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(...) Indeed. But the early 80's tyre stockpile has to run out sooner or later... (...) Dragoons, huh? Interesting you should mention dragoons.... (...) I generally think of my ships' cannon as 18 pounders, and this is about half the calibre.... But (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) The limber and the gun carriage both have an unusual five wide construction - I wanted the limber to have side by side seating, and six wide just looked too silly (as did building a wider seat *above* the wheels). I built the gun carriage five (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) dressed horsemen to the Pacific, haven't they? (...) I spent last night trying various things with tire hats, and surprisingly, Horse Artillery crossed my mind to... though the French were the only ones to wore the bushbies... I need tarleton (...) (22 years ago, 29-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Magnifique! I like the uniforms, the carriage, and the gun is wonderful - so simple, so elegant, so, just so! Most excellent. I already have a half dozen red Hussar types sitting on my monitor. Now its off to build some light field pieces. i (...) (22 years ago, 29-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Actually there is.... Port Brique now has horse artillery. ;-) (URL) horse artillery? Because I had a few spare blue torsos, and a lot more of those old tyres... and some superficial research showing horse artillerists wearing large busbies. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Ahoy Sean! If you're just bridging the two baseplates with a bridge, then the best idea would be to *not* try and join them. Keep them seperate (it makes moving the MOC much easier), and just place the bridge between them when they're joined. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Sep-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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(...) How long is the bridge? If the bridge is long, there will be problems with the joints staying together without enough reinforcement. Use long plates and join them on the top and bottom with plates lengthwise...the longer the parts, the better. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Sep-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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Wassssup Everyone, I recently tried to make and MOC by combining a Eldorado Fortress and an Imperial Trading Post. I was making headway for a bit, but crossed 2 problems. 1, I don't know how to build a bridge across the 2 mountain baseplates without (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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Eeep! I've been off the board too long -- I come back and the Hussars have arrived -- in fine looking fashion no less! Well, nothing like quite like cavalry to tip the scales in a boarding action... Huh? Well, a good disincentive for a landing (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) A very cool concept. (...) Sand-green domes perhaps? (...) Standing by... Cheers Richie Dulin (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi everyone, Thanks all for offering so many useful suggestions. I have been very much influenced by places like Port Block and Port Brique. I'll be sure to post pictures as soon as I can. Just a little background, I'm an Astronomer with great (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Head selection is important for hussars. I was careful to select only moustachioed arrogant looking types. After all, they have to be pretty self-assured to get around with hats like those. (...) Port Block is overdue for a royal visit, isn't (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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Hey Stephen, I haven't built a lot of docks, only one off the back of a castle. I used the 1x1 round pieces for the pilings and then a plate for the dock, so it was one and one third bricks high. I have a gangplank going up onto the ship. Hope this (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Duplos would be a purer solution, and I always find them at garage sales and flea markets (unlike Legos, which are rare indeed). Hmm, good use for them when the 14 month old outgrows them. George (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Mmmmmm. Sea walls and docks and raising town baseplates are all good uses for decently proportioned clones (ie MB). They're cheap, essentially unseen, and available in adequate colours for these purposes in truckload quantities. Port Block's (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Love these guys. With cloaks and epaulettes they strike just the right note - their haughty self-assuredness comes through in the images as surely as through the original oils. I'm trying to work out what Port Block would be doing with a bunch (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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Hello! (...) In my opinion the land should be higher leveled than the docks. A port usually is founded at a place like a bay where the land is high and getting flatter towards the sea. This means you need bricks to elevate the land. Hrm... when I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Ahoy! I've always likes James Howse's idea of Russian hats made from old style tyres (see pics at (URL) note: the use of tyres as hats dates back to at least 1975.) Nice hats, but not really in my prefered era or region. Recently, though, I was (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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Hey I just got an idea, I might use it myself someday. I read all these results and they say use burps or buy lots of bulk tubs to get it up 6+ bricks high. This is my idea, get enough of the right color bricks for the visible parts, and then DUPLO (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Ahoy, In Port Brique, the sea wall is 12-13 bricks high, with the dock located about half way up at 6 bricks high. The streets are created with 8x16 (or bigger) bricks located on top of the sea wall. The visible parts are red outlined in (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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