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(...) A two gun deck pirate ship? Ah....a Hollywood vessel! That's just up the freeway from the lab here in Pasadena. :-) (...) Honestly, you can take the ninja banners and Brasso off the designs. You might want to check for inverse slopes and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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(...) Thanks for the info. Have the mast or hull pieces ever appeared outside pirates (except for the flying time vessel, I know about that one)? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) There goes all hope of ever getting a BSB (not that I was trying in the first place) -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message <3872C18D.9616C9F8@x...il.com>... (...) The mast and rigging pieces I'm aware of are: Rigging: Short and Long. I have never seen the long rigging in anything other than a Pirate set. Short rigging has been in Pirate (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) 2. Black Seas Barracuda 3. Redbeard Runner 4. Carribean Clipper 5. Imperial Flagship 6. Renegade Runner, Armada Flagship, Crossbone Clipper Any individual set might go outrageously high or low - CCs have often gone well over $100 especially if (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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What is the most valuable pirate ship? The least valuable? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) Mmmm, so do I. (URL) at all sure about the historical accuracy, but it just looks more dashing, no? My army chieftains wear them side-to-side. They're not _supposed_ to be as dashing, are they ;-) Richard Still baldly (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Not much difference over my list, the only difference is a flip flop of CC/AF, and the inclusion of the ITP (which I haven't built yet, that and perhaps a couple of the rafts are the only Pirate theme floating things that I haven't built yet). (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Are you just talking about those blue baseplates? They're everywhere here. -- Paul Davidson Richard Parsons <rparsons@hinet.net.au> wrote in message news:FnsHyt.GvM@lugnet.com... (...) (small) (...) baseplate (...) on (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) My rankings are: 1 BSB 2 SES 3 IF 4 CC 5 ITP (Imperial Trading Post cutter) 6 AF 7 RR 8 RBR 9 CBC I don't have a SES yet, so it may flip-flop with the BSB, but I specifically wanted the BSB more than the other, so it ranks number one at the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) You are absolutely correct from an historical viewpoint - however, I usually write these kind of things from a gaming standpoint. That way I know who belongs where. But my admirals wear their bicorns front-to-back rather than side-to-side, so (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<FnuowG.DAE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 07:02:39 (...) Yep. I'm with you there. Blue coats being *naval* officers, that is. There are obviously officers in the marines as well :-) (...) I think the ships did carry (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<FnuGp7.A2@lugnet.com>) wrote at 04:05:24 (...) But you do it so well :-) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Not many... Black/Green narrow bow and stern section Short mast with short base No ratlines/stays For some nice reviews of all the ships see Steve Jackson's reviews: (URL) page is (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I'd agree with BSB first, but I'd put CC below SES (CC has a single set of ratlines/stays going down to the center of the deck, rather than a pair going down to the hull. My order would be: 6285 Black Seas Barracuda 6286 Skull's Eye Schooner (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) And then of course for the Atlantic half of the world, you can stage a re-enactment of The War of 1812... (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) (URL) ;-) Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Royal Ork? nanu nanu So *that's* what you do with those Insectoids aliens--it's "Orson"! LFB (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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What hull, mast, rigging etc parts come with this set? I cant tell from the pictures I have and the instructions are not on brickshelf.com -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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