shiplover Posted February 25, 2012 Posted February 25, 2012 Status as of this month - February 2012. Orlop deck finished. Working on Lower Gun Deck. Lower gun Deck has 50 cannons. Ship will have over 100 total. Estimate crew of 500 at this point. Using the HMS Victory as a reference, but not attempting to build it. Quote
Skipper Posted February 25, 2012 Posted February 25, 2012 Way to make an entrance, this ship is MegaBlocking fantastic! From the pic I thought you were building an American super-frigate, but no, it's going to be a two decker - even more impressive in scale. Can't wait for updates! Quote
shiplover Posted February 25, 2012 Author Posted February 25, 2012 Way to make an entrance, this ship is MegaBlocking fantastic! From the pic I thought you were building an American super-frigate, but no, it's going to be a two decker - even more impressive in scale. Can't wait for updates! When finished, it will have a full middle gun deck, upper gun deck, quarterdeck, and forecastle. Quote
Frank Brick Wright Posted February 25, 2012 Posted February 25, 2012 Your project is indeed amazing and its proportions are of colossal size I cannot fully understand the proportions you are following; the HMS victory measured 15m in its maximum breadth, which would correspond to something like 30 studs, approx.. I might be mistaken but you are using around 50studs, which is a quite significant difference. If you weren't building her to be suitable to minifigs I would get your point, but you are designing your cannons and placing the minifigs in the deck in minifig scale, so I can assume that you are actually building her that way. This was just my first thought on the ship. She is indeed a fantastic vessel and is looking great already, very promising too. Welcome to the forums! Quote
shiplover Posted February 25, 2012 Author Posted February 25, 2012 Your project is indeed amazing and its proportions are of colossal size I cannot fully understand the proportions you are following; the HMS victory measured 15m in its maximum breadth, which would correspond to something like 30 studs, approx.. I might be mistaken but you are using around 50studs, which is a quite significant difference. If you weren't building her to be suitable to minifigs I would get your point, but you are designing your cannons and placing the minifigs in the deck in minifig scale, so I can assume that you are actually building her that way. This was just my first thought on the ship. She is indeed a fantastic vessel and is looking great already, very promising too. Welcome to the forums! You are correct, it will be much larger that the victory in minifig scale. I ran the numbers and thought, what the hell, let's go bigger! Victory is merely the reference for key components and some design ideas. Quote
Erdbeereis Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 That is looking fantastic! I'll move this thread to the MOCs forum. Quote
Captain Blackmoor Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 Now that's a decent ship! It's awesome to see another minifig-scale ship on the forum! I wish you the best of luck during the build, it can be a very tedious process sometimes. Quote
Foremast Jack Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 She looks amazing! I think the shape of the bow looks pretty awesome, and it's always nice to see something in so grand a scale. While I would disagree with Frank on the ship's beam (something around 45 studs in breadth would be perfect for this scale of ship) I think she may be a little long. Or rather there should be a greater spacing between the great guns. I understand you're not trying to reproduce an exactly historically accurate ship here, but it seems a shame to not take advantage of all this space to make something as realistic as possible. If you're going for a typical first rate of over 100 guns, there should be something more like 32-34 guns per gun deck (as I'm sure you're aware from referencing the Victory). If you're placing 50 guns on the lower deck and have yet to build and arm the middle, upper, fo'c'sle and quarter decks you're going to have WELL over 100 (something closer to 200!). Still I very much look forward to seeing wherever this ship happens to take us. Quote
SuperSirLink Posted February 27, 2012 Posted February 27, 2012 Wow that's big! Do you have other pics to post? Would be nice to see from the side... Quote
Captain Blackbeard Posted February 27, 2012 Posted February 27, 2012 Ship 'o' the Line FTW! WOW! Amazing! I wish I had that many cannons, let alone ship parts. I'll follow this thread eagerly! Keep it up! Quote
Admiral Croissant Posted February 27, 2012 Posted February 27, 2012 Impressive! Although on the other side I agree with Foremast Jack, perhaps it's a bit oversized. I'm not sure if it will look good when you have a two deck ship with 100 cannons on one side. But the arrangements and deck details are looking good so far. I'd like to see more pictures, and find out more about the techniques you're using. Will it be modular? And if no, how are you going to move it? Seems like you're having some problems with uploading pictures.This will be much easier when you deeplink them. Just upload the image (in the right size, max. 800x600), upload it on Flickr, Brickshelf or Photobucket for example. Then make a post, click this image: and paste the link. There's a more detailed guide in my signature. Good luck! Quote
hobbes5a Posted February 28, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 What a massive project! Fantastic! I think the ratio is quite good, closer to an actual ship of the line. Keep it up! Quote
shiplover Posted March 5, 2012 Author Posted March 5, 2012 Just to clear up a misunderstanding, this ship will have three gun decks. Impressive! Although on the other side I agree with Foremast Jack, perhaps it's a bit oversized. I'm not sure if it will look good when you have a two deck ship with 100 cannons on one side. But the arrangements and deck details are looking good so far. I'd like to see more pictures, and find out more about the techniques you're using. Will it be modular? And if no, how are you going to move it? Seems like you're having some problems with uploading pictures.This will be much easier when you deeplink them. Just upload the image (in the right size, max. 800x600), upload it on Flickr, Brickshelf or Photobucket for example. Then make a post, click this image: and paste the link. There's a more detailed guide in my signature. Good luck! Thanks for the info on how to upload more pictures. I have them and I am working through the procedures to get more photos online. Way to make an entrance, this ship is MegaBlocking fantastic! From the pic I thought you were building an American super-frigate, but no, it's going to be a two decker - even more impressive in scale. Can't wait for updates! Good description! American super-frigate. Exactly what I have in mind. But, it will be a three decker. Wow that's big! Do you have other pics to post? Would be nice to see from the side... Working on more photos. Coming soon. I now have photos on brickshelf. I can't post the link here because I don't have enough pots. But search for photos by user: shipbuilder10 and drill down. Quote
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