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(...) hello Mr Dulin! glad everything went okay with your move. look forward to see what youve got in the works, its been a while since weve seen anything big from ya. can you share with us what youve got planned? on another note, you had to build (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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hello! i have a question for those more versed in ships than myself. i intend to make set of mainsails for my ship im working on, and was wondering: are they attached at the bottom via ropes to the outer deck rail, or are they attached to a yard? (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) snip (...) snip (...) Andrew, You can find templates of most of the pirate sails in my brickshelf folder: (URL) are full size scans there with a scale reference for size. I hope this helps... Tom (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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People who follow news of Port Brique ('news' you ask... more often it's excuses), will recall that not much has been happened in Port Brique for a while (except for a couple of SNOT sloops a couple of weeks ago). You may recall one of the reasons (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Hi Andrew, I think it's neat that you're going to be building pirate ships! I'm not sure if they will be the "flying" type or the ordinary, "water" types, though :) If you're building the "flying" type, I wouldn't bother building hulls out of (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) hello! i just saw this today, totally missed the entire discussion. anyway, if your looking for parts, i usually plug for Ebay, bricklink is great, and you can always find what you need there, but you may have to pay a bit for it. i use both (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Yes, I "dug around" and I liked it a lot! I like your flying island most of all your things, but the (URL) comes in a close second. I like (URL) this guy>, too. Maybe you might consider doing a version 2 of the island? Y'know, I'm mostly a (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Hi Andrew, Glad you liked my unnamed village! Check out the (URL) original post>... Whew! Dusty. Um. As for airships, you should try seeing what damage you can do with these (URL) boat bow bricks>. I dunno if you dug around in my brickshelf (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Maybe you should transfer your "Stir Up Trouble About Bley" campaign away from .loc.au and into .pirates, to even the noise up a bit... ;-) Cheers, (URL) Sci-Fi LEGO> (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. Now that I think about it, there are a few things I think I might want to put in... But that's for me to know, and you to find out! Andrew (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) And I think you missed my point. I got the joke, though I don't know if Tom got mine to begin with. I'm not bashing .space, I was simply referring to the tendancy for messages to get drowned out by the sheer volume of posts, and I thought I (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) But in pirates, we hear you crystal clear. Michael (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) ...or gets the joke. ;-) Hmmm... there goes the blissfully low noise:signal ratio. ;-) Adieu Richie Dulin (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) You're opening a can of worms, Lenny. Self improvement does not come from this. Avery P.S. Why in the world am I posting to this? Oh yah, I had an idea for the ship thing. P.S.S. Here is an idea, however unhelpful: go with what those other (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I think you missed Tom's point. I'm wondering why you felt the need to bash .space? In my experience, given that .space has many participants and .pirate has few, sometimes things can be difficult to hear/get buried. Given that: specific (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Ugh! I don't want to hear any more whining! No matter where it's posted! "I don't like the new colors!" "I want space Legends!" Sure, it'd be nice, but all I want to hear about is the latest mind-blowing MOC. Fans do better models than TLG (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) In space, no one hears you whine. -Tom McD. (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks guys for the lightning-fast response! .space doesn't treat me this well... Anyway, I'll check it out. Thanks again, and if you want, I'll post the final result here for you to critique. Andrew (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Happens rarely, but the noise:signal ratio is blissfully low. (...) I'd recommend ebay, and keep your eye out for sets missing a few parts, without boxes and without instructions (which you can get on brickshelf). It's those little things that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Wait... someone posted in .pirates? (Checks temperature of hell) (...) That's cool, I hadn't seen that before (...) I doubt you'd be able to get pirates sets from Lego in these dark times. If you're just after a few pieces you could try (URL), (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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