Tartan Jack

In regards to the fly, a common associate of Kass and mine has noted a "fly" in a kilt. (I'm not sure how that is much easier than simply "lifting the kilt" to do your "standing business" or your "horizontal" business).

I'll see if I can find the link to the fly kilt.

I NEVER said I was better, actually FAR from it. I just like things that most folks who like one or 5 don't like them all.

Hand, have you finished the Labrinth Goblin head/costume?

Kyle is driving the 45 Marathon oil car.

He does the Petty Ride Across America annually to raise money for his Victory Camp.

Honestly, he has never been the same since Adam passed away (his son died in practice for a Nascar Cup race in 2000, one of several to die of neck injuries the year before Earnhardt. The HANS device is a great thing (Though I'm sure most are lost already). Kyle is not in the public lime-light like he once was and has withdrawn more and more into running Petty Enterprises and getting the 43 car (now driven by Bobby Labonte) back to winning.

Yes, I am a VERY ODD blend of things and there is none like me (and I have yet to meet one even CLOSE).

A Wee Bit of explanation:

The Princess Bride: movie from the 80s that is now a much quoted "cult classic"

Indigo Montoya: Spanish sword master played by the actor Mandy P.

-He seeks revenge on the 6-fingered man who killed his father. When he meets the 6-fingered man he will (and does) say: "My name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father! Prepare to die!"

Juan Pablo Montoya: (short and simplified version) race car driver from Columbia. He was an up and coming superstar under Williams F1 racing organization. He was "lent" to Chip Ganasi for CART (Indianapolis-stye open-wheel race cars), where JPM won a championship and the Indy 500. JPM then went back to Williams and raced and won (notably at the Monaco GP) F1 races there and for MacLaren. After a VERY rough time last season, JPM rejoined Chip Gannasi to race in Chip's NASCAR stock cars, once again as a "rookie." He is racing in the "major" Nextel Cup Series and the "minor" Busch Series. Last Sunday, he won his first NASCAR race, a Busch series road coarse in Mexico City.

I have been mixing the Indigo quote with JPM since the CART days, now I get to share with the world . . .

And the assertion that there is some kind of unbroken line of skivvies from the Dark Ages until the Victorian period is flawed. 

I don't recall asserting that there was an unbroken line of mens underwear.

The question was "Is there any peroid underwear"? The answers is yes there certainly was. Mens under garments can ALSO be documented 100s of years prior to the GAoP. I don't believe there was any implication that everyone actually wore undies.

-CS

What??????

Undies???????

With my kilt????????????

OH, THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!

Back to topic . . .

Yes, undies are well documented and didn't change very rapidly.

I'd have to defer to experts to the approximate dates of the shifts that did happen. Even then, for significant periods there was overlap and usually several types going at the same time.

For more "athletic" endevors, there was usually a tighter variation for men to "hold everything together." To cite the Old Testament, it was termed to "gird your loins," which kept anything from getting pulled in more "energetic" actions.

Think modern "boxers" and "briefs"/"strap" (but forget the cup, I don't remember any precuser for that (though one may have existed after all).

Things always seem SO much simpler kilted . . .

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For Nascar (and F1) fans everywhere . . .

"My name is Juan Pablo Montoya,

You killed by Father

Prepare to DIE!!!!"

Thanks Pirate King.

Remember, my intent is for miniture ones in 1/48 scale (about 1-2 inches long) and non-firing.

Looking at your site . . .

Were there both brass and iron cannons aboard a typical larger pirate ship of the GAoP?

Were the brass ones THAT much smaller than the iron ones?

Since the iron/brass issue has been raised . . .

What color would they have been?

The iron is obviously black (Iron-colored).

What about the brass ones? Gold-ish as modern brass or more of a bronze/copper-ish tone (as I seem to remember someone on this forum mentioning that bronze was more copper toned than the modern gold tones brass).

Pirates would have a lotta fun with a real lightsaber . . .

Go to where you get the train ones and ask them about "aluminite" casting kits. or try here

Modify a pack of the expensive figures and use them as masters to cast as many as you need.

Thank, I was actually thinking of doing that to cast a cannon I picked up somewhere (makes excellent scale 6 pounder) and may try some of the more generic figures. Now, to see how the alumilte compares in bang-for-buck to the other ones I got my hands on now.

I was hoping to find some "army man" cheap ones, like the baseball players I am using for my Ponce Park ballfield and the football players I am using for my Falcons/Panthers game model.

Oh well, these will look better anyways, only I'll be spending more "crewing" my ship than I spent on the kit itself.

Go ahead, I LOVE the home-made bladed stuff.

I have done a lot of homemede, but not yet any weaponry. I've used my dremel mostly for model (plastic and diecast) projects, but am thinking of trying more wood milling (squin duhbs, dirks, and the like). I might try a grip now and use a cheap cutlass blade to make something unique (for display, as I don't trust a cheap sword for anything funtional).

I have a number of swords I bought (mostly to be used for Scottish stuff).

I was simply at a hardware store and looking a axes for some home suff. I looked over at the machettes to cut some foliage vines and noticed how the blade outline looked roughly like a cutlass. The problem looks like the blade of a cutlass is more curved on the backside of the blade.

