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Zowee! That's awesome, Lindsay. Gotta hand it to you, for a minute there I was considering changing themes to pirates ;-) All seriousness aside, that's really beautiful. I love the boat-lowering feature (I hate technic as is, but I sure do (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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Hi, _La Gloire_ is now in Phase Nine, meaning it has almost all the bells and whistles an ironclad might need. Everything from lifeboat davits that lower, a complete stern gallery, coal chutes, boiler room, to a dozen cannon, a fairly complete (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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(...) Grog! Where be the grog? The parrot I be having says nuthin' what one would call nautical yet. But he sez, "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!" One has to be careful what ones sez in front o' a clever parrot. (and I only said it once!) (...) It (...) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Mine (a Fuji DX-10) ran $200; I got a special offer for a USB memory reader free (by post, took 5 weeks) and bought an 8MB memory card (it comes with a 2MB--way too small) and AC adapter (digital cams eat batteries, my yes) from buy.com for a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Cool! I look forward to seeing them! Dave! (by the way, what does a serviceable digital cam run for these days?) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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