DonRamon1981
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Thx this sounds good. I will test that on the weekend. Thank you
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For those who are interested in Queen Anne's Revenge as his name for the ship...
Queen Anne was the last Queen from the Stuart Family, it was the last Catholic Monarch and the first of Great Britiain (Act of Union from 1707). The war of Spanish Succession, in the Caribbean Era also called Queen Anne's War. Captain Edward Teach was fighting for the British from Jamaica.
When Queen Anne died in 1714, the Hanover Family took over the British Crown and from now on all Catholics was banned from being British Monarchs. The new King, George I. spoke German and French and wasn't very popular inside the Empire. The pirates that fought officially side by side with British Warship vs the Spanish wasn't took into the Navy like in 1588 after the Spanish Armada was destroyed... no this King declared them pirates again... also Edward Teach.
So Teach became pirate called Blackbeard and felt traitored by the Crown and how the Stuarts was banned from the Crown. So when he captured LeConcorde he took the name Queen Anne's Revenge for the name of his new ship...
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Hi all.
Today at ZDF Info was a documentary about Edward Teach a.k.a. Captain Blackbeard and his, the most famous pirate ship of all Queen Anne's Revenge.
Here are some pictures I took and some historical facts that are really interesting:
Everybody know the flag of the skeleton hitting a heart already posted in another topic.
Edward Teach was an English Pirate from Bristol. Very democratic mind, he planned to attack slave ships as they been big and fast on the famous routes he knew for years. He was able to capture a French slave ship called LeConcorde. He kept only 60 slaves (from 560) for his Crew the rest was left alive without any injuries.
He changed the name to Queen Anne's Revenge (he was Catholic that explains the name of that time)
The US found the ship in the 90s in front of North Carlolinas Coast and are examing it heavily taking cannons and other stuff from the ship wreck.
They also said there are more fairy tails about pirate than facts, showing the first pirate book from England from 1724 that has more fiction than facts, but inspired all of our, Legos and Hollywood imagination of how pirates was, that is why black flags are more common in our mind than the original red. In the Golden Age the pirates used already more the black flags.
Captain Blackbeard was known for his burning cigars and stuff inside of his beard and hair when Attacking, looking like the devil himself to avoid battles.
99% of his attacks being without battle, and like capturing LeConcorde he let everybody alive without an injury.
He allegedly did not kill a single man in his whole life.
The book of 1724 had supringsingly a lot of true facts at least about Captain Bleackbeard, who had the biggest part in the book and is documented as having one or the biggest pirate ship ever with the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Most books or novels say he had 40 to 50 guns on board. In fact it was 28, found on the wreck. Also typical for that time to exxagarate a lot.
The cannons was even still loaded, they used a lot of other stuff inside than just cannon balls, because they did not shot to sink the cargo ships they attacked the sails to stop them.
He wanted to hide and get away from the British navy by going close the coast of North Carolina, where he accedently (not like reported by some crew members by purpose) wrecked his ship on a sand bank.
You can see on the pictures of the reconstruction of the ship that it was way smaller especially at the back than that one from Pirates of the Caribbean. And the load cannons what they found inside, the metal sticks that was shot to destroy the sails.
The anchor was found far away from the ship as they tried to get away, an usual move if you wrecked in low waters.
Also all the cannons was moved to middle and back of the ship to get it out, unsuccessful.
The canons being loaded because they tried to get through that bay without being spotted by the British Navy, as Carlina being an British Colony back than, and the British Navy notoriously fighting piracy in 1718. The only chance to survive would be to destroy their sails and sail away if the Navy would spot him.
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I have sails now but doesn't matter how I change the masts or whatever I do, I can not get them fixed on the ship. They are hanging around in the air or somewhere else, but never to the mast... I tried to do everything with every Technic I know from Lego sailing ships, but no chance to get them there...
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Ok I will start to search for that with the Parts Designer.
I have the program a few days but have my ship already finished, just without the sails. The one I need would be sailbb17 (lego part number), and yep I found already the database and ebery sail parts is missing in the file. I will try that and get back here ;-)
Thank you
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Ok then my bad sorry.
