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Re: MOC: First World War German Dreadnought: SMS Friedrich der Grosse
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Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:41:47 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Shaun Sullivan writes:
> In lugnet.build, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> >
> > Thanks! I'm glad it has the approval of the ABS-grognards
> > among us. :) I was warned, however, that building that ship
> > served as an official gauntlet-dropping for you at next year's
> > Brickfest. That wasn't my intention, but I'm all for an arms
> > race!
>
> Gauntlet? Hmmm, all I see is this goofy looking glove ...
Well, I already lost the other one, so it's no big suffrance. :)
> I scoured the web to find a definition for grognard, by the way ... good choice
> of terms! But .. how could you tell? ;)
How does a panda find another panda in the bamboo forest?
(Please don't say "they don't, that's why they're endangered.")
And no, it has NOTHING to do with phermones (ew).
> > :D Now all we need to do is goad Carl Geatrix into
> > posting some more models too...
>
> I e-mailed Carl regularly a year or so ago ... at that time, he warned me that
> his interest in LEGO models was flagging, as he and his son were getting more
> and more into RC tanks *grumble grumble*. Maybe a combined assault can coerce
> him to return to his true talents? (Carl, if you're out there reading this,
> come back!)
Yeah! You can make nice RC tanks with LEGO! And nice RC
submarines! (Wait, um, maybe not.) I did have some nice 1/15
panzers back in the 1980s--but they never got built. Most of
what I have nowadays is 1/700 warships in waterline (big shock).
> > > You mentioned Brikwars in one of your posts ... *drool*. Throw in some
> > > Panzers and Stukas (I know, wrong war, but I'm sure we could adapt a scenario
> > > that included a re-commissioned WWI dreadnaught used to transport top secret
> > > X-project materials), and you have a stunning layout.
> >
> > Heh. Actually, in order to do that believeably, we'd need to
> > turn this WWI BB into a pre-WWI BB, _Schlesien_ class. All of
> > the German dreadnoughts ended up on the bottom at Scapa in 1919. :(
>
> Except for the one dreadnought that had that brief (well, brief to the crew, I
> suppose) tour in the Devil's Triangle? I believe it returned to port 20 years
> after it left, and none of the crew were more than 4 months older. Or
> something like that. Ahhhh well.
"Der Filadelfie-Versuchung"? I don't know. Actually, if the same
hull does make an appearance, it will probably be altered and rebuilt
so changing it to another pattern isn't a really big deal. It would
need to be rebuilt to allow BrikWars combat inside!
> > That was the first word of many people who saw FdG--"Hey, that
> > would make a great BrikWars map..." If it's any encouragement
> > in going that direction, I do have a Skoda T-38/Pz 38(t) in the
> > planning stages. I've got a real soft spot for light tanks. :)
>
> Nice! I can't wait to see it ... by the way, an informal poll at
> achtungpanzer.com rated the 38(t) as the favorite light tank of WWII by
> visitors. Good choice! Sadly, in a poll of the favorite panzers, my personal
> favorite, the Panzer III, came in last with 4.5% of the votes. The Panther did
> edge out the Tiger though, to my surprise.
I'm not surprised the Pz V did that well. But I do agree with you,
the Pz III was the most interesting of German WWII battle tanks--
in part because it shows the full range of development, from MBT
in 1939 to utility chassis and light/medium in 1945. The number
of variants was also staggering; only the T-34 and Pz IV chassis
approach it in that respect. ("Wirbelwind" anyone?) I'm also
partial to the StuGs built on the III hull.
> Anyway, I've started entering the planning stages for a dockside layout. I
> figure this finally gives me a good place to use some of those strange and
> traditionally useless colors I have so many bricks of, such as "red" and
> "yellow" and "blue". Maybe by next year there will be something presentable?
It *would* give me a use for all of these blue baseplates I couldn't
use in this ship! I do have a whole mess of dock pieces from the
Sail n' Fly marina and the Res-Q Command Center, so building up the
wharf wouldn't be too hard.
> > It may have mutated by then. But believe me, I wish I could bring
> > it up to NELUG-land--my gf lives in Cambridge (Mass., of course),
> > and if not for my teaching responsibilities I'd be there too!
>
> So your teaching position is the only restriction, hmm? [evil thoughts
> churning] Perhaps that situation can be ... remedied. Just kidding ;)
Heh. If I can't teach, I can't pay my bills, and so I'd have to
go back to Michigan. :S I do go up to Boston about once a month,
but it's usually only for two days and that's vital gf-face-time.
But if I can get up there during a vacation or somesuch we can
definitely work something out--and because I drive, I can bring...
interesting things. (I don't know about the battleship, though.)
Next year I don't know where I'll be. At some point I need to
do a research jaunt (jaunt?) through South Africa.
best
LFB
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