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(...) Hey Ken, Thanks for the comments! I think the gun will be mounted on my port town and not in any ship. I'm not sure the ship could withstand the recoil of such a weapon. I'm hoping to maybe have a twin gun to go with it. I like your rating of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Hi Richie, The mouth is a bellville bucket! There is one in set 5870. I'm not sure it comes in any other set or not. The other chrome parts are just the 2x2 round parts from one of the new creator sets. I hope this helps! Tom (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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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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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3D3ED3EF.38019A...ing.com... (...) in (...) so (...) but (...) Islanders. (...) :) (...) I have run games with stats for the islanders and the witch doctors. The players seem to have a blast (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) Is there any interest in the Pirate Game for this event? Flush off the success of the game at BrickFest, I'd love to organize a game for NWBrickCon (and I know there's at least a couple Pirate fans around). Frank (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.org, lugnet.pirates)
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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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(...) 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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(...) Uhohh... I feel sorry for any pirate that comes across this cannon! -JHK (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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Good *Lord*! That, sir, is a MASSIVE gun! Keeping your Imperial friends happy has just moved to the top of my list! Nicely built -- the chrome really adds to the menace! Well, in terms of rating it in the Naval system, I think it's a 'Oh God We're (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Wow! Amazing... what part forms the mouth of the cannon? it looks like a scala or belville bucket or something similar , but it's not a piece I'm familiar with... (...) Just as long as those soldiers are wearing blue coats, not red! Cheers (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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Hi All, With the wonderful weapon MOCs posted by Richie and Ken, I felt I should post my latest creation! I don't know what size this cannon should be, maybe Ken can help me there. Take a look at "Booming Betty", the latest weapon of the Imperial (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) ...Maybe have it follow a random course each turn until a pirate got within a fixed "sight range" at which point it would always move to follow the closest pirate (so you could lure it closer to someone else and make it follow them >-) ...I (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.pirates)
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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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