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Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
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Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:13:52 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
> 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.
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> 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
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 with studs on the side is particularly helpful to me at
the moment!
The new brig needs some deck guns, and the nice chrome (9 pounders?) are
reserved for the frigate... so it looks like she'll get some of these.
> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
The UCS X wing has eight barrels in grey.... unfortunately not dark grey....
as an alternative. And the 8880 supercar (and at least one techic
helicopter) has the palm tree segment (that is what you've used as the
barrel lining, isn't it?) in grey as well.
I do like the slide (which I completely ignored on my on carronade's).
My other thought on carronades, now I have two ships that need them, was to
use the technic cannon (http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/32074) (but without
the projectile).
> 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!
Aye Aye!
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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