*Hans*

On 1/31/2024 at 1:11 PM, Marco_van_H said:

 

 

It is available, I have mine at home already. It looks good.

 

https://kolderstok.com/products/test?variant=48902049366342

A little bit late from my side, but yes, it is  available!

Sorry for the delayed answer - we are on a short holiday. Your first photo shows the correct way, although if you do/did it in the second way it will not cause great difficulties.

You have made a beauty here!

It is a small vessel, and more important, a pleasure yacht. Not meant to sleep in or make long voyages with it. It was just for fun, to have a nice day on the water.  So I presume there was some simple food and drinks, like roasted duck, champagne and caviar and not much more. 

Hans

I do have a few images, one made by René Hendricx, on behalf of Ab Hoving (who has worked out the original charter, made by the 17th century writer van Yk, into this model) and some paintings from  around 1640 which have been an inspiration for me for this particular model.

But they don't really give a clue how the inside of the Speel-jaght was fitted out.

Hans

Oh sure! Thank you for this nice start. If you have any questions you can always contact me via this forum, pm, our website kolderstok.com or via email 🙂

Hans

Kolderstok

Hello Syhobbs,

Could you please send some photos to kolderstok at gmail.com? I will have a look at them and see if I can find a solution for you.

Hans 

Kolderstok

Edit: in the meantime I did have contact with Syhobbs. It turned out he had an old batch of ornaments,  where the kit nowadays has newly sculpted and formed ones. A new set is in the make for him.

Hans

Nicely done!

Looking very good!

On 3/23/2022 at 9:57 PM, Jaager said:

*  " a convex, pear-shaped hull with a strongly concave top and narrow decks – can plausibly be assumed to be the result of a succession of small developments that started at the end of the 16th century."

I read along time ago - no reference- sorry -  that the reason that Dutch vessels tended to have very narrow upper decks was because of how the taxes and customs duties were calculated.  The formula obviously used the breadth of the top deck to determine the cargo volume.  It would have been easy to use a more realistic formula, once the trick was obvious,  but I am guessing that the shipping interests must have gained control of at least that part of the government.  They must have become the ones with the money and thus the power.

I did give a reaction on this, but unfortunately it has been deleted 😞

There is an article (in English) which explains how the toll on the sound was measured and calculated, and it was not in the way as decribed here above.  Those who are interested please pm me so I can give the link.

Hello Melissa,

Thank you for this nice introduction.  I will follow your build, but shall not give constant comments on what you have done so far.  However - if you face any problems, difficulties or have other questions - please feel free to ask - by pm, or via your build log.

Succes! 

Hello mercdaddy27,

Please ask your questions - here, or via kolderstok@gmail.com 🙂

Hans van Nieuwkoop

Kolderstok Modelbouw.

7 hours ago, Meriadoc Brandybuck said:

Also, I’ve heard rumors of a fluit in the works for Kolderstok? According to a Dutch forum (and google translate) it might be releasing soon? Can’t wait to hear more!

Rumours spread fast 🙂

No, I am actually working on a Dutch fluit, and have the hull more or less finished.  However, sales of the other models went up due to the pandemic and I can't hardly find the time to proceed on this new model.

Further, maybe important for you: she isn't an easy model. The bulky shape of the hull is very difficult to make, and (how ironical) I am considering to offer a second layer of planking for this model, as the first layer (basswood) could come out quite battered....

Hans

Just had a look at the finished model in the gallery. You did a great job in quite a short time.  Kudos to you as well 🙂

Nice work Don!

You solved it in a nice way.  👍

It worked out very well, and is in fact not even that hard to do (or so it seems....)

...which is clearly visible! They align perfectly 👍

David, I'd like to make a small comment: the wood for the masts is beech wood 🙂

Hope you don't mind me saying this.

Looking good!

Well, I think you did a very fine job over here. 👍

Not only the sails look like sails.

The whole model looks like as if its real and life size!

You might have noticed the bulwarks are pretty solid now, after you have glued the ribs in place. 🙂

Ab,

Thank you for your positive comments on the new Kolderstok model 🙂 Much appreciated!

You are going top speed, David!