool that he replied to you, Reload. That'd be awesome if we could learn more about this model from the two people that he mentioned, as well.

[Capn Frank]

I just got a nice flickr Message from DStasny about the thread.

Thank you for letting us know Reload. I amended the topic content above.

You wouldn't happen to know where additional pictures are would you?

[kurigan]

Reload:

Thanks so much for stopping by. I don’t think this new information changes our collective appreciation, but it’s always good to give credit where credit is due. I hope you can pass our praise as well as an invitation, much the same, to Ashley Bognar & Mitchell Kruik.

So long as the creators and Sidney museum would not object I wonder; do we have any Sindeysiders who could go by the museum and grab a few shots with a zoom lens?

Cousarmy0001:

Well, now the likeness is stunning. Perhaps you’ve hit on it indeed. I don’t think this method would be great for a fighting ship with a gun battery piercing the sides, but as I’ve said before, they don’t all have to be men-of-war and pirates. With a break down, this seems like something that could definitely be repeated by our mates attempting upon more benign prizes… err, ships . Any chances you could take a few more shots of your version to show more of its construction?

Phred:

Thanks for the assist on flickr sleuthing!

[Cousarmy0001]

Cousarmy0001:

Well, now the likeness is stunning. Perhaps you’ve hit on it indeed. I don’t think this method would be great for a fighting ship with a gun battery piercing the sides, but as I’ve said before, they don’t all have to be men-of-war and pirates. With a break down, this seems like something that could definitely be repeated by our mates attempting upon more benign prizes… err, ships . Any chances you could take a few more shots of your version to show more of its construction?

I built it with the hopes of figuring out a way to add gun ports. I think you could potentially add some in the exact center of the brown arches by placing a two stud gap there, but I'd have to play with it and see if that looks too weird. As narrow as the hull is, though, they'd have to either be staggered, or be really short brickbuilt guns (which I know you prefer). You could also try to widen the hull, I suppose. The last option would be to only add deck guns, but again, they'd have to be pretty damn light, essentially pop guns to any dedicated man of war.

In short, it's an interesting technique, but I think in the end it might be too difficult to get in some of the details and features that we like to put on our ships (guns, captain's cabins, removable decks, etc). I do think that they used the "bending" technique that you like to get the upward curve in the blue plates at the aft half of the ship.

I may play with it some more, but I did get rather irritated with it in LDD. If anybody wants the file, let me know and I'll send it to you. It would probably be a lot easier to work on with actual bricks, but I just don't have the budget for that right now.

[Cousarmy0001]

I don't know if it can be done, Kurigan.

It's not worth the trouble, Kurigan.

It'll probably look like crap, Kurigan.

All right, fine! You've convinced me to try!

So I started thinking about it, and decided to give it a shot (I hope you don't mind me involving you in my inner monologue, Kurigan). After way long than I expected it to take, I finally wound up with a version that's two studs taller than the original, but has room for gunports that are relatively flush with the outer hull. I'd hoped to not have to raise the hull at all, but I couldn't work out a means of doing that without having the gunports two plates' depth inboard from the outer hull. I may try again tomorrow, though. I only gave her eight guns, because putting more than that on her seemed a bit excessive, though you easily could fit more if you wanted.

So check it out, the Bark Gundeavor.

[kurigan]

Ha! Gundeavor, love it. That name’s gotta stick.

Sounds like the me in your head is pretty persuasive.

Glad he kept you at it, this worked out pretty well. Perhaps she is a bit narrow but that’s workable. I reminds me of this curious thing, a flush-deck ship-sloop of only 12 guns.

I get the impression you’re likely to try any way at the very mention of it, so why not light the fire myself and challenge you to use this method to mock-up a Wolverine?

[Cousarmy0001]

As a concept, it would be easy enough to widen, just add in extra spans at the bow, and widen the stern. You could also widen the tip of the bow to three or four studs instead of the current two.

As fascinated as I am by the design concept, I don't know that an actual building of this is in the near future for me, as I'm trying to finally make some progress on my bluecoat harbor MOC. I really get the feeling that this would be much easier to do in real life than it is in LDD.

If anybody else is interested in taking a stab at it, though, I would be happy to send them the file. Shoot me a message, and I'll send it on over.

[mischa]

could you share the ldd file with us, please?

[kurigan]

57 minutes ago, mischa said:

could you share the ldd file with us, please?

Ho there cully! Welcome aboard. 

 

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[Cousarmy0001]

When I saw this had been bumped, and saw that Kurigan was the last poster, I was hoping he'd added something to this thread.

I've got the file, Mischa, but it's too big to post here or to send in a private message, apparently.  If you send me your e-mail address in a private message, though, I'll see if I can get it to you that way.  Unless Kurigan has some suggestions for getting LDD files sent via this website.

Cousarmy

[kurigan]

Sorry, just doing my jab.

You can host em on brickshelf though.