After a hard fought battle, the Puck’s Jest had been taken and Captain Amara and her crew had her outfitted and prepared to sail under its new owner’s flag for the Glory of Charlatan Bay.

 

Each side sports 7 gun ports to bring about devastating broadside attacks.

 

The two masts of the ship allow for optimum sail efficiency and with the smaller hull size, optimum speed.

 

Two forward facing gun ports can be found on the bow along with a pretty dapper looking Jester to help identify the vessel.  The cool guy with the Egyptian hat and pistols is a bonus!

 

If you are looking at this view, you should have been running five minutes ago.

 

Back – Two more gun ports under the cabin house stern cannons to deter any tail gaiters.

 

Crew on edge – “Hey look at that!  I can see my reflection!”  (Yah...there is always one)

 
 

Spoiler

 

I started work on this ship back in November of 2016.  It was not inspired by historical pirate ships but the flying pirate boat from a Tinker Bell movie my 7 year old daughter likes.  After a couple of days toying with the build, I quickly came to the conclusion that my Lego collection couldn’t support a class 5 vessel.  I then went through the math to order all the pieces I needed to finish the ship, and discovered that it is a good idea to write that down when you do it so you remember your plan.

Anyhow.  Now that it is done I just want to finally get it posted so please forgive the lack of story on this one.

 

 

Nice looking brig, Gulagurag! She will certainly strike fear into the hearts of her enemies.

I quite like the inverted tumblehome in the lower part of the hull, changing to a "true" tumblehome over the gun ports. Also, the windows in the stern gun ports of the prefab hull is a nice detail, and the overhanging cabin makes her very distinctive. The golden details all around looks nice.

My suggestion would be working more on the rigging. The way the yard arms are connected to the masts make them hang pretty far from the mast. Perhaps letting the angled thingy on the yard fit directly on the mast (no clue how to explain this...) could work. Optimally, she would also have at least one more set of sails on top (topgallants).

And of course, I am always a proponent of string rigging, and would obviously suggest trying it out. I use some form of twine myself, and I think it is pretty effective. (And despite what you might think, stringing it up can actually be pretty fun/interesting/educational/tedious! )

Nice brig - keep up the good work!

Quite a nice ship, Gulagurag!  The colors work excellently together, and the stern is executed brilliantly! - the gold trimming and your way of supporting the sills outside the windows being my favorite details!   The imperial flagship's sails work nicely here as well, and I'm looking forward to seeing her in action! 

A very neat ship, sturdily built, nice bow and stern.

I think ship of this size and style is suited to play around, personnaly, I've built for my son a couple of ship using prefab hull pieces, each with no more than 3 mid-section, they are able to withstand hours of play, without breaking apart into many small pieces. But when I give him a ship built with fancy hull technique, it falls apart repetitively.

It is kind of funny how long it took me to get to this point.  Can't say I won't rework some sections a little more when time permits.

Bregir - The inverted tubblehomes actually came to me when I was thinking of how water would drain from a ship in a storm and that the slant of the deck should always go outwards.  I put one of those pieces in as an experiment and liked it so much I had to order a dozen more to fill in the rest of the deck. 

Riggings are my bane.  I am going to have to do an order for pieces that will be used for that task alone to start getting them right I think.  My collection just can't do it in a way that works effectively.

Bregir and Garmadon - Nice to hear praise on the stern section.  I rebuilt it a few times trying to give it a less square look before coming to the octagonal wall approach I ended up keeping.  Took a bit of tweaking to get it to a way I was satisfied with.  The sills came early on in my design.  I ran out of 2by1 boards in the color I was using so tried the one with elbow pipe then built the sill up to give some extra detail.  It stayed in from that point on.

The color scheme was primarily done in brown with gold trim because of the show "Black Sails" that I was watching one evening.  I noticed how much wood was on all the ships with what seemed to be gold paint for detailing.  Tried to go with that primarily and work in minor yellow and blue details for the Sea Rat colors.  Originally, the gun ports were going to be blue and the filligree a mixture of gold and yellow but it never looked quite right so went with more brown and black decks (because black are the most flat pieces color I have rather than for esthetic)

Bodi - You nailed the secondary use plan.  I have two kids and now I have two ships they can play with.  One for each.  I expect they won't make it through a weekend but that is ok.  Gives me an excuse to rebuild them.

Thanks for the comments. 

 

I like your ship. It has a very nice captain's cabin, and I like how the deck is built up. My one criticism is that it's too short. I think it needs like 1 more hull section.