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  1. Piet
    All the best for your wife Nenad, hope things will turn out okay for her and you. About the chain - - I agree with your decision to lay the chain across the winch, it'll look more realistic. Chain looks great! Cheers,
  2. Piet
    Now, that's a REAL working fishing vessel - one of the things still missing is - - - the crew You could also hide some cotton dabbed in Thai fish sauce - - - - -that'll add a realistic fishy smell to it. No, kidding of course. She looks really great Popeye, well done. Cheers,
  3. Piet
    Hoi Jan, Thanks for kudos my friend and yeas, we are rather pleased with the result. She's close to be put on the brackets in my studio / office. Just need to find the time to mount the two brackets. Still a lot of yard work to do. Hmmmm, Heineken logos - - will, I couldn't find 1939 Heineken logos or didn't look good enough Rotterdam? - - - spoken with a Rotterdam accent - - no, I was born in Soerabaja, remember. Both my parents are from Amsterdam. Yup, I also prefer Oranjeboom and used to drink a glass or two when visiting my uncle Cees in Amsterdam. Uncle Cees was my father's younger brother and just as crazy as my father was I heard quite a few stories about their escapades when they were young. I'll see if I can find some Oranjeboom logos and use them instead. Problem is that practically nobody here in the States know about Oranjeboom. Cheers,
  4. Piet
    Very nice work on the carvings Dave, your moulding technique really paid off in time saved. Cheers,
  5. Piet
    From a pure engineering point of view your method makes all the sense in the world! Shape is looking very nice Patrick. Cheers,
  6. Piet
    Very, VERY nice work Popeye! Just keep adding whatever detail you can fit on this magnificent model, it'll just make her look more like a real working boat. Cheers,
  7. Piet
    Well okay, I slowed my horse down and then got off to put my nose real up close and - - - wow, that planking looks great! Cheers,
  8. Piet
    Fantastic work Ian, looks very realistic! Cheers,
  9. Piet
    Hey all y'all, don't forget me I'll use one of the beverage crates Mark is bringing to sit on - the empty ones that is. Cheers,
  10. Piet
    Hello Nils, good to see you here at my VOC shipyard, thanks for dropping in my friend. Now you can see that I have my work cutout with the rigging. Yep, she's been patiently waiting on my small workbench in the garage and I'll be getting back to her very soon. Hello Jack and welcome too in my VOC shipyard. Thanks for dropping in and your kind comments. No gremlins my friend, she had to take a backseat to my O19 build. I thought I could work on both at the same time but that idea went by the wayside. I felt compelled in working my father's boat and complete it. However, now that the O19 is nearly finished I'll get back to working the VOC ship. So stay tuned. Cheers,
  11. Piet
    Thank you very much Pete for your kind comments. It was for me a labor of love and very satisfying. I'm so pleased that everyone enjoyed the voyage and having been able to add something to all your capabilities. BTW, I like your name - - - mine is pronounced the same too Cheers,
  12. Piet
    Hi Nils, Just looking at all the rigging detail on your finely crafted Pegasus, makes me cringe at the prospect of rigging my VOC ship. I sure hope to come close to what you have accomplished. Cheers,
  13. Piet
    Thanks all who clicked the like button and thanks to George, Patrick, Carl, Ian, David B, Nenad, Popeye, Marty G, Dave (Sawdust) and Nils for your kind comments. It's very much appreciated. @ Carl: The beer is in bottles, at least it sounded like glass when lifting the cases up on the deck @ Popeye: I copied a few advertising pics from the Internet, shrunk them to scale, cut them out and pasted them to small basswood blocks. I even scribed the crate slats on the blocks - with the nails too! @ Sawdust Dave: Yeah, I also missed our get-together and quaff a few brews with you. There is always a next time. Hey, what's this "old man" stuff? I can still outrun you, and you are calling me old??? @ Nils: It's not often that people can build a model they have a very close relationship with. I did visit the O19 way back in 1940 with my father. Still remember quite a few things - - - it made a deep impression on me. I had some good news today, please see my post on Sick Bay. I bought two steel angle brackets to mount to the wall in my studio / office for the O19 to perch on. This log is not yet closed my friends. There are still some final pics to be made for the closing log and the gallery. So, stay tuned. Cheers,
  14. Piet
    Congratulations on a most beautiful model. What a treasure! Cheers,
  15. Piet
    Happy birthday Nenad. Your chain looks awesome! Cheers,
  16. Piet
