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Fantastic. You should post some of your stuff on classic-pitates.com. Really like this one.

Love it. Dunno how accurate it is but it's just plain fantastic. The details, especially the stern, are really beutiful. How a legobuilder could be this great is beyond my imagination. I can't really see any bad side on this ship. I really like your captain. He looks so much like a deutch explorer. The way I imagine them, that is.

This is one nice ship you got here Swash! I love all the green colors and little details that you put into every ship. BTW ships didn't start using sterring wheels until like the middle 1700s but its great that you know that and put a tiller. But other then that nice job! :) Marshal Red

Great job, there's tons of detail throughout this Moc. The stern is great and the captain's cabin was also very period accurate.

Well- it had minifigs what is wrong with them? I tried to make them as periodcorrect as possible...

Nice ship, but it could use some overall cleaning up. I especially like the stern though. Also some matching minifigs would be great for a period ship.

Looks really good miss your starwars creations could you look at my sith stalker

This is amazing, excellent ship. My little boy would absolutely adore this.Well done. Check out my transformer moc if you get the chance.

great creation i wish i knew how to make stuff like that

Paul Cantu did one pretty nice ship from it- i have to use those bad masts to my junk because i have not enough better old ones- fortunately i found longer maststep-parts from the shop- when they had some bulkparts for sale now they don't anymore i dunno why but i picked two and i didn't regret it....

Yes partially true -but you still made a mistake claiming the flag to be West india company's- it is definitely not- but anyway we have argued enough- but i say still that your info maybe right -but i have seen many japanese pics dating back to 17th century 1670s or so and they depict a dutch ships with modern red flags so there were east indiamen sailing in the china seas with modern red/white/blue flags some had voc symbol some don't (actually there is plenty of different voc-symbols like AVOC meaning that ship is from Amsterdam but anyway i think my ship is correct enough) It is surprisingly hard to do historically correct stuff -because even some reliable tv-documents, history books etc. have wrong info in them- like in the pirate documents about Barbarossa brothers and Sir Francis Drake -both show them using the spyglass before it was even invented....

oh, that 4+ ship, I know it, my nephew has one, I tried to make it a good ship but these hulls are very annoying, I couldn't get a good result. one alternative is the new pirate ship... is has some possibilities though I don't like its masts

Well, I looked it up and it was called "vereenigde" but spelling changes so the same word is now written like this; "verenigde" but because you refer to the old compagnie, it's all right to use "vereenigde", sorry for the confusing. Btw, maybe it's the same case with that flag, your flag is right, meaning it is the same flag the Netherlands have today. Actually I don't know very much about it, I speak Dutch but I'm from Belgium so I don't know much about dutch hystorical stuff. Anyway, I like the ship, and I also would even if the info isn't completely correct, Good job

Actually, my mother is a History teacher so... But see the message. It is true that the orange up flag declined but modifications in the east ships were only made in 1702... Even if I made a mistake, it's not a huge one and I would be surprised if you ever make a Portuguese vessel: you know, we won the Dutch-Portuguese War and the dutch bought malacca to the muslims that pushed aside the 200 portuguese living there (the dutch and muslim fleet had more than 10000 men surronding malacca and still we resisted for a year).

Unfortunately only old ships i have -are the armada ship (narrow blue and white hull) and admirals flagship (narrow dark gray and brown hull) and then the one very wide hull from the 4+ pirateship- my little brother's it was- but we are building together- it is hard to make that hull to look like good... maybe i should buy some of the new ships they have wider hull but it is made out of many pieces actually good...

Dang Bones- you are real psychic ;P i am building a chinese junk now...

btw, you don't have wide hulls ? too bad, such pieces would allow you to fully exploit your shipbuilding skills, I would love to see the result when you come across a Black Seas Barracuda or Skull's Eye Schooner

very goood, this is a really nice ship.

Excelent ship, although it's not your fault I don't like the color scheme, the decal is great and I like the flags, hey Swash, since you agreed to judge my moc-off with Fero, I'd like to tell you my entry for round 1 is up here it is: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/159036

I guess a Chinese pirate ship will be the one that attacks.....

Maybe there was a ship called the Rotterdam, but it just wasn't listed there. Anyway, I think that you've named it aptly.

ok, i was just wonderin if you do ever chose to just tell me :)

No -you probably have since you ask- i think it is enough to have some accounts i have this and brickshelf and youtube and i'm still busy what comes to replying comments friend invites etc.

Oh yes i did a bit research it wasn't very big but still a port town and it even had it's own chamber in that company- so really strange that it hadn't a ship of the same name...

I believe Rotterdam (now one of the biggest ports in the world) used to be of much less importance during the VOC period than it is now. Dutch cities that were powerful in the middle ages and the Golden Age sometimes came to be relatively small and less important towns today, and vice versa. The Hague used to be a small hunting settlement for the longest time, but is now the third city and seat of the government.

hey swash, i was wonderin, you got facebook?

Nice to hear and just call me swash -it is the nickname all my friends here use ;)

Yeah strange because Rotterdam was one of the biggest dutch port cities? Well i picked the name well XD

Wow! Very nice work with the markings and carvings on the back, though I can imagine it being the most entertaining part to build. Very nice work! Good day

Awesome, simply awesome. You nailed every detail to the...er...detail! ;^) Having seen the 'Amsterdam' in Amsterdam with my own eyes quite a few times, I can say that this is one of the best lego ships I have seen on here. I especially like the little cannons and the backside. And you are correct, it is 'vereenigde', as it's the old spelling. Strangely, there seems to have never existed a 'Rotterdam' before (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company#Notable_VOC_ships), but it does now!

amazing ship man, so much stuff, you always manage to fill the inside aswell as the outside, astounding especially on the back

Strange that even dutch wiki calls it "vereenigde" could it be old version or something?

Well not my fault i copied and pasted that from the historical site ;)

Very nice, good job on the ship's shape, I like it, keep it up! btw, it's "verenigde" (I speak dutch ;) )

WOW THIS IS FAR ONE OF YOUR MASTERPIECES.

Very, Very awesome! I love all your crew minifigs and your MOC cannons. I might try a pirate MOC now thanks to you.

Awesome ! I like the inside of the ship. I have a bunh of viruses on my laptop now.

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Wow, very, very nice. The accuracy is great and that stern is amazing. Excellent work!!

Nice. And the first comment yay. Great job