Posted July 9, 20231 yr I have spent some weeks on my probably largest ship so far: "The Pride of Pontelli". The model is inspired by the Spanish ship "Santa Ana" - a model of which I have seen in Madrid's excellent Naval Museum. The original ship has one more deck. Having little experience with two deck ships I did not want to go for too much. I did not have enough yellow bricks for another deck anyway My son helped me with the lighting and photographing the ship. This actually gets more difficult with the ship's size. I will make some more improvements, but more or less this will be going out to an exhibition in August. And I am quite happy with how the brick-based-rigging turned out. Thanks for watching!
July 9, 20231 yr you built spanish ship's high-freeboard. Looks very good. And big bricks-using made her cool. many parts such as rigging, brick built sail inspired me to can rebuild my old ships. good ship bro
July 9, 20231 yr Very well built two cannon deck ship with Lego boat hull. The most difficult part of the ship's bow and the ship's stern are well built. I like that the hull slopes outward at first, is straight on the lower gun deck and inwards on the second gun deck. As far as I can ses the height of the lower- and upper-gun decks is 4-5 bricks high. I like that and it's good.
July 9, 20231 yr 10 hours ago, Captain Braunsfeld said: This is fantastic photo! The ship is leaving the port, off to some exciting adventure, and we have longing, or perhaps a touch of worry of some unknown town official, or merchant, wondering if the ship will ever reach its destination. Well done!
July 11, 20231 yr Author On 7/9/2023 at 11:27 AM, Third Navigator said: you built spanish ship's high-freeboard. Looks very good. And big bricks-using made her cool. many parts such as rigging, brick built sail inspired me to can rebuild my old ships. good ship bro Thanks - have fun rebuilding (I am thinking of rebuilding some old ships too) On 7/9/2023 at 7:44 PM, NOD said: Very well built two cannon deck ship with Lego boat hull. The most difficult part of the ship's bow and the ship's stern are well built. I like that the hull slopes outward at first, is straight on the lower gun deck and inwards on the second gun deck. As far as I can ses the height of the lower- and upper-gun decks is 4-5 bricks high. I like that and it's good. Bow and stern have seen many iterations during the building process... At some point the stern part was going to be in blue. Maybe I'll try that again one day. And your observations about the curvature of the hull are on point! On 7/9/2023 at 7:46 PM, Marooned Marin said: This is fantastic photo! The ship is leaving the port, off to some exciting adventure, and we have longing, or perhaps a touch of worry of some unknown town official, or merchant, wondering if the ship will ever reach its destination. Well done! Sounds somewhat romantic. Until you realize that they have forgotten to set the sails
July 11, 20231 yr 16 minutes ago, Captain Braunsfeld said: Until you realize that they have forgotten to set the sails Perhaps that's the thing that worriers him the most!
July 12, 20231 yr Author 3 hours ago, Marooned Marin said: @Captain Braunsfeld your creation has been Yeah. Happiness Thanks a lot.
July 15, 20231 yr The stern of this vessel is a work of art! I like the small windows and the decorations!
July 20, 20231 yr Author On 7/15/2023 at 7:13 AM, LEGO Train 12 Volts said: The stern of this vessel is a work of art! I like the small windows and the decorations! Thanks. I am happy that you like it. (And I still ask myself whether it would look better if the stern had blue as a main colour instead of the yellow)
July 20, 20231 yr I think yellow is perfect because it recalls wood and also integrates with the gold decorations!
July 20, 20231 yr Author 1 minute ago, LEGO Train 12 Volts said: I think yellow is perfect because it recalls wood and also integrates with the gold decorations!
July 26, 20231 yr Author 17 hours ago, CaptainPolluxofOrion said: Really superb Ship, Captain Braunsfeld! I really like it! Thanks, fellow captain!
July 28, 20231 yr With the standard LEGO hull parts it looks a bit slim and thus too top heavy. It's really hard build a large ship like that, while being so much limited by the width of the hull parts.
July 29, 20231 yr Author 8 hours ago, Blechbek said: With the standard LEGO hull parts it looks a bit slim and thus too top heavy. It's really hard build a large ship like that, while being so much limited by the width of the hull parts. And I thought the ship was not long enough.... How much wider would you build it? 2 studs? 4 studs?
July 29, 20231 yr Widening the ship would look odd too. Maybe you could lower the cannon decks a bit. A Ship of the line can't be really build with the standard hull parts.
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