PHOTO GALLERY November 30, 2020

LEGO-Heesen

Project Cosmos 80 metre megayacht in miniature

This is what the future flagship of the Dutch shipyard Heesen looks like on the rendering. «At the back of the boat there will be a four-sided cage» that runs parallel to the bottom from the stem to the stern like a backbone. The patented technology is called backbone by Heesen. This was essential to give the aluminium giant yacht sufficient stiffness without making it too heavy. The low weight and cleverly engineered hull will allow Cosmos to reach speeds of 29 to 30 knots.

Heesen Project Cosmos created two teams as part of the model show. The online voting on the Heesen website will determine which team did better. The voting spectators themselves will also draw a big set of souvenirs from Heesen and LEGO.

The pool on Cosmos' aft main deck will be 7 metres long. It is said that in addition to its size, it will feature a glass bottom, a current-creating facility and a waterfall.

On the real Cosmos, this space can be transformed into an open-air cinema

21-year-old Martin and Jos, the authors of one of the models, tried to reproduce not only the exterior but also the functional features of the prototype. For example, there's the retractable screen on which you can watch movies from the helipad. A total of 12,000 parts were required for this version of the Cosmos.

Martin and Jos's rivals, Bjorn and Cornell, used a special, horizontal construction technique. This allowed them to make the boat look as much like a smooth 3D-printed model as possible. It took a lot of sweat to achieve that effect. The computer modeling took almost a week of pure time - 2.5 times more than the construction itself.

Not only did the model builders build the yachts themselves and «populate» them with guests and crew, but they didn't forget about the tenders that lego-humans could use to get from «land» aboard.

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Inspiration

This is what the future flagship of the Dutch shipyard Heesen looks like on the rendering. «At the back of the boat there will be a four-sided cage» that runs parallel to the bottom from the stem to the stern like a backbone. The patented technology is called backbone by Heesen. This was essential to give the aluminium giant yacht sufficient stiffness without making it too heavy. The low weight and cleverly engineered hull will allow Cosmos to reach speeds of 29 to 30 knots.

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Battle of the models

Heesen Project Cosmos created two teams as part of the model show. The online voting on the Heesen website will determine which team did better. The voting spectators themselves will also draw a big set of souvenirs from Heesen and LEGO.

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Pool party

The pool on Cosmos' aft main deck will be 7 metres long. It is said that in addition to its size, it will feature a glass bottom, a current-creating facility and a waterfall.

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Helicopter pad-transformer

On the real Cosmos, this space can be transformed into an open-air cinema

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Maintaining functionality

21-year-old Martin and Jos, the authors of one of the models, tried to reproduce not only the exterior but also the functional features of the prototype. For example, there's the retractable screen on which you can watch movies from the helipad. A total of 12,000 parts were required for this version of the Cosmos.

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Secret technologies

Martin and Jos's rivals, Bjorn and Cornell, used a special, horizontal construction technique. This allowed them to make the boat look as much like a smooth 3D-printed model as possible. It took a lot of sweat to achieve that effect. The computer modeling took almost a week of pure time - 2.5 times more than the construction itself.

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Attention to detail

Not only did the model builders build the yachts themselves and «populate» them with guests and crew, but they didn't forget about the tenders that lego-humans could use to get from «land» aboard.

Text by: Anastasiya Nosova

Image courtesy of: Heesen Yachts

Companies: Heesen Yachts

One of the largest and fastest all-aluminium yachts, the 80-metre Heesen Project Cosmos has not yet been launched, but it has already become an object of interest to modellers. The participants of the Dutch-Belgian LEGO TV show LEGO Masters have created two such mini-megayachts out of LEGO. According to the conditions of the competition, the scale had to be 1:42, so the constructor turned out boats with a length of about 2 meters.