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Subject: 
Who says nobody builds ships?
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:56:37 GMT
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Hello hello!

My name is Benjamin Harris and I’m a new poster here. I’ve been lurking for several years now, but I finally decided to work up the courage to share a couple of my creations with the folks here at Lugnet.

Anyway, since both creations I’m posting today could fit nicely into either .pirate or .castle (oddly enough), I decided posting in both newsgroups should suffice.

First off I have a red medieval warship I built over a year ago and have barely taken photographs of.

Here is 3/4 veiw of the front:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/reddragonship/reddragonship.jpg

And here is a view of the interior with the ships catapult visible on the upper ‘castle’:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/reddragonship/reddragon_interior.jpg

Last but not least here is the entire gallery folder (which has already, conveniently enough, been moderated :-) ):

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=50049


Finally, I have a Pirate’s fortress (or castle if you like). I suppose that the fort could be some sort of abandoned Spanish fortification that was taken over by Captain Red FacialHair ;) and his band of cutthroats.

Here’s the front of the fotress with 6268 in front of it for a sense of scale:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/piratefort/piratefort1.jpg

Here’s a view of some of them scurvee dawgs patrolling the roof:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/piratefort/piratefortbtop2.jpg

And finally, here’s a picture of the bane of pirates in the Carribean, the Shark That Can Swim Very Close To Land:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/piratefort/piratefortgshark.jpg

Oh yes, here is the full gallery folder for the fort/castle (and yes, it has been moderated):

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=50050

Anyway, thank you for your time and PLMKWYT. I’ll be trying to keep things much more historically accurate from now on.

-Ben Harris



Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
 
(...) Nice work.The colour scheme is great, and the extended oars really look the part. To be pedantic, triangular foresails are not particularly castle-ish. Also, you can avoid fabric sails fraying if you glue along the cutting line (PVA glue is (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
  Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
 
Hello! (...) Welcome, this courage is always appreciated! And I don't know if much courage is needed to poste here. Nobody will rip off your head if he doesn't like your creations. And nobody has to be ashamed still playing with LEGO: We all do that (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
  Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
 
(...) Hi! always great to add someone to the community, especially the .pirate community! (...) this is a nice small medieval style ship, with high fore and stern castles to fight from. also, the color scheme is nice, the only problem with black is (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
  Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
 
Hello Ben, as a fellow lurker I say welcome! I really like your stuff. There was a thread a little while back about why pirate doesn't get built as often, I think everyone said it was that pirate needed a higher quality than the other themes. I say (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
  Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
 
Greetings Ben! (...) Glad to have you -- like everybody's said, it does us good to have more and more variety in the contributions we see! (...) That's just plain cryptic. I can picture it coming out of the mist... : ) Very nice use of the grey Time (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)

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