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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 (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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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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| A most impressive cannon. If scale is correct, it would be a 32 pounder. I like the use of the hand for a wick, perhaps a tan hand would five the same effect, but not stand out so much. All in all an impressive piece, nicely done. Christopher (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| Hi, Recently I built a pirate canon after having seen some pirate stuff while surfing on Brickshelf. Here is the result: (URL) 1) You can visit my Brickshelf galery for more pictures: (URL) 2) I also wrote an article on the Freelug (French LUG) site (...) (18 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.pirates, FTX) !!
| | | | | Castle and other Historical at BrickFest™ PDX 2007 (March 30th-April 1st)
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| (URL) Here we go again in Portland! Just over 2 months till (URL) PDX 2007!!> Frank Filz, Brendan Mauro, and I are coordinating the Castle display along with other Historical (Pirate, Adventurers, Wild West, etc.). We’ve got plenty of room in (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.western, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: The Pirate Glossary
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| (...) Ah ha! I have not a single pirate set! Only Vikings! But yes, the Kraken is inspired by pirate folklore so you have me there! Space pirates! Now there's an idea! Woot! Cheers! ~ Paul. (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) What kind of Lego do you have? ...Your recent (URL) Kraken pics> indicate you have quite an impressive knack for building galleys and medieval ships (a few of which are in the list of ship-types here). ...or of course, you could always build (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The Pirate Glossary
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| (...) After reading your Pirate Glossary I have come to realize that I am a pirate. And I have no pirate lego to speak of, so now I'm depressed. Paul. (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) HEY! I resemble that comment! JOHN (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) Eight-wide. Tim (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) SNIP (...) Is there nothing you won't stoop to? ;-) Tim (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. There's some interesting information there... Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks. Very handy and comprehensive. This should encourage me a little more to build some sailing vessels. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | The Pirate Glossary
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| Ahoy! Taking a cue from Larry, Tim, etc. and their (URL) Train Glossary>, I decided to pull this together: (URL) The Pirate (aka Age of Sail) Glossary> I've always been confused by the myriad different terms for ships and their parts. And as I was (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: The L’Administraeur Rouge (a two decked brig in Port Brique!)
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| (...) Yes and no. That pic of l'Administrateur shows something missing - because that's a view where the (upper) ratlines would normally be highlighted against the sails. There is definitely space to run long ratlines to the upper platforms. An (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The L’Administraeur Rouge (a two decked brig in Port Brique!)
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| (...) Is it just me or is there a set of rigging missing from the masts between the lower and upper platforms? (Sorry proper terminology unkown.) In general however this ship is magnificent! (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | Re: (MOC) 3-gun Gaff-Rigged Sloop RTS Am-a-realego
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| (...) Thanks, I think so... but then they the "right" colors!! (...) I was fun to build these two little ships. It was a break in the monster of a lego project I am working on now. I may put up some of the pieces of this monster project I have built (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The L’Administraeur Rouge (a two decked brig in Port Brique!)
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| (...) I like her, she not what I would build, that makes her more interresting to me, but she looks very nice! (...) Yes, I think that it does! (...) She's begging for more lenght! and shear down that lenght!! (...) Or you could increase gun (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The L’Administraeur Rouge (a two decked brig in Port Brique!)
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| (...) Good work CO Richie, hope we get to see this IRL late January, it's probably worth going ahead with the extended remix plans, if you have the extra centre hull sections sourced. -pete.w (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | The L’Administraeur Rouge (a two decked brig in Port Brique!)
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| Ahoy, Since the settlement of Port Brique in 1801, there has been a wide variety of vessels calling it home. But no two deckers. Until now. Although wide and ungainly, brig-rigged L’Administrateur Rouge packs a broadside seldom matched, while her (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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