Piet

Doris,
 
breathtaking artwork, your beautiful ornamentation is wunderbar !!
 
Nils

Doris, I would like very much to see your sculpting tools. A couple of pics, please, if possible?

Wonderful, remarkable, beautiful,... I need a thesaurus, I'm running out of superlatives!
 
 
We do too.
 
I hope the other areas of your life get better.
 
All the best,   
Richard.

Superb relief modelling, Doris! I hope that life will get easier for you soon. Thank you for sharing your progress.

Doris,
 
I can't believe that I have missed your updates since May. Just caught up (need to re-set settings) As Mtaylor just said "This is like watching Da Vinci or Raphael at work. The more one looks, the more one sees in the details." Indeed it is
 
And then, I widen fingers on my trackpad to enlarge your photos and become even more astonished !!! 
PS: As I have said before  - Yes indeed your SOS is beyond mere superlative descriptions - as well as this superb log.
 
Cheers,

Doris, I hope your troubles fade away and you can be happy. You are truly blessed with remarkable skills.
Best wishes, Harley 

Oh my goodness. Just amazing.
Your skill as a bas-relief sculptor at minute scale is unique.
There cannot be many people in the world who can do what you do.
I watch in awe.
 
Hope your troubled times don't last too long. I pray for you.
 
Tim

Stunning work Doris. You're going to have to replace the like button. I think it's worn out!
 
Nick

Beautiful work, Doris. I apologize if I missed it earlier in your post, but are you making negative moulds into which you press the clay? If so, are you carving those from wood?
 
Mark

Another huge fan, Doris. Would love to see you demonstrate your techniques at a Nautical Guild Research meeting one day!

Sorry to read this, Doris. I am in similar situation. Hoping better days will become the normal for you.

Words fail me, Doris.  This is like watching Da Vinci or Raphael at work.   The more one looks, the more one sees in the details.  

And other ones.... 
 

 
How I love this work .... 😎
 
Best regards and enjoy the pics.

Decoration on the sheer strake / starboard:
 

 

And the same on port.... 🙂
 

Bow decoration

 

Hello dear friends, 
Thank you all for your comments and nice words, I am pleased and do appreciate your support.
Hello Jan, 
well, I use similar goldpaint, but it is still without weathering so far.  In the end, all pieces of decoration will be modified to look more realistic, I am going to use weathering and clear varnish on their surface.
 
 
 
My feathered assistant also likes card and sometimes pieces of wood, but she usually falls asleep under the huge hull and is not interested in nibbling the model. 🙂
 
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I have not been here for a longer time, I have harder days in my life now, but ships and making their models help me to overcome it.
 
I continue with my favourite work - ship decoration and sculpting. I try to create it according to the Vale´s painting and relevant information about ship decoration from the 17th century. Plenty of interesting and useful information about real ships you can also find on Czech Modelforum, where is my main log with Royal Katherine and also a lot of professional advice from the TOP expert and experienced naval captain - Kpt.KL, who is my great advisor. For example:
 
https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&sid=772034599a5b2cc19c793279d9695d7a&start=585#p2156912
https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=600#p2157251
https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=615#p2158101
 
 

Dear wefalck
Thank you very much for Your attention to my work. The information you have given me on the history of "Sherver"
is very interesting to me.
My best regards.
( Mon pays de résidence se situe environ 1500 km sud-est.) 

Dear BETAQDAVE
This element is called uitvip (mastluik) The construction of Boeier has a possibility to change
 the mast from working position to the transportion position. This hatch is specially conceived for this purpose.
The elemet that caught your attention is a removable cover of this hatch. I think the photos will explain everything.
My best regards.

Good to know that van Konijnenburg's are on archive.org. I have vols. II and III as originals, but was missing vol. I.

Nice pictures of the Boeier, Wefalck!
 
Het Friese Scheepvaart museum has a lot of plans online, free for the downloading. 
Then on archive.com their are 3 books by Emile van Konijnenburg, Shipbuilding from its beginning volume 1, 2, & 3. The first 2 are descriptions of ships in Dutch and vol 3 is all plans and color drawings of Dutch ships. 
Marcus 

Kortes, I am curious about the function of that coffin shaped area on the fore deck.  Does it have something to do with a centerboard?

Thanks. At some stage I also plan to build a boeier or a tjotter, but not a 'modern' yacht, rather a mid-19th century one ... so I collected material while I was in the area.
 
Incidentally, the Dutch national archives and some museums have a lot of plans for downloading.

Nice site, Wefalck!

Didn't see the building-log until now - excellent progress and excellent work !
 
DE SPERWER is preserved in the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen/NL. Here you can check out various detail pictures that I took of her, when I lived in the area for a some years: https://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/zuiderzee/zuiderzee.html
 
She has an interesting history. She was built as yacht from the beginning, while boeiers were sort of representative boats for well-to-do people in a country when there were not many roads and no motor-cars. Kind of Dutch Mercedes of the 19th century. They were also used as kind of long-distance taxis or inspection boats. DE SPERWER was owned by a certain Merlin Minshall, an adventurer, who worked for British intelligence during WWII, where he met Ian Fleming, who partially modelled 'James Bond' after him.
 
There is a monograph on the boeiers, albeit in the Dutch language:
 
VERMEER, J. (2004): De Boeier.- 528 p., Alkmaar (De Alk & Heijnen Watersport).
 
BTW, what part of the World are you from ? I seem to see some kind of Dutch/Belgian/Northern French houses through the window in one of your pictures ...