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Subject: 
Small Pirate Cutter - Test Design
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lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:08:46 GMT
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Recently, I stumbled across the web page explaining Evil Stevie's Pirate Game,
and this inspired me to start my own fleet!  Unfortunately, my only ship set
worth mentioning is the BSB - great for a single ship, not so great for a fleet.
I don't even have any of the bow pieces used in the cutter design from the
Imperial Trading Post, so shipbuilding isn't going to be easy.

Here's my first effort:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=122917

Since I have many Castle sets, I have more wall corners than I know what to do
with.  Observing that two of them next to each other makes a nice angled shape,
I started goofing around and came up with a way to fix it to the underside of a
decking arrangement.

The result is an EXTREMELY tipsy ship - I didn't consider stability when I first
put the hull together.  Next time, I'll space the wall corners with 1x2 or 1x4
bricks before putting anything on top.

Also, the stern is a bit more square than I'd hoped - I still haven't figured
out how to attach a believable rudder or angle the area without spending too
many precious bricks on a single cutter.  After all, I'm hoping to use this
basic hull arrangement for several ships, not use all my inverse slopes on a
single model!



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  Re: Small Pirate Cutter - Test Design
 
(...) as you don't mix the two, it won't be any problem, and even if you do, it's not that much difference to lose sleep over. Frank (20 years ago, 7-Apr-05, to lugnet.pirates)

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