kees de mol

Very interesting build of this beautifull (Dutch) transportation device. Last winter I have seen some ice yachts her in holland. Pretty impressive.

Beautifull model and not a usual type of ship. Dropping a model is a nightmare, I am glad the damage was not very big for you.

very nice display

Amazing!

The rudder has been adjusted a bit and the hull has been smoothly sanded with waterproof grit 1000 and I have carved the joints on the hullplates. Half-round strips were also glued on the hull. After this everything is neatly put in the primer and everything looks nice.

I have made a stand from sturdy cardboard so that the model will be firmly in place.

I also glued cross beams in the hull and on top wooden strips with a trip styrene. That will be the gutter that drains the water from the deck. The trusses also come up here. Everything is smoothly sanded again, because I will not be able to get there again. On the crossbeams I made reinforcements on the places where the masts will come.

Hey Nils,

I plan to resemble the rivets with 3D pearle paint. This is thick paint solled in small bottles and is used for applying "pearls" to papercraft projects. I will thin it a little with some modge podge and then I will apply it with a toothpic or a piece of brass wire. The results are very good, nice rounded rivetheads and the bonding to the hull is very good.

5 hours ago, Mirabell61 said:

Hi Kees,

just a question,...

with what glue type did you glue the plastic stripes onto the reinforced glassfibre hull ?

Regards,

 

Nils

Hello Nils. Thanks for yourquestion. The lower strips (directly glued to the hull) were glued with superglue. After that I glued the upper strips with a polymere kit. To fill up the space between the hull and the strip.

I hope that I answered the question for you.

Kind regards, Kees

After sanding the hull I placed a keel and I glued strips of thin plastic to simulate the hullplates. After this it was a lot of work to get a nice finish but it worked well.

I also made a rudder out of brass

On 7-3-2018 at 11:46 PM, cog said:

Hull looks good, Kees. Interesting box on the left, built or to be built? Your visor looks a lot like mine ... HBM?

The box is from a Heller Roc Amadour kit and I am building it as a side build. Very nice kit, The visor is indeed from HBM. I buy a lot of stuff there

On 9-3-2018 at 12:04 AM, popeye the sailor said:

glad to hear your doing well Kees.......I was wondering how you were coming along.   that's a decent size hull you have there.   how thick are the walls,  and the overall length?

Thanks. The hull is 112cm long and the thickness is about 1.5mm. The hull is very stiff and cured well before I removed her from the mould. Later I will build in some reinforcements

Sorry I had to remove some dust from this topic but I did manage to build a little on the herringlugger. Health is going great and so the search for suitable work is full trottle, and that is consuming lots of (buildingtime) I feel great about it but I am also verry happy to build again.

After laminating and trimming the excess fibers I started to separate the hull from the plug. That went well and after a few minutes I had a nice looking lugger hull in my hands.

Then I sanded the fiberstructure smooth and clean because I will add hull plates later with rivets to give the hull a realistic finish

VEry well made. I like how you made al the detaills with day to day materials. Very nice fishingship

Very nice litlle ship.

Very nice build and an interesting method for plating.

Very nice build Nils

Very interesting way of building but I can see You know what You are talking about.

Beautifull model!

Very relaxing to watch your build.

Good work

I am absolutely amazed. Your buildingstandards are very high.

Impressive

Beautifull model.

Count me in, I am on board. Beautifull ship!

I wish you lot's of joy during the build of this beautifull ship!

beautifull rigging and verry clear instructions! Thank you

beautifull hull