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  3. amateur
    I second the suggestion of a pdf-version for future books. Shipping is twice the price of the book, importtaxes will be around 20% of total costs (book and shipping combined). Even a 25dollar pdf is far cheaper for me than a 13 dollar hard-copy send by Ups….. Jan
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  9. amateur
    I missed this till now. I will follow closely: beautifull ship and a masterbuilder. That can only become a feast to the eyes. Jan
  10. amateur
    Although, I am not sure whether ‘fictional’ classifies as ‘contemporary’ But it is a nice model. Jan
  11. amateur
    And to answer your first question: I guess it is rare (as it is old), but both navy and monarchy are not very popular topics for collectors. So yes, some people will be very happy to have this one, but the market is small. Copies of these and comparable cards fetch a couple of euro’ on ebay. Jan
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  17. amateur
    And it could also very well be the case that ocre put a famous name and history on a ‘generic model’. Especially with the old and famous names, every one wants to build a model of it, but hardly anything is known on the ship. The same aplies to eg the Friesland by Mamoli: they took a model, and fabricated a history. There is no overlap between the historic Friesland and the kit. Santa Maria and Mayflower: not models of the original, but of famous reconstructions fromthe sixties. So: i think you should take all claims on these models of older ships with a grain of salt. It is at best a model of how we think it coul have been jan
  18.    amateur reacted to a post in a topic: SS Blagoev ex-Songa 1921 by Valeriy V - FINISHED - scale 1:100 - Soviet Union
  19. amateur
    I am not so sure that there are too many ropes on the Danmark. It looks like the old Billings-kit, with sails added to it. Rigging and blocks are out of scale, but I think it follows the instructions (Billings used to have downloadable plans on their site, no idea whether they still do do). the other thing is just plain weird if you ask me :). Never seen such a thing before. Jan
  20. amateur
    Hi Hans, Not only according to Blom, also Van IJk mentions elm as the better material. Compared to the drawing in Van IJk and compared to the ‘Hollaendische Zweidecker’ as photographed by Winter, your wheels are indeed ‘oversized’ The model is deceptively ‘real’, its your furniture that gives it away Jan
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  22. amateur
    Mindblowing! Will you return to the Cyclone-destroyer now this one is finished, or do you have other treats wating for us? Jan
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  24. amateur
    Dutch railways did not standardize. (They still don’t) They bought/buy large series of different designs. Jan
  25. amateur
    Nice work! Andy thought the part is a dynamo, I'm sure the part is the dynamo. The part in front of the smoke stack is the preheater, couple of steam domes on top, and a sand dome, feeding the sand-lines to help the breaking. Fun of these German locs is the fact that they used standard-parts (einheits lokomotiven). hen you check the card-builders, you will run into guys that use a model of a given series, adding (or substracting) a couple of wheels in order to build a model of a loc of an other series. (quite o lot of card-loco's around, at all building levels) Jan
  26. amateur
    It is a pity that drawing has no ‘topview’, I would be interested in the width of those stairs, and their position towards the centerline… Iguess that 80 centimeters is enough for tiller handling. Jan
  27. amateur
    post #45 by Waldemar shows an other solutionto prevent impratical doors: the stairs outside the cabins. (Combined wirh inwatd swinging doors, I presume) Jan
  28. amateur
    Mixing up two build logs most pics of the black and white (sure it isn’t some light shade of pinkish-white ?) show signs of heavy neglect. Do you have any idea on where ‘patching up’ starts and ‘the original design’ ends? And what are you going to show: the rotting outer hull with planking over, or how it could have been, given proper maintainance? Jan
  29. amateur
    I guess it has something to do with mass-production, tolerances and profitmargins. Based on pics, the 3D printed versions seem far more consistent than the average wooden deadeyes. https://syrenshipmodelcompany.com/deadeyes-and-specialty-blocks.php#!/3-mm-Deadeyes-3D-Printed-Color-SWISS-PEAR-25-per-package/p/696011837/category=9242145 Jan
  30. amateur
    Hi Chris, It’s a pity, as the plane itself is a nice one. Is the problem in the design of the kit itself, or in a sloppy execution of the lasercut parts? (Meaning: should we avoid these kits, or should we try to build them without the laser-parts?) Jan

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