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  1.    amateur reacted to a post in a topic: Part VIII: Building V108 - Miscellaneous Bits
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  4. amateur
    Nice model! Perhaps I should finish my v108 (still not made the masts) . Jan
  5.    mtaylor reacted to a post in a topic: Need tips on deadeyes rigging
  6. amateur
    Lower dead-eyes were fitted (depending country/period), by chain, shackles, iron straps. distance between deadeyes: a measure often found is 2.5 times the diameter of the deadeyes between them. Don’t know whether that is based on any historical source, but it looks ‘pleasing to the eye’. and with respect to ratlines: as said: the thinner the better. Ratlines are by far the thinnest rope on a ship. Jan
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  8.    amateur reacted to a post in a topic: The War Trophy by RGL - FINISHED - diorama with Fowler D6 steam tractor (DModels) and Krupp 21 cm Mörser (Takom) - PLASTIC
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  11. amateur
    Yes, but on the spanish flag, the red stripes are only half of the width of the yellow band. Here it is painted in three equally wide bands…. Identufying the ship is completely impossible, unless it is a ship that has something to do with the main object of the painting (not uncommon in the Dutch paintings of merchants and commanders: all (or some of) their ships are present in the background) Jan
  12.    amateur reacted to a post in a topic: SS Blagoev ex-Songa 1921 by Valeriy V - scale 1:100 - Soviet Union
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  14. amateur
    Aber nur ganz wenig Luft nach oben I like the side by side. Perhaps you see possible improvements, I see a very good model that captures the originalboth in looks and feel. (and I will miss the progress updates…..) Jan
  15.    amateur reacted to a post in a topic: SS Blagoev ex-Songa 1921 by Valeriy V - scale 1:100 - Soviet Union
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  17. amateur
    Good to have you back! Jan
  18.    amateur reacted to a post in a topic: Dutch 17th century pleasure vessel by Alvb - FINISHED - 1/250 - CARD - from plans by Ab Hoving/Nicolaas Witsen
  19. amateur
    Sail sheet: attached to the lower block of the tackle. Left overvRope coiled on deck, or attached to the nearest side. As far as I know both for main and jib. Does your rigging also has the so-called ‘dirk’: a rope running from the mast top to the end of the boom? Jan
  20. amateur
    Van der Velde was not sketchy on details. So when he draws something, there was somehing. I know of things misding from his drawings, butnot of ‘making up’. A boathook or pole is the most likely. Often those are stoeed on the shrouds, but these ships dont have those. Given length and the fact that you should have them on hand, outboard stowage is logical. Jan
  21. amateur
    Nice figurine. Not wat ‘he’ did back then. The war he was fighting was one of the more devastating wars in Europe: some parts of Germany lost 50% of their population. Either by direct impact of the war, or as a result of the famine and diseases that were an indirect result of the war. Jan
  22. amateur
    Ho Chuck, Early 2018 you were also working on a couple of ship models. (a cross section and a model of a Dutch boeier). Business took you elsewhere, or are those still somewhere in your list of ‘things to do’? Jan
  23. amateur
    Depends on the scale: real world is clive hitch, and spliced eyes on the last shroud, At large scales this can be done, but at smaller scales a half hitch, or even no hith at all (ratline through the shrould using a needle) can be visually better. (Because clove hitches can be rather bulky as at smaller scales ratlines are almost always over scale) Jan
  24. amateur
    By using an iron bolt. It is still used in ships like the Dutch ‘botter’. Google the words ‘botter’ ‘zwaard’ (the dutch word for leeboard), and some pics shoul show up. a piece of wood attached to the outer bulwarks, to get it level with the wale. And a bolt through the head of the leeboard. Sometimes through the frames, sometimes a heavier reinforcement on the inside of the bulwark. And there is some tackle (or sometimes a single rope) to lower the leeboard into the water. Jan
  25. amateur
    Looking good from here! A small base is the safe option. Putting it sailing in a diorama is great, but you have to get the water, the waves and the sails exactly right, otherwise it spoils the effect. (And a sailing vessel need people on board…) Jan
  26. amateur
    What do you use for paint? You have a nice colour, but also a convincing gloss/no-gloss difference. Looking very good. Jan
  27. amateur
    I never saw a painting of a small vessel painted white up to the barkhout. It is either no white paint or painted up to the waterline. Jan
  28. amateur
    You are not fair to the woodcarver. This is very clearly two lions carrying the Asterdam- coat-of-arms, againdt a gilded background. Would have been clearer when the painter didn’t cover it up with lots of red paint I’m aleays impressed with these very small card models. Did you use the drawing as a template for the sides? Jan

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