My new Pirate Ship

[DrDalek6]

Saw a Pirate Ship in a charity shop the other week, I went back on Monday and it was still there so I picked it up for the reasonable sum of £3.25. This is the original crew:



The Pirate's pretty much unchanged just given him a sword sash/belt and a gun, the guy in the jacket was bald and the modern guy originally came with the brown lady's bun he was holding so decided to try some new hairstyles on him after some debating decided he looked good as a bald head. I think he'll make a good rocker with the guy from the mystery series also updated with a new pair of trousers



This is what the ship came with



It needs plenty of parts including a wheel on the bottom, this explains why it seemed slightly unstable

[DrDalek6]

Exploring the ship plenty of work to do but, it's certainly a good upgrade from the little rowing boat.



The old Pirate showing the Captain and other pirates round the ship





Taking a look out the cabin

[DrDalek6]

Inside the cabin



According to the plans the cabin seems to be missing a table and another part not sure what it is possibly some shelves?   



Loading up



Captain's at the wheel and setting his crew to work

[DrDalek6]

Loading the treasure

[Rasputin]

Great start to your new project.

[DrDalek6]

Great start to your new project.

Thanks I only got part way through it, went upstairs to do something else and my card had an error well downloading a couple of extra photos.



"Phew!"



Well there's plenty of room down below for treasure, food and other vital supplies



I looked on the database after that and realised where the wooden piece goes so updated



And finally the smallest crew member riding a baby Sea Monster 



So I think the ship's this one http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=4424

I've got one or two questions. I know this ships meant to have plastic sails, I've got mixed feelings about this I think it will make it easier to clean it if I want to take photos of it on the pond when it's been restored and seeing as I'll probably end up storing it under my bed for the minute at least it'll probably be easier to disassemble without damaging. However, at some point in the future I would like to get some proper sails for it and possibly replace the cabin and poop deck? with one which is a more natural wood colour although that's not likely to be anytime soon. I've been  comparing it to the one I had as a kid:

http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3750

and as far as I can see it's mainly the same parts in different colours, the only real difference I could see for the sails is the parts you attach to the masts which makes me think replacing the sails with fabric sails should be possible but, I'd like to know what you guys think as to whether it'd be possible?         

[Rhalius]

It certainly is a work in progress. For starters I would recommend cleaning the ship properly since it seems very dusty. Just looking at it is almost making me sneeze already. 

I'd go with something else than plastic sails since it looks nicer, I assume all these ships are quite similar so it should be possible to fix it up with parts from other pirateships that use this shape.

This reminds me, maybe I should restore my brother's old pirateship sometimes so I can use it in picture stories. It needs some good sails and some parts may need to be replaced, but that would mean I'd have two large pirate ships for stories. 

[Birdie]

Heehee that was fun 

Great to see the pirates don't discriminate when it comes to Lego minorities!

[Rasputin]

The plastic rolled up sails have a different mount on the mast. Just change the mount and you could use different sails. Not a big deal. I just don't understand why you would want to change the plastic bright red sails   

Heehee that was fun 

Great to see the pirates don't discriminate when it comes to Lego minorities!

Don't discriminate? He was thrown overboard with that slimy baby

[Birdie]

It's probably just initiation. They're pirates. 

P.S. I just noticed his hairy grey chest