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  1. *Hans*
    Cosy! Candlelight - some nice food - gentle waving of the boat - I'd like to come over for dinner! Very nice done!
  2. *Hans*
    Vivian, wouldn't it be to much work - first cutting the sails and then sewing them together again? (beware - we men are not so good in sewing/stitching). What I did was simply stitch the sails every 1 cm so it looks like the sails are made of small straps, but in real they aren't (well: I must be honest - my mother did the stitching).
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    Although the Lelystad Batavia could carry 24 canons (12 on each side) I only have made 3 of them visible, as you have seen in previous pictures. On one side I have made the gunport lids all three of them now: And what I have seen on the real Batavia, and in various model-books I did not only add the ropes for opening the lids, but also the ropes for closing them. These are details which are also new for me. In the 80's of last decade I made the Billing Boats Norske Löwe. These kind of details where never spoken about then.
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    No - not likely. Will take another two or three weeks or so.
  5. *Hans*
    I'm almost finished with the Batavia: have to do some last sails, some small work on the rudder, the canon lids and of course the flags. Yesterday I did the first of the lids:
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    It is quite confusing, and once learned one system, you never get really used to the other system. Then there is the other "problem" that it almost never is a round number. F.i. 1/16" is 1,5875 mm - which is not common when you want to buy wood f.i. Here you take 1,5 or 2 mm....
  7. *Hans*
    Nice wish, but if it will come true? Is Australia decimal?
  8. *Hans*
    Slowly but surely you're moving on. This will become a superb model!
  9. *Hans*
    How many likes are possible on one post? Stunning work!
  10. *Hans*
    Nothing to add here - wonderfull and detailed work done!
  11. *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....
  12. *Hans*
    This might be a nice alternative? http://www.modelbouwdekombuis.nl/Capitana-Di-Venetia-Aeronaut-3255/00-Modelbouw-Modelbouwen.html
  13. *Hans*
    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!
  14. *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!
  15. *Hans*
    It's a pity Brazil is a bit too far away - but I'd like to taste some food with the diffirent peppers!
  16. *Hans*
    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.
  17. *Hans*
    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?
  18. *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.
  19. *Hans*
    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!
  20. *Hans*
    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
  21. *Hans*
    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.
  22. *Hans*
    I can imagine this churrasco is pretty spicy (at least it sounds so). Or isn't Brazilian food that spicy?
  23. *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
  24. *Hans*
    Well - about 6 feet?? 1 meter 80 at a max?
  25. *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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