*Lego Pirate Spaceship Part I

'Thought blogging this might be interesting to a few people (Joe, Stevo...).
I'm attempting to build a large spaceship in Lego. Something much larger than I've built before. Not HUGE, but large.
And since it'll be a hodge-podge of pieces (loose color them? I HOPE), making the theme be of space pirates with a cobbled-together ship works well. ;P

I may not be able to do it with the pieces I have -- I have a decent sized collection, but I often over-estimate it. And I don't want to compromise and make a small ship. I has to be bigger than the ship I built for my Lego stop motion videos: The Raven.

I'm picking out necessary structural pieces now. I'll lay out the frame and after that I'll be able to tell if I have sufficient large plates to cover the frame.
Details are my thing, so that'll never be a problem. I just opened up the Lego Eiffel Tower, who's ~3500 pieces should provide a great resource for detaily bits.

A pic or two in the next post about it!

If all else fails, I still want to do the Pizza Production Tower to go next to Joe's Pizza Shire castle.