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If you live in Texas or even the surrounding states please post here. I am trying to find out if there is a Texas group, if so where in the state are they active, and if not then how many are interested in starting one. I am in the Bryan/College (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Steve Bliss (<380233d0.354140113...gnet.com>) wrote at 19:04:49 (...) Well, you could try a bit of marauding :-) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Great link for all pirates friends. Thanks Bruce, Kai (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <38022bfd.352137473@...et.com>... (...) If you were sadistic (and confident) a thin-bladed saw could do the trick, then re-attach the two halves with 1/3 plates. I wouldn't try it because I value my hull sections too (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Looks like a Pyle or Wyeth painting. Search the web for either Howard Pyle or N.C. Wyeth. Both were great pirate painters (N.C. was Pyle's student and father of Andrew Wyeth and grandfather of Jamie Wyeth and there's probably a fourth (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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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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