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Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Sat, 19 Jul 2003 04:00:50 GMT
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Greetings Ben!
   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.

Glad to have you -- like everybody’s said, it does us good to have more and more variety in the contributions we see!

   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

That’s just plain cryptic. I can picture it coming out of the mist... : ) Very nice use of the grey Time Cruiser hull -- the way you’ve got the colors set out, it carries quite a medieval feel.

   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

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

Walls too high for the guns to hit at maximum elevation... and *lad sharks*. Where is that thing located -- I’m going to see to it my ships steer clear, thank you very much.

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

Great stuff! And don’t trouble yourself about the ‘accuracy’ if you don’t want too. Build as you please -- I’m pretty sure if it’s got some brand of cannon, a bit of swash buckling, and maybe some sails, .pirates will accept it quite happily.

Cheers,

Kenneth Tam Brickley’s Cove



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(...) Thank you. I had originally planned to make this a sailing ship for the 'Bulls' theme, but as time went on I realized the colors didn't fit too well with the Bulls. I'm pleased with how it turned out, but I'm still unsure of which lego castle (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)

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  Who says nobody builds ships?
 
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 (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)  

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