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Subject:	Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.pirates
Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:32:57 GMT
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G'day all... A while back, while I was building my little sloop 'Flame', I found myself lacking in guns. With only 12 cannon in my arsenal, I set about designing my own. The 9-pounders of old, http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=111984 proved fairly successful, so even after 'Flame' had a bad run-in with a French 74, I kept them around. Since then, Richie Dulin has multiplied the number of designs available for use by small squadrons, so I chose to go that road again. As I enter another spur of Naval building, I've had to build more... bigger... better! Here they are, first a short 12-pounder: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216809 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216810 Generally out-classed by the 18-pounders of the 1780s and on, these guns still formed the main armament of many frigates, and the upper deck aramaments of some ships of the line. And a 32-pounder Carronade: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216807 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216808 Notorious for their power at short range and among the most common Carronades, these supplanted 6-pounders and 9-pounders as the Quarterdeck araments for most ships by 1800, and starting with 'Cruizer' in the 1790s, began to be the exclusive armaments for small vessels. I'm particularly fond of the Carronade. Despite the "darkening of the bronze guns caused by much gunsmoke and years of use" -- in other words, despite being brown -- I think the shape of them is approximated rather well, and the slide mountings work out decently enough too. Sorry for the dark pics, but I'll have better ones as soon as they (and their brothers and sisters) are mounted. So for all you poor colonial sailors out there, worry not about the big 18-pounder Lego guns! Cast your own! Kenneth Tam

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		Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
(...) It looks very effective. Most of my small designs use a 1x1x1 brick with five studs (though some cheat and use a technic 1x1x1 with hole instead), which are in pretty short supply in my collection... so using the 2x2x2/3 camera/laser brick (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)

		Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
(...) I like that cannon... I'll try building one! (...) I've alway's liked carronades, and I really like how realistic that carronade is, but its a bit big for my ship! :( (it'll be done soon, I promise!) (...) What makes you think that Lego (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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