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My New Silver Cannons.
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Sun, 17 Oct 2004 03:22:51 GMT
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I have finally finished my silver cannons for a ship I am planning to make in
the future.
It was not my idea, I was inspired by Tom Reed's creation "Booming Betty":
http://www.zyworld.com/tmot/Page11.htm
Now as soon as I saw his cannon, I wanted to make one too.
I searched for months to find some of those chrome 2x2 round bricks.
Finally I found a bunch on eBay and snatched them right up right away.
I finally decided to make two cannons because hey, two is always better than
one, especially when it comes to cannons.
So I then started searching for silver belville buckets.
I could not find any bricklink store that sold more than one, and I never saw
any on eBay ever.
Finally, a little more than a month ago, I found a store which sold two, and
bought them right away.
I took Tom's idea a little further, and instead of having grey pieces on the
back of it, I was determined to find a way to make it completely silver.
Here's what I came up with. I'm very happy with it...
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DYuhas/Pirates/Misc/SilverCannons/01silver.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DYuhas/Pirates/Misc/SilverCannons/02silver.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DYuhas/Pirates/Misc/SilverCannons/03silver.jpg
I know the base for it doesn't look great, but there's a reason I made it like
that, which you will see when I make the ship. It has it's purpose.
Now, you're probably wondering how I made the back all silver.
What I did was take a lightsaber, with the blade in the small x-shaped end, and
put two of those chrome pieces often used as headlights over it, then slid a 2x2
chrome radar dish over the blade. Then I put a chrome 2x2 round brick over that,
built the base part and then added the rest of the chrome bricks and bucket with
a technic bar piece going through the middle of it all, which makes it very very
strong.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DYuhas/Pirates/Misc/SilverCannons/04silver.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DYuhas/Pirates/Misc/SilverCannons/05silver.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DYuhas/Pirates/Misc/SilverCannons/06silver.jpg
I can hold onto the end and hit the cannon against my mousepad and nothing comes
loose or breaks off at all.
After there was success with the first I made the second one.
So now they're just sitting around my room until I start the ship...
Let me know what you think.
Daniel
PS Thanks for the idea, Tom.
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) Hey Daniel, I'm so glad you liked my cannon idea and used it in creating your own! Thanks for mentioning me and linking my website. I like your all silver cannon. I'm looking forward to seeing them in your ship. Those parts are really tough to (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | Re: My New Silver Cannons.
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| The big bore, the solid clunky wheels, the "ribbed" look caused by the multiple parts, and heavy support all combine to make these look more like medieval cannon than Pirates appropriate, but I do like them, nevertheless. -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | Re: My New Silver Cannons.
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| (...) Absolutely! (...) I would have said that the base is too far toward the breech... there's a lot of weight in front... but if it has a purpose, then it's cool. I'm looking forward to seeing these two in the context of a ship. (...) That's a (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | Re: My New Silver Cannons.
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| (...) (5 URLs) (...) These are really nice cannons, Daniel. The all-silver look is really sharp. They would make nice large(32-pounders, say) cannons for the main deck of a ship, with the smaller Lego cannons the deck above (if you build a ship of (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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