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(...) I'll post more pics tonight about the masts--but I've found that the 2x2x11 columns from Fright Knights et al really do come in handy! I'll make sure to take some macro shots of the masts for you. It's all rigged (though I'm now out of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Men in uniform do what they're told while they're in uniform. Note that the officers rarely row. (...) I have one of those solid-top ones. It's ancient; all of my cylinders from after about 1980 seem to have the holes. (...) The solid minifig (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes a lot of cool stuff about a quite cool ship MOC, including: (...) cylindricalish pattern? I'm playing around with some possible biggish ship designs, but mast design is the current limiting factor... (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Arrr. Welcome to Pirates. Here's yer parrot and yer peg leg... (...) I always loved doing that too. IIRC, later sailing ships did include such lamps--held a ways away from the mast itself, naturally, and enclosed as fully as possible--to be (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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(...) It depends on the rigging of the ship and whose definitions you want to use. A three-masted square-rigged ship is a "ship". Cannon aren't really proportional on Lego vessels, so it's kind of hard to use them in the definition. Go here: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Richard Marchetti (<Fr763s.KtK@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:26:16 (...) Ah that may be because they're usually the ones *with* the guns :-) (...) No, the holeless ones are just older. All of my ships have come with holey 1x1s, and (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hey: Have y'all noticed that pirates will generally only row a boat at gun or sword point? By contrast, soldiers seem to have a little more discipline in this category. Also, are there still two kinds of 1x1 black cylinders? I have discovered that (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Greetin's ye swabs! I recently expanded my BSB by adding two hull sections and a third mast. It is now capable of holding eight cannons. Does this particular configuration fall into a definable ship category. I'd like to be able to describe it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Mr L F Braun (<38C779C7.1999F253@....msu.edu>) wrote at 10:15:35 (...) We're not smug, we know we're right ;-) (...) Hardly worth bothering with, then. (...) I'm afraid so. (...) So no good can come of it :-) (...) I gesture in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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