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Re: Sailing ships and bits and bobs
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:09:29 GMT
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Richard Parsons wrote:
Eli Donati was telling me that he thought there had been a change in
designers, that perhaps the genius who knocked out the early ship designed
may have passed away, and his place taken by mere mortals.

Anyone else know anything firm about the reasons for the change?

Well the RBR and the AF clearly are designed to have "action" features.
These features clearly compromise the design. 6250 was just so cut in
number of parts that there just isn't any way to make a decent ship of
it (not to mention that the no center section ships are just plain hard
to make look good, though 6268 looks acceptable).

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  Sailing ships and bits and bobs
 
Evening all, Just a quick note of thanks and appreciation for James Howse' and Paul Baulch's efforts in bringing another ship to the dock at Port Block. A new two masted, two centre sectioned, six gunned naval vessel stands moored, awaiting (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)

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