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| wow Joel, those are really well done! By all means, continue to build a collection of these giant sized figs, its really very cool. Congrats. e (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.pirates)
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| Joel, All of your work is fantastic and impressive. I'd like to hear more about how you built the maxifigs. Is it all trial-and-error freehand? I'd love to have one of those Spidermans. :) Corey www.brickitgood.com (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: A couple of sloops
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| (...) Yay! (...) I've never thought of using those pieces that way, Richie. Most of my small ships use pirate hulls (with the inverse-slope exception, of course) (...) Very nice small ships! I particularly like the way you built their tillers and (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) Funny you should mention that, Wesley - I AM running out of pieces :( I'm building two more ships right now - the first is smaller than the Kestrel, and the second even smaller than the first! It's not just the bricks, either - suitable plates (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) True. Although I made the hull as sturdy as I could, it still needs to be supported at both ends when I lift it (not often!), and even then still flexes somewhat. The main issue with pirate gaming isn't the strength, though, but the weight - (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Har-Har! Seriously, Micheal, you don't have to be so hard on yourself :) Pick up a good book on sailing ships from the public library, or find some images on-line and give it a try. You might be pleasantly surprised on how well you do! Aaron (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) Thank-you, Richie, for the nice comments! As for the era of pirate hulls being over, no, I don't think so. I use bricks for ships larger than the pirate hulls, but still use pirate hulls for the smaller ships - bricks don't look so good on (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) Not to mention they save a lot of pieces. (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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| "Michael Dallaston" <m.dallaston@student...ut.edu.au> wrote in message news:I046yv.2vr@lugnet.com... (...) have to (...) pirate (...) The pirate hull pieces also make for sturdy ships for gaming use... Frank (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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| These look nice. The first looks a bit square from above. I like the use of the wall panels on the 2nd one. That looks like it would be a good basis for a class 1 ship for the pirate game. Frank (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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