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| Hi, _La Gloire_ is now in Phase Nine, meaning it has almost all the bells and whistles an ironclad might need. Everything from lifeboat davits that lower, a complete stern gallery, coal chutes, boiler room, to a dozen cannon, a fairly complete (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| Zowee! That's awesome, Lindsay. Gotta hand it to you, for a minute there I was considering changing themes to pirates ;-) All seriousness aside, that's really beautiful. I love the boat-lowering feature (I hate technic as is, but I sure do (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Glorious says it all!!! (But now I am going to babble on...) Excellent work...very inspiring...I love the bow and stern detail. Those davits are elegant in their simplicity...I experimented w/ similar mechanisms long ago, but mine were big and (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| Mr L F Braun wrote (...) Just glorious. My tallships are not looking forward to it getting around to 1860. Regards Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| BEAUTIFUL! You almost inspire me to start making my own warships. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| Lindsay: [ Presents the Gloire ] (...) C'est magnifique! Joué bon, Jacob (who has learnt _something_ during his stay in France ;-) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Just wondering, but what year are most of your ships based on? (hey, I may even start to get into this kinda stuff). Erin -- (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I don't know how I figured it out--must have been realising that you need to hinge them above the bottom (third peghole up). From there, it's just a few bricks away to working davits. I'd wrestled with that one for a long time--in fact, since (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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| Erin Windross wrote in message ... (...) I kind of pitch for 1770-1830. That gives me 'discovery' of Australia 1770, settlement 1780, Rum Rebellion 1808, HMS Victory, Hornblower, the naval battles of the Nile, Trafalgar and Navarino, the American (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| Having no sizeable pirate collection (yet!), I can't add any blustery piratey nonsense to express my awe, but you've done a fantastic job! -- Paul Davidson Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:38C9E463.30D916...msu.edu... (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Richard Parsons (<FrBCtC.1CD@lugnet.com>) wrote at 15:46:08 (...) Ah. They're not *exclusively* SW elements though, unlike the laser cannon thingies & cockpit canopies. (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Mr L F Braun (<38C9E463.30D9169A@....msu.edu>) wrote at 06:14:59 (...) Brilliant! Can I request more pics of the rigging? The ratlines(?) look a bit threadbare, but the overall effect is very shiplike :-) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| Mr L F Braun wrote (...) Umm, Lindsay? Smokestacks? 7150? ((URL) you're making one of those extra subtle jokes the like of which seem to get me keel hauled, or you need some sleep man ;-) Shipbuilding can keep one awake, and take one a bit outside (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Tony beat me to the explanation of the SW comment...I included the stacks and the Qui-Gon head as SW elements,forgetting that other Castle and Ninja theme sets use the 4x4 rounds as wheels... (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Ah. On the Qui-Gon head, you've got me. But the other parts are also known from many other sets--especially the big shuttle from several years ago, that had *six* (!) of the half-cylinders and a bunch of 4x4 rounds. Gadzooks, I'm swimming in (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I'll see if I can get any. It is a bit threadbare--I don't have enough TLG-approved rig to do what I want to do, not to mention not having any sails cut! :) The problem with the rig is that it's very hard to photograph, being black and in a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Have you considered taking Lego string out of convenient unused winches? I've found that in general, clamping the end of a string between bricks is as good a hold as the little 1x1 round ends. Come to think of it, you could actually even use (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Replacement Rigging (was Re: Ironclad _La Gloire_ virtually complete)
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| (...) I've used them, but in "wrap" form--sandwiched into some other construction. But the cording seems too thick to hold well between bricks. The thread, as you noted, will work between 'em--the problem is that I only had one piece of unused (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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