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| hi! i have come to an impasse. i am trying to build custom sails for my ships, but have hit a couple of difficulties. first, what does one use to punch or cut holes to mount them, and how do you cut them so they bulge correctly? i have tried a (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: MOC pirate ships
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| (...) >>Frank (...) Unix is a computer operating system. It predates Windows, MacOS, etc. The joke here is that any file that starts with a . is a hidden file in Unix. Since you've delurked you're no longer hidden so you should remove the dot : P (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: MOC pirate ships
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| (...) thank you very much for the compliment, but im sorry, i am not sure what Unix is. (...) thanks steve (22 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: MOC pirate ships
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| (...) thank you very much! you are too kind. i was happy with them because they were my first ships, but my second genereation is far better. i have built 2 that are more accurate, and have better designs. (...) i studied this period because this (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: MOC pirate ships
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| (...) 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. (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: MOC pirate ships
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| (...) Nice ships, but now that you're not a lurker anymore, you're a pirate not a .pirate.... (sorry for the geeky Unix reference...) Frank (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) smart looking ships, and nice broadsides to boot. (...) That's a pretty wide design window you've set for yourself, with some significant changes in design character through it. Is there any particular period of ship you've settled on? (...) (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: MOC pirate ships
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| (...) Ahoy, new pirate poster! (...) Precursors of things to come. Wow. (...) 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'm very impressed (and will ponder the pics at (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | MOC pirate ships
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: Johnny Thunder steals the victory !
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| I read the header as "Johnny Thunder steals the Victory!". Now *that* would have been a post worthy of .pirates! Cheers Richie Dulin (22 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.fun)
| | | | | Johnny Thunder steals the victory !
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| A blitz in the last 2 days made Johnny the victorious minifig, only 7 votes ovber Blacktron 1 who had lead by a good margin the whole month. But Johnny has been around for a while too and it's no surprise to see him elected in the Minifig Hall of (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground)
| | | | | Re: HMLS Intractable
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| (...) News travels slowly in 1803... I'm not much good with numbers ;-), so I thought I'd set Port Brique 200 years ago and leave it at that... (...) As Mrs Palmier, resident of Port Brique said to Commander Stalwart-Hope: "You came in that? You're (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: HMLS Intractable
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| (...) His Majesty's Navy reaches every corner of the globe... eventually. (...) 1803? Going to be leaving in a hurry, is she? : ) (...) *Every* British ship is a *wonderous* sight to behold. : ) (...) Whaa? French stealing lines from English ships? (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Custom figs
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| Using some custom torso designs, I've come up with: A Spanish Officer (or possibly a French dragoon officer or... or...) (URL) Port Brique Fire Brigade (and those paper epaulettes really *don't* work) (URL) Dulin (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | HMLS Intractable
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| Ahoy! At last, a British vessel of note in the waters of Port Brique!! Sailing into Port Brique harbour late one April morning in 1803, the sloop-of-war Intractable under the command of Commander Reginald Stalwart-Hope was a fine sight. Locals (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats) !
| | | | | Re: Misérable
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| (...) Thanks! (...) The fore and mainmasts are quite fragile... the main is based on a 2x2x11 (IIRC) round brick, the fore on several 2x2's. That, combined with the high-mounted ratlines prevents them being too strong. The fore-and-aft rigging helps (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: Misérable
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| Richie, WOW, That is one awesome vessel! I really liked the masts and the sails, very detailed. This is really impressive, how much does it weigh? Congratulations on an awesome accomplishment. Jon (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: Building a Ship of the Line (was Re: Ships (was Re: My Ships))
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| (...) 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)
| | | | | Building a Ship of the Line (was Re: Ships (was Re: My Ships))
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| (...) <snip> (...) While I still think the big issue is hulls, I was dissassembling an Ogel underwater base last night, and have begun wondering about (URL) as the basis for a big ship. Not that the Misérable isn't big enough for me at the moment, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: Compatible?
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| (...) I think not... the profile seems too rounded and too tall, and the texture is different. (...) No problem for me ;-) Is it just me, or do others think that Mega-blox is increasingly going down the route of large, specialised pieces that we (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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