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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
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> > Very nice work dude. Particularly liked the work around the bow chasers and
> > bowsprit.
> Thanks! Everything from the hull pieces up was built and rebuilt several
> times over. (Actually, the stern was the trickiest bit... it kept looking
> like someone had nailed a box on the back for the captain to live in).
Mmmmm. Always a problem - Lego does not support well the kinds of broad and
graceful curves and non cubist spaces favoured by the shipbuilders until
rather recently.
Modern ships one can do reasonably well snotwise, and there is enough grey
about for the purpose. Brown on the other hand...
Richard
Still baldly going...
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| (...) I used the RBR technique of 4x1 hinges and 4x8 wing plates to sweep the sides in, to approximate the curve of the hull section. It'll be interesting to see if/how the 2002 curve pieces might work with hulls. (...) Brown is a problem.... I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes: [snip] (...) Thanks! Everything from the hull pieces up was built and rebuilt several times over. (Actually, the stern was the trickiest bit... it kept looking like someone had nailed a box on the back for (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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