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    This evening I did some small work on the stern. First some drawing Then the carving And adding some greenstuff for the difficult details Because in the 17th century the Dutch did not goldplate it (too expencive) it was all painted in a yellow okre. This still has to be done on my stern.
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    Hello Jan, It's a small world, after all
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    Although the hull and all its parts are not finished yet I already did start with the masts. The carvings on the stern and gallery of the ship, the rudder and som rail still have to be made, but I like the view of a model with some masts on it.
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    Hi Matti, thank you for your reply. Just have taken a look at your topic - wonderfull job you're doing! You are reffering to a Vasa film which is unknown to me. Do you have any link to this film? Hans
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    Dutch history in Australia - nice indeed. Although the original story wasn't that nice at all! Yesterday I saw some pictures of the remnants in the Fremantle Shipwreck Museum, and that made me decide to post this thread As you (maybe) know in the Netherlands the Batavia was rebuild (at least in the way they thought it must have been). I have visited this ship a few times, and it is quitte impressive to see on what rather small size over 300 people must have lived during their journey. Hans
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    @Nils, danke! I will post once in a while, and if you have any questions - please ask.
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    With special modelling clay I make the small figures on the stern This is the last photo for now. Overview over the deck with the hole for the main mast already drilled. In the near future I will post some more photo's - but I think it will take another 6 months before she is ready for sailing out.
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    The stern with its nice carvings is a bit of a challenge. My son doing some paintwork. The shield is from the city of Amsterdam where the original Batavia was build in 1626-1627
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    Stern Hull plus rail
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    I build this model for my eldest son who is studying to become a captain. He particularly choose this ship Carving on the head
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    I will not ad much comments to this topic, as the images already do say enough
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    Scratch building is - to my opinion - about the same as building out of a wooden kit. The only diffirence is that you have nothing - and have to buy every piece of wood and every fittingpart yourself. Doors Prefab upper hull planking Hatches made Coverings
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    Recently I have started the scratch building of the Dutch VOC Vessel Batavia, which shipwrecked on her maiden voyage on the 4th of june 1629 - near to the australian westcoast at morning reef near Beacon Island. If you do some research on the internet you will find a lot of information about the shipwrecking of the Batavia and all that happened afterwards... As there is no wooden model kit for the Batavia I bought me the plans which where made on the Dutch shipyard "Bataviawerf" in Lelystad, Netherlands - and started the model from scratch. In this topic you'll find the pictures I made during the building proces - started beginning of december 2013 up until now. I'm about halfway building the Batavia. I started with plywood and a jigsaw... Keel and frames same First decks planked Hull partly planked

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