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  1. mhmtyrl
    thank you Daniel, the sails are made up of tea bags, natural tea stained :-) you do not have to apply anything more...except for few touches of pastel
  2. mhmtyrl
    thank you all for nice comments, this time; based on previous experience; the weathering will be adequate....I hope :-)
  3. mhmtyrl
    Hello everybody I started my model "Çektirme", a classical coaster. These coasters have been in service for many years in black sea reagon for mainly cargo transportation between docks. due to mass usage of timber, production was abondened around 1990's. this type has both sails and an engine, typical of the ones in service around 1950's. I am finished with planking, some weathering is applied via coal powder. details are applied via pastel powder and brush. eventually all the body and the deck will be painted, so I used not much detailed weathering. mehmet
  4. mhmtyrl
    thanks Mark. I tried to model a cheese or oil can converted to a bucket for cleaning the deck, to get some water from the sea, a rope is attached. when I was a child (I am 32 now) I remember this as a usual practice of my grandfather in the summer house :-) home made bucket :-) it is a coke can by the way :-)
  5. mhmtyrl
    more ugly boats are coming soon :-) thanks
  6. mhmtyrl
    thank you all for nice replies mehmet
  7. mhmtyrl
    final photos of sponge diving boat, finished at last :-) Mehmet
  8. mhmtyrl
    what a pity that lovely historical things become funny objects....hope better ones exist in sponge diving museum :-)
  9. mhmtyrl
    Thank you David, a nice idea of pier; as long as it is not open sea :-) and not requiring figures of the crew as much as open sea diaroma...ı gues my figures (have never tried before) would ruin the boat overall...
  10. mhmtyrl
    Thank you my neighbour Thanasis :-) I guess you still have a lot of these boats on your shores especially in Kalymnos, i watched an old documentary hundred times about sponge divers living there in Kalymnos; was very informative for me :-)
  11. mhmtyrl
    thank you Bob, but I guess I will make an ordinary craddle for it, the only sea diaroma I have tried was my schooner in bottle; http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12352-schooner-in-a-bottle-by-mhmtyrl/ a bigger one is too much for now :-)
  12. mhmtyrl
    some advices seems to be universal in model ship building :-)
  13. mhmtyrl
    Thank you Michael, such a nice idea to make a little diaroma out of it :-) actually this boat is supposed to be still in service; as there are dried sponges, actively used diving gear etc., so lying on the beach will be looking a little strange. I wish I could make an open sea diaroma, as if diver is in the water and the boat is chasing him while hunting sponges, crew working on newly collected sponges etc. :-)
  14. mhmtyrl
    I have made exhaust pipe, diving shoes, anchor and diving weight and dried sponges for my model, very close to end. by the way, do you people think that it looks better without the name painting? next is to attach the ladder, bucket and emptied bottle :-) mehmet
  15. mhmtyrl
    lanterns for the boat :-) mehmet
  16. mhmtyrl
    thank you vaddoc :-) more is coming soon....
  17. mhmtyrl
    thank you Patrick and Kazım :-) for more reality I will add some collected sponges :-)
  18. mhmtyrl
    manually operated air pump and diving helmet is ready :-)
  19. mhmtyrl
    actually these sponge boats used to leave the shore on around may and were at sea until october for sponging all around the Turkish coast of Aegean and Mediaterrian seas. depending on the circumtances they could get to the shore for one night or smthing. for around 6 months about 4 to 5 people were living on the same boat... a Turkish saying about spongers; "a sponge diver earns his life without a drop of sweat, and dies without a single breath" best Mehmet
  20. mhmtyrl
    not tea bags on stage yet :-) they are tea stained under vest
  21. mhmtyrl
    hey every body :-) some progress so far on masting and rigging approaching to end :-) best Mehmet
  22. mhmtyrl
    thank you all for your nice replies :-) next is building the masting and rigging...guess how will the sail look like :-) mehmet
  23. mhmtyrl
    hello every body some progress last few days happy new year :-) Mehmet
  24. mhmtyrl
    thank you Andrew, I guess you'll see the rest of the fleet soon as I am so motivated by the comments :-), Frankie thanks for the resource, I registered to that site too, hope I will learn more about bottled ship building. I reccomend model ship building in bottle to every one; it is fantastic, so enjoyable but also very annoying at times :-)
  25. mhmtyrl
    SIB schooners???? wov wov wov.... such a high level reference of comparision for my poor little schooner in the bottle :-) cheers mehmet

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