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  1. *Hans*
    Michiel, I didn't notice until now which model you where making - sorry! Very, very nice - and very detailed. To you I'm just an amateur....
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    This might be a nice alternative? http://www.modelbouwdekombuis.nl/Capitana-Di-Venetia-Aeronaut-3255/00-Modelbouw-Modelbouwen.html
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    Hello Ships88 - nice you have started this model! I have exactly the same one over here, but will only use the plans because I will scratch this Trireme in a scale of 1:32 This makes her over 1 meter length. Reason why? We already have a Bireme in 1: 32 and like to have this Trireme in the same scale. Picture: You already have done very nice work on your model!
  4. *Hans*
    Nice song which fits perfectly to this: Don't fear the reaper - Blue Oyster Cult Here's a link to Youtube: And - dear readers - this is it for now - back to the studio- back to Vivian's Red Dragon!
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    It's a pity Brazil is a bit too far away - but I'd like to taste some food with the diffirent peppers!
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    No - not on purpose. I made them in the evening with my cell - and this is a bit poor in quality. In fact it wasn't really about the pictures but more the fact that my wife and me are also somewhere on the ship.
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    I like it! No colours but only the natural wood can be very nice! I often don't know what to do. Paint it - or not?
  8. *Hans*
    About spicy food - the Dutch have had some Indonesian influences , and hot and spicy belonged to it as well. A traditional Indonesian rice table consisted of white rice (of course) in the middle of your plate, and then around it diferent kinds of hot and sweet meats, fish, vegetables like beans etc. The thing then was (so I was told) to eat around your plate - so first something hot with rice, then something sweet with rice - hot - sweet - hot - sweet. This because when you've eaten something hot, the sweetness (sugar) would "cool" it down again - in fact more than drinking water or beer or so.
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    Well, yes he is! It will be his model when I've finished her, and he's already being very proud of it! There are some more members of the family on the ship: His mother (she has to deal with my hobby and is not always pleased about the mess I make - therefore a nice place behind the mast for her) And of course the builder himself (which is me , but you might have noticed that) As I'm not the most handsome man only my head was enough: Poor quality of pictures - sorry for that. And all of you - thank you for the nice words and the likes!
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    Oops - one of the hottest in the world !? I just read only the Carolina Reaper is even hotter (and given it's name maybe lethal...) I'll stick to Jalapenos as a nice and eatable max. I really do like hot - but it must be bearable, and you still have to taste some food
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    Pete, I was just looking at the modelwork you have done so far - very nice and tight! I'm not able to do it that clean.
  12. *Hans*
    I can imagine this churrasco is pretty spicy (at least it sounds so). Or isn't Brazilian food that spicy?
  13. *Hans*
    The foremast and its sails are almost ready - time to post some more detailed images. These images however do also show the limitations I have as a shipbuilder - sorry for that! Bow including lion - belaying points and pooboxes Same - from another point of view Base of the foremast with its rigging. Bow plus foremast Foremast - other side Foremast with sails Mainmast - no rigging yet. The left guy is my son Overview from the back
  14. *Hans*
    Well - about 6 feet?? 1 meter 80 at a max?
  15. *Hans*
    Sjors, thank you! As said - I received the plans for this small yacht via Janos, and he did sent me a lot of pics from Australia too. Like!
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    Vivian, Very nice build and not a common ship! And the info you are giving is quite nice. It is also rather difficult to find the right information on how a ship looked or for what purposes it was build, but you did a great job on this!
  17. *Hans*
    Thank you, thank you! The 17th century ships where very rich decorated, and this was rather a challenge for me too. Thanks to the modelling clay I could make some nice "carvings"which would otherwise have been a (maybe to) difficult part for me. The ship is almost finished - two masts to go and some small stuff around her. Then a nice standard and in the end the flags to decorate her. I will try to post a few more detailled pictures within the next time.
  18. *Hans*
    I have a book about the Batavia voyage written by Mike Dash. It's to my opinion a quite "romantic" version of the journey and its horrors.
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    Hello you Royal Highness Bindy! :im Not Worthy: (or should we call you Cleopatra?) Thank you for your kind words! It's been a pleasure that you could find some time to visit my humble shipyard here in the Netherlands, thank you, thank you! (Now I have to stand up again because this hurts my back and my knees). As you may have read the replica of the Batavia which is in Lelystad was made as a project for unemployed to see if they could bring back alive the craftmanship of the Dutch of the 17th century. I am trying to make the scalemodel as close as possible to this replica - which is not always possible. In fact she is a "normal" 17th century retourschip (which ment sailing to and from the Netherlands - Indonesian Archipel) and was named Batavia because of the horrorstory that happened after the shipwrecking of the original Batavia. My model is almost finished, and I have some plans in mind to build two other 17th century ships: The Duyfken - afgter the replica in Australia (with thanks to Janos for the plans) and the "Dordrecht" which was the sistership of the Batavia. I do live in Dordrecht in NL - therefore
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    Never knew that
  21. *Hans*
    Update! Two sails of the foremast are in place. I want to make her look like she's just about to anchor. This means the sails are not complete up (or down?), but halfway. The rigging and the decks are better visible in this way.
  22. *Hans*
    Thanks guys! Marc, I've send you a PM on this.
  23. *Hans*
    Man surely learns some new English words. I have fitted the first yard on the foremast, and had to make a parral for this. I therefore have bought me some 3 mm black beads - carved some small ribs and rigged the whole thing together around the mast. Mind you, I didn't make the parral first - I started with a line around the yard - then through beats and upper holes of the ribs around the mast - then around the yard and back through beads and ribs - lower holes. Again around the mast - around the yard - through a ring in the yard and back through the parral, adding the last beads. Then through another ring on the yard towards a block, and then fitted on the deck. pretty job for your eyes Hopefully this image shows what I tried to describe:
  24. *Hans*
    Nice picture Jan! And I was planning to make some extra pins the way it can be seen on this picture.
  25. *Hans*
    Jan, Yesterday I managed to find out how these lines are belayed, From the forestay they run back to a block on the bowsprit, and from there to the pins on the gallion. And so I did

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