Spanish Main Pirate Game MOC's

[Dread_Privateer_Roberts]

These are a few custom ships that we've used in our "Spanish Main Pirates Game" A few of them are just hastily made experiments and none are anywhere near the calibre of some of the shipbuilding I've been looking at on here, but they are some fun pieces none the less.

Keep in mind that a good portion of the game involves hauling cargo, smuggling contraband (you'll notice a few ships have secret holds) Defending yourself from Pirates, and or attacking and seizing merchant vessels...

First is the Swift She is the ship most frequently used by the Dread_Privateer_Roberts.

Its a light and fast ship, with a long narrow hull (only 6 studs wide) Its main purpose it to quickly haul cargo from port to port in costal regions and outrun any who persue her. With the right captain and a darring crew, she can easily overtake larger vessels from behind and allow her crew to quickly board and seize the opposing ship. While most of the time she travels lightly loaded to take advantage of her speed, The Swift seen in some of these pictures has been outfitted with extra cannon, what could the Dread_Privateer be up to now...

[Dread_Privateer_Roberts]

Here is a small, 4 stud wide, ship used for smuggling. It has two hidden compartments. I have yet to refit the mast and rigging with lego pieces and give it a color scheme but the experimental version shows what the end result will look like.

Here is a custom hull similar in size and shape to the Merchant vessel from Imperial Trading Post that has been refitted with a smuggling compartment and two cannon.

Here is a unique experimental trimaran flying a Spinnaker sail

Here are some ships with custom sails

Sorry that so many of the pictures are such poor quality. My camera was not working so I actually took them with my cell phone!

Many more to come!

Since I've discovered Bricklink I've had a hayday designing an army of ships, most of which I still need to put together...

[Brig. Brick]

very nice ships

well done with the customized sails.

and, with the little ships, try to change the cannons, they are too big for the ships, you made a good swivel gun in the first one, can use it on the rest.

beautiful collection of hulls

[Dread_Privateer_Roberts]

very nice ships

well done with the customized sails.

and, with the little ships, try to change the cannons, they are too big for the ships, you made a good swivel gun in the first one, can use it on the rest.

beautiful collection of hulls

Thanks, I liked how that light swivel gun turned out, and I've got a new and improved design now. Just a few more orders from bricklink...

I really like the cannon design by Matteo1130 for a smaller gun to mount on these ships and I agree they look much better, but keep in mind these ships are used for gaming, not necessarily looks, and the "Speak softly and cary a big stick" theory is often a very effective tactic for taking out larger ships. The trade off in the game is that the weight of the cannons and their size slows down the ship considerably and severly limits the cargo you can hold. The Swift, for example, is generally outfitted with only the small swivel gun because her main objective is to run down and board enemy ships, not sink them. In fact, the Swifts configuration seen in the pics (with the 3 extra heavy cannon) is that ships maximum payload. With that much weight from the guns there is no room for any cargo... Same goes for the Merchant ship with 2 heavy cannon. The "non-player" ships encountered in the game generally have the appropriate cannon configureation for their size... I'll post a few pics of them when i get the chance...

and Thanks! Someday that collection of hulls will all be assembled ships! The box full of masts for that many ships is almost as impressive, maybe I'll get a pic of that up also!

[Dread_Privateer_Roberts]

Here are a few pics of various other cannons

Obviously you wouldn't have a ship with this many cannons all over the place, but these are just a few of the various types of medium and light ship guns employed in the Spanish Main strategy game...

Here is a medium swivel gun on a row boat...

Here is a light swivel gun mounted to the deck railing...

Here is another version of the Medium swivel gun. I don't noramlly have two guns mounted to one plate, but I just wanted to see how it would look...

Special thanks to Matteo1130 (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=45700) for the basic design of this light ships gun...

A Medium swivel gun and a light swivel gun...

I thought I'd throw in a few custom shore-based artillery pieces while I was at it. I don't have the exact colors I want for these designs but, thanks to bricklink, soon enough I will!

I thought I would throw in a few windage flags on this one to see how it looked.

[Dread_Privateer_Roberts]

Here is the updated version of the 4 stud wide smuggling ship...

It still has the two smuggling holds...

And now it has a medium pivot gun, (and a ships bell)

And a light pivot gun...

when I get up enough ambition I'll break out the sail making material and rig some of these ships...