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Re: New ship - La Empresa
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lugnet.pirates
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Sun, 27 Jul 2003 05:08:27 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Michael Dallaston wrote:
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Hello all. Long time, no post...
This is my first ship in a while. It’s supposed to be a Spanish Caravel, and
since there’s nary a right angle on the things, I’ve used a few unorthodox
methods to try and create some curviness. See watcha think:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=51134 (post-mod)
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Pizzamuffin/empresa/empresa1.jpg (1 thru 8)
Does it work? Is it historically accurate? Is my google Spanish
laughable? No comments too big or small :)
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Very cool! Those curves are very nice.
I’m awfully impressed by the sloping sides on the sterncastle, and the stays are
brilliant.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Somewhere in the South Pacifique
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| | Misérable
Building a safer South Pacifique
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| (...) Thanks Richie. The stays also function as 'I can't believe they're not ratlines', since I didn't much like the look of the official Lego ones (and they're much harder to put at funny angles too). Using lots of hinges makes a construction (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | New ship - La Empresa
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| Hello all. Long time, no post... This is my first ship in a while. It's supposed to be a Spanish Caravel, and since there's nary a right angle on the things, I've used a few unorthodox methods to try and create some curviness. See watcha think: (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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