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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 (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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