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Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:47:00 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
> 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.
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> The 9-pounders of old, http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=111984
> proved fairly successful, so even after 'Flame' had a bad run-in with a
> French 74, I kept them around. Since then, Richie Dulin has multiplied the
> number of designs available for use by small squadrons, so I chose to go
> that road again.
I like that cannon... I'll try building one!
>
> As I enter another spur of Naval building, I've had to build more...
> bigger... better!
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> Here they are, first a short 12-pounder:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216809
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216810
Great Idea of using those camera bricks!
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> Generally out-classed by the 18-pounders of the 1780s and on, these guns
> still formed the main armament of many frigates, and the upper deck
> aramaments of some ships of the line.
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> And a 32-pounder Carronade:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216807
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=216808
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> Notorious for their power at short range and among the most common
> Carronades, these supplanted 6-pounders and 9-pounders as the Quarterdeck
> araments for most ships by 1800, and starting with 'Cruizer' in the 1790s,
> began to be the exclusive armaments for small vessels.
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!)
> I'm particularly fond of the Carronade. Despite the "darkening of the bronze
> guns caused by much gunsmoke and years of use" -- in other words, despite
> being brown -- I think the shape of them is approximated rather well, and
> the slide mountings work out decently enough too.
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> Sorry for the dark pics, but I'll have better ones as soon as they (and
> their brothers and sisters) are mounted.
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> So for all you poor colonial sailors out there, worry not about the big
> 18-pounder Lego guns! Cast your own!
What makes you think that Lego cannons are 18-pounders? I think their more
around 24.
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> Kenneth Tam
Great cannons!
-JHK
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