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Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
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Date: 
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:38:44 GMT
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Jonathan Wilson wrote:

> > Why only 16 studs wide eh?  What the world needs is ships. GREAT, BIG,
> > SHIPS.  How about _24_ studs wide, three midsections.  Buy two of those
> > babies and we're talking HMS Victory!  The bow section would need to rise up
> > higher than the existing ones (maybe another four or five bricks).  And
> > brown - the hulls were brown and black!  I know this idea in particular is
> > ridiculous - we can barely afford the 16 stud hulls.  But the post said get
> > out your brains, so I did, and as I look at my brains sitting over there on
> > the shelf, I'm starting to wonder how getting them out was supposed to help.
> 
> You eman the size of the black seas baracuda hulls? or larger?

Oooh, much larger.  For a ship at half-scale the size of Victory, though, you'd
need a hull about 32-36 studs wide...you might be able to put together a good
brigantine or small frigate at 24 studs.  ;)

LFB.



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  Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
 
(...) up (...) get (...) on (...) help. (...) you'd (...) Most of the large ships that I have seen are around 40 guns, but with two gun decks, and Frigates only have one. So to get a large single gun-deck frigate of 40 guns or so, you'd have to go (...) (27 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
  Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
 
(...) You mean you want a lego man of war? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)

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  Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
 
(...) You eman the size of the black seas baracuda hulls? or larger? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)

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