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(...) The "pan-style" helmet is a Kettle Hat, alternately Ketyl Hat/Helm, or Chapel de Fer. There are other names, but those are the ones you are most likely to see. The "conquistador" helmet is often refered to as a Spanish Morion, but properly (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I've heard the "conquistador" helmets referred to as "Morion" helmets, but I haven't bothered going to the library to verify this term with the encyclopedia yet. (...) I don't claim to be an expert, but again, I have heard these referred to as (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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I was wondering if anyone out there knows the "official" name for the "conquistador" type helmets worn by the Imperial Armada soldiers. If you are an expert, maybe you can also help with those new "pan style" castle helmets. Thanks Jon (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) If not for that pesky Parks legislation, I'd say Redwood National Forest... Um, wait. You mean LEGO masts, for LEGO boats (as opposed to LEGO masts for real boats, or real masts for LEGO boats)? Of course, I have my own source, but it depends (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Does anyone know a good supplier of masts for boats? (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Sorry it took me so long to respond (I've been away from the net for about a week). Here are a few links: I was suprised to have little luck finding much on the web. I've enclosed 3 articles from the Corpus Christi Caller Times - it seems that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Do you know where any .jpgs are located? I'd love to see them cobbling together some 15th-C. ships. I do know there are a few replicas of Columbus's ships already floating around out there (quite literally!), so I wonder if these will vary (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) . (...) At the Corpus Christ, TX Natural History Museum, replicas of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria are being built by craftsmen using, IIRC, essentially the same building techniques as were employed on the originals. It is a fascinating (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I think he learned after the first not to go quite so overboard on pages and pages of nautical jargon explanation. But then again, once you go through it, you are better prepared for the succeeding novels. And yes, I have gotten that comment (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Really? I loved the first one, thought the beginning of the second was rather slow, but now that he's on his bizarre double-bowed ship, things are picking up again. The technical terminology didn't bothe rme at all...but it did cause me to (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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