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| Hi everyone, I just got in to collecting, and playing with the pirate legos just about two months ago, and just joined lugnet today. I have been lucky to get the Black seas Barracuda, and the Imperial Trading Post, But I need more soldiers, and the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | FunBrix Pic of the Week #4
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| Hi All, The 4th FunBrix Pic of the Week is here! Reinhard "Ben" Beneke - Pirate Ship. This is one cool Pirate ship, but it needs a cool name. Also I see it lived a short life, but at least he took pictures of this great model before it went down. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.de)
| | | | | Re: Arr, there she goes.
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| (...) I won't be stocked, but they will. ;) Off to .nl with me! I kin be a Dutch pyrate. best LFB (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: Arr, there she goes.
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| (...) Marooned. In ordinairy. Dry-docked. In mothballs. A castaway. Becalmed. In the doldrums. I hope ye be well stocked wi' grog where'er ye be goin' ta drown yer sorrows. Bruce Where the heck *are* you going? :-) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Arr, there she goes.
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| D'oh. Well, today was THE BIG DAY for my collection, which I duly trundled off to storage (wah!) here in New Jersey. I shan't see it for at least ten months, perhaps as much as two years! Aigh, this sucks. Anyways, _Gloire_ made it safely into (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:39892EAA.BF50F2...msu.edu... (...) As far as I'm aware, that wasn't a problem, as steam ships were pretty damn thin on the ground back then. Coal was used for heating and furnaces, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| (...) I'd always been under the impression that the grade of coal in the exposed seams wasn't quite up to RN standards (they only want the best anthracite, have to keep that smoke down to a minimum!)--but I may be wrong, because I'm going off the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: My first Castle MOC has been started - characters!
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| (...) The Sea Wolf, by Jack London. The central character being a ship captain named Wolf Larson. If Vulf has a son named Lar, he'd be Lars Vulfson. I TOLD you the joke was hiding (and perhaps should have stayed hidden). :-) Bruce (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: My first Castle MOC has been started - characters!
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| (...) Oh, I don't know, I think it is quite possible that I will run out of bricks on this creation. I'm already almost out of red 2x4 bricks, and I have a lot more support superstructure to go (which will likely eat up all the blue and yellow (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: My first Castle MOC has been started - characters!
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| (...) Reeeeeeeally? <grin> Please clarify, I haven't been following .pirates *that* carefully; Frank-ly, (1) I haven't been following much of lugnet carefully at all... I barely even noticed I won CLSOTW... (2) ... just barely keeping up on .castle. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:39863935.1D54F3...msu.edu... (...) revealed the (...) For those who are interested... According to my 'History of Coal Mining in Australia'. (Hey! I'm studying Mining Engineering, I'm (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| (...) Hey, the RN used to send fuel oil to Aden until the Second World War, so anything is possible. ("In a bureaucracy, anything is possible contra logic") I think it has more to do with economies of scale, in that sending anthracite from Britain (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| (...) Wouldn't that be like sending coal to Newcastle? James (who fondly recalls the sight of the Enterprise stuck on a sandbank...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: Good string for rigging
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| (...) Dat's it. (Art C-45) 100 yards, not feet (duh, although didn't have the spool with me.) I originally bought a spool of the natural cotton color from another craft store (because they didn't have black) and I like the way it works. I had to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: Good string for rigging
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| (...) Speed-Cro-Sheen appears to be a brand of crochet thread made by J&P Coats. Is the spool marked with the thread size or weight, and the number of plys? I think this is it (scroll down): (URL) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Good string for rigging
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| Ahoy Pirate Mateys! I've found a string that works well as Pirate ship rigging. It's called Speed-Cro-Sheen. It's thicker than thread, thinner than yarn, and of a fairly dense wrap. AND it comes in black (as well as a lot of other colors). It's just (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| (...) Sorry old man, not really an interiors kind of guy me. I had four different goes at paddle gear and wasn't happy with any of them, before I realised that none of my efforts could be seen through the fairing and grille around the wheel. Now, (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| (...) There aren't too many cases where capital ships have even come into direct contact with pirates. One example I can think of might be Britain versus Zanzibar, 1880--pretty much a war against illicit trade and outright piracy given haven by the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| (...) And what? Clean out that fearsome nest of pirates lurking nearby? I didn't think capital ships did well against piracy. ++Lar (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: PS Enterprise
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| (...) Very nice! It looks very customised, which is to be expected of any ship built on-site like that--fearsome, black-smoke belching monster that it is. Do you have any closer pictures of the paddle gear, and has the steam engine been detailed? (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
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