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Re: A day sail from Port Brique
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Fri, 20 Jun 2003 03:14:56 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons wrote:
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.pirates, Stephen Rowe wrote:
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have not seen much from port block in a long time! does he still build
ships?
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No tall ships recently, but Richard did bring along some small craft to
Bricksmeet. Have a look at
these.
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those are pretty cool, and they are more realistic than their lego counterparts.
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Stuff still happens at Port Block, but not of the sail driven variety.
Having built some large and small vessels on the narrow and wide hulls,
design seemed a bit tapped out. As Richie notes, there has been some recent
activity in the ‘heretical research department’ cutting up rowboat pieces in
an endeavour to make them useful, with not altogether unsuccessful results.
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hey, if no one thought outside the box, where would we be?
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BUT, as we were discussing at the fest, attacking rowboat pieces with a saw
is only a precursor to the main game - attacking ship hull pieces.
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Blasphemy!!!! (much finger pointing!) ;-)
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I got to four centre sections with Agamemnon, and could not find a way to
progress beyond that - fixed max width defined fixed max length defined fixed
max height. Richie has pushed the envelope with extra inverted slopes, and
his glorious 6 centre sectioned vessel has earned him (for mine) pre-eminence
in South Pacific shipbuilding.
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i agree, one is very limited by the size and shape of lego ship hulls. the only
reason i am not looking into expanding the pieces, is because when one widens
them, the bow and stern are also expanded, and the front and rear of each
respectively will become less arched and more of a straight line. (its hard to
explain in words, but imagine a ship with a flat bow kind of) i am not sure how
to build out the bow to continue the natural curving of the hull. i experimented
with a 2 fully enclosed gun deck, 6 center hull section ship, but after i built
it, i immediately became cold to the design. it seemed that the decks were
placed to closely together, and if i tried to raise them, the ship would get too
tall for it’s width. the other snag i hit was making custom sails. simply put, i
cant do it! :-) i tried multiple times, and just never was at all satisfied, so
i scrapped the entire ship in favor of a fleet based on 3-4 center sectioned
ships. so far, i have 3 of which i am very happy, and as soon as i get more BSB
sails, i will post pics. i need many more per ship than they actually come with,
so am relegated to ebaying, which takes patience, but, hopefully in the next two
weeks, i will have them, and be able to post.
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Obviously Port Block cannot allow this challenge to go unanswered ;-)
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i too found that the balance of power had shifted too far mainland europe
(especially with the spanish fleet sailing around!), and not enough island side.
:-)
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Right now am working on concepts for wide hull pieces split down the middle
to allow for a 20 wide hull, and snot-wise designs for sloped sides, to drive
towards a true three decker that looks halfway decent.
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awesome, i am glad that the building continues. i got my initial inspiration
from HMS Sutherland and L’Eponine, and would be sad to hear that the Sutherland
would not be followed up on.
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I must say, research is not going well in terms of outcomes, but as Einstein
said ‘If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn’t call it research’. Just
makes it all the sweeter when a successful concept is revealed.
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amen! i always make revisions to my initial ship designs, sometimes many!
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Richard - Still baldly going...
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thanks!
steve
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