 | | Re: MOC: First World War German Dreadnought: SMS Friedrich der Grosse —Bruce Schlickbernd
| | | | I liked those WWI BB and BC with the staggered port and starboard turrets. A great job of buiding it with Lego. Of course, my pyrates would sail in under those big guns, board it, and make those lubbers walk the plank.... :-) Bruce (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOC: First World War German Dreadnought: SMS Friedrich der Grosse —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | (...) Thanks! I've always liked the wing turret concept. The theory was marvelous, but in the end it wasn't nearly as marvelous as the American-pioneered raised-end mounting, which became standard by 1916 on capital ships of all nations. (...) Well, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOC: First World War German Dreadnought: SMS Friedrich der Grosse —Bruce Schlickbernd
| | | | | (...) I just like complex looking things - I love really old steam locomotives and find the streamlined stuff boring. (...) The Island. Peter Benchly. Michael Caine. I did just that scenario in a shared-world (very long explanation which I will (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOC: First World War German Dreadnought: SMS Friedrich der Grosse —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | (...) Well, the modernist 1880-1920s would definitely be your period, I'd bet. :) There's something about the tentativeness of all that period's designs--nothing could be standard, because it was all changing so *quickly* that even standardization (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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