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Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
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lugnet.pirates
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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