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Re: New Member Intro and Gunboat
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lugnet.pirates
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Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:38:09 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Christopher Templin wrote:
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I wanted to show off a little creation of mine. It is a gunboat similar to
the type that would have been used during the Seven Years (French and Indian)
War and the American Revolution on larger lakes like Lake Champlain and the
St. Lawrence River, as well as around important coastal areas such as the
Chesepeake Bay and the Hudson River.
I made it from two of the larger Belville style rowboats. Placed end to end
it give a rather good length and the depth needed for two oarsmen. I places
a mast slightly forward of the middle and made a small outboard rudder. The
cannon is a slightly modified version of Richie Dulin’s (thanks for the
inspiration). It has no wheels as those on the gunboats were often mounted
on slides. I would like to put swivel guns on its sides if anyone has any
suggestions on how I might do that. Please let me know what you think, the
link to my brickshelf gallery is as follows.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=231709
Thanks,
Christopher Templin
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Welcome Christopher,
That’s a nice gunboat! The belville rowboats work well stern to stern, and give
a decent size for a gunboat.
The cannon seems to sit a little high... would it be possible to get it down
further into the hull?
I’m not sure what the best approach for swivel guns would be, as they’re going
to be pretty large compared to the main gun - perhaps enlarging the main gun
would allow you to use some 1x1 round bricks + 1x1 clips and those tap pieces as
convincing swivel guns?
Looking forward to hearing more about your Surprise!
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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| Folks, Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Christopher Templin and I am a historical reenactor from upstate New York, where it is finally winter-like weather. I have been working on as scale as possible model of the HMS Surprise from Master and (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX) !
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