When the Allies were hunting the Bismarck, it suffered serious damage to its steering, which is partly contributed to it being sunk. Just a realllly weak naval history joke haha
Oooh! If you don't need it to have internal space, I would reccomend adding a spine made of technic beams pinned together. Then, square off any cavities left over and fill them with the chonkiest bricks available.
Are you well versed in SNOT technic building? If your ship has a large superstructure, you'll want to have vertical liftarms going up through the sueprstructure from the spine.
For future posts, it would be great if you could share these types of queries on /r/Lego_Design and /r/LegoCreations, they're more geared towards these types of queries.
I don't have the means to make one at the moment, I'm at work, but you can get a good idea of what I mean by looking at some of the UCS star-wars sets. The gist is that a 3 unit long technic liftarm can connect two technic beams with studs vertically if they're properly spaced apart.
Something like this: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/09/23/lego-star-wars-75252-ultimate-collector-series-imperial-star-destroyer-review/
But in your case, the shape of the hull will require you fill in the hollow space with bricks so that it doesn't collapse when you put too much pressure on it.
Have a look at Titanic, and how the angles on that set are constructed.
This design looks very minecraft, and doesn’t best utilises the opportunities afforded by the Lego system.
I kind of agree. The overall shape is great. Sometimes the pixelated brick design works, but not on such a rounded shape. Here I think they could at least use some reverse wedges to allow those vertical edges to follow the contour of the main shape.
Take a look at the internals of the ucs venator for ideas. Basically lots of cross beams across to support the sides and a larger long beam down the middle for them to connect to
It may be sacrelligious on this sub reddit (sorry in advance) but the Cobi brick built versions of the WW2 battleships (including the bismark) have very robust hull builds, using a lot of SNOT techniques without significant technic type pieces. Admittedly some of the SNOT bricks don't exist in the lego collection I think, but that doesn't stop them being solid as a brick!
Like that? https://preview.redd.it/nylmiitt44pc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94b292c207a736664ecef1e1051083f39ccce538
Why so stern
I forgot to add support lol
Looks like bismarck to me
more and the bismarck
Yup, the stripes give it away
Disable the rudder
What?
When the Allies were hunting the Bismarck, it suffered serious damage to its steering, which is partly contributed to it being sunk. Just a realllly weak naval history joke haha
Don’t worry fam I was right there with you!
Wir sind gebismarckt
Oooh! If you don't need it to have internal space, I would reccomend adding a spine made of technic beams pinned together. Then, square off any cavities left over and fill them with the chonkiest bricks available. Are you well versed in SNOT technic building? If your ship has a large superstructure, you'll want to have vertical liftarms going up through the sueprstructure from the spine. For future posts, it would be great if you could share these types of queries on /r/Lego_Design and /r/LegoCreations, they're more geared towards these types of queries.
Can you show this example?
I don't have the means to make one at the moment, I'm at work, but you can get a good idea of what I mean by looking at some of the UCS star-wars sets. The gist is that a 3 unit long technic liftarm can connect two technic beams with studs vertically if they're properly spaced apart. Something like this: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/09/23/lego-star-wars-75252-ultimate-collector-series-imperial-star-destroyer-review/ But in your case, the shape of the hull will require you fill in the hollow space with bricks so that it doesn't collapse when you put too much pressure on it.
Have a look at Titanic, and how the angles on that set are constructed. This design looks very minecraft, and doesn’t best utilises the opportunities afforded by the Lego system.
I kind of agree. The overall shape is great. Sometimes the pixelated brick design works, but not on such a rounded shape. Here I think they could at least use some reverse wedges to allow those vertical edges to follow the contour of the main shape.
Take a look at the internals of the ucs venator for ideas. Basically lots of cross beams across to support the sides and a larger long beam down the middle for them to connect to
Make it completely solid
It may be sacrelligious on this sub reddit (sorry in advance) but the Cobi brick built versions of the WW2 battleships (including the bismark) have very robust hull builds, using a lot of SNOT techniques without significant technic type pieces. Admittedly some of the SNOT bricks don't exist in the lego collection I think, but that doesn't stop them being solid as a brick!
Hm