 | | Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Kenneth Tam
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| | | G'day all... A while back, while I was building my little sloop 'Flame', I found myself lacking in guns. With only 12 cannon in my arsenal, I set about designing my own. The 9-pounders of old, (URL) fairly successful, so even after 'Flame' had a bad (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | (...) It looks very effective. Most of my small designs use a 1x1x1 brick with five studs (though some cheat and use a technic 1x1x1 with hole instead), which are in pretty short supply in my collection... so using the 2x2x2/3 camera/laser brick (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) And one of the shuttles has black barrels. Optionally, there are light blue ones in Ice Ramp Racers... Frank (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Kenneth Tam
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| | | | | | (...) Good good! (...) Looking at you pics, the length of the chrome guns in studs seems about 6 -- so they're either short 9-pounders or long 6-pounders. British Frigates tended to go for either, depending on the Captain. (...) Precisely right (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | | (...) Yes, I found my supply of small wheels (which I'd previously thought of as being large and annoying) suddenly dried up when I started carriage mounting a lot of my guns. My small cannon designs us 1x1 round plates as wheels, mounted directly (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Kenneth Tam
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| | | | | | | (...) Brilliant! I've got plenty of those... I'll probably fix them onto the guns that are hidden under the forecastle and the quarterdeck -- the difference will barely be noticable... Thanks! Kenneth Tam (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, me too- and I have only Armada Flagship, Red beard runner, and the hull and sails of the BSB. No wheels here, exept the ones scraped up from town sets. (...) Indeed! You can use larger 2X2 round plates mounted on the 1X2 plate with one (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | | (...) Can I offer I suggestion on your cannon made of 2x2 rounds? Try a freestyle four stud wheelhub (conveniently available in grey) in place of the 2x2 round at the cannon mouth, to give a smooth end to the gun. I used that for my carronade (see (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | (...) I like that cannon... I'll try building one! (...) I've alway's liked carronades, and I really like how realistic that carronade is, but its a bit big for my ship! :( (it'll be done soon, I promise!) (...) What makes you think that Lego (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Kenneth Tam
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| | | | (...) Woohoo! A franchise! : ) (...) Good old Carronades! You could probably squeeze a *couple* in! : ) (...) Well, I actually puzzled over this for hours. In stud-feet, Lego cannon are about 6 or 7 feet long, making them only as long as short 12s. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | (...) Oh I have- 2 on the Forcastle. But their pitifully simple! :) (...) Using Dave Eaton's conversion tool, assuming that a the average person is 5.9 feet, a cannon is 7.87 minifig feet, rounded to 8. ((URL) is the conversion tool) How does this (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets? —Kenneth Tam
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| | | | There's a calculator for these things? Oh my, I've been working under the 1 stud = 1 foot system (based on the principle that each fig foot is one stud, and so one 'imperial' foot). I'm working from 'The Line Of Battle' (Conway's History of the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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