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Re: Ship's Wheels For Trade ?
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Date: 
Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:00:42 GMT
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Richard Parsons wrote:

Mmmm, and think about the big wagon wheels (in brown) - I just used one for my
sidewheel riverboat, and was surprised at how well it came up.  Mind you, it's
stuck in a smallish wheelhouse, so you can't see it too well ;-)

That's right!  Actually, I had to really laugh when I read this, because I first
took it as "use the ship's wheels as large wagon wheels."  (clunk clunk clunk
clunk)  However, I've used alternate ship's wheels for smallish housings--my
Destroyers use two very old red cogs from an ancient motor set.  They come out
pretty well, IMHO.  I'll have to try the wagon wheel thing, though...

My very first "ship," btw, was built on three 20x10 plates (one blue, one green,
one red),
and for a "wheel" it used a large steel-axle spoke 2x2 wheel with a 6-wide
tyre...so very playground it was!  ;)

Richard Parsons
Still boldly going.....

Didn't that used to read "still baldly going?"  I always thought it was a humorous
statement on the folicular affliction I seem to have.  :)

obNeatThingsI'mGettingAndDoing:  I won a couple of eBay auctions, and I'm getting
an Imperial Flagship hull and a Caribbean Clipper hull to add to the BSB hull I
got last week and the RBR I have awaiting assembly in the basement!  :)  Things
are looking pretty darn rosy for my retro-shipbuilding.  In related news, I'm
considering beginning a first-generation European ironclad (a la the French ship
Gloire, c. 1860, and HMS Warrior a year later).  However it may be mostly black so
I'm not sure how it will photograph...

best

Lindsay



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  Re: Baldly going (was Re: Ship's Wheels for Trade)
 
Mr L F Braun wrote in message <38AB9C9A.6104C9B0@p...su.edu>... (...) humorous (...) Mmmm, still is. I occasionally use the browser to post the odd note or two, and since I haven't noticed the browser interface supporting sigs, I have to type it (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
  Re: Lindsay's Navy
 
Mr L F Braun wrote (...) getting (...) hull I (...) Things (...) I'm (...) ship (...) black so (...) You're turning me green. If you're interested in popular opinion (which I must confess I seldom am ;-) I vote for the Gloire - it seems to me that (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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  Re: Ship's Wheels For Trade ?
 
Mmmm, and think about the big wagon wheels (in brown) - I just used one for my sidewheel riverboat, and was surprised at how well it came up. Mind you, it's stuck in a smallish wheelhouse, so you can't see it too well ;-) Richard Parsons Still (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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