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(...) I envy you horribly. I'm lucky enough to have four bluecoats and twelve redcoats...sigh. On the other hand, I use them to staff WWI-era warships' marine detachments, so they become largely insignificant for combat anyhow. But hoo-whee, if you (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Now I know some of you already know my site, but if this is where Pirate lurkers are to be found, this is where I should hit it up no? (URL) Port Block pages have been renovated over the last two weeks, in keeping with the new format Minifig World (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I can vouch for Ed's sails! I have a set of black ones he made for me. They are excellent! Real quality workmanship! (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) out (...) Now, if only I can find the off-ramp to Germany somewhere along the Foothill Freeway.... :-) Bruce Schlickbernd (or find those Schlickbernds in Germany...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Ed Jones wrote in message ... (...) Mr Jones, They surely are fine looking sails. As I wrote earlier, my main concern is the fraying thing, but you seem to have that under control. I have also had great difficulty organising the holes, and you seem (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) stores. (...) It seems to be a bit easier to find sets in Germany recently. I checked some stores and found the following mostly in some small stores: 6236 King Kahuka 6244 Armada Sentry 6246 Crocodile Cage 6248 Volcano Island 6252 Sea Mates (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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If you can't make them--I can. Just a few images I posted for my auctions on ebay. (URL) standard replicas. Available--Gaff, Lateen, Sloop, Barque, Galleon, you-name it. Provide the dimensions and cloth preference. Logos in print or Iron-on. For (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) stores. (...) Considering the number of WalMarts, K-Marts, Targets, TRU I can hit between work and home (25 or so), everything disappeared a long time ago. The last I saw was a KayBee that flushed out its back room at the start of this year (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Has anyone found or seen any Pirate sets in stores lately? I had given up finding anything anymore, but last week I found 7 sets in two different stores. A Walmart had 4 Armada flagships and a TRU had 3 King Kahuna thrones. I find this remarkable (...) (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Thank you gentlemen - I will advise :-) Richard Still baldly going... Speak to the Governor at (URL) pi++ is,ia-]++ AD++ NI+ TO---- S+ LS- A+ LM- YB66m :-) (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi I have just put a 6255 on E.bay if anyone is interested? (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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In article <FIMAC2.MFx@lugnet.com>, Richard Parsons <rparsons@hinet.net.au> writes (...) Try teeny amounts of glues like rubber solution (Copydex in the UK) or PVA. If it stops carpet fraying (which it does), it should be able to cope with a bit of (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Ummmm, I dunno - it's been on the backburner. By that I mean I bought the canvas but I haven't done anything yet. You should be able to mix some white glue and water (one or two parts water to glue) and "paint" the edges of material to stop (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) I would love to have the problem - unfortunately, there does not seem to be any worthy (read pirate/guards) gaming to be had on this particular continent :-( Still, technology may yet come to the rescue - virtual (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Lugnet.ImperialGuards, Sails?
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Joseph Gonzalez wrote (...) The page is still there, and I have left him a note. Sounds good. Thanks Richard Still baldly going... Speak to the Governor at (URL) pi++ is,ia-]++ AD++ NI+ TO---- S+ LS- A+ LM- YB66m :-) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) hi richard i'm not sure if one of the sites you visited was austin david's: (URL) he used to offer to make sails for pirate fans. ..joseph g (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I was "Redbeard" on compuserve for about a decade (and made a guest appearance as the penultimate villian in Bard's Tale III as the same). Now I'm the Corsair. Arrrrr, at least I be in da right place, boyo. (...) For display, yes, but for (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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I think I would probably belong at Lugnet.ImperialGuards, rather than Lugnet.Pirates, but I have learned to catch as catch can ( as one must if one wants to work with the finest sets Lego ever made, being the Imperial Guards sets) I have probably (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) 10-12 more or less, kinda-sorta, depending on who's army you are talking about. (...) I'd probably make it 12 (three squads of four, officer in each squad, with one officer being the overall platoon leader). I don't know if that should be two (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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In article <FIH4ot.A6A@lugnet.com>, Bruce Schlickbernd <corsair@schlickbernd.org> writes (...) Oh arr, oi be fergettin :-) (...) Sorry, but I don't even know how big a squad is. On the basis that everything Lego is a scaled down version of reality (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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