LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean 4184: Black Pearl

Product Information

Rare Items: This Set comes with the Davy Jones Minifigure, some of the rare items (for me)that Minifig that has a Hammerhead for a head, some other rare items would be the items found in the Captain's study, the Map and the map measuring thingy, possibly the cannons, and that Minifig of a angel that was supposed to be put in the front of the boat. Oh- and it comes with an Anchor!

The virtual model was significantly optimized by Courleciel so as to make it more accurate and complete. A lot of parts have been repainted, some new elements were added (such as anchors, bell, grating, cannons...), and some were adjusted or rebuilt (like the capstan, figurehead, lanterns, masts...).

LEGO IDEAS

All renders have status “as rendered”. There was no “photoshopping” applied, aside from scaling down and anti-aliasing. Difficulty rating (2 out of 5, 5 being the hardest), Took me about 2.5 hours to completely assemble - the final product looks great, the Lego engineers did a marvelous job on the overall structure and fine details - I am very happy to have this to start my LEGO collection once more. I very much appreciate the captain's special study room - that you can open and reveal the insides and the study - that was very neat. There are some very tiny pieces that are very easy to lose and some items you will need to identify against each other, but that is part of the fun. I have not counted all the hours I spent working on this project. But doing all the work Courleciel and me had a lot of fun. So we hope that you also will enjoy our work and have some fun too. After the model was nearly completed, the LDD file was converted to the LDraw format and my job started. According to Courleciels conceptual work I added rigging, rails, ropes and strings by using SR3D Builder and MLCad/LSynth. Sails were directly created in povray. Additionally it was necessary to manipulate some original LDraw parts (e.g. # x1609 batarang, see stern) to make them authentic with regard to the video game.