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Re: A new pirate ship.
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:43:16 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
> Gentlemen,
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> With all this Captain John E. Doolittle stuff (and that's not over - go
> http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/doo.htm and see where its up to and make
> your mark), I find myself hankering for a decent pirate ship. Not one of
> these RR or AF builds - I mean like the Agamemnon
> http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/aga.htm only shorter, being built up from a
> standard RBR hull. Two gun decks, eight ports a side, plus bow chasers and
> aft cabins, probably two square rigged masts
A two gun deck pirate ship? Ah....a Hollywood vessel! That's just up the
freeway from the lab here in Pasadena. :-)
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> I have massed all the necessary pirate gear (hull, masts, rigging, plates,
> banners, cannons etc).
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> I find myself short in the special blocks department.
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> 2x2x3 (wxdxh) high slopes, 2x2x1 & 1x2x1 inverse slopes, 1x2x3 inverse high
> slopes lattice windows (either kind), and those 2x2ish banner thingies used
> as gunport shutters - this sort of stuff. Some I just haven't got, some I
> have not got in long enough suits.
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> Even if I curb my avarice, and go for a Sutherland style vessel, I'll still
> need most of these (just not so many high slopes).
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> Can you suggest some worthy sources?
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> Richard
> Still baldly going...
> Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/
Auczilla XI is winding down - the gunport shutters have all sold (I got 6).
Honestly, you can take the ninja banners and Brasso off the designs. You might
want to check for inverse slopes and windows.
http://www.auczilla.com/lego/xi
Matthew Brown (Canada) has frequent auctions - the last one was fairly huge.
http://users.uniserve.com/~brown2/ma/
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| Gentlemen, With all this Captain John E. Doolittle stuff (and that's not over - go (URL) and see where its up to and make your mark), I find myself hankering for a decent pirate ship. Not one of these RR or AF builds - I mean like the Agamemnon (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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