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Subject: 
Building a Ship of the Line (was Re: Ships (was Re: My Ships))
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Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:17:09 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
In lugnet.pirates, John Henry Kruer writes: • <snip>
I don't see very many ship-of-the-lines here on Lugnet.  :)
Which is a pity... there have been a few, though.

The big issue is hulls - the LEGO hulls are not wide enough to render a ship
of the line easily. Lots of people have considered cutting them though...
and I recall a claim that it had been done (but no pics were forthcoming).

While I still think the big issue is hulls, I was dissassembling an Ogel
underwater base last night, and have begun wondering about
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/30201 as the basis for a big ship.

Not that the Misérable isn't big enough for me at the moment, but maybe one
day...

Cheers

Richie



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  Re: Building a Ship of the Line (was Re: Ships (was Re: My Ships))
 
(...) The very same idea occured to me when I was building HMS Flame the first time – I was trying to approximate the forward hull of a smooth-lined ship, and I had four of those from an aqua set of some sort... my problem came in trying to get (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)

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  Ships (was Re: My Ships)
 
(...) Which is a pity... there have been a few, though. The big issue is hulls - the LEGO hulls are not wide enough to render a ship of the line easily. Lots of people have considered cutting them though... and I recall a claim that it had been done (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)

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