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Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
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lugnet.pirates
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Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:56:36 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Jonathan Wilson wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > You eman the size of the black seas baracuda hulls? or larger?
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> 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. ;)
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> LFB.
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 larger than the current 16 wide hull, so
even larger than that for a ship-of-the-line. 16-20 wide would do for a small
frigate, 24-28 for a large, so 32-36 sounds like it might do for a
ship-of-the-line. Doing a triple-decked 1st class would be one heck of a
project. I wonder if the current masts and rigging would be adequate to the
task. Fwoosh! I'm happy with my itty-bitty rum-runners at the moment. :-)
Bruce
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| (...) 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. (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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