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    Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire' —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
   (...) Glorious says it all!!! (But now I am going to babble on...) Excellent work...very inspiring...I love the bow and stern detail. Those davits are elegant in their simplicity...I experimented w/ similar mechanisms long ago, but mine were big and (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
   
        Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire' —Lindsay Frederick Braun
    (...) I don't know how I figured it out--must have been realising that you need to hinge them above the bottom (third peghole up). From there, it's just a few bricks away to working davits. I'd wrestled with that one for a long time--in fact, since (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
   
        Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire' —Richard Parsons
   Mr L F Braun wrote (...) Umm, Lindsay? Smokestacks? 7150? ((URL) you're making one of those extra subtle jokes the like of which seem to get me keel hauled, or you need some sleep man ;-) Shipbuilding can keep one awake, and take one a bit outside (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire' —Tony Priestman
   On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Richard Parsons (<FrBCtC.1CD@lugnet.com>) wrote at 15:46:08 (...) Ah. They're not *exclusively* SW elements though, unlike the laser cannon thingies & cockpit canopies. (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire' —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
   (...) Tony beat me to the explanation of the SW comment...I included the stacks and the Qui-Gon head as SW elements,forgetting that other Castle and Ninja theme sets use the 4x4 rounds as wheels... (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire' —Lindsay Frederick Braun
    (...) Ah. On the Qui-Gon head, you've got me. But the other parts are also known from many other sets--especially the big shuttle from several years ago, that had *six* (!) of the half-cylinders and a bunch of 4x4 rounds. Gadzooks, I'm swimming in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
 

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