Then I have no critic on your ship. ;-)
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20 minutes ago, Darnok said:I have used this service (from Germany, so reasonable postage for you) before to get custom prints on some parts. Not exactly cheap, but not terribly expensive either. The quality received was exellent, so I can only recommend it if you want something of your own and/or special.
Wow... I can print also uniforms on Mini Figs there, thank you I will definitely have to try that
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Still looking at your MOC as it is one of my favourites here... just wanted to give extra props again. Really nice build
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...I have a really important question. I made my ship ready to take it to Lego Ideas but one thing is missing, sails and the big Redcoat Flag... even when I import pallet from existing sets, it works but the sails still won't be shown, I mean zero sails not from actual sets that I import and not from pirate sets I import.
How can I get them into that I can't take it there without...
As many of you are using this program, I am using it for a few days now. I appreciate your help. I don't everything like my MOC Renegade Caravel, it's not complicated at all. But serious parts missing make me going crazy... :-(
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12 hours ago, Ultimo said:Thank you DonRamon for sharing all these facts and informations! I'm really liking the red flag too, it would be so cool if Lego actually released one like that
Maybe some of the people here can make that? I would pay for that!
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Back to topic but now without any historical reference so I don't know where this flag really comes from, but it's my favourite pirate flag right now in original red, I would love to have that as the Caravel will be back to a pirate ship for playing this flag would be awesome...
...and without Football i would love the Buccaneers Flag too
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I am changing my plans.. it rather changing the colour scheme. As it was done in black and yellow already a hundred times, I will change the colour scheme to black and tan. I ordered some ran parts for the self made masts like in my Caravel. So as I wanna do it as a playable set for my son it can't be really bigger than the Flagship from 2010 as it is still my son's favourite ship but very fragile to play for a 6 year old.
As the real Victory got a yellow type tan rather than strictly tell that should work too. I replace the yellow elements on the back with pearl gold I will have to buy too, but as this project is a long term I got time. Like i said I will already have everything for the masts the next days, I will see how this will progress later into the ship.
P.S. i don't like the black and yellow type in the Lego Ship as it reminds me too much of my Black Seas Barracuda.. miss that so have to buy a very beautiful and playable ship out of it.
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Something diffefent from another era, really like that one. Do yiu have more pictures, from different angles?
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The only thing I don't like is the lifebelt you have hanging there, as they haven't been part and especially not like that designed, of ships equipment during the 19th century...
There have been some cork vests during Trafalgar Battle (1805) but that was still a way different form of what we use today... so you are using a vests clearly not appeared before he 20th century on ships.
I like the rest, great build, wonderfully detailed. I doesn't care about missing curves as for me it looks really nice how it is
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1 hour ago, SteamSewnEmpire said:Look at the original California Bear Flag - the first one they ever flew was horrible. I think a flag is a flag, and its quality depends entirely on the talents of the person creating it.
Yeah you right, also the first BasketballTeam Logos looked... well judge yourself (sorry for off topic)
...Just because we think today it looks childish, it maybe didn't back then. We don't need to get back too long, look at these, in my opinion really bad logos from aome NBA teams or childish funny (the Nuggets logo....)
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P.S. the description tells you why it is so hard to collect real Pirate History, as there are just very few real history books but a lot of fictional and romantic stuff that got nothing to do with the real history. And the pirates themselves mostly couldn't write so there are almost no documents from pirates in history.
I am sorry for being like that to y'all as it is easier when you studied that stuff to know where to get proper sources from as I had to learn how to do that. Sometimes I am just in a bad mood as family life and work are going to fulfil mostly of my time - so sorry again for being arrogant calling you lazy
I am sorry also that I don't have sources in English.
...as the British Empire has been the biggest Drug Dealer in history, I can provide you with historical documents from National Geographic about that, if someone's interested.
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I told Darnok the place where you can buy that books, it's academic history books provided by the government for education.
