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Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire'
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lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build
Date: 
Sat, 11 Mar 2000 08:43:29 GMT
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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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  Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire'
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)

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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) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)

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