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Re: The St. Theresa
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:36:29 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> I'm not sure how Felix constructed his, but for modern
> ships it's always a pain trying to get the flared bows
> (a reason I stay with ships from 1918 or earlier). I
> think I still have detailed pictures of one solution on
> the mini-homepage for HMS Queen:
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> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/queen.html
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> Look at the very early stages, before I cluttered it up.
I know that the deck is the part that you stand on, and the bow is the the
part in the front of the ship, but that's about where my nautical knowledge
runs aground. What scale, approximately, is your HMS Queen? And how big
was the real one?
Dave!
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| (...) Ack, my Naval Annual is back in the Netherlands. The 'Actual' HMS Queen was a Majestic-class battleship, about (I'd gather) 15,000 tons, perhaps 450ft in length. The ship I built is first and foremost 'minifig scale.' All else is just designed (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I'm not sure how Felix constructed his, but for modern ships it's always a pain trying to get the flared bows (a reason I stay with ships from 1918 or earlier). I think I still have detailed pictures of one solution on the mini-homepage for (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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