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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)
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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)
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| | Re: Ironclad _La Gloire_ virtually complete--mini-page up
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Having no sizeable pirate collection (yet!), I can't add any blustery piratey nonsense to express my awe, but you've done a fantastic job! -- Paul Davidson Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:38C9E463.30D916...msu.edu... (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: The year at Port Block (Re: Ironclad 'La Gloire')
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Erin Windross wrote in message ... (...) I kind of pitch for 1770-1830. That gives me 'discovery' of Australia 1770, settlement 1780, Rum Rebellion 1808, HMS Victory, Hornblower, the naval battles of the Nile, Trafalgar and Navarino, the American (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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(...) 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)
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(...) Just wondering, but what year are most of your ships based on? (hey, I may even start to get into this kinda stuff). Erin -- (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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Lindsay: [ Presents the Gloire ] (...) C'est magnifique! Joué bon, Jacob (who has learnt _something_ during his stay in France ;-) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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BEAUTIFUL! You almost inspire me to start making my own warships. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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(...) 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)
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Mr L F Braun wrote (...) Just glorious. My tallships are not looking forward to it getting around to 1860. Regards Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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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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