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Subject:	Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:43:04 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Ben Harris wrote:

Hello hello!

My name is Benjamin Harris and I’m a new poster here. I’ve been lurking for several years now, but I finally decided to work up the courage to share a couple of my creations with the folks here at Lugnet.

Anyway, since both creations I’m posting today could fit nicely into either .pirate or .castle (oddly enough), I decided posting in both newsgroups should suffice.

First off I have a red medieval warship I built over a year ago and have barely taken photographs of.

Here is 3/4 veiw of the front:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/reddragonship/reddragonship.jpg

Nice work.The colour scheme is great, and the extended oars really look the part. To be pedantic, triangular foresails are not particularly castle-ish.

Also, you can avoid fabric sails fraying if you glue along the cutting line (PVA glue is good) before you cut.

And here is a view of the interior with the ships catapult visible on the upper ‘castle’:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/reddragonship/reddragon_interior.jpg

That sterncastle is very well shaped.

Last but not least here is the entire gallery folder (which has already, conveniently enough, been moderated :-) ):

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=50049

Finally, I have a Pirate’s fortress (or castle if you like). I suppose that the fort could be some sort of abandoned Spanish fortification that was taken over by Captain Red FacialHair ;) and his band of cutthroats.

Here’s the front of the fotress with 6268 in front of it for a sense of scale:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/piratefort/piratefort1.jpg

Very nice - I love buildings that tower over ships.

Here’s a view of some of them scurvee dawgs patrolling the roof:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/piratefort/piratefortbtop2.jpg

Your gun carriages are also very clever. And so is the turntable mount.

And finally, here’s a picture of the bane of pirates in the Carribean, the Shark That Can Swim Very Close To Land:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tycho123/piratefort/piratefortgshark.jpg

Oh yes, here is the full gallery folder for the fort/castle (and yes, it has been moderated):

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=50050

Again, great work. I like that the wharf is a decent height too (not the two-brick high official LEGO models! Nice for docking rowboats at, but not much else).

Anyway, thank you for your time and PLMKWYT. I’ll be trying to keep things much more historically accurate from now on.

Looking forward to seeing more!

Cheers

Richie Dulin

Port Brique
Somewhere in the South Pacifique

Misérable
Building a safer South Pacifique

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		Re: Who says nobody builds ships?
(...) Actually, I debated for some time whether or not to retain the foresail. In end I opted to do so simply because it gave the ship a bit of length and added a bit of 'structure' to the front the the vessel without me needing to expand the front (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)

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		Who says nobody builds ships?
Hello hello! My name is Benjamin Harris and I'm a new poster here. I've been lurking for several years now, but I finally decided to work up the courage to share a couple of my creations with the folks here at Lugnet. Anyway, since both creations (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)

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