*Hans*

Hey hello Little nail!

We'll meet the 8th of november!

And to everyone - see my signature for the next project - an ancient Greek Trireme

This is quite another build as the Batavia is.

I bought me a nice small circular tablesaw to make my own planking. This ship will get a hull made out of oak...

I am curious how this wood will work.

Oh... a chair open in the front row.  I got it!!!    That is going to be huge.  You are a braver man than I, Hans to set that on the railing.

Oh well - I made it myself - and it's easy to start again from here....

And thank you for your help!

After finishing my first scratch build - VOC Retourship Batavia - I will now start with something completely diffirent, a Greek Trireme.

Trireme means literally three oars - three rows of oars placed above each other.

For one of my sons, who is studying archeology and has a great interest in the ancient Greek culture I already made a Bireme - two oars.  This one is in scale 1:35.

The European modelbuilder Krick also has a Trireme in its program, so we decided to buy and built this one:

But this is in scale 1:72 and built it will be about 51 cm long. About the same as the Bireme.

So we decided to lay the kit aside and use the plans to upscale the thing to 1:35 scale - making it twice as big as the Bireme, but in the same scale.

This means a model of over 1 meter (3 ft) and making everything yourself - keel - bulkheads - planking etc.  

Therefore this topic in the scratch-build section.

First step to do was to upscale the plans, with my copier and some old fashioned carbonpaper:

After that the jig saw and after sawing and fitting the first result:

Well this is it, she is finished. Maybe to the left or to the right some things could be added or improved, but I consider her ready.  Last pictures:

Thank you for watching! You were a nice audience! 

made some loose stuff for on the deck. Maybe it doesn't belong there, but in the hold was no space anymore...

Hi Vivian - I am going to follow this one because one of my sons was thinking about making it as well.  Maybe I can teach him something (which I first have to "steal" from you, that is... ).

Thanks to you all! And my son is very proud of it - he has told me often.

Regarding the sails - I had made a mixture of diluted glue with some yellow ocre paint and some Citadel Agrax Earthshade, which made a mixture looking a bit oldish (they hadn't bleach in that time). It gave a nice colour, but disadvantage was that the sail became quite stiff.

This then made it rather difficult for me to make furled sails, but I did manage in the end. 

I think it gives a more authentic look to the model.

Robert,

I made this kit as well - it's a nice ship with some fine details. I did not paint the hull because I liked the two colour wood.

Here's a picture of mines:

Main mast and its sail are (almost) ready. Some better pictures:

- although it is said to be a "hagelslagfilm"  

Everyone with Dutch roots or connections will probably know what hagelslag is.

Spring 2015 the movie about Michiel de Ruyter will be ready

Short trailer:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/tv/uitgaan/23157427/__Trailer_Michiel_de_Ruyter__.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitter

Piet, Wacko, you're right!  I hadn't done it myself, but she is coming nice in then.  

Hey, can I give a like to myself?

I will try to post some more pictures this weekend, with daylight.

Another step in the proces - sails on the main mast are ready.

(and once again one of my rather bad pictures):

Doh!

I know the feeling! They made a quick scan of my head...

Cosy! Candlelight - some nice food - gentle waving of the boat - I'd like to come over for dinner!

Very nice done!

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).

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.

No - not likely. Will take another two or three weeks or so.

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:

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....

I wish the USA would join the rest of the world and go decimal.

Nice wish, but if it will come true?

Is Australia decimal?

Slowly but surely you're moving on. This will become a superb model!

How many likes are possible on one post? Stunning work!