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Re: Shipshull problems
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:48:30 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Alex Polimeni writes:
> hello, all.
> some of you may know me from .Castle as the kid who is currently working on
> CastleQuest.
> well, now im also a pirateer. only, not pirate.
> my interest in this comes from the battles of the british, french and spanish.
> i dont really care about pirates because their one eyed one handed one legged
> image is not totally true.
Indeed. There seem to be a number of us imperial warmongers floating about
(forgive the pun) these days. Aways nice to have more.
> Instead, i have my only pirate ship, now a british ship, trying to stop the
> Spanish from creating a navy of large galleys capable of ramming and quickly
> destroying convoys etc, without getting hurt.
> well, the point of this post is that i have run into a problem:
> I have no idea how to make a ships hull realisticly out of plain old blocks.
> the one hull i have is being used for the goldfinch, and its too small anyway.
> does anyone have any ideas on making a medium sized hull out of regular blocks?
Well, I've done a significant bit of building with plain bricks, because
especially since reading Hornblower I'd wanted to build to-scale vessels.
Now you may not want the 130-stud long frigate scale, but I think the
building techniques I've used might help. SNOT is the name, and it's easy to
learn -- hard to master (I sure haven't). Lay down a keel, get some
side-aiming-stud-parts (*sigh*) and build outward to whatever shape you
need. I've built a 60-foot cutter that way (HM Cutter Friendly) and a rather
spartan Canopus class Battleship ca. 1896. Long ago, I also build HMS Flame,
ship-sloop (quarterdecked!) out of upright bricks. Didn't look as good, but
it might help.
They're all in my brickshelf gallery:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=10979
Hope this helps somewhat. I look forward to seeing how it goes. Blasted
Spanish galleys...!
> Thanks a ton for the help
> Captain Horatio Hornblock.
Righto!
Kenneth Tam
um...
aka
Captain Richard Carstairs, RN Special Newfoundland Squadron, Brickley's Cove
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