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In lugnet.pirates, Frank Filz writes:
> This weekend I finally sat down and started on my "Red Seas Barracuda".
> My original intent for the RSB was to use Red Beard Runner hulls, and
> build a ship using the BSB directions but using dark grey instead of
> black as much as possible, and red instead of yellow, and green trim.
Blue water, red death? Yes, I like to switch hulls and rigging around to
create ships with different looks.
>
> Some discoveries I made:
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> In my parts bins, I have a pretty good selection of dark grey except:
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> - NO 1x2 bricks
> - NO 1x3 plates
> - very few 1x6 plates
> - NO 1x10 plates
I find myself snagging bits and pieces at auctions that I have no current use
for, but will probably need for just such projects as you mention. Mindlessly
snagging inverse slopes is one of my indulgences.
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> I knew I was going to have a problem with the 1x2x3 inverse extreme
> slopes used in the window frame.
>
> What I ended up doing because the limitation of dark grey was to put a
> white band around the windows and make the poop deck railings white
> (perhaps the captain's parrot has been taking the term poop deck a
> little bit too much to hear?). Once I did this, I realized that I had
> definitely made the right choice in leaving the white band along the
> hull (by my original plan, I actually should have made that green).
>
> I made some modifications to the ship:
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> - The gun deck has 3 gun ports on each side (part of my motivation is to
> run Steve Jackson's Pirate Game, a BSB size ship will mount 7 cannon,
> with the side firing cannon being able to be moved from side to side as
> I understand - this is something I'm not absolutely clear on).
There's no real addressing of cannon on swivel/slides in the rules. Clearly it
is an advantage, but this may be something he handles in person or doesn't
worry about (minimaxer that I am, I do).
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> - I moved the masts so those platforms on the side which mate with the
> ratlines line up properly (the bracing there is supposed to support the
> mast stays in a real ship).
>
> - I moved the gun port just fore of the rear cabin forward one stud so a
> cannon can actually use it.
>
> - I decked over the bow area, and have mounted two cannon on swivels.
I'm doing this kind of thing a lot in my ship re-designs. Big foredeck and
swivel-mounted gun.
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> - I lowered the rear windows a bit (which helps line up the colors
> better the way I did the white band), and modified the inside decking of
> the cabin so that a cannon can be placed in the cabin and fire out any
> of the windows)
>
> - I put a trap door in the floor of the cabin.
>
> - I enclosed the areas under the 4 trap doors on the main deck so that
> cargo (or prisoners) can be put in there without having to play "shake
> the coin bank to get the money out".
>
> I haven't finished the project yet, so no pictures yet. I still need to
> build the spars and rig the ship. I will be using the new 1x4 plate with
> rod pointing down to have the spars be studs on top so that crew can
> stand on the spars. I also need to add a few details to the cabin (I do
> have a little yellow table which doubles as a handle to lift up the trap
> door).
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> What will be interesting to see is how well the 42 crew the Pirate Game
> specifies as a starting crew will fit.
Packed to the gun'nels.
Bruce
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Clearly it (...) I should have mentioned that I asked Steve a question about cannon a few months ago... Oh, I just dug into the exchange and found more info... Here is the response to my first e-mail: (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build, lugnet.gaming)
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