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  1. And off-topic on this topic - but promised - the painted version of the lantern for the East Indiaman: Top painted in dark brown copper - lantern in yellow plus earth grey shade over it. I'm not satisfied yet about the painting.
  2. Ha nice - thanks! I used the 1, 2 and 5 cents coins for the shields, and am interested in the snakes and the bulls - although my son has to decide in the end. Your only money ( ) helped a lot in determing the size! I had a look on the website you mentioned - but couldn't find these decalls. Can you be more specific where to find them?
  3. Hello Pasanax (not your real name I guess ) Thank you for your reply! And the image you showed about the shields is exactly the thing I have searched for for longer time, but couldn't find! So if you can send me some images (and please yes - with ruler) this would be very nice. Due to the fact I have also started selling Dutch East Indiamen kits my work on the Trireme has stopped for a while. And to be honest - I am always looking for ways to improve basic items of a kit and I did that for the ram as well. But it is simply a larger block of wood which I have sanded into the right shape. It is some work, but not the most difficult thing in the world. Please be patient - postings on this topic will start again this autumn
  4. Jan, Thanks for this tip - will have a look at this section The lantarn is ca. 30 mm high and 22 - 23 mm at its widest point. Scale is 1:72 - maybe a bit to large for the Prins Willem which is 1:100 scale. But if it should be ok you can send me a PM on it.
  5. Just one extra post in this topic. As many of you already know I'm busy on a modelkit of the Batavia. This comes available 2nd half of june. It is possible for me to send worldwide, but have to consider postal costs and dutypapers. Please feel free to have a look at my website as mentioned hereunder. One of the items in the box is the lantern. This is made of three cast resin pieces - the base and the cap, and the middle piece of transparent resin: This is the rough version - it needs some sanding and of course painting. I will post a painted version later.
  6. Just one extra post in this topic. As many of you already know I'm busy on a modelkit of the Batavia. This comes available 2nd half of june. It is possible for me to send worldwide, but have to consider postal costs and dutypapers. Please feel free to have a look at my website as mentioned hereunder. One of the items in the box is the lantern. This is made of three cast resin pieces - the base and the cap, and the middle piece of transparent resin: This is the rough version - it needs some sanding and of course painting. I will post a painted version later.
  7. Macht nichts, immer da! I did have the same "problem" as you, and thought I could carve the ornaments etc. This occured to be a bit more difficult than expected. Then one of my sons (being a Warhammer-freak) came up with greenstuff. This is a two component mixing clay which fully sets after about 24 hours. I did make a lot of the figures with this modeling clay, and it worked out quite well! Of course, when you're the real die-hard modeller you certainly should try carving first. When you build to the original plans it's 1 to 50 (instead of the 1:72 I did) and this is (maybe) "easier" And not to forget, your Batavia looks great!
  8. Pure by coincidence I discovered a typical effect between acid (vinegar) and oak: For coloring deckplanks I always make a nice "soup" of vinegar and steel wool. Put vinegar in a jar - add a dot of steel wool to it - close the jar and wait a few days untill the steel wool is completely solved in the vinegar. This mixture give planks a rather old look. What I discovered: when you put this vinegar-steel mixture onto oak the oak will color almost black, within minutes. I can imagine the old greek had similar mixtures (f.i. old wine and steel particles from oar or so) and threatended their ships with this mixture - giving it a nice black natuarl finish. And for all the readers of this topic: sorry for not posting this much. I am very busy on my wooden kits of VOC ships; End of june is the (self set) deadline for having it available. Last week we had the website online for the first time. www.kolderstok.com or www.kolderstok-models.com It is still in Dutch, but I am working on the English translation which will follow within short time. The Kolderstok is the Dutch name for whipstaff - the stick used for steering the ship - this was used in the 17th century until 1660 or so. From that time on the steering weel became more and more used. In the logo of our website you will find this kolderstok also:
  9. Hey guys - thank you already We're moving forwards, slowly but surely. As soon as it is available you be the first to know it!
  10. Martin, If I can be of any help to you, I already made the Batavia in scratch, and am almost finished in making the buildingkit of it. Please have a look at my avatar and feel free to ask.
  11. In the journaal van de eerste schipvaart there is a small drawing of the Duyfken: As you can see the stern of these ships was quite small. I think the image is in the following book: De eerste schipvaart der Nederlanders naar Oost-Indië onder Cornelis de Houtman, 1595-1597; journalen, documenten en andere bescheiden, uitg. en toegelicht door G.P. Rouffaer en J.W. Ijzerman
  12. Keith, the laser is a very nice thing! But what if you put a 9 Volt block on it instead of the 4,5 Volt? Will it cut your ship in two? Kidding. Great work you're doing!
  13. Stunning details! I very much like that!!! (btw - I like baking bread as well - its always nice when you put some effort in mixing up stuff and a good tasting bread comes out of it )
  14. I did have the same "problem", really not knowing which colours these ship would have had. I bought me the book "The age of Galley" which has some colourfull images on the cover. However, in the book itself hardly anything about colours. I think colours like pale red, black and ocre and maybe some blue-green were used - but no official sources for that...
  15. Hey Anton, You're making a very nice ship over here - with some remarkable fine details! Personaly I should fit her with furled sails - as this still give you a nice view on rigging and decks (although it makes it a bit more difficult as the fabric is often to thick to make realistic furled sails).
  16. Don, definitely a book with a lot of interesting history and information, and a wannahave for me as well (but over 100$ to get it here, so to expencive ) So if you can lay your hand on it - just do it!
  17. Don, I have send you an email via the normal way - have you received this one?
  18. Ehh - when you mean the one you send on the 14th of march - yes. I did reply on that one. If you have send me another PM after this I haven't received it....
  19. @Don, Looking at the plans: starting with the vertical beams 46 and 48, and the horizontal beam 50 - beginning from the stern - the first 3 of them have no vertical number 46. Number 46 starts at the lower deck in the middle of the ship. Number 48 which is al the way round the outside upper deck (made of 49 and 50) have the diagonal beams 51 al the way around, als on the smaller part at the stern. Hope this info will help you. @Marc, The Dordrecht was build in1618 on the Peperwerf in Amsterdam - the same wharf where in 1628 the Batavia was built. As they had no drawings and plans for building the ships, each one was build merely by heart, and so each ship was quite the same as the others. The Dordrecht therefore must have been similar to the Batavia (other stern of course, but further in shape and looks similar). On her fatal journey in 1628-1629 the Batavia sailed out in a convoy of 7 ships - one of them being the Dordrecht. Opperkoopman Pelsaert who was skipper on the Batavia had previously sailed on the Dordrecht. After finishing the Batavia I have started a small company in making wooden modelkits of 17th century Dutch VOC ships - started with the Dordrecht - as I do not have yet permission to make it as the Batavia (being busy on that though). The Dordrecht is merely the same as the Batavia. The Stern is diffirent of course. In the town of Dordrecht there is an old gateway/arch with an image of the virgin of Dordrecht on it: On this gateway (which is from the year 1616 there is this carving: And this the resin cast I made for the wooden kit of the Dordrecht: The wooden kit of the Dordrecht will be available on the Dutch market this summer, via website www.kolderstok-models.com (not yet online). If you are interested on this kit, please send me a pm.
  20. Hey Don, Can you give me the numbers of the parts? Maybe then I can give a proper answer - now it is a bit difficult for me On the other kits I will reply later in a pm
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