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Re: French Squadron pics
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Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:26:26 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
> Ahoy!
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> 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).
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> 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
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> It is commanded by Lieutenant de Vasseaux Jean Thundier:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=145171
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> ...now to finish the sloop, make some sails, and do some hat elastic rigging.
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 crazy all week. I did want to ask, though, about that
mortar on the bomb ketch--where do you keep ammunition, and what
was your source for the configuration? (When I built mine I hadn't
found anything to use as a basis.) Is the ketch detailed below the
deckline?
Fine, fine ships--the French port at New Caledonia would welcome
them, I'm sure, because it would annoy Richard to no end. ;)
best
LFB
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| (...) Thanks! (...) I'll look forward to your comments! (...) Ammunition, huh? Yes... ummm... ahhh... I haven't got that far yet... I guess a couple of boxes on the deck with 2x2 rounds (with 2x2 round tiles & 2x2 round reverse tiles) will have to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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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: (URL) de Corvette Jacques Legeaux (left) stands at the starboard (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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