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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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes: [snip] (...) Thanks! Everything from the hull pieces up was built and rebuilt several times over. (Actually, the stern was the trickiest bit... it kept looking like someone had nailed a box on the back for (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Mmmmm. Always a problem - Lego does not support well the kinds of broad and graceful curves and non cubist spaces favoured by the shipbuilders until rather recently. Modern ships one can do reasonably well snotwise, and there is enough grey (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) I used the RBR technique of 4x1 hinges and 4x8 wing plates to sweep the sides in, to approximate the curve of the hull section. It'll be interesting to see if/how the 2002 curve pieces might work with hulls. (...) Brown is a problem.... I (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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