*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:
 

 

 

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.

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:
 

 

 

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.

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:
 

 

 

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.

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.

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.

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:
 

 

 

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.

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.

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:
 

 

 

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:
 

 

 

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:
 

 

 

Well, here we are. After too much work and almost no time for ship modeling, I´m back for masting and rigging, at least to begin rigging. Still haven´t fixed the hole over the cabin as my soldering iron is missing and every single time I think to buy a new one, I forget to do it as my head is always in my work - hope I can forget the work justs a little bit on the next 2 or 3 days .
 
I´ve made some daylight model shooting with her today, here are the pictures:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The arrow is to show a little breaking on my windlass as I was rigging the first blocks. As the bars are wood, not the metal cast which the kit supplied, they are a lot more fragile. I´ll fix it after rigging the foremast completely.
 

 

 

 
That´s it for now. I´ll be working on her next 2 days and begin a new project, soon to be brought to you. :D

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!

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
 
 

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
 
 
 
 

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

Update time finally. Here are the finished chainplates and channels for the main mast:
 

 

 

 

 
It's some work to make them, especially reshaping the deadeyes and scratching the metalparts. It feels good to do some other work now before starting with the next mast. 
 
 
/Matti

First I would like to thank all those who liked my previous posts
 
I finalized today the stairs, I used the originals from the kit which have been sanded to make them smaller
 

 
further I made the hings for the doors
 

 

 
oops I do not like the macro on my camera

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

Hello friends,
 
I have been quietly and slowly working on the O19.  I finished the starboard railing, which worked out better then the port side.  At least I didn't have to go back and redo two stanchions    All of them are as close to being correct as possible, at least I'm happy with the results.
 
Then it was off to installing the sense antenna.  This one is laced to a steel cable that runs from the port side of the con to the bow and back to the starboard side.  
I used 0.2 mm brass wire for the support cable and stretched it to make it harder and stiff.  I had already made the bow attaching hook a few months ago but now I had to put both ends of the support cable into the hook assembly and solder them.  I also cut a bunch of 1 mm brass tubing into 0.5 mm pieces to act as simulated tension devices.  (sorry Amateur Jan, just simulated  )  The antenna cable tensioners I used when I was running an aircraft repair facility were some ver nifty gizmos.  The were internally spring loaded and the cable is attached at one end and the other end to the airframe.  
 
These were all soldered to the support cable at their appropriate locations per the drawings I have.  I took the finest black sewing thread for the actual antenna cable and laced that to the support cable at set intervals.  The lacing cords I made up from splitting the sewing thread and used the two nylon filaments inside the tread.  This is thinner then fly-tying thread and strong too. 
 
I used clear nail polish to secure the lacing to the support cable with the antenna cable and tried to leave a few sagging like loops.  In real life the weight of the antenna cable will sag naturally between the lacings.
 
Well, it looks like that most of the hard work is done except for painting the railing and general paint touch-up, the replacement of the ship's numbers, the boarding ladder and the dingy.  
Remco was able to obtain new white numbers with black outlines that are printed on clear decal paper.  I am mighty obliged to him for his help.  He was not happy himself with the color mismatch and now I can just put these new decals right over the paint, awesome        
 
That'll be my next project before painting.  I don't know how much damage I may occur by removing the decals.  I did already spray them with a sealer so soaking with water may not work.  But then again, touching up paint is not a big problem for me.  After I'm done no one will ever notice
 
Okay, here are a few pics of my efforts of the last few days.
 

This shows the antenna installation and the starboard railing.  Emphasis is on the antenna.  The details I mentioned above may be visible when you enlarge the picture.  We can now find our way by using radio beacons or low frequency broadcast stations.  On the last picture you'll see the DF antenna.
 

I made a close-up for a more detailed look at where the support cable is attached to the torpedo loading boom bridge.  Those two and three little humps are the tensioners.
 

This is a detail pic of the con side antenna hoop-up.  You can see where the antenna cable is routed through a conduit down to the radio / navigation room.  That round black thingy is the Direction Finder antenna or DF for short.  It works real well after you get used to it, "flying the nul" as we called it.  When I learned to fly I learned how to operate it and of course the VOR.  Things have evolved to Satellite Navigation and now to GPS.  But when my father sailed on this boat this was the best available with "shooting the sun or the stars."
 
If anyone sees anything that needs attention or fixing please tell me now or forever hold your peace 
 
Cheers, 

My problem in post #41, was how am I going to get the planks to land all straight, neat and tidy on the keel as shown on the drawing (the purple section.)  

 
This is how the stern looked after I finished planking last week. Not very promising. 

 
So, I took a deep breath and cut off a section of the planked keel and added a walnut stern stem. 

 
 
And the planks line up straight, neat and tidy!!

 
 
The transom was planked before adding the stern stem

 
Working on the framing around the fish wells, have a few more parts to figure out, but it's looking good. 
 
Thanks for stopping by!
 
Dee Dee

 

 

Hello all
 
Thanks for the great comments!
 
I just returned after a two weeks vacation in Spain and Portugal and I visited three maritime museums there and I thought it would be a good idea to share with you some highlights of them - maybe someone will find the info useful.
 
First was the Barcelona museum. The highlight there is a full scale replica of a Royal Galley of 1568 60 meters long 6.2 wide and 59 oars - see first and third pictures (they mixed somehow).
 
Next was Madrid's naval museum with the incredible collection of arsenal models - pictures 2, 4 and 5. The museum impressed me much than the Paris and London ones which I visited several years ago.
 
And last was the Lisbon museum where most impressive was the collection of royal barges as you can see in last three pictures.
 
I've done a ton of pictures and recording there so now I will have food for tough for a while.
Alexandru