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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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(...) 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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(...) That's OK. The functionalist approach is "what good is the iron plating unless you can watch shot bounce off it?" (...) That's OK. The French always seem to forget that special ships and special guns require special ammunition and special (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) You'd be surprised at how few bricks that really is--though I need more brick tubs, I'm amazed at how much black I used. (...) I've already done it. ;) best Lindsay (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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It's Awesome, but I must say this... I hate you Lindsay! Always inspiring me with creative ideas that I know will never come true!! Oh no!!! Here comes another!!!! Nooooo!! Not THAT ship!! It's to BIG!!! What? Buy thirteen blue tubs? And twenty gray (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Mr L F Braun wrote (...) Obviously we'll have to shoot at her, what with her being a Frenchie and all, but she'll be most welcome. And I wouldn't let us shooting at her worry you overly. Port Block's gunners aren't exactly top of the line. Actually (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I think "The Junk" will avoid Port BlocK if that behemoth leaves drydock....hmmmmm...2 cannons, 6 muskets, 1 pistol and 12 katanas vs "THE IRON GIANT" ...I guess my ship would be the naval equivalent of a fly on the windshield....oh my ! (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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