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I was going to ask about the connection but you answered it for me lol I like the way you have set it up... Will this be at BrickWorld this year?

Bru-Haha helps cure headaches you know we could arrange a distributor to be set up in your settlement.... Love this build really the onlookers the building but my favorite part is the soldier breaking formation for the photo lol

I actually love the background you chose is that a monitor or a picture? Nice little ship you got there!

Very nice parade indeed

The blindness is because of the materials used in poor quality stills. And further increased by poor quality operation. Plus there's that whole pressurised boiler that can explode and then highly flammable liquid that catches fire afterwards. Poor quality copper had a high sulfur content... "cheep" solder had high lead content. The resulting by product can cause blindness. If you fail to cut your foreshots proper then you get methals in you spirit which is not initially harmful but in enough quantity can severe nausea and vomiting. Also not cutting your tails while less harmful then the foreshots introduced minerals that your body can't process. Now there's uneducated fellas out there that just mix the whole damn batch together and sell it claiming there ain't no harm ... It's just poor quality licker is the truth. Explosion is a serious risk constant monitoring of temp is the only true way to prevent this. But the true danger is the vapor. Essentially you've done what a combustion engine does and atomised the "fuel" now you have a fire of some sort to heat the mash that loves to expand if the vapor makes contact. Grain dust is also highly flamable and can explode in flames under the right conditions As far as merchants... I talked to one who said they used to smack your legs with a stick to break any bottles you had tucked away in your pants when coming back on board

You need to borrow a parrot cage to photograph this in... Seriously great work... Makes me want one for my shelf lol

Hahahaha Well this is what I see. 9 was a good age for me and Lego so keep on building my son! Lol Things I like about the build The figurehead fits great with the feel The shape is convincing I like the Shields use on the sides look good as well as all the swivel guns Things I would change for next time Larger sails or a third mast

I guess my thought was this.... If you know what others in your faction have done successfully stat wise your prone to mimic it. (especially if you regularly sail together) So hypothetically if I wanted to target COR shipping specifically. (just using your faction as an example lol) I could detect a pattern in your shipping lanes and notice what ships had what stats then pick and choose (or create) a fleet that would be more prone to having an advantage against them. True there are some built in loop holes but fundamentally it could give an advantage of one "Navy" over the next in battle as well (should war break out). I think it's good for each faction to keep such records for all ships in the faction and members should be able to access that sheet. A big issue at least for the rats is leadership changed hands several times this past year (things happen) but the members that knew of such a sheet had also become inactive so ours was temporarily lost at sea so to speak. Lol

@gedren_y you'll notice I spell it Whisk_y quite often the scots believed (some still do) that their whisky was superior to Irish whiskey. I'm not Scottish by any means (Cherokee, German descent as most of my family is from western TN and Southern KY and three generations back Germany) I was taught good whisky has no e in it lol. But I learned the skill while living in Southern Alabama and improved over the next several years...

Any chance to get a video?

That wasn't a cage... That was so your baby could properly air himself because that's important for child development. Besides what's safer then a crib hanging from a window in a skyscraper?

I would disagree with this... I think the fact I don't know other factions ship stats make the challenge for choosing a battle style and makes choosing ship stats more important.

I like the elevation in the grass. Originally I pictured them marching into the parade field... Until I saw the full build and realized cannons would I get be pointed in lol

No worries I love to hear em! Lol My favorite is my late Neighbor Mr. Pitts. He told of the time he got picked up... Now before I continue let me explain something about Mr. Pitts. His biggest customers were the Supreme Court judge, The common wealth attorney, the county prosecutor, the head of county board. Now he made good rye whisky charcoal mellowed even. This man had tunnels from his barn and house and two other out buildings. And you couldnt step more than four foot from a gun of some kind in any given room of his home if you knew where to look ... Now back to the story. I'll tell it as it was told to me best I can recall: So one day the county sheriff pulls up and I (Mr. Pitts) says "can I help you Sheriff" ... Never called Don by his name always addressed him as Sheriff. Well turns out Don had a warrant and claims that he found "a still on my property" ... well he hadn't found my my still my still was back over yonder (points towards the rear of his property), but the found the one I wanted them to find used to keep it over yonder fence( points to the front of his property)... Never ran a drop through it but it was a still all the less. So they loaded me up took me up to the courthouse booked me. Bout an hour or so later I'm being released. I was back home before they even finished loadin it. Back then they wouldn't just bust it up because you could rebuild it so they'd take it away or blow it up with a bit of dynamite if it was too big for a truck. I went down there by Don and watched them load it up... Even told the boys to be careful with that part there it's heavy when they loaded the pot. Well later that week they run my name in the paper "for the illegal production of moonshine" (he pulled out a framed yellowed chunk of old news paper from his desk next to him that was the police blotter) I tell us it was the best thing they could done... Hell my business tripped after that cause now everybody knew I made the stuff (he pauses to take a swig and laugh). The best part though was them judges and attorney's the was all looking at each other like who told (laughs even harder). ______ That was my fondest shine story told by Mr Pitts. He quit making shine in 2006 when his wife past (last year of her life she was real sickly) she made him promise that when she passes away that he can't sell no more... He asked her why and she simply told him "because I won't be round to keep your megablocks out trouble! " He had told me on a prior visit that he could see the house from the still and if she would hang a red blouse on the clothes line it meant someone was coming down the lane (the nearest neighbor aside from me was 1 1/4 mile down the road either way) he said "she always wore blue or white never red so if I seen that hanging on the line I was to take the long way back to the house" ..... Now mind you I've got stories of my own but none like back in the heyday of shiners

You guys dropping these it paint or?

