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Sometimes I think that Halinski should have the option to build the model with a ‘basic’ inside, so that you could display the cockpit-art next to finished model. It’s a shame to hide this under a plastic canopy …. Jan

Even a base coat already brings them to life. That will be a nice crew! Jan

Nice. Flew one over my place yesterday (Spitfire, no clue about the type) Nice plane with even nicer sound! (something completely different: you once started a model of a great lakes self-unloader. Did you ever finish that one?) Jan

Congratulations! Jan

Impressive knight. And now for the damsel in distress? The dragon, or do you have another of those heavily armed boys? I think you should gicve the shield a matte overpaint, it is abit too glaring compared to the armour. Shields were made of wood and leather, nothing shiny. Jan

Yup, you may consider yourself somewhat elderly Jan

It’s always longer ago than you first think…. I guess those two minutes of footage are remembered by everyone. Always wondered why the columbia-footage isnt so well known. I guess it is the difference between seeing something disintegrate, and ‘only’ seeing some abstract dots on the horizon. Jan

The structure that depth charge is hanging from, is that rolled tubes with some metal in it? Jan

Beautiful model of a rather bizarre type of ship. Jan

First lessons learned when I moved to Rotterdam: 1. always cross the tracks at (near) 90 degrees, 2. the tram always has right of way, irrespective the situation. Jan

My interpretation of that pic would be that you see the track as shown in my illustrationn, and two additional iron bands (don’t ask me the function of that) outside of the track. Jan

It looks like a nice crowded scene. I can’t really tellfrom the pic, but your tramrails seem to stick out above the pavement. In that case it needs a little overhaul: as far as I know, teamrails was (is) always level with the surrounding street. I looked for a pic of the railprofile used around 1915 in the Netherlands: The rail hardly above streetlevel, and the groove always fun for bikers (still is ) And ofcourse: used track has a clean groove and no rust on the contact surface of the rails, disused track has some rust, and a dirt-filled groove. Jan

‘Wow’ sums it up pretty well. Those are really, realy close to the originals. (Apart from size and material, I see no differences ) Jan

Below are three pics from my books. Not terriblt goods pnes, but I guess they will do. First the method Van Ijk (famous dutch writer on shipbuilding describes with respect to the tapering of the yards. take a circle inthedismeter of the spar. Devide the circlehalf in 8 equal parts, and connect the dots. The lenght of these lines give the thickness of the yard at the corresonding points (each half of the yard devided in four) with respect to the mast Van Ijk is a bit cryptic in his description. (And some interpretation is needed: measuring from the overloop (wich is the deck below the upper/main), the mast does not taper at all over a lenght of twice the length of the top. Above that, the taper is determined with the use of a cricle: but slightly different: not the circle is devided in 8, but the baseline in four parts. The remainder of the mast is diveded infour parts. The discussion is: where ends the ‘remainder’ His illustration suggests below the top, but in that case the top becomes very thin, as the taper continues till the end. taking the end of the mast gives a better result, but still ends up a bit on the ‘narrow side’ And with a slight variation, but showing the profile somewhat clearer: relatively thin at the mastfoot, thickest at the level of the overloop, no taper above, and a ‘circular’ taper above. the same ‘circular’ taper is used for the upper mast-parts. For my Prins Willem I used something like one-third without taper, and some taper above that. For the upper parts the taper is relatively small, so the difference between straight and circular was’t very noticeable. On the lower masts it certainly was visible. On the yards the difference between linear an circular it is very noticeable. They end up way too thin when a linear taper is used. Jan

Hoe did these things not get stuck in uneven terrain…? It looks unbalanced, overweight, and underpowered... But great modelling and especially great painting/weathering. Jan