Posted September 5, 20222 yr Architeuthis Pirata commonly known as "Pirate Squid, Terror of the Seven Seas". Captain Kraken and his crew of Marauding Mollusks are not passing up any opportunity to pillage and plunder. Build in a little under two month for the BrickNerd “pi-RATS & BUG-aneers” contest. Based on the frame of the Silent Mary, the whole bow/head section can lift up to show-off the kraken's fearsome mouth. I'd love to add more rigging but did run out of time and string. The sails are original lego, dyed with black fabric dye. Thanks to the Eurobrics community for sharing so many great builds to use as inpiration. #piRATSandBUGaneers #BrickNerd #LEGOpiratecontest Edited March 29, 20231 yr by Marooned Marin Blogged on the Classic-Pirates.com
September 5, 20222 yr This is cool looking ship, looks amazing, so many cool details. I love the rigging If you have, you can add more images here on the forum. Is it sturdy when picked up, and did you keep account on how many parts went into it?
September 5, 20222 yr 20 hours ago, Julius said: Architeuthis Pirata commonly known as "Pirate Squid, Terror of the Seven Seas". Captain Kraken and his crew of Marauding Mollusks are not passing up any opportunity to pillage and plunder. Build in a little under two month for the BrickNerd “pi-RATS & BUG-aneers” contest. Based on the frame of the Silent Mary, the whole bow/head section can lift up to show-off the kraken's fearsome mouth. I'd love to add more rigging but did run out of time and string. The sails are original lego, dyed with black fabric dye. Thanks to the Eurobrics community for sharing so many great builds to use as inpiration. #piRATSandBUGaneers #BrickNerd #LEGOpiratecontest Wow this is really mindblowing. I love this SHip Salute to you Mate!
September 6, 20222 yr Author 16 hours ago, Marooned Marin said: This is cool looking ship, looks amazing, so many cool details. I love the rigging If you have, you can add more images here on the forum. Is it sturdy when picked up, and did you keep account on how many parts went into it? Thanks Mate, below some additional pictures. The ship is very stable due to the sturdy technic frame that I borrowed from the Silent Mary, set 71042. The rigging is helping the masts to stand up but they also have technic axles inside. It's actually sturdy enough to bend at the front of the main deck to allow an agressive pose for the squid to attack. I've no idea how many parts went into it though. 3 hours ago, CaptainPolluxofOrion said: Wow this is really mindblowing. I love this SHip Salute to you Mate! Thanks for your kind words here and on my flickr post! Edited September 6, 20222 yr by Julius
September 9, 20222 yr Author On 9/7/2022 at 1:14 AM, PxChris said: Quite a wildly spectacular beasty ship to behold! Thanks mate!
September 9, 20222 yr Great build! Cool concept and good execution. There are some interesting hull techniques.
September 13, 20222 yr Author On 9/9/2022 at 6:58 PM, Wellesley said: Great build! Cool concept and good execution. There are some interesting hull techniques. Thanks, had those technic panels laying around for a while, and they just worked perfectly to render the curved shape of the lower part of the hull.
September 13, 20222 yr @Julius How long did you build this? What was your process, first digital, or you went directly to the real build? I just saw on your Flickr account the secret behind the windows of the cabin. That is ingenious solution!
September 14, 20222 yr Author 15 hours ago, Marooned Marin said: @Julius How long did you build this? What was your process, first digital, or you went directly to the real build? I just saw on your Flickr account the secret behind the windows of the cabin. That is ingenious solution! Thanks mate. I'm not much of a digital builder. I tried it a few times but I find the process much less creative and I can't get a good flow. So it's always straight up physical bricks for all my builds. I settled on the idea of merging a ship with a giant squid right away after I read about the BrickNerd contest. I also ordered a bunch of parts, like the tentacles, sails, string, stickers, and a few minifigures to complate the crew. Once I decided to go for the squid I knew I wanted to have a play feature to allow it to raise its bow/head. Since I only had two month in total, until the deadline of the competition, I needed a solid frame structure that would inlcude the play feature and that I could build quickly, without the need of too many trail and error modifications later in the building process. So I used the technic frame of the Silent Mary which already included the hinged solution for the play feature. Going directly to building the frame I did a lot of research about hull techniques, masts and rigging. At that point I decided I wanted to use the grey technic panels for the lower hull but had yet to figure out how to connect them in a way that would allow them to flex a little while providing enough stability. After completing the frame I build the main and the forecastle deck, then outlined the dimensions of the upper deck and the poop deck. Moving on to the black hull panels of the gun deck, the overall proportions where set, which allowed me to decide on the best position for the three masts and I was able to complete all decks. The poop deck and captains cabin below as well as the squids tail, maw, tentacles and masts are all modular, held in place with technic pins. I build them as separate assemblies before attaching the grey technic hull panels. This allowed me to keep the overall build size maneuverable so it was easier to handle while building the technic panel hull sections. The stern was a bit of trial and error until I had found the right wedged panels that allowed for smooth transiotions. Next I moved on to the squids head that I build around the maw. After the hull, deck and guns where complete I moved on to the masts, dyed the original Lego sails - wich looked way to clean for the ship - completed the rigging and added a few details and stickers. I had ordered four blue 32x32 baseplates which I used to build the base. At that point there where about 5 days left before the two month deadline so I couldn't be to fuzzy about the look of the waves and water splash details. I felt like the ship all by itself looked a little lonely so I decided to add the outrigger canoe which forced me to rebuild a small section of the waves. With 3 day left and the clock winding down I rushed to take some photos. Lucky enough it was a beautiful overcast day and I managed to light everything with sunlight, as the build didn't fit in my lightbox. Some post processing in Photoshop and the thing was ready to be submitted a day before the deadline.
September 14, 20222 yr @Julius Thank you for your detailed answer, this is very helpful and will serve well for a mighty good Blog-post on Classic-Pirates (hope you are a reader fan our blog) I have you and your creation bookmarked for sometime in the near future. Say... beside Flickr, do you have Instagram for people to follow your work?
March 30, 20231 yr Governor 18 hours ago, Marooned Marin said: @Julius your fearsome ship has been on the Classic-Pirates.com Blogged by the finest blogger in all the seas, no less!
April 1, 20231 yr This could definitely reach 10k votes on LEGO Ideas in no time! Edited April 1, 20231 yr by Brickander Brickumnus
April 2, 20231 yr Great idea and execution of the same! How the sea battle with Silent Mary would look like I wonder?
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