I much prefer nicer stuff. GREAT JOB Mr. Hand & Captain Midnight both!!!

Take this thread anywhere you want to go (although a new one mught be read by those who are interested, but not looked into this one).

Bang-for-buck then, these are still a decent way to go:

http://www.museumreplicas.com/webstore/eCa..._and_armor.aspx

I like the concept of:

(Basically, one of their older baskethilt claymore baskets fitted onto a cutlass.)

I might get a machette, just for the hack of it anyways . . .

I was on a hardware store and noticed the visual shape similarity of the machette to a cutlass. As many of the folks here are "hobby pirates" rather than accurate reenactors, I was wondering what the thoughts were on using a machette as a "cheap stand in" for a cutlass.

Before anyone starts, I know that the "real thing" is much more complex in construction, balance, blade cross section shape, and primarily hilt, among a number of other differences. This is one of the few times I may be suggesting a non-historical 'pirate kit" item- besides a kilt )

Thoughts???

Possible arguement for historical-> Machette is a common "bush" item and used heavily in Central and South America today, as well as in the Caribbean. How long ago was it ACTUALLY introduced and could a GAoP person have picked one up on land and brought it aboard ship?

Shove a sword so far up their a** it comes out their mouths.

Then, have a spam roast.

~Sorry, was that out loud?~

I'll bring the marshmellows!!!!

Just relieve them of their tongues, eyes, genitals, and hands and send them back to Spammy Town with a begging bowl

That release is only AFTER they eat their own parts in a "spam sandwich" (ala the real cutthroats)

DAMN!!!!!

Wrong side of the COUNTRY!!!!

It is Californi, for all who have not followed the links.

My car is just 'the Beamer'. None of the cars at my house really have names, except for my mom's 68 Mustang. Her name is Trudy, and (according to Mom) she hates winter and refuses to come out of the garage until April.

Trudy is also the only car allowed in the garage...

Which is "Mista J's" car?

Where do you keep the babies?

(Sorry "Harleen Quinzel," I just HAD to do that . . . I am a HUGE Batman fan!)

I meant Interceptor, sorry.

Blackbeard ones are FAKE too . . .

Found:

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/channel...ax/main_fs.html

In video "behind the scenes, saw these images of the Revenge and QAR/Concord:

I was "taken" (and I SHOULD have known better). They just looked so good, esp. for a "made-for-TV" (Nat'l Geo./BBC) movie.

I thought the "special effects" were the multiple images of the same ships.

Well, the Barbary pirates were Muslim . . .

It fits (if your REALLY stretch).

Stern/Rear of 3 masted one:

The sloop is single masted and black with red trim (and red walled on inside of top deck).

(I'll screen grab a pic whenever I find my copy . . .)

The Hallmark movie (staring Angus Macfadyen), uses the Lady Washington. I found some pics of it in reference to that movie (which I understand to be AWFUL!!). She is blue and yellow (and is also the Interceptor in POTC 1).

With the insane number of spammers here,

What would be the bast way to deal with them

(Let's let out ALL our sickest ideas . . . )

My idea #1:

Take the spammers

And strap them to the mouth of the cannons for our next broadside!!!!!

BANG!!!!!!

SPLAT!!!!!

Idea #2 (taken from the Assyrians):

Take two of them, flay larger one and sew smaller one inside skin.

Maroon on isle.

Take those SPAMMERS

And strap them to the mouth of the cannons for our next broadside!!!!!

BANG!!!!!!

SPLAT!!!!!

And strap them to the mouth of the cannons for our next broadside!!!!!

BANG!!!!!!

SPLAT!!!!!!!!

Here goes:

For fun:

Pirate stuff:

Robert E. Lee's "Blackbeard the Pirate"

Capt. Johnson, "A General History of the Pyrates"

Benderson Little, "The Sea Rover's Practice"

Angus Konstam, "Pirates: Terror on the High Seas" (collection of his 2 Osprey pirate volumes)

Angus Konstam, "The Pirate Ship 1660-1730"

Plus a few reference books on Scotland/tartans and some on theology/biblical history

For work:

Allan P. Adamson's "Brand Simple"

David Aakar, "Building Strong Brands" and "Brand Leadership"

And, YES, I do generally have 8-10 books going simultaniously, with the vast majority used as reference.

Fictional tall ships:

Thistle (model converting from Constitution)

Tartan

Reiver

Fire Ant (12 gun sloop)

Hell's Skeeter (multi-gun mini-sloop, mostly rail guns)

Revenge (every pirate has to have at least one)

Modern Fictional

CV-44 Midway class aircraft carrier

-laid down as USS Mariannas (nicknamed "The Shot Turkey" as unfinished in yard)

-Renamed the USS Gadsden (nicknamed "Rattlesnake") and based in Charleston, SC.

HMS Thistle (Invincible class British "Harrier Carrier")

Road/ships (see thread on christened cars):

Reiver

Fenix

Flying Ocra (Sold)

Queen Anna's Revenge

Spectre (deceased)

Spectre II (sold)

Blue Oval (sold)

Cheese Block (rental truck)

Moby Dick (rental truck)

(As my road car situation has changed, I updated this post to include my newest. -July 16, 2009)

Wrong thread, but the 1/54 ones (on Model Expo) will work NICELY!

Thanks!