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About Lou van Wijhe

  • Birthday 11/03/1939

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    http://wijhevjl.home.xs4all.nl/

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    Hilversum, The Netherlands
  • Interests
    1. Video filming and editing.
    2. Scale ship modelling.

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    Me too...
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  10. Lou van Wijhe
    The 3 plans by Campbell are the ones made for re-rigging the ship in the nineteen fifties (source: Paper "The Restoration of the Cutty Sark" by Frank G.G. Carr. Read in London at a meeting of the R.I.N.A. on March 24, 1965). The name changes from Cutty Sark Preservation Society to Cutty Sark Trust etc. have to do with organisational changes; there are no different Campbell sets (albeit ones of different copy quality). Lou
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  13. Lou van Wijhe
    Hallo Ed, I've been following your build log with much interest and like the detail photographs that go with it. I remember you once mentioned you sometimes had trouble changing your photos to have the correct colour balance. Instead of post processing them you might check if your camera has the possibility to set the colour balance beforehand. This setting is mostly called white balance. If you set the colour balance on a white surface, like the backdrop (if that's the correct word) on your display box, every other colour comes out correctly. As you can see yourself, on the photos your backdrop often has a slight colour tinge, it is not purely white. Lou
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  15.    Lou van Wijhe reacted to a post in a topic: Cutty Sark by Nenad
  16. mojofilter

    Hi Lou -

     

    Hope you don't mind the PM.

    I am re-reading Nenad's log around the end of 2013 and learning to be more casual about exact details.  She changed so much over the years.  Generally I'm trying to follow the Campbell plans (and I have Longridge book as well).  You provided Nenad with several links that don't seem to work anymore.  I wonder if you can point me to them?

    One was Dec. 4, 2013: " This document summarises the known history of the fabric of Cutty Sark, culled principally from the ship’s logs and survey reports. It draws substantially on research undertaken by the former master of the ship, Captain Simon Waite, with additional research by the Trust’s Research Assistant, Simon Schofield"

     

    The other is Dec. 9, 2013: "Nenad,  I'm not sure what you are looking for but I once made some pictures during repair work on the bow that might be helpfull. You can see them on (and download from) Skydrive, they are among the bottom ones."

     

    No worries if you can't, just need all the help I can get!

    Thanks,

    - Tim

     

    1. Lou van Wijhe

      Lou van Wijhe

      Hi Tim,

      I only just saw your PM. If you give me your e-mail address, I'll be glad to mail you the document as well as the pictures I mentioned. I don't know if dragging large files into this PM works.

      Lou

      louvanwijhe@xs4all.nl

    2. mojofilter

      mojofilter

      Thanks Lou, It's t-p-w@comcast.net

  17. Lou van Wijhe
    Great! I store valuable tips like this using http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/. Free and handy. Lou
  18.    Lou van Wijhe reacted to a post in a topic: Head figure Mercury 3D work
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    Bill, A mill's feeds and speeds are to a large extent governed by the material you are working on. Maybe this calculator can give you some insight. Lou
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  23. Lou van Wijhe
    Hobbie, Do you know The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships by Longridge? It's authoritative and doesn't cost the earth. Lou
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  25. Lou van Wijhe
    I'm 75 now and I decided to only move finally when I'm in a wooden box. And I just realised I must update my avatar; up to now I accumulated a lot of years and a lot of weight. Lou
  26. Lou van Wijhe
    Nenad, It is the light, indeed. The panel is definitely black. Lou
  27. Lou van Wijhe
    Hello Ed, George F. Campbell in China Tea Clippers (ISBN 0-679-20207-2) wrote on page 96: This might be the reference you were looking for. Lou
  28. Lou van Wijhe
    Nenad, Part of your brush problem may be caused by the fast drying time of acrylic paints. You might try using an acrylic drying retarder, ask your art-shop (or mix it yourself...). I admire your work! Happy New Year, Lou
  29. Lou van Wijhe
    Nenad, She is looking more and more like the real thing! I especially like your choice of brass for the sheathing; it looks much more like Muntz Metal than the usual copper. Lou
  30. Lou van Wijhe
    Hi Nenad, I think I can satisfy your curiosity with the following quote: Another stern decoration that Linton designed, which has been preserved on Cutty Sark today, included the dreadful pun, "Where there's a Willis a Way". Below it, although not part of Linton's scheme, was the emblem of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India. This was probably copied, or perhaps even taken, from Willis' favourite ship, The Tweed when she had been the Indian Marine's Punjaub. The order has no known connection with Willis - it was established in 1861 by Queen Victoria to reward conspicuous merit and loyalty and was mainly awarded to maharajas and senior military officers working in India - but the Order's motto, which forms part of the decoration, could not be more fitting for any ship navigating by the sun and the stars: "Heaven's light our guide". (from "Cutty Sark, the last of the tea clippers" by Eric Kentley) Around the time of the ship's restoration in the nineteen fifties, the original Star of India emblem appeared to be hanging over the staircase in the house of Mrs. Kirkaldy-Willis, a relative of John Willis. The emblem was presented to the ship, so this part of the decoration (or a facsimile thereof) is original. Lou
  31. Lou van Wijhe
    I received the book today. In fact, it's the ship's biography from design up to the Conservation Project 2006-2012, beautifully illustrated. The book is about A4 size and it includes George Campbell's General Arrangement, Sail and Rigging plans as A3 foldouts (these attachments are too small, you need a magnifying glass to decipher them; it would have been better to enclose the full sized plans in a folder). The book is NOT like the books in Conway's "Anatomy Of The Ship" series. For a model maker the book is more inspirational than anatomical. But for ship lovers it is certainly worth its price. So, again as a model maker, do I need it? NO. Do I like it? YES. Lou
  32. Lou van Wijhe
    Bob, The easiest way is to order them online. If you Google with keywords like "ship model flags" you'll find numerous suppliers, like here. Should you consider doing it yourself, it could be done this way. Lou

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