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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 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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What amazes me the most about your models is the way you incorporate the minifigs in them and still have the models look nicely scaled. With the lumpy nature of the minifigs, I think that's a big achievement. Of course, there are lots of other (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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Very original, and very nice! Chris (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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See : (URL) for "thread" Scott A Michael Pratt <mpratt@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:memo.2000030320...k.co.uk... (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.boats)
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Here's as good a place to ask. Where please can I get black lego string or a suitable substitute? I have a 6541 container port and ship which has a large crane in need of a long length of black string. Thanks Michael Pratt (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.boats)
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[ There is a reason this is posted to lugnet.boats - further down ] I had a photographer from one of the larger Danish newspapers visiting me in my laboratory this morning. They are making a series of stories on LEGO due to the "toy of the year" (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) The former. I never actually owned the model--too expensive when I was a kid. :) best, Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr) Department of History Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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Lindsay, you either know your history, or you have the same Revell model catalogue as me!! :) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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OOOOHHHHH HAVE I MISSED LEGO!!! :) :) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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Wow! If this is how you hit the ground running after 17 years, I can't wait to see you hit your stride! Fantastic. Ben -- ===...=== Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) few, the proud...the plastic. ===...=== "Carl Greatrix" (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Oh, and I forgot to mention: My ships won't be sitting in Scapa Flow with that thing about...nosirreebob, time to put up the torpedo nets. BTW, I absolutely love the torpedoes--I also constructed a "torpedo" along similar lines, but yours (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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(...) best Lindsay (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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WOW! 'Nough said... :) EC (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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(...) to do a sub of my own, but your sub is exquisite! The fine details are great! Can't wait to see what's next! Just one little thing I must tell you though; please don't turn my Cruise Ship into the LUSITANIA!!! ;-) Erin -- In a recent poll, 67% (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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Hahaha, i feel the same way Mladen! pat J (...) rudders (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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You are in a league of your own my friend! That U-boat is one of the best LEGO models I have ever seen. The amount of detail and accuracy is extraordinay! And the fact that it has crew bunks, torpedo room, galley, engine room, conning tower, deck (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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Jeremy, the shells are 2, 1x2 cylinders stacked and wrapped with gold vinyl, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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Will, the decal is out of the black cat truck cab. I have considered the bismark!!! If only I had enough Lego I deffy would. There is a torpedo boat hull constructed to acompany the U-boat, however, I have broken off that to start a Russian T-34 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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I am guessing that the gold shells are those crome tubes, painted. They look very cool -Jeremy (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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A question...in the picture of the radio room (radio.jpg) where did the decal on the radio come from? Thanks, Will Visit the Lego Beach Fire and Rescue Service (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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DAS BOOT!!!!!! Sehr gut!!!! (Trans: The [U-] Boat!!!!!! Very good!!!! :-) Marvelous, simply marvelous! Now Mr. Braun and Dan Blackened have something to sic their destroyers and cruisers on...and the various cruise ships and super tankers have (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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OH... MY... GAWD... Words escape me... It's so... elegant. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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OH... MY... GAWD... Words escape me... It's so... elegant. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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OK, I have just posted pics of my biggest Lego model todate. 110 studs long.Let me know your thoughts please :) Warning..there are lots of pics!! (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: Seaborn Brick to be revealed Sunday or Monday!
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Lindsay, :) its modeled on a 1939 U-47. I,ll try and get a few interior shots of it online tonight. (...) just (...) and (...) class of (...) actual (...) arm; (...) (I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) You know, Carl, after that Pz VIa (Tiger-I) of yours, you're just being a killjoy. ;) That said, I'm drooling now--I really want to see this thing, and see how you handled the various technical issues. Is there a particular class of boat it's (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) Here it is (URL) model is spectacular! (It's also the reason why I got into building ships out of Lego) Erin -- (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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cool!! :)......does anyone have the URL of the titanic model?...I would like to see this. (...) just (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) I have the ship in one half at the moment (the stern is still under construction and will porbably be revealed later this year or early next year) But with bothe halves together, the ship measures 5 feet 5 inches! with a height of two and a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) Cool! I'll be expecting it! -Shiri (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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AHA!....How big was the titanic?....also how big is your ship?.....I have just finished a minifig scale WW2 U-BOAT which completely strips down...Its about 120 studs long. Pictures will be posted as soon as I clear the Lego off my blue carpet to (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: New Steam Launch
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(...) I haven't looked at one in red yet, though that's on the agenda... (...) Great idea! I was trying to keep to all-brown, and didn't have those in brown when I first built the boat--but now I do! Thanks. (...) Here you go (picture 1 is of the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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Yes, after battling out five colds in four months, after asking my mother countless times "What do you think of this?", after completely destroying my room, after spending countless nights dreamin up plans for the dinning room, after watching "The (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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Mr L F Braun wrote (...) of rowboats. Minor mod musing: Rather than have to put the control sticks on their own blocks to the floor, use 1x1x1 light blocks (the ones with the stud in the side) backward facing in the wall supporting the windscreen, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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Hi all, Just a quick troll for comments: I have new pictures of my rowboat-based Steam Lanuch (circa 1890-1920)--let me know what you think. (Granted, it's not just for pirates, but at least they can stand in it without having the mast whap them in (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Actually, because a lot of people with good technical expertise and interest read .pirates and not .boats (IIRC). And yeah, I was thinking about just modeling the tops of the boilers...but I haven't settled on a solution yet. best LFB (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<389BA44F.76044CE9@...ager.net>) wrote at 04:17:19 (...) Because they still operate in the South China Sea? (amongst other places :-) ) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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Do any part of the boilers in a capital ship of the mauve decade protrude above waterline? Maybe you should just suggest the top of the boilers on the lowest deck? And why is this cross posted to Pirates?? :-) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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