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Re: The Improved and New Old Miller Gustav's Post Mill
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Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:13:53 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > [snip]...I found a few post mills that did not have such a front
> > skirt, or at least it seemed that way to me...
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> > For example this 1880 vintage German one does not:
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> http://www.molendatabase.com/duitsland/molendb.php?step=details&nummer=487&formpw=&theme=&taal=engels
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> Just for the record, Larry, I'm. not sure I agree with you. If you take a close
> look to the picture (note the shadows) you would find that this mill has a
> skirt, and that this particular instance is only exeptional for the fact that
> the side walls also extend below the lower floor. Because they do so just as far
> as the front wall reaches downwards, at first glance there seems to be no skirt
> extension.
I'll buy that. What I did was spotted one that didn't have the front hanging
down lower (after seeing a lot that did) and assumed, "no skirt".
Functionally if all the sides hang down would that (aerodynamically) do exactly
the same thing. Not sure. Probably, or near enough as to make no difference.
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> But I agree: when you're not able to make it look right in LEGO, you should not
> do it. (would require some type of snot construction, don't you think, Larry?
> :-)
Not sure if it's necessary. Maybe. But I'm no stranger to SNOT... it doesn't
scare me.
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| (...) It turns out we both misunderstood Anthony here, he wasn't talking about the skirt at the front (he succesfully added a skirt to his model, see: (URL) ) I believe that with "ledge" Anthony he was refering to a kind af balcony or gangway at the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) (URL) for the record, Larry, I'm. not sure I agree with you. If you take a close look to the picture (note the shadows) you would find that this mill has a skirt, and that this particular instance is only exeptional for the fact that the side (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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