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(...) Thanks! I'd love to think I'm a genius, but the fact is that I'm just experienced (and I have a lot of dark grey, and a lot of free time in large blocks). best LFB (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Thanks for the compliments--it makes me want to continue working my kiester off each year! I told Shiri that this better be one heck of a job you got to make it worth missing Brickfest for. ;) But yes, we missed you too--your absence was very (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Thanks! I just took a measurement, and it's 499 studs including the chrysanthemum on the bow. The scale of the ship is about 1/60, so if a minifig is 1/35, it's definitely compressed. (...) Oooh, Leyte Gulf. (The reason for the joke is that (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) It's in the works...I'm also going to dig up all of my old ships, which look comically bad (one of them is blue, heh) in comparison to the last two. It makes for an interesting evolutionary diagram of ship design. best LFB (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Excellent powers of deduction, Bruce! :D It is indeed a heavy cruiser, of the post-Treaty sort (built 1927-1932). It's meant to represent the heavy cruiser Takao (but could also pass for the Atago), normal displacement ~13,000 tons, length at (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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I forgot to ask for some information on the ship....what is it? The bow has abandoned the reverse sloping bow of WWI era ships, but it still has a has a rear-facing forward turret, which seemed to dissappear on ship design by the start of WWII. So, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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When are we going to get the iron warship equivalent of Bob Carney's Castle site outta you see we can peruse all your different ships at one spot? Bruce (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Good Lord. That's one magnificent ship, LFB! She does a *lot* of credit to her namesake, I think, and the whole Japanese shipbuilding industry. Excellently done with the bow! And the secondary armament... *wow*. How many studs is she? She (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Wow... that's all I can say. Wow. You are truley a genuis, Lindsay! -JHK (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Lindsay, you were right. Not castle or space. Boats. :-) Amazing job - this is truly one of the greatest creations I've ever seen. Only you could surpass that monster you had there last year. Too bad I didn't get to see this one in person. -Chris (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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