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Re: MOC pirate ships
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lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Fri, 9 May 2003 07:17:13 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Stephen Rowe writes:
> hello .pirates! i am new to lugnet, and this is my first ever post, but i
> have designated myself a .pirate. i have been a lurker for awhile :-( but
> finally got involved. :-)

Ahoy, new pirate poster!

> i have been keeping tabs on the ship building
> going on recently, and have some of my own i will put on as soon as i get
> some good pics, but until then, i have some pics of my first attempts at
> pirate ships.
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=28098

Awesome! Fantastic work!

> these vessels have no names, as i did not mean to keep them around long,
> they were just the precursors of things to come.

Precursors of things to come. Wow.

> i attempted to do research
> into the fighting sail between the 1600s and 1840s, and i think these were
> pretty good for my first try. the designs do need refinement though. the red
> ship is built of 2 BSB's, and the blue ones are from 4 and 5 CC's
> respectively.

4 and 5? Does that mean you have 9, or that the two ships are two
incarnations of the same parts?

Awe, envy, awe.

> i wanted to go for a french VS english thing at first, but
> decided that the cost to build more french ships was too much (as CC's are
> more expensive per what you get as compared to BSB's). in any case, please
> give me some feedback, thoughts, questions, anything, and it's great to
> finally be a member!

I'm very impressed (and will ponder the pics at length in due course). One
comment on the rigs - where you have seperate mainmasts and topmasts, the
topmast should be in front of the mainmast.

As far as the cost of CC's vs BSB's goes.... how much of a purist are you?
If you're prepared to make your own sails you can use RBR and other parts
(rigs if not hulls), to go a bit bigger.

Fantastic work on all the ships...

I can't wait for pics of the next generation!

Cheers

Richie Dulin



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  Re: MOC pirate ships
 
(...) thank you very much! (...) actually, the cmaller one was reincarnated into the larger one. at the height, i had 6 CC's. i actually sold the large blue one on ebay to continue to fund my building of red ones, and i sold the unused CC also. (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)

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hello .pirates! i am new to lugnet, and this is my first ever post, but i have designated myself a .pirate. i have been a lurker for awhile :-( but finally got involved. :-) i have been keeping tabs on the ship building going on recently, and have (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)  

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