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[nb.: Scroll WAYYYY down to the end for the .admin.general item] (...) Thanks! I'm glad it has the approval of the ABS-grognards among us. :) I was warned, however, that building that ship served as an official gauntlet-dropping for you at next (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hey, thanks! It's no pagoda--that'll have to wait for another day--but I'm partial to it as well. I thought you'd also appreciate that little front-page backstory. ;) (...) If you want to get technical, the battlecruiser _Australia_, of the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Big pirate ship (better url)
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(...) (URL) baldly going... (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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Okay, I finally got by brickshelf account working (I had some trouble downloading some scanned images). Anyway, please take a look at my model at: (URL) pirate ship is about 200 studs (5 feet long), and 3.5 feet tall. It has 11 cannons along one (...) (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Just stupendous Lindsay. The snot-wise approach to hull design has worked a treat, the turrets (always my worry) are wonderful, and the detail around the superstructure is glorious. I think another day in the sun for the HMS Valhalla and HMS (...) (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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| | My MOC (Again)
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Whoops! The web page appears not to have worked as I intended it. Instead, please look for the brickshelf file "bigpirateship", and accept my apologies. (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi William, the links on your page point to your hard drive directory C:\ for the picts .... John (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hey everyone, This is my first posting, and the first MOC I have put up online. However, I think it is a good model. My MOC is a five foot pirate ship that I have been working on for a about a month now. To see the pictures, go to: (URL) comments (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I don't even know what I can begin to say, Lindsay. This is one of the most amazing models I've ever seen - the level of detail on the decks is stunning, and the color scheme is gorgeous. I've followed your advances for the past year or so (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Well, the modernist 1880-1920s would definitely be your period, I'd bet. :) There's something about the tentativeness of all that period's designs--nothing could be standard, because it was all changing so *quickly* that even standardization (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I just like complex looking things - I love really old steam locomotives and find the streamlined stuff boring. (...) The Island. Peter Benchly. Michael Caine. I did just that scenario in a shared-world (very long explanation which I will (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: sails and hull for BSB
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(...) Cool! I hope you bought him a beer (or perhaps that should be a rum...)... (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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guess what i just moved to utah and my friend was at my house i told him i like pirates and and castle and he said he would give me a pirate boat. so he gave me 2 disabeld shooting canons the 3 center sec. and front and back sec. and 2 bsb sails and (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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awesome! great ship, i especally like the artillarys hehehehe :) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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Amazing creation! I am still dazzled, even though I couldn't see "Fred" live. The pictures are very good, so I managed to sense the "scale" of the model... the word that comes to mind is none other than "Grosse"! (hence, the name: your own + "the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Thanks! I've always liked the wing turret concept. The theory was marvelous, but in the end it wasn't nearly as marvelous as the American-pioneered raised-end mounting, which became standard by 1916 on capital ships of all nations. (...) Well, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I have. They're in there! They're just not *furnished* because of time issues. Once I get my space here back in order, I hope to go back and do that interior detailing. If you look at the early bow shots, you can see the sub- division of the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Oh! I guess that's what I get for assmeuing. ("don't assume, it just makes an ass out of me and u..." -former employer) I'll have to change that--I took uniformity among your respective images as evidence of original state. I'll go change it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) your "worst signage" award for Washington DC. If anything, the Northern Virginia area in general must have the worst signage in the entire country. I really can't stand it when you drive through an intersection that is of course unlabeled and (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: String for Pirate Ships
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Yes, the black Cro-Sheen is what I'm using for the lighter string (used for the cargo hook and the anchor), but I haven't been able to find anything like the black nylon twine that Lego uses for mast and sail rigging. Admittedly, I could just use (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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