Help/WIP: HMS Discovery and HMS Resolution

[Louie le Brickvalier]

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Edited October 19, 2017 by Louie le Brickvalier

[Sebeus I]

Interesting project,

As for color scheme, yellow and black would be economical,

but tan and dark blue would look even better I think.

As for the waterline hull technique I suppose it's ok since I assume the ships will be resting on a water surface.

Are you thinking about using prefab hulls? a prefab hull-built ship is per defenition a little bit too much out of the water to be a waterline model but still acceptable for a display.

[Mr. Townsend]

This sounds like an ambitious project Louie. I see that brickfair is on May 9-10. Does this mean you have two weeks to bring this plan to reality? I did look through my normal modeling websites for a model of Discovery but unfortunately I was unable to find one.

A waterline build would most certainly work with these ships and it would be best if you plan to incorporate them into a display. I'm excited to see a few WIP pictures of the ships once you lay the "keels".

[Louie le Brickvalier]

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Edited October 19, 2017 by Louie le Brickvalier

[Kolonialbeamter]

Wow, two ships (and the diorama, of course) in roughly three months time, to build from scratch, quite ambitious project, indeed

I've been browsing a bit for pictures. Take care, your first picture of HMS Discovery is a depiction of Vancouver's Discovery, not Cook's. In fact, I find it quite difficult to find info on the latter... sorry.

For the rest, good decision going for a brick hull, the shapes are going to be adaptable easier. The color scheme... an old discussion, yellow or tan... both don't really translate an ochre-ish tone into Lego well, but they're still the most adequate choices. You could decide depending on the deck planking color (which would also be rather bley than tan), if you choose all tan, go for yellow broadsides (contrast), if you mix tan with light bley, go for a (light) tan broadside. If instead you have a reddish brown in mind... use yellow, to outbalance the red nuances. Or, as you suggested, one ship yellow, one tan, after all you are the artist, it's your interpretation of these two ships. I'm sure whatever you'll come up with is going to be fine. Same goes for black or dark blue, plus additionally the parts-availability-factor concerning dark blue.

Anyway, good luck on your first ships, thank you for this possibility to discuss, WIP shots hopefully soon

Regards

[kabel]

I've actually tried myself at the Endeavour and got to the point were rigging bugged me too much and took it apart again. Anyway, Cook usually used very similar types of ships, so maybe you can use some of my stuff as an ispiration:

brickshelf folder