Capt Wolf Posted March 3, 2020 Posted March 3, 2020 I recently came across a seller on Bricklink who was selling just the ship from the ship in the bottle set (for only $10!) so I snapped it up. But I wasn't entirely happy with the design of the ship ever since the set was announced. So, I decided to build a MOD rather than build it straight as designed. I simplified the gun ports, gave it some galleon-like styling, elongated the bow, reworked the stern, changed the sail plan, and came up with what I call El Genio ("The Genie") since I have released it from the bottle! Because I won the class 3 competition in the PA Cup minichallenge, I have a free class 5 license that can be activated with a microbuild, and so I will use it here. Some other views of the ship: Spoiler "On the water": Additional pics "on the water": Spoiler Thanks for looking. All C&C welcome. Quote
Garmadon Posted March 3, 2020 Posted March 3, 2020 I love the color of this ship, and you've really freed it from the cramped look the constraints of the bottle put on it - really nice job! I'm going to call you out on those gun ports too; great idea to convey those simply but convincingly Quote
Ayrlego Posted March 3, 2020 Posted March 3, 2020 Great micro ship Capt Wolf, it's a huge improvement over the original! Quote
Fraunces Posted March 4, 2020 Posted March 4, 2020 It truly is a great improvement. The name is well picked too Quote
Capt Wolf Posted March 5, 2020 Author Posted March 5, 2020 On 3/3/2020 at 12:18 PM, Garmadon said: I love the color of this ship, and you've really freed it from the cramped look the constraints of the bottle put on it - really nice job! I'm going to call you out on those gun ports too; great idea to convey those simply but convincingly I love the color of this ship, too. I've thought about trying to do a normal-sized ship using dark orange in some fashion. And thanks for the shout-out on the gun ports; I thought the original design was just too bulky. On 3/3/2020 at 12:40 PM, Ayrlego said: Great micro ship Capt Wolf, it's a huge improvement over the original! Thank you! On 3/4/2020 at 12:51 PM, Fraunces said: It truly is a great improvement. The name is well picked too Thanks! I had to have some fun with the name. Quote
Keymonus Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 Lovely micro-ship, great MODding and nice name choice! But… why is everybody getting mad with genies in this period? Quote
Capt Wolf Posted March 11, 2020 Author Posted March 11, 2020 On 3/7/2020 at 8:56 AM, Captain Braunsfeld said: Good MOD! Thank you! On 3/7/2020 at 2:41 PM, Keymonus said: Lovely micro-ship, great MODding and nice name choice! But… why is everybody getting mad with genies in this period? Thanks. And I'm not sure why we have all the genies right now, although I may have started it a couple of months ago with my wish for more ship levels. On 3/10/2020 at 8:06 AM, blackdeathgr said: Easily better than the original. Thank you. I'm glad folks think I did actually improve it! I wasn't always sure at some points during the mod process. Quote
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