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Re: From St. Nazarie to Port Block...?
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:17:12 GMT
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Mr L F Braun (<38C779C7.1999F253@pilot.msu.edu>)
wrote at 10:15:35
> Hmmm...seems you Brickish folk are getting a bit too smug.
We're not smug, we know we're right ;-)
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> Sure,
> there are only 12 guns,
Hardly worth bothering with, then.
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> This ship--christened _La Gloire_--is destined to cause all sorts of
> mischief, we're sure.
I'm afraid so.
> Terribly French, I say.
So no good can come of it :-)
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> designed to inspire fear, loathing, and lots of rude
> gestures from the
> Brickish.
I gesture in your general direction!
Now the serious stuff:
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> A few "current phase" shots, up until I can find a better home; the
> first shows a 3/4
> approach and the second a 3/4 recession:
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> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/gloire-6-foreqtr.jpg
> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/gloire-6-aftqtr.jpg
Wow. It's *massive*
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> Next, here's the guns run out and ports up. The guns have limited
> pivot--they're fairly
> dangerous that way--and they can indeed depress to hit much smaller
> targets that try to
> close the range. ;)
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> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/gloire-6-gundeck.jpg
How do you run the guns out? are they mounted on tiles, like most of
TLC's ships?
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> My absolutely favourite part of the ship--the stern gallery, where the
> Admiral's cabin is
> located. This came out fantastically! Somehow, those silly hard
> plastic tubes were just
> the right length to meet at the flagstaff.
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> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/gloire-6-gallery.jpg
A lovely piece of work.
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> I hope to have fitting-out done in the next few days; then the ship will
> be much more
> attractive and look much less like a black and white box with guns
> (which is pretty much
> what the genuine article looked like.)
I've been trying to take some pics of HMS Floater, but the light has
been appalling this week. She will have about 13 cannon a side on the
main deck, plus a few others forward, and on the quarter deck.
I'm not sure if practising broadsides against the Gloire will be a good
idea, though :-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| (...) One can be right *and* smug, of course. :) (...) You haven't seen how much powder they pack behind the shells in those guns. (I may also add some guns on the upper deck--smaller pieces, or perhaps mortars.) (...) Especially to my postgraduate (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hmmm...seems you Brickish folk are getting a bit too smug. Bearing that in mind, the Repubrickan Navy (the fine and egalitarian institution it is) has decided to send a...presence out to yonder Pacific-type points. This is no wee sloop; rather, it's (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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