    Looking forward to "Symphony" patrick. I have throughly enjoyed your build of "rainbow" and I'm sure that Symphony will turn out as great if not greater - - - if that's even possible. Skills seem to improve with each successive model. Cheers,
  17. Piet
    Hello all y'all swabbies and swabbettes, The O19 has been patiently waiting for some tender loving care but there is really not much more to do on her, other then nick-nacks. I think I'll be finalizing the build soon and go on with the VOC ship. Reworking the side trim on the display board will be done whenever I have the time for it and have the proper stain. There is no big rush with it. Coming week I'll be buying a few steel brackets to bolt to the wall in my studio / office and man cave so I can place the O19 on it - finally. I'm waiting for some decent weather to take the pictures for the Gallery and a few glossies to take with me to Holland. In the meantime the shipment of Heineken beer has arrived for the O19 and is being stowed away in the forward compartment of the con. It appears that my father has ordered the cases for the crew. You see, he was also the quarter master on the boat as well as chef d'equipage. That reminds me of the story he told us about testing a potential purchase of "unbreakable" glassware. One day a salesman came to the boat trying to sell "unbreakable' glasses. Now, Schipper van Warmerdam being a cautious quarter master asked if he could test a glass. The salesman agreed and so my father climbed up to the bridge with a glass. He proceeded to hold the glass over the deck and ley it go. Well, the glass hit the deck and promptly broke into a gezillion pieces. There were no further words uttered between my father and the salesman who packed up his stuff and left the boat. Now you would think that with all those wooden slats on the deck the glass would fare better but alas, the glass must have hit one of the steel tracks for the torpedo loading dolly, pity Okay, enough of my banter and let yuns see the Heineken shipment. Cheers,
  18. Piet
    Very nicely done Patrick. Those reinforcements are perfect and that at that small scale - fantastic! Cheers,
  19. Piet
    WOW! What a nice video and now Nenad knows how it's done and can make his own chains and anchors - - - what !!! No? Oh, I'm just kidding Nenad, you'll figure a way to do it. That video sure brought back memories of my training in forging and smithing. That kind of welding is very difficult to do and do it right. I could only muster a decent weld after the third try. The metals must be close to melting and must have sand put on it tp prevent it from burning. The sand must first be knocked off and then the hot metal put together. This motion has to be VERY quick otherwise the weld will not be good. I hope your wife's problem will be minor and wish her all the best in her healing. Cheers,
  20. Piet
    And Heeeeeeeeeeere's Sjors! Sjors is back, hurray! That's a whale of a wale Sjors and now to the other side. Cannons look awesome too. Cheers,
  21. Piet
    Great show Dave. I was really disappointed not being able to visit you and your bride and admire all your models. Love the carving you are doing - - - hmmmm, that'll keep you busy for a while Cheers,
  22. Piet
    Great looking pieces of metal-work Popeye! Isn't metal work fun and easy? Those metal pieces are much closer to the real thing and in scale then you could ever achieve with wood. Sometimes we must go to metal to make it look right and you have done so marvelously. Bravo!!! A few posts back I mentioned that there were a few shrimp and fishing boats at the show in Fayetteville but kinda naked compared to yours. They are very nice looking models but after seeing what you have been doing on yours I was missing something. I was expecting more stuff on them. Okay, I have taken a picture of them and thought post it here for all yuns to see and compare. Now y'all can see what a added detail does to a model. Again, I'm not even implying mediocrity or ho hum workmanship, far from that but I expected more detail on working boats. Well done Denis! Cheers,
  23. Piet
    Yup, now she's beginning to look like a ship! Very nice John. Cheers,
  24. Piet
    Hi Nils, thanks for the info on the torch and the URL for Amazon. I'll take a look and see if Amazon in the USA sels these torches. The shipping from Germany may very well be prohibitive. In one of my previous lives I was a master welder with oxy acetylene and must still have a mini welding torch somewhere with very small tips. No, I'm not going to buy oxy and acetylene tanks I like the idea of the silver rods, that's close to what I used to do with brass brazing. Love that kind of work. Cheers,
  25. Piet
    Nice fix Popeye, she's looking really very spiffy! Cheers,

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