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Warning: The below may well include a little more analysis than is really needed... The Canoe Myth of .pirates ===...=== Background I've just completed an enjoyable few hours building my 10021 USS Constellation. For a 1978 set, the original set (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) wow richie, this is quite an analysis! it has been awhile since i last posted, but i just have to participate. you number analysis was quite in depth, and the conclusions were interesting. lego's hulls do lend themselves to be shaped like a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Hassle of... hey! That's me! ; ) I must admit, SNOTing a scale hull is a bit of a chore, though I'm trying to develop new techniques to make it more efficient. *Trying*. (...) Okay, here's where my obsessive reading of Brian Lavery et. al. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Good thoughts, however: (1) the LEGO consitution looks 'right' doesn't it? Despite being even narrower than it should be for its length and (2) the stern taper can be represented in the top part of the hull, if necessary. Maybe, I should spend (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Just make sure you share them once they're developed! :-) (...) The British Man-o-war measurements could be misleading. The tumble home is definitely not accounted for (but isn't a problem in, say, the HMS Supply - nor does the Supply have a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Words of wisdom, and you even wisely quote the artist first, who surely has a good eye for these kind of things. :-) (...) When I was at the Lego store in Anaheim just a couple of weeks ago, I looked at the Constellation in passing and I (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) -snip- (...) Of course! (...) I've had a browse of www.constellation.org, and while I wouldn't describe the real constellation as canoeish, she does seem long, narrow, and fairly straight sided. (...) You've lost me there... how would using a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Okay...which Constellation are you refering to? And for that matter, which one is Lego refering to? You quoted the waterline of the original, but if you talking about the photos, those are of the second one built in 1854 (whose proportion is (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) The later date explains the long/thin - though not canoeish ;-) - look. (...) I see - you didn't mention any change in the other number. (...) That may be true... but it strikes me as odd that I have not heard it remarked on before. But then, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) i think that the lego Constellation looks "right" because it is such a small scale, that the finer detail dont always matter as much. for instance, it doesnt have the correct number of stays, ropes, etc, but because it is so small, these are (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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