Close to a year ago, I surfed onto e-Bay and picked up a few old Lego pirate sets to complement the sets I already had. I built a custom Napoleonic RMS style ship, boasting 30 cannons (14 per side with 2 swivel bow guns), six middle sections, three masts, and a rather spacious officer's cabin at the rear (with eight of those nice yellow-frame windows). The complement of the ship includes 11 crewmen, 3 Lieutenants, a Captain, 6 Marine Soldiers, a Marine Sergeant & Lieutenant, and an Admiral and Marine General.
This ship will be expanded shortly (thanks to a couple more e-Bay purchases). It is quite possible that this "new" expansion will include nineteen middle sections ...
Now, what I'm planning on doing is first expanding the lowest deck, using outsloping pieces and constructing the lowest deck about 3 plates above the low hull. This will be the main gun deck, and extend all the way down. Above this, I'll use arch pieces to construct the upper deck (which will be very open to allow easy access to the gun deck).
The gun deck will also have the supports for the masts, with the mast pieces themselves rising from the top deck. I will no doubt expand the cabin at the rear to an additional one or two sections (not to mention raising it in height), giving me the opportunity to construct an officer's wardroom and perhaps a guardroom in addition to the Admiral's office.
I'm guesstimating about 3 cannons on the gun deck for every 2 "sections". Nineteen sections gives me a figure of roughly 28 cannons (per side!) Although I plan on placing cannons on the top deck as well, I'm not certain on those figures.
Anyway, I guess I'm just looking for opinions, thoughts, spare cannons ...
Oh, yes ... in honor of the Horatio Hornblower series, this ship was named the Indefatigable. (Back when it was only three sections long ...)
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That's cool! But...a Napoleonic RMS? Isn't that like a contradiction in terms? I assume you mean a British ship from the era more widely associated with Napoleon.
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KICK ASS!!! I love legos!!! Too bad I can build anything that detailed. But I'm gonna try anyways. As soon as I get enough money to start, I'm gonna try building my own lego town!
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Fabrux -- dude, where you get that from? Regardless, I sent an e-mail to them and inquired whether it is appropriate to refer to multiple lego bricks as "lego" or "legos."
MIB -- e-Bay is a great place to look for new and used legos! BUT! If you ever outbid e-Bay user MeGotBeer for a set, I will be forced to kill you (seeing as how I am the aforementioned MeGotBeer).
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One more note from an obsessed naval freak that I hope doesn't bother you too much.
RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer. This is the designation that was used by White Star Line ocean liners and other steamships that provided regular mail service between Britain and other nations or British colonies when such vessels were considered "the only way to travel."
I think you meant HMS which is an acronym for Her/His Majesty's Ship. This was used by the Royal Navy. You used it in your title, and your ship designation, so there you have it.
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OMG. How much effort had to go into that? Yeesh. That's...wow. Cool.
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quote:Originally posted by Jeff Kardde: MIB -- e-Bay is a great place to look for new and used legos! BUT! If you ever outbid e-Bay user MeGotBeer for a set, I will be forced to kill you (seeing as how I am the aforementioned MeGotBeer).
Ummmm. Jeff. I hate to break it to you. But there is a much better place to buy lego parts and sets! It's called www.brickbay.com It kind of like ebay, only you buy parts and sets from other people at set prices. There are hardly ever any auctions involved, and instead of selling a variety of crap that nobody cares about like Ebay does, Brickbay.com is dedicated to the buying and selling of lego parts and sets ONLY! I also like it because you can find almost anything you want or need. please note that I said ALMOST.
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Although I do repect your efforts Jeff, if you call them "Legos" again, I shall rip off your gonads and feed them to your cat.
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