Found these featured on The Brother's Brick actually, but we'll link em via Flickr for our purposes. 

 

Here we have a couple of nice sloops put together by Felipe Avelar. Though they are not specifically "pirate" themed, I found them to be rather well executed and worthy of notice. Though the ketch, with her Bermuda type sails and enclosed wheel house seems a bit more 20th century or so, the cutter is fairly generic in historic terms. Both are impressive for their complete rigs, detail inclusion and smooth and realistic hull curvature. Talk em up, share them around or just plane enjoy taking them all in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yeah, right.  We know these are actually yours, and you're hunting for compliments, Kurigan :-P

18 hours ago, Cousarmy0001 said:

Yeah, right.  We know these are actually yours, and you're hunting for compliments, Kurigan :-P

I don't know how to take that...

Do I come off as that petty? Personally I see some significant stylistic differences.

I don't think you're petty, I was trying to suggest that you're trying a few different methods, but you were worried that we wouldn't like them.

Lol  I'd be lying if I said the though had never crossed my mind. Make someone up to see how much baring my name had on popular opinion of my work, but no. It's an honest find. They're far from new and I sat on the for a couple weeks myself. I invited Felipe Avelar to come out and offer comment as I do, but who know's if he'll show. They're basically the same technique Henrik used on Cutty Sark et all, but not every builder needs to start from scratch with each build. 

They are both quite nice, though I'm slightly partial to the red sailed one.  The other seems like a more modern vessel.

On 15/03/2017 at 4:50 PM, kurigan said:

I invited Felipe Avelar to come out and offer comment as I do, but who know's if he'll show. 

Ahoy, fellows.

It took me a month and a Microsoft Account reactivation to answer this thread!
My Eurobricks account remounts to the first year of Historica, and then was dropped and never used again.

 

On 11/03/2017 at 6:25 PM, kurigan said:

Found these featured on The Brother's Brick actually, but we'll link em via Flickr for our purposes. 

 

Here we have a couple of nice sloops put together by Felipe Avelar. Though they are not specifically "pirate" themed, I found them to be rather well executed and worthy of notice. Though the ketch, with her Bermuda type sails and enclosed wheel house seems a bit more 20th century or so, the cutter is fairly generic in historic terms. Both are impressive for their complete rigs, detail inclusion and smooth and realistic hull curvature. Talk em up, share them around or just plane enjoy taking them all in.

 

 

Thank you very much for displaying these Ships here; I am not a dedicated shipbuilder - though I often do my homework when deeplly envolved on grerater MOC building. 
Actually, I've built several smal one maist ships for LugBrasil''s castle expo layout on the past years, but haven't until this year dedicated myself on a more realistic build.

But last December I built a small ship for CCCXIV - rather fantasious - and realized how far from realistic ships I've been.This one seems like the bastard son of a Cog and a Dhow:
The Falcon Clinker by Felipe Avelar, no Flickr

I've been on a heavy Lego Schedule since last year, trying to enter as many things as I can, but with all household, baby and work duties I often find myself overwhelmed, So, after missing the deadline for the second round for The Tourney 2017, I decided to do a "me" build, as In not something built for a Lego competition, expo, festival or challenge.

The first hull (Amberle/Cutter) was built on a "tablescrap" mood. After building it, I went deep on studying shipbuilding, the terminology, how and why things are there. One of my main goals was to set gearboxes below decks, to fine tunes most lines and stays. That's because, while building the ship for CCC, I realized how hard was to manually tighten lines to a proper pression, and I thought that maybe Technic could help me.

As for the Ships themselves, they'd be both "modern 20th century" refurbished yachts. The Amberle is a "19ht Century Converted British Trawler", so It's interesting as a Pirate forum subject. The Ketch is a properly 60's ship, a flat bottomed near-coast and river vessel. The Cutter was built first and a testbed for future builds: the Ketch wasa builtd because I looked at my part collection and just realized I could do a second one. They are still assembled, but I look forward to  take them down and build a realistic 18th century Schooner with the likes and colours of the Cutter, Ii think the tanbark sails with the light tan hull looks great.

I do not own any pirate boat sets, and that was a Challenge while building these ones, because of the lack of masts parts. I had to develop a axle/pin and technic connector mast, which is kind of weak to line tensions. I am currently trying to develop a "metallic 3.8mm Lego-compatible bar". In sizes of 10 to 12 inches, would be the core on the masts, so I could get them strong, while still retaining the modular advantage of technic connectors. Lego Masts are great but they do are somewhat limited to their sizes.

Thanks very much for the comments and I look forward to bring a real Pirate-esque ship next time.



 

Edited April 19, 20177 yr by Cij Daoke

Welcome aboard mate! Thanks so much for accepting and giving us a reply; and what a reply! Never mind the delay, seafaring, even model seafaring, involves a fair amount of patience. 

"All work and no play" eh there cully? "Me builds" are my favorite. True spirit of Lego and all that, plus you find the most inspired creations coming from "me builds"  

I have a well know bias against pre-fab parts and the lack there-of is one of the things that drew me to you two beauties. 

12 hours ago, Cij Daoke said:

After building it, I went deep on studying shipbuilding, the terminology, how and why things are there. 

A builder after my own heart.  

12 hours ago, Cij Daoke said:

I look forward to  take them down and build a realistic 18th century Schooner with the likes and colours of the Cutter, Ii think the tanbark sails with the light tan hull looks great.

That I wholeheartedly endorse. I can't wait to see her! Why not start a WIP topic and keep us in the loop? Ould also she some light on your construction method for other builders to find inspiration. 

When I need to stabilize a mast or spar, I just use cheap 3/8" wooden dowel form the hobby/craft store. A 4' length only runs about half a dollar. 

 

Hope this isn't the last we see of you, thanks for sharing!