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(...) Do one, and upload a picture for us! kurt (21 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) The 15 inch Dahlgren was my model prototype, my lego cannon however, has the flatish butt end of the 15" Rodman (2 URLs) (...) Finally, someone likes my gun mount/carriage!! Thanks! I was just looking on the web for pics or drawings of early (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) I agree with Lindsay! kurt (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) It kind of looks like a 15" Dahlgren. I really like the inclusion of gearing on the carriage! LFB (21 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) That page is incorrect. The first steam-powered armed warship in North America was in fact Robert Fulton's catamaran-hulled center-paddler Demologos, completed in 1815 for the defence of New York and kept in service by the US Navy until its (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Hi Kurt (...) Um - I think the Texans might have been nosed out by the Royal Navy. :) The British were using steam-powered gunboats on the St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario in the winter of 1837-1838 to counter what today would be called (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Well I did it I got the disappearing gun mount working. But as can clearly be seen here (URL) I had to sacrifice almost all sense of historical accuracy in favor of functionality, But who knows these shots make it look pretty convincing: (2 URLs) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Not to worry I've done the same thing with markers for some Star Wars figs. what do think of my latest "bad idea": Take a cut down lego rifle (the grey kind) and attach the cut down end to a gray painted light saber handle to produce a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) OK!! (...) Thanks, but you are allowed! (...) Actually Verne reused the name, in "From the Earth to the Moon" 1865. see: (URL) Columbiad(s) are a little to small, ;^) My cannon is in the 15 inch range. So you can see how I missed your (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) -snip- No, No! Not wrong by any means! Pirate-era moonshot from gun development, is a reference to Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.... where they attempted a moonshot from a very large gun... I'm not meaning to question your (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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