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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
>
> > > I do like the slide (which I completely ignored on my on carronade's).
> >
> > It's hand on two levels: first, it is acurate, second, it saves me gun
> > carriage wheels (which are in desperately short supply!). I'm toying with
> > the idea of pivot-mounting about a dozen of 12-pounders because my wheel
> > supplies have dried up entirely.
>
> Yes, I found my supply of small wheels (which I'd previously thought of as
> being large and annoying) suddenly dried up when I started carriage mounting
> a lot of my guns.
Yeah, me too- and I have only Armada Flagship, Red beard runner, and the
hull and sails of the BSB. No wheels here, exept the ones scraped up from
town sets.
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> My small cannon designs us 1x1 round plates as wheels, mounted directly to
> the SNOT carriages (2 2x2 L plates), and although they don't function as
> wheels, they do look the part.
>
> Perhaps you could use http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/2436 or similar to
> SNOT mount some 1x1 rounds as wheels on the larger guns?
Indeed! You can use larger 2X2 round plates mounted on the 1X2 plate with
one stud to make bigger wheels:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01028.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01032.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01033.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01034.jpg
here's my cannon folder: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22173
> > Well, it seems we have a series arms race on our hands here...
Hehehe, we do!
>
> Cheers
>
> Richie Dulin
-JHK
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In lugnet.pirates, John Henry Kruer writes:
> Indeed! You can use larger 2X2 round plates mounted on the 1X2 plate with
> one stud to make bigger wheels:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01028.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01032.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01033.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01034.jpg
> here's my cannon folder: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22173
Nice work.
Can I offer I suggestion on your cannon made of 2x2 rounds? Try a freestyle
four stud wheelhub (conveniently available in grey) in place of the 2x2
round at the cannon mouth, to give a smooth end to the gun. I used that for
my carronade (see http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=16063),
but it was not an original use by any means....
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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