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(...) The ship was based on the following picture: (URL) one of the few pictures of old ships I found on the net. If someone can point me to any more pictures, that would be great. Especially pictures of some old "castles" from that era. I'd like to (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) The 6274 Caribbean Clipper has a base-column, as does 6270 Forbidden Island. You'll find either a lot cheaper than the BSB or SES. Forbidden Island can have it stripped out of the existing set the easiest. Bruce (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) It depends on what set of limitations you want. The pixelated look or arbitrarily confined. I am simply making comments from the standpoint that for whatever reason (lack of bricks, lack of bricks of the right color, dislike of the look, too (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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(...) Ahhh, that does look quite nice. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Arrrr. So now I know there are other mast-parts in existence, which I don't have. And if I had them, I could make more really cool ships, with more varied masts. And all I have to do to get these bits is to buy one or more copies of the either (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I'm thinking about adding converting my expansion-RBR to a two-decker. It looks too much like a big canoe currently. Plus, the center mast I added is too short. (...) I've always thought that, about the pirate ship hulls, and the Town ship (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd: (...) What forces you to make do with the SPUD hulls? See the lugnet.boats page for some examples of what you can do with plain bricks - and with alternative scales. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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In lugnet.boats, Bruce Schlickbernd writes: I'm getting (...) hurl Splat It, of course, lines up nicely on the reply screen.... Bruce (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Thanks for the Vasa link. An earlier time period (and a vessel that actually survived quite a while beyond it's maiden voyage) but similiar incident is the Mary Rose. The Big, Big, Big Classic Pirate ship is going to wallow miserably like most (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) It's beautiful--if a bit Wasa-like (don't run a full rig in a gale)! My only suggestion is that the captive-cells in the sterncastle ought to be in a less pleasant locale--like the bilge. :) I also like your decorative scheme and the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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[ XFUT lugnet.boats and lugnet.pirates ] Dan Jezek: (...) though. It looks like it might end up like Vasa[1]. Play well, Jacob 1) Sweedish warship built in the beginning of the 17th century. It sank in the harbour of Stockholm at the start of its (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Smells quite fishy to me... I guess I plundered that pun didn't I? Actually, I think it was the League of Whining Little Sisters that made TLG remove the shooting cannons; they were tired of getting shot at. (...) I've got me fall frock, me (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.pirates)
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Tony Priestman wrote (...) Hey hey! Something new! This seems to work a treat _and_ gives you a stable base for building an extra platform part way up the mast. I like it. I like it fine. I have a suspicion that Mr Priestman may have enhanced (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Richard Parsons (<FJDJDo.DLJ@lugnet.com>) wrote at 06:44:24 (...) I was playing about last night, and discovered that the tall mast base is a firm fit on *top* of the thick mast section. So if you've got two of the bases, you (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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The parts I have seen discussed look pretty complete, so I will only add my support for the lashing idea. The tallest mast I use on the Agamemnon starts with the tall mast base, a main mast, the the smallest of the top mast, to which I have attached (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Steve Bliss wrote (...) Four - both the Sutherland and Agamemnon have four. The Exchequer simply doesn't have the currency to support three deckers or ships with five midsections. Bugger. Richard Still baldly going... Speak to the Governor at (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hello... Please take a look at my latest creation and send me some feedback: (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) There is a mast base that is 9 bricks tall. It comes in the two largest ships (Black Seas Barracuda, Skull Eye Schooner) and the Carribean Clipper. You also get one in the set #6270 Forbidden Island. With it, your masts (3 pieces) can extend (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I've built a Pirate ship with 4 hull sections. I used the Red Beard Runner sections and hull. It has 20 cannon mounted on it. I'm thinking of building one slightly longer, but with less mass. More along the lines of the black swan. It would be (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Maybe I haven't seen all the pieces then. The only ships I've got are the 6289 Red Beard's Runner, 6250 Cross-Bone Clipper, and the 6493 Flying Time Vessel (well, it's got a hull and a mast). 6289 has the 4x4 plate/mast base, the large mast (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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