Microscale Challenge: Pirate Ship

Another microscale challenge between me and my brother. We think of an object, then scour our collection to build a microscale version of it. Microscale is fitting as much detail as you can into the smallest amount of pieces.

His

Mine

Here's comparison of the two. Mine won, since it has less pieces, which is the point of microscale. Ignore the shell logo on the sail, I couldn't find a tile that was plain white. My other options were a car wash, a hammer, and the US flag.

Here's how to built his ship.
You'll need:

• 2 tan 1x4 plates
• 2 tan 1x3 plates
• 1 tan 2x3 plate
• 1 tan 1x2 plate
• 2 brown 1x1 plates
• 2 white 1x3 bricks 
• 1 black telescope
• 1 tan  1x2 grille
• 1 dark tan jumper plate

Place the 1x4 plates on either end of the 2x3 plate.

Place the 1x3 plates on either end of the 1x4 plates.

Place the 1x1 plates on the bottom to fill in the gaps.

Add the grille and 1x2 plate on the sides. I'm not sure if he made it uneven on purpose, or if he couldn't find the right pieces.

The jumper plate goes in the bottom of the boat.

 Now add the telescope to the jumper plate. On top of the telescope, stack the white bricks for the sail.

 Here's how to build mine. You'll need:

• 2 brown 2x2 inverted slanted bricks
• 1 white 2x2 tile
• 1 brown round 2x2 plate
• Ping-pong paddle like white piece found in an 80's police set

Attach the inverted slanted bricks together back to back using the round plate.

Add the mast. If you don't have this piece,  be creative and think of a substitute.

Now add the sail and you're finished. There's a few ways I'd improve it a bit, such as adding two stacks of two 1x2 brown plates on either end to make the ends curve up a bit, but fewest pieces was my priority when building this, so this is how it turned out.