Venetian War Galley

Eurobricks member Mark of Falworth has shared with us his unique galley aptly named the Venetian War Galley! Even with its compact design, Mark managed to incorporate a lot of historically accurate features. The deck is also packed with a mighty crew and great minifugre creations. I personally enjoy the rudder design and the forward facing cannons.

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L’Impérial

EB member and LDD Pirate Ship extraordinaire Kolonialbeamter has yet again built an incredible ship of the line! He has been pumping out some amazing ships lately and his most recent, L’Impérial, is no disappointment! The beauty of this ship’s monstrosity is enough to make even the manliest pirates squeal with excitement!

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Imperial Barracks

Isaac aka SoccerKid6 has taken a break from his Castle MOCs to bring us this stunning Imperial Barracks. The build depicts a great amount of detail and realism, as well as maintaining the classic Imperial Guard color scheme. It also utilizes a non uniform base, and perhaps most importantly, is SoccerKid6‘s use of Technic pins which give the promise of much more to come!

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Avast Ye, Builders of Iron!

Flickr user Matt De Lanoy has recently brought us a marvelous pirate ship! Through this angle, Matt De Lanoy successfully makes us all wonder how big the ship actually is. From the sails to the SNOT, there are plenty of interesting techniques in this MOC to feast your eyes upon!

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LDD ship builder extraordinaire Kolonialbeamter shows us his latest masterpiece! Kolonialbeamter’s 120-gun Ship of the Line has a vast interior, an impressive bow, and a gorgeous stern! This massive beauty should for sure scare away any redcoats within its sight!

Kolonialbeamter writes:

Ahoy!

I’m proud to present to you my biggest project so far,

the 120-gun Ship of the Line Sans Pareil.

Construction began in January 2012, even before that of Vengeur, and I had finished her basic looks way before I finished any of my prefab hull ships.

I started out in real bricks, but every budget has limits, so LDD had to do the rest.

It did, and here she floats!

11700+ parts (LEGO structure only)

HighRes. pictures @mybrickshelf

Thanks for watching, Comments & Criticism is always welcome!

If you have questions, please ask!

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Poor Redcoats.

She is a modular build, as you can see here.

And can hold a full interior.

You can’t really see it in this picture, but using some string the ship’s wheel can actually be connected to the tiller, creating a working rudder (at least I hope so ).

Furthermore, all the (brown) walls in the officers’ areas are made to be removed to create a realistic battle environment.

The key elements to her structure are these (old style) hinges.

They are – unlike the new ones – completely flat and have hollow studs, which means they can be placed in half-stud distances, great for shaping, especially for that transition between the middle and upper gundeck.

She’s been my main project for a long time. However, she has always felt strange to me in a way, never was a true love-child. I can’t really put my finger on it, maybe it’s due to her obscure scale. Her waterline measures 116 studs in length (equaling around 90cm), length overall is 180 studs (1,40m), the lower gundeck is 30 studs wide. I guess that’s roughly 2/3 minifig scale. So she doesn’t qualify for that. But neither does she qualify for minifig illusion scale. I wouldn’t even put her in the same category as Dread Pirate Wesley’s excellent HMS Persephone. The relative height of her hull does bother me. But maybe it’s mostly the SNOT technique I used for the hull but never really grew fond of, because it doesn’t allow for adjustments nor to be fiddled around with… At least in LDD it is extremely frustrating … Like for example I know the waterline clearly needs reworking, she’s got to be lower and should enter the water at an angle of almost 90°. But in order to achieve this, I would have to change the entire base structure, not to mention all the hinges… It’d be an unbelievably time consuming act. I don’t know if I’ll ever update her.

Anyway, she is a Behemoth, a monstrosity in some sense. She will always be a unique shape in my fleet, forever ‘Sans Pareil’.

HMS Enterprise

EB member Tobiasz brings us his newest ship The HMS Enterprise.  With a beautiful color scheme, custom sails, string rigging, this is one nice little ship.  Tobiasz was inspired by our own master ship builder Perfectionist, and Captain Green Hair’s build a frigate tutorial.

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Arriving on Shore

EB member Louie le Brickvalier built this great little scene.  It is packed full of excellent building techniques, and beautiful textures! This is the start of a intriguing story about Louis of Westerham hunting the infamous Captain Talon.

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The Lonely Pylon

Morthen created this beautiful lighthouse.  Made from 3471 pieces, it features some excellent rock work!  Built for Klodsfest, destroyed, and built again for another LEGO event.  Then selected for a LEGO store showcase, this model has had an interesting life!

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Rock Island Fortress

Eurobricks member Yawgmoth has created this lovely island hideaway for his merry band of pirates. Inspired by the classic 6273 Rock Island Refuge, this throwback to the glory days of Pirates boasts several detachable sections and a very lovely shipwreck built in to the piece. Not bad for a shipbuilder!

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Love that custom rigging!

Classic-Pirates’ resident shipbuilder Sebeus I is back on fine form with this lovely update of his schooner bark, the Christine. Of particular note are the functional capstan and custom rigging. May the wind forever be at your back, Sebeus, and may your hull never be breached!

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