Hi everyone. I have been out for some time but returned for a new season of historical posts 
I would like to open this new season in History Bricks with a MOC of one of my favorite builders – Derfel Cadarn. Just look at this princess and how beautiful she is with those incredible details. The whips are definitely my favorite building technique.
The Princess Ceinwyn, originally uploaded by - Derfel Cadarn -.
I’ll announce my returning to writing with this awesome seaport by pif500. The small boat it’s a beauty, the jail with a hole in the roof, the details of the buildings, but for me, the cherry in the top of the cake is the bell’s support in the top of the white church.
Kingston,1729, originally uploaded by pif500.
Captain Green Hair wrote an extensive building instructions with pictures of how he built his latest frigate. He started his project in Eurobricks at 27 June 2009 and finished yesterday after posting the last set of pictures.
Here’s some pictures of the building process:
Read the full article here.
Jonathan Gilbert (aka Shmails) built a micro Abu Simbel, the famous temple carved into the side of a mountain in Egypt for the MCCVI over at Classic Castle. These micro constructions always fascinated me. I love the techniques to get those great details, such as the dozen of levers to represent the boat’s oars.
See more pictures at his gallery.
Luca Emme 86 built a nice galleon that remind me a mix between the old LEGO set #6274 – Caribbean Clipper and the new #10201 Imperial Flagship. The author says that was inspired in a custom ship of SlyOwl. Comparing the two MOCs I must say that he done a good job upgrading some details, such as the small barrel in the top of the main mast and the wooden beams that supports the sails (I’m sorry, but I don’t know the technical name of these “beams”).
You may see more pictures here.
The Fort McHenry diorama is the third creation of Blake Baer in a tribute to America. This diorama illustrates the battle between the English ships and the US army. The English soldiers tried to get into Philadelphia but first they had to defeat the Fort McHenry defenses. After a long bombardment and several attempts to capture the fort, the English navy seeing the battle would be a stale mate withdrew his ships and retreated to New Orleans.
This diorama shows an incredible high detailed US flag and very good details of the rockets and bombs hitting their targets. The explosions and smoke turns this MOC very dynamic. Last but not least, I loved the small bubbles of the small boat!
Blake wrote here a good description of the history around this MOC and the fight of the US to declare independence to England.
Steve Vargo took to Brickfair this small trading ship. The simplicity of the construction and the similarities with a real cog caught my attention.
View more pictures here.
Arzlan built an amazing Chinese junk. The hull of the sailboat is very well design and I really liked the way he built the sails with a mix of black and red plates.
Arzlan gives an interesting historical introduction of this kind of boats in his flickr gallery:
“A junk is a Chinese sailboat design dating from ancient times and still in use today. Junks were developed during the Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) and were used as ocean-going vessels as early as the 2nd century AD. They evolved in the later dynasties, and were built and used throughout Asia for extensive ocean voyages. They were found, and in lesser numbers are still found, throughout South-East Asia and India, but primarily in China, perhaps today most famously in Hong Kong. Also, found more broadly, is a growing number of modern recreational junk-rigged sailboats.”
Henrik Hoexbroe built a magnificent Mississipi’s sternwheel river boat with a full detailed interior. This post would always be too small to describe all the great details. Among all building techniques he used I would like to point out the smooth bow built with a blended wall of bricks.
Visit the full gallery at MOCPages.