This is just one of them, but like in history, neef to read all books from that era as there is no specific piraracy books like with history if countries, Sea Powers and Colonial Empires.
Maybe I start to scan the books one day (I don't know if that's legal?) But it's really a lot.
I would recommend the history of British Empire a lot as they brought piracy to an abrupt end, with a lot of real interesting stories additional to it (like he Opium Wars during the 19th century, when Britain beat China with a handful of their warships, humiliating them with the "unfair contracts" to allow... OPIUM Dealing in China by the British!!!) Yeah the biggest drug dealer in history was the British Empire...
Sorry again for the off topic, history is just crazy sometimes.
That's one but it's way bigger as piracy in the Caribbean was just a very short era
https://m.bpb.de/apuz/149607/schrecken-der-ozeane-eine-kurze-globalgeschichte-der-piraterie
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I posted pictures from history books and did not quote will nonsense.
Typical internet... do what you wanna do I stop posting any historical documents because y'all want to believewhat you want anyway.
Stop trolling on the internet and go to a real library.
P.S. for Darnok as he is from Berlin, you can visit Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung here. History books from all eras for good price, there you can read all real historical documents.
For all other, I won't waste my time anymore
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Sorry but historical facts and opinions are two different things. But like I said do what you want and believe what you want. I provided facts from real history, if you still want to believe some different it's up too you.
Doesn't change how history was anyway. For me this discussion is over cause it's senseless in my eyes then;-)
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There ate pictures from history books, painted as there was no photos back then there are paintings.
And sorry but nothing wrong with Wikipedia? Wikipedia everybody writes whatever they want As everybody is able to edit that and wrote. No university or colleague will allow you to use this as reference that's a fact!
And also the other facts, I picked the black flags from the Golden Age, but like I said you can believe that the earth is flat too, provided historical facts and if y'all try to quote Wikipedia... sorry for you but doesn't change any historical facts by you don't believing it.
I am not here to teach, like I said if you did not study history and if you not willing to search in libraries and real history books it's on not my problem.
You can believe what you want ;-)
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5 hours ago, Laura Beinbrech said:@DonRamon, that item with the spines you wanted translation for the name of is called a "Caltrop" in English and date back to late antiquity (at least to the Roman Empire). The same (or at least very nearly identical) area of denial weapons were developed possibly independently in the Far East, because they had them in Japan & called them "Tetsubishi". And it's funny you called them "Ninja Stars" because the Japanese version was, in fact, used by ninja.
Really cool, didn't know that
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I explained what kind of "history" books causes problems because they aren't history books. You quoted from a novel about pirates hat had zero truth, actually that flag by attack or not thing is same legend with zero truth in it like the Muhlenberg thing that German almost became official language in the US. Also there people can refer "history books" that was written there. But if you are not able or not willing to search what kind of refernece is actual history reference and which a simple legends novels and other stuff... go on like I said, you can also believe that the earth is flat, there are books about it too! Same like with the other it doesn't change the fact that it's simply not true. And if you are not willing to really invest time and money to do research on yourself, yes than I rather call you lazy because I still think you a smart person.
...P.S. I had similar problems before I learned how to recognize what are references that I can use and what not. Novels, Wikipedia, and all kind of stuff are simple not reference. It is that when you use them as reference in any kind of university or college work you immediately fail.
So I think yeah you are smart but did not research enough what kind of references are usable and actually history and what are legends novels or other stuff ;-)
Like I said. Before i learned how to do it I was ok with the inofs I read somewhere and believed it...
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Not a "real" pirate ship but even the Tampa Bay Buccaneers uses a red pirate flag and sails for their pirate ship inside the stands of their NFL Stadium, with similar "bad look" like Legos Brickbeard's Bounty... Just in traditional pirate red.
Funny... But I am a Houston Texans fan so I don't really care, but a nice move anyway.
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Yeah that's a real nice mix with the old bricks made up with some newer ones. Beautiful
Realistic.... unrealistic....
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That's really interesting. Looking forward what they answered. For MOC Building this is a really great addition.