updated..MOC Ship!!

As i let slip that I'd be doing a moc to answer "On The Rocks" I thought I'd make it official there will be a Blue coat (Pirate hunter) ship built.
It's still in the design stage, I have a few sketches done that pretty much cover the detail and has given me a good idea on the parts needed to complete the project, Everything will be ordered for this as I intend to keep this MOC built!

Can you post some of the sketches you have done?

I've been curious to how people design and build some of their bigger projects

here are some of my ideas on paper ..... probably not much help to any one but me but hey......( thats my ship wreck at the bottom).
Oh and I'm no artist so don't expect the Sistine chapel.

cheers,
still need to order a hull I'm using the "Clipper"s little hull to experement on but it's a bit too short to do much with.
I'm guessing about 2,000+ pieces so it would probably be cheaper to buy the Flag ship #10210 but that's not the point here.

hmmm maybe.
anyway nutted out my biggest problem today, problem was i want a sealed lower deck but in order to do this my captain's cabin would sit too high for the length of the ship, and still needed access to the upper deck from the main deck I wanted a spiral staircase but the prefab ones are way too big and the door i want to use is too high ....
sorted got to keep my door have a good line and bonus spiral stair case!!!
this is still WIP but I'm feelin' it.

pics in a minute

That's Chad Blocksworth Master Boat Builder, and he only drinks and smokes on days that end with "Y".

Nice work
I was thinking something similar for the spiral staircase

now must wait for mail man to bring bricks of the ship
but my MMV should arrive tomorrow

Still waiting on heaps of parts and still working out what I need for the build.
But with the hull complete I've been able to play around with it in order to get an idea of what she may look like. Here's today's design... might be a keeper?