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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
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> Very nice work dude. Particularly liked the work around the bow chasers and
> bowsprit.
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 the captain to live in).
> Hope that festivities between the Brikish and the French don't
> need to get too fire and thundery any time soon - I would not want to be
> under the downward end of one of those large carronades.
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> I plan on bringing the Agamemnon to the fest this weekend. We might be able
> to organise a rendezvous and an amicable exchange in the interests of a
> pacific Pacific.
Excellent! I hope to have the brig (at least, and hopefully the bomb ketch
as well) fully rigged for Sunday... I have to do some serious sailmaking...
> Or we could just gently run down on each other and blast
> away, obviously, and seriously flood the world market in matchwood...
Well, the Eponine does have the corronades... but I think she'd be seriously
outgunned by the Agamemnon... and of course history is on the side of the
Brikish, so I think an amicable exchange would be prefered.*
Cheers
Richie
*Unless, of course, the Agamemnon can be caught at anchor and dealt with by
the mortar... ;-)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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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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