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This weekend I finally sat down and started on my "Red Seas Barracuda".
My original intent for the RSB was to use Red Beard Runner hulls, and
build a ship using the BSB directions but using dark grey instead of
black as much as possible, and red instead of yellow, and green trim.
Some discoveries I made:
In my parts bins, I have a pretty good selection of dark grey except:
- NO 1x2 bricks
- NO 1x3 plates
- very few 1x6 plates
- NO 1x10 plates
I knew I was going to have a problem with the 1x2x3 inverse extreme
slopes used in the window frame.
What I ended up doing because the limitation of dark grey was to put a
white band around the windows and make the poop deck railings white
(perhaps the captain's parrot has been taking the term poop deck a
little bit too much to hear?). Once I did this, I realized that I had
definitely made the right choice in leaving the white band along the
hull (by my original plan, I actually should have made that green).
I made some modifications to the ship:
- The gun deck has 3 gun ports on each side (part of my motivation is to
run Steve Jackson's Pirate Game, a BSB size ship will mount 7 cannon,
with the side firing cannon being able to be moved from side to side as
I understand - this is something I'm not absolutely clear on).
- I moved the masts so those platforms on the side which mate with the
ratlines line up properly (the bracing there is supposed to support the
mast stays in a real ship).
- I moved the gun port just fore of the rear cabin forward one stud so a
cannon can actually use it.
- I decked over the bow area, and have mounted two cannon on swivels.
- I lowered the rear windows a bit (which helps line up the colors
better the way I did the white band), and modified the inside decking of
the cabin so that a cannon can be placed in the cabin and fire out any
of the windows)
- I put a trap door in the floor of the cabin.
- I enclosed the areas under the 4 trap doors on the main deck so that
cargo (or prisoners) can be put in there without having to play "shake
the coin bank to get the money out".
I haven't finished the project yet, so no pictures yet. I still need to
build the spars and rig the ship. I will be using the new 1x4 plate with
rod pointing down to have the spars be studs on top so that crew can
stand on the spars. I also need to add a few details to the cabin (I do
have a little yellow table which doubles as a handle to lift up the trap
door).
What will be interesting to see is how well the 42 crew the Pirate Game
specifies as a starting crew will fit.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) Blue water, red death? Yes, I like to switch hulls and rigging around to create ships with different looks. (...) I find myself snagging bits and pieces at auctions that I have no current use for, but will probably need for just such projects (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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