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In lugnet.pirates, Robert van Dijk wrote:
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Well Richie, that’s certainly a ‘big’ ship there.
However, one sidenote: The name should be ‘Dodelijke Klompschoen’ (notice
the extra e) I am not exactly sure what the name is supposed to mean since
‘Klompschoen’ is not an existing dutch word. ‘dodelijke’ means ‘deadly’,
‘schoen’ means ‘shoe’ but ‘klomp’ has two different meanings: ‘Clog’ or
‘lump/slug’
So the tranlation should be: ‘Deadly Clogshoe’ which is quite silly or
‘Deadly Lumpshoe’. That sounds just as bad in my opinion......
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I used an online translator. The idea was ‘Deadly Clog’ (which is quite
silly). I did mean to include a note/apology to dutch speakers in my post, but
forgot to add it in all the excitement of the moment.
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And completely off-topic:
In your Custom wide-hull thread you said that the use of more than 4 16-wide
center hullpieces makes a ship look too narrow.
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No I did not!!! What I said was “While I still maintain my
view that six hull sections isn’t
necessarily canoelike, what spurred me to do this cutting was the desire for
more deck space.”. Click on the link to see my views on ‘too narrowness’.
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Well, I’ve build** quite alot of pirate ships, including one with five
centerpieces and it has quite the lengthwith proportions of a real 18th
century ship.
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Absolutely!
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** Since I do not own a single real LEGO piece I build solely ‘virtual’ on
the computer using LDraw/LeoCAD
Unfortunately, I’m still missing the virtual parts for the mast middle piece
and the 27-long rigging. When these are available I will post some images
of my ships........
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Cool.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin wrote:
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I used an online translator. The idea was ‘Deadly Clog’ (which is quite
silly). I did mean to include a note/apology to dutch speakers in my post,
but forgot to add it in all the excitement of the moment.
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Ok, Well that’s cleared up then (BUT WE HAD OUR FUN AND IT DOES LOOK LIKE A
CLOG!!) and for the sake of completeness: the name should be: Dodelijke Klomp
(What’s with the captain’s name: ‘Puntblazer’ HaHaHa I don’t even dare to try to
translate that......)
And my apologies for misunderstanding the Centre-pieces thingie, I completely
agree with you on the lack of deck space with only 16 studs.
There is still a question I want to ask you: Why do you mainly build early 19th
century ships while the ‘Pirate Golden Age’ was around 1690-1730? (I also think
that ships from that period looked a bit better with those high sterncastles)
Robin
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In lugnet.pirates, Robert van Dijk wrote:
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin wrote:
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I used an online translator. The idea was ‘Deadly Clog’ (which is quite
silly). I did mean to include a note/apology to dutch speakers in my post,
but forgot to add it in all the excitement of the moment.
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Ok, Well that’s cleared up then (BUT WE HAD OUR FUN AND IT DOES LOOK LIKE A
CLOG!!) and for the sake of completeness: the name should be: Dodelijke
Klomp (What’s with the captain’s name: ‘Puntblazer’ HaHaHa I don’t even dare
to try to translate that......)
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;-)
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And my apologies for misunderstanding the Centre-pieces thingie, I completely
agree with you on the lack of deck space with only 16 studs.
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The deck of the Dodelijke Klomp is certainly an improvement in width over the
other Port Brique ships. I’m looking forward to being able to include a lot more
deck detailing on the new Misérable.
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There is still a question I want to ask you: Why do you mainly build early
19th century ships while the ‘Pirate Golden Age’ was around 1690-1730? (I
also think that ships from that period looked a bit better with those high
sterncastles)
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Take your pick:
- Port Brique is set in Terra Australis... not much was settled in Australia prior to the 1788. Of course the French settlement of 1788 never came about, but one can dream...
- The Napoleonic conflicts have more potential than pirates attack/pirates get attacked.
- I can’t build convincing looking high sterncastles.
Perhaps once the possibilities of Port Brique 1805 (possibly 1806 by the time I
get there!) are exhausted (and there’s not too much more to do), I’ll shift to a
different time period. After all, I’ve accumulated a lot of shipbuilding
parts...I’ll just need to figure out how to build convincing high sterncastles!
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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