HMS Brunswick

Going to start things off here with my first large ship, the HMS Brunswick. I built it about mid 2010, so it isn't the oldest ship I could have gone with.



The HMS Brunswick wasn't also my first large ship, it was also my first S.H.I.P. To those uneducated to the term, it stands for Seriously Huge Investment in Parts. It also was my first ship to break over 10 guns, having 22. My previous high being 10, this more then doubled the amount, though admittedly, 12 of the 22 are simply this piece. Also, this ship simply had the most rigging I had ever done on a ship, and possibly even more then all the previous ones combined. I didn't actually measure the amount of sting, but I imagine it was over 100 feet (My other ships of the same size used about 110 feet or so)

To put things simply, this ship shattered many records of my ship building skills, some of which have already been broken.

However, this ship wasn't perfect. Looking at it now, i see that I could have improved on it in many ways. First, the stern, while nice, is a bit messy. It could have been coloured a bit better. Random bits of dark bley here and there, a random light bley, not to mention my skills at angling walls have progressed. The bow is something I still have problems with, but this one still has me satisfied. I also still have trouble with making properly dimensioned sails, though I have since moved on to using cloth sails for most of my ships, somthing which has made it slightly harder.

The reason I built it? Well, I was reading Master and Commander (Nothing at all like the movie with the same name) and it had a diagran fo the ship in it, and I was sudeenly hit with the inspiration to build it in LEGO. Thus, the HMS Brunswick was built, blogged, and broken. Not to mention it took a trip to Seattle in 2010...