Oh that's another mistake I won't make again. So basically big companies have a team of "chemists" you bring your stuff in good faith for them to try to which they like it but draw out contract negotiations for three month then come out with a oddly similar tasting product a month later ... To which you get no royalties because "it's not your original recipe". Plus they have a whole team of layers to get them off the hook. I actually really wanted to go legit however without a "network TV show" to get me there lol I just don't have the capitol required... Nor the legal team to chase down copyright infringements. So now it's just a little black book full of recipes and still plans drawn out to replicate in copper.

@Capt Wolf Simple answer beer is legal wine is legal. Fill out a permit locally and be inspected once (not 4 times) by the state... No federal boys involved. It's like the difference of getting your drivers licence compared to being certified to drive the president around lol

I looked into it... The issue is it can take up to 2 years before you can actually run. You have gather all the proper permits then set up then be inspected by three levels of "gubbermint" as Laura put it. The equipment you can get by using in the woods won't cut it with the Health department so more expensive measures need to be provisioned for. Then during this whole approval you have a building and equipment sitting not making any money but sucking you dry. And at the end of 2 years they can still deny you because someone holds a public "not in my backyard" meeting.

I'm so jealous of your "space" lol fine looking build and plenty of trains. Looks like it could be a fun operation session. Any chance for better pictures of your "tool room" on your shed

"purely for medicinal purposes" of course lol no worries ... I won't be passing my "skill" down but I don't want all my recipes to wither away lol. Guess that just shows where we've come as a country... I can name 5 I know(n) personally although I seem to have forgotten their names lol.

Currently... Industrial Maintenance .... Formerly ran an alternative beverage "distribution" haven't run any in over 5 years

What's all this talk of "Hiding in Battle"? One does not play hide and seek with cannon balls lol I like the fort simple yet effective ... Good fig poses and great addition of the ships orders.

Glad you like it!

Haha ancients passed down methods and generations improved upon them... Laura this has alot of connection to me... I ran shine for a period of my life. "Pink Panty Dropper" is a actual simple recipe of mine ... You soak berries on neutral spirit for a week you then strain the fruit (don't smash it just let it drain) save the neutral for later (will be deep red if done right) soak the fruit all down with ample amounts of sugar. Let it sit for a couple days until syrup forms then press the fruit (in a fruit bag or pillowcase) extracting the "simple syrup" bottle and save for later. take the pressed fruit and soak it down in a super yeast sugar and water bring it just to a boil and let it cool before adding the yeast. Let that mash for 7-10 days run it like a brandy... Add your neutral and your syrup.. Cut with water for desired proof and flavor. Should be kept in a cool place so not to sour. If you want the specifics PM me. P. S. I love your story about "Ol' Pig-Bristle Whisky" I wonder if it even affected the flavor? A batch of mash has slot of money tied into it both in ingredients and future profit. I wish I was around during prohibition honestly I had a late neighbor that ran down the road from me and he used to tell some great stories like that as well. Thanks! An earthquake that magnitude is sure to shift tides in other ports as well!

To make you more jealous... I hadn't but the very center bottom of the ship started when I posted it would be finished in our pm muahhahaha. .... Sorry I really need to get that evil laugh looked at. I see that now... I actually forgot the second part of it lol. Guess I will go back and fix it later lol. Mainly this was experimenting with some new techniques... Mainly the snot decking. Overall it's more trouble than its worth IMHO lol it's actually the reason I left a few details off the decks because I was just tired of trying to work around ways to attach things symmetric. But yes I've had some good bit of inspiration over the holidays (as well as time on my hands with days off) Select, Place, Click, Repeat??? I'm sure I've missed a few steps in there lol. I actually struggled with the "forecastle" area of the ship the bow to me looks to modern although it's got a great shape... It was a major compromise for me as I'm still not very happy with it. (I achieved what I sought to do but will do it differently next time lol.) I had originally planned for the hand railings to curve up into the hull taking away some of the blocky feel but alas my flex tool was acting up and my align tool was just downright scary. It was literally scattering my whole ship to make connections lol. Thank you! Be sure to read above then lol! The tumblehome was one of my main goals in this was to play with a shaped hull (without having to look at @Bodi's great references) Taller .... O.O ... I thought they were pushing too tall so I dropped a yard and shortened them lol maybe I should add them back lol. It's strange that the shadows make it take on different colors but I wanted an "old wood" feel to the ship almost ghost like but a real ship.