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  1. amateur
    Nice to see this model again. Did you do some models of cities or castles recently? Jan
  2. amateur
    Your Emden is becoming a real eye-catcher! Jan
  3. amateur
    With a bit of photoshopping of the background, this can be used as a ‘rare picture of the original’ Looking very convincing! Jan
  4. amateur
    And the original will be 4 mm too short to replace the nect one that is eaten by the carpetmonster Impressive ship/model. Seeing her withthe guns mounted will be another major moment . Jan
  5. amateur
    It’s 5 years ago Piet lastvisited MSW. If he is still around, he turned 91 last week. Jan
  6. amateur
    Nice model. Reminds me of the O19 build by Piet Warmerdam (ages ago). Jan
  7. amateur
    Looking almost real. I’m a bit strugling with respect to size. How long is the engine? Jan
  8. amateur
    Are you sure this post landed in the intended location? It reads as the continuation of a build log….. Jan
  9. amateur
    Airplane tutorials differ widely fromship-tutorials in many aspects. Both very informative though. Perhaps I read past the info: what do you use to glue those styrene rods to the model? Is that also the canopy-glue, or is that just plain white glue? (assuming you use plain white glue….) Second question: what do you use for the matte finish of your kit. I guess something from a spraycan, but which variety do you use/advise? Jan
  10. amateur
    Mast collars that have no structural load? Try high quality paper: after a coat of paint, you really nead to know it is paper. Cheap, easy to work with, and very easy to drill holes: glue the collar to the mast, and drill. no idea whether drilling 5 holes will leave anything of your mast , though…. Jan
  11. amateur
    Hms Victory made it to prototype. In 2020 JamesH started a prototype build here in MSW. As far as I know it was never finished. Prince and Cutty Sark never made it past design. This pic is the most recent Chris showed of Prince. See #15 in this thread: 11 years ago.
  12. amateur
    Hi Yorick, Welkom, btw age doesn’t count Start a buildlog, and ask anything. There is always someone to answer and help you. Jan
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. amateur
    Although, I am not sure whether ‘fictional’ classifies as ‘contemporary’ But it is a nice model. Jan
  16. 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
  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
    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
  19. 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
  20. amateur
    Mindblowing! Will you return to the Cyclone-destroyer now this one is finished, or do you have other treats wating for us? Jan
  21. amateur
    Dutch railways did not standardize. (They still don’t) They bought/buy large series of different designs. Jan
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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

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