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What a magnificent build Kevin and a great tribute to her proud career and her crew. Great intro!
I'll try to keep up with your fast pace pace - - -
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- Canute, cog, zoly99sask and 4 others
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Yes Nils, you can try Buginese Pinisi or Bugis Hhinisi schooner. When I lived in Surabaya, Indonesia, (that was before the war with Japan) my father took me to the harbor where I saw the Makassar fishing boats and liked them already then. They are still being build today and all by hand too. We used to call most of the sailing boats a "prauw." Sorry for the misleading word that seems to date back to before yesteryear
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- Mirabell61 and mtaylor
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Hello Nils, that's a very elegant looking ship, that Chebec. At the scale you are planning on it should give you a lot of pleasure and satisfaction. That's why I have added a Buginese Prauh to my want list.
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- Mirabell61, cog, mtaylor and 1 other
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Selamat siejang Jonk dan apaa kabar? Good to finally see someone from Java, welcome on board.
Being from Indonesia I personally would like to see you build a traditional Indonesian ship, like a Buginese Prau/phinisi. That is one of the ships I intend to build myself, if I can find the drawings for it that is.
What part of Java are you from? I was born in Surabaya 1934, and lived in Darmo near ruma sakit Darmo.
Let us know what ship you have picked to build.
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Chairs look great Dave and thanks for the warning not to lean back on them
Lovely cabinet work too. Can't wait to see the large upright.
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- CaptainSteve, mtaylor, SawdustDave and 2 others
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Magnificent build Kevin, she looks awesome and most powerful.
Congrats on the completion.
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- mtaylor, Canute, popeye the sailor and 5 others
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Now that looks like a real sleek boat Nenad, beautiful shape.
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- CaptainSteve, mtaylor and Omega1234
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Looking very good Dave, 200 hours well spend mate.
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- mtaylor, SawdustDave, Jack12477 and 1 other
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Thank you Frank, Patric, Boris, Nils and Ken for your comments.
@ Boris: That would be a great idea, making a diorama of the "De Schelde" shipyard with the O16 ready for launch. That would certainly make a great addition to the museum. I have actually been there for the official turn over to the Navy of the O19 in 1939.
@ Ken: Yes, I really like Jeffrey Cox's book a lot. He seems to be one of the few who got most of the history correct. It's a shame though that he did not include some of the dialog from a few surviving sailors in chapter 15, "A Turn Too Far." I happen to have some of that and may include it in my build log. Reason being is that these men were looking for my father as well as for the ship's commander. My father's call rank was mentioned but not his name.
This'll be an interesting build.
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Thanks Patrick and Mark for your very kind words. Yeah, I guess emotion has a tendency to creep in with builds I am directly or indirectly involved with. I just hope I wont bore all y'all with adding some very personal stories to these builds.
My next one will be more difficult, emotion wise. It'll be the ship my father was killed on during the battle of the Java Sea. Hope all yuns will join me in that build effort.
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Beautiful detailing Nils. Love that Bavarian hoompa band. What a feast to the eye your ship is.
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- mtaylor, Gerhardvienna, Omega1234 and 1 other
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Nice going Kevin, very impressive build.
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- Jack12477, Canute, Old Collingwood and 1 other
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Sovereign of the Seas by Hennie - Sergal - 1:78
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1501 - 1750
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WOW!! Very impressive work. Love the deck.
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