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(...) I purchased mine at a market stall. Most of the boxes weren't sealed, so I checked all the pirate sets (and one or two others) to see which torso designs were included. The stall holder didn't mind too much, but his level of annoyance (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Aha! Shifty! The only Shifty I've found is of the black-and-gold sort -- found those a few years ago, and since the box showed them as regular red and white, I bought about 15 sets (little two-fig ones at a dollar store). Oh well -- so much for (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Ahoy! I've recently experimented with creating shakos out of sculpey. I am not entirely displeased with the results, and I have a few ideas on how they could be better produced. What better way to showcase dodgy shakos, than to put them on Shifty (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Return of the Swallows, Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA
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The Mayor of San Juan Capistrano (Hon. John S. Gelff) along with Gerald J. Miller (Administrator of the San Juan Capistrano Mission) stop for a moment to admire a diaorama of the San Juan Mission crafterd entirely in LEGOs by members of the Southern (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la.sa, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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(...) Up until January 2002, I wasn't sure if it was going to be "Port Brique' or 'Port Brick', but following a prisoner exchange with Port Block, the French achieved a certain dominance... <snip> (...) It won't be long until my new French 28 is (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) That's it? Puts Port Brique in a whole new light -- *very* well done to go from a small resource base to becoming the dominant French concentration in the South Pacific! (...) Very nifty -- it's like a microcosm of fortress design throughout (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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Ahoy! Sorting through some old stuff at home, I found some photos of models I'd built before I became active on LUGNET, and long before Port Brique was conceived. Way back in 1998(?), I had very few pirate sets (2 Imperial Bastions, the smallest (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I think its good. You should try to get something together along these lines, like i am with the CastleQuest project(Though its kreeping alont at a tiny pace, its getting done. Here is what i think would be a more streamlined version of this (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Return of the Swallows, Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA
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Some of the SCLTC club members will be bringing a slightly enlarged "Pirates attacking the Mission" layout for this year's Return of the Swallows Cellebration at Mission San Juan Capistrano (expected size is 70" x 120"). The Pirate theme was (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la.sa, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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I just placed some pix of my MOC 2-gun Brig on Brickshelf. Here is the link: (URL) me know if it helps. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: MOC: WWII Japanese Heavy Cruiser "Takao"
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Wow! A very impressive model with a lot of amazing details. Unfortunately a lot of the pictures in the "exposition" section appear to be broken or at least halfway-broken, although the thumbnails look ok. For example 3-takao-todd-02.jpg (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Indeed. There seem to be a number of us imperial warmongers floating about (forgive the pun) these days. Aways nice to have more. (...) Well, I've done a significant bit of building with plain bricks, because especially since reading (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Two suggestions, using slopes, SNOT style would give a nice angle on the sides or perhaps you could copy the hull from the USS constellation Heres the link to the brickshelf instruction scan (URL) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Peeron crosses 2000 inventory mark!
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(...) When exactly did the transition to hollow studs occur? This *can* be cleaned up, sorta (see below), although it's time consuming. A parts database that allowed built-in ambiguity of which part a given inventory has might be a better solution. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Semi-OT Good books about the British-French disputes in the West Indies
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Hi Jason, Now that you mention it, I'm much in the same boat (forgive the pun) when it comes to the West Indies (ironic as my father is from Trinidad & Tobago). If you're looking for more general overviews of war at sea in the French Revolutionary (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Semi-OT Good books about the British-French disputes in the West Indies
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Lately I've been researching my family history and I've been trying to find out more about an ancestor who served with the 15th Regiment of Foot in the British West Indies at the end of the 18th Century particularly during the British take over of (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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Ahoy, A new shipment arrived recently to stock the Port Brique shipyards, and included two examples of an element I haven't seen before. They are twenty studs long, have one and a half technic holes, three towball connections and the end four studs (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | ozBricks Fans Websites
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Hi everybody. Since a lot of LEGO fans have websites under ozBricks, and most of us don't even know of their existence, I made a website that contains a full list of links to those websites. www.ozbricks.net/links It's divided so far to sectors like (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics) !!
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| | Re: My friend's newly built homepage
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Hi Bruce, thanks for your reply. I will definitely told Yicke about that. I kind of remember we talked before in lugnet? Are you the one from UCLA, working as a chemist and had photos of an MOC chemistry lab at your homepage? Jackie (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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