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Mr L F Braun wrote
> See this wee little ship here:
>
> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/Gloire.html (case-sensitive!)
Just glorious.
My tallships are not looking forward to it getting around to 1860.
Regards
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
> Mr L F Braun wrote
> > See this wee little ship here:
> >
> > http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/Gloire.html (case-sensitive!)
>
> Just glorious.
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 clunky, taking away from the
aesthetic nature of my model...mine didn't work half as well...
The railing is particularly well done...
I would love to see the companion vessel as well...the integration of
everything from classic windows to Pirates to Star Wars elements is a
testament to your creativity...
All you need now is a Blue Admiral/commodore fig...lol
I eagerly await further deveopments...
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John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote:
> Those davits are elegant in their simplicity...I experimented w/ similar
> mechanisms long ago, but mine were big and clunky, taking away from the
> aesthetic nature of my model...mine didn't work half as well...
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 the first time I saw those bent-90 pieces! Hmmm, anyone
have any from the Destroyer Droid they wanna trade away? ;) I need 'em in
dkgrey and grey.
> The railing is particularly well done...
It's the only use I could find for the flex system tubes--they seemed pretty
useless for much else--and the 1x1 tiles with top clips. God forbid, I
actually started to *run out* of them! AucZILLA Technic listings, here I
come. :)
> I would love to see the companion vessel as well...the integration of
> everything from classic windows to Pirates to Star Wars elements is a
> testament to your creativity...
Thanks for the kind words--but I gotta ask, "What Star Wars elements?" I
wonder where those appeared...I don't remember using any.
As for the companion vessel, pictures already exist, from when I was first
testing my digital camera (sans tripod):
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_fore.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_foredeck.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_midships.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_profile.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_stern2.jpg
> All you need now is a Blue Admiral/commodore fig...lol
Ah, he'll get a Dr. Cyber head and be "Le tête-a-creche Admiral Jean-Paul
Landeslubbere" or something equally reflective of the bureaucratic idiocy of
the Republican Navy. Basically, our Captain will be singularly
overcompetent, and our Admiral (a Rear Admiral, natch) will be the politician
who pulled strings to get his Navy connection--and proved so incompetent that
even his allies saw colonial service as a way to get rid of him.
I'll probably put the Captain in an Admiral torso too, though.
> I eagerly await further deveopments...
Me too! :) Especailly since this ship didn't use up *anything* that I will
need for my next Dreadnought-type vessel--I still have all my grey, blue, and
yellow (for invisible internal structure), not to mention enough red to do
the waterline...
The only thing I'm out of is rigging. And that's only because eight of the
1x1 round ends broke (five 21L, three 42L)! I may call Consumer Affairs on
Monday to get a bunch of new ones.
best
Lindsay
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Mr L F Braun wrote
> John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote:
> > I would love to see the companion vessel as well...the
> > integration of everything from classic windows to Pirates
> > to Star Wars elements is a testament to your creativity...
>
> Thanks for the kind words--but I gotta ask, "What Star
> Wars elements?" I wonder where those appeared...I
> don't remember using any.
Umm, Lindsay? Smokestacks? 7150? (http://www.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=729)
Either 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 one's envelope,
this I know, but there is a point where one must simply say, 'If I don't go
to bed now, I will be too tired to build tomorrow'
Oh, and La Gloire? Glorious. Did I mention that? I don't know, it all
runs together. Let's see....it's 1.44am AESST. You think maybe now is when
*I* say to *myself* 'If I don't go to............
Regards
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Richard Parsons (<FrBCtC.1CD@lugnet.com>) wrote at
15:46:08
> Mr L F Braun wrote
> >
> > Thanks for the kind words--but I gotta ask, "What Star
> > Wars elements?" I wonder where those appeared...I
> > don't remember using any.
>
> Umm, Lindsay? Smokestacks? 7150? (http://www.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=729)
>
> Either 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 ;-)
Ah. They're not *exclusively* SW elements though, unlike the laser
cannon thingies & cockpit canopies.
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Tony Priestman
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In lugnet.pirates, Tony Priestman writes:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Richard Parsons (<FrBCtC.1CD@lugnet.com>) wrote at
> 15:46:08
>
> > Mr L F Braun wrote
> > >
> > > Thanks for the kind words--but I gotta ask, "What Star
> > > Wars elements?" I wonder where those appeared...I
> > > don't remember using any.
> >
> > Umm, Lindsay? Smokestacks? 7150? (http://www.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=729)
> >
> > Either 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 ;-)
>
> Ah. They're not *exclusively* SW elements though, unlike the laser
> cannon thingies & cockpit canopies.
>
> --
> Tony Priestman
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...
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John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote:
> 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...
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 dkgrey 4x4 rounds now. It's kind of nice. Now...on to
building something even BIGGER. I've got to buy more brick tubs, and maybe some
baseplates.
best
Lindsay
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
>
> My tallships are not looking forward to it getting around to 1860.
Just wondering, but what year are most of your ships based on? (hey, I may
even start to get into this kinda stuff).
Erin
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Erin Windross wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
> >
> > My tallships are not looking forward to it getting around to 1860.
>
> Just wondering, but what year are most of your ships based on? (hey, I may
> even start to get into this kinda stuff).
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 War of Independence, the aftermath of the Seven Years
War, the Prussian invasion of the Dutch, and the French Revolution.
(and for the historians among us, I know that other, and some better, stuff
also happened. I just reeled that off as a quick summary, OK? :-)
And that seemed like adequately fertile ground for models and stories ;-)
When that gets boring periodically, one can always organise a temporal rift
and pull in some ship from the 14th century, a la the 'Soggy Chip de la
Tour' http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/rii/welcome.htm :-)
For me, the history bit is part of the fun - it sort of binds the whole
thing together.
Regards
Richard
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