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French Squadron pics
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Sun, 31 Mar 2002 06:35:11 GMT
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Ahoy!
A brief spell of sunshine has permitted some photos of two of my French ships.
Neither has full rigging or sails (though the calico is at hand).
The Eponine is a 12 gun brig:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145165
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145162
Capitaine de Corvette Jacques Legeaux (left) stands at the starboard rail with
Marine Lieutenant Javert:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145164
(you can see the barrels two of the 8 pounders, and also the maw of the 24
pound corronade)
One of the Aspirants is at the helm, and the marines stand by. Ensigne de
Vasseux Montpercy stands by one of the 6 pounders with two of the NCOs.
The bow,
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145167
and the stern,
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145168
The Cosette is a Bomb Ketch:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145169
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145172
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145173
It is much smaller than the brig, but mounts a 24" mortar, as well as two
eighteen pounders on the gun deck (which can be moved from side to side...), as
well as two six pound cannon, and two six pound corronades on the spar deck:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145170
It is commanded by Lieutenant de Vasseaux Jean Thundier:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145171
...now to finish the sloop, make some sails, and do some hat elastic rigging.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| Oh dear me! Quite good, indeed! I like uniforms you've cobbled up for your officers, and the ships are quite marvelous little craft. It's quite nify how you expanded the RBR hull to get your Brig to work. Is your sloop going to be larger or smaller? (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes about some auspicious shipbuilding that's been going on in French Pacific posessions. (...) bowsprit. Hope that festivities between the Brikish and the French don't need to get too fire and thundery any time (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Those look very, very nice. Extremely, well, LEGO in execution-- in the sense that they use a lot of the "authentic" LEGO solutions to issues of geometry and so forth. I'll have to look at them more closely and make critiques later-- it's been (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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