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Minesweeping....yeah I already figured that one out Jan
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btw the one in the foreground (woith the Dutch flag) is also a Dutch minesweeper, from the Alkmaar klasse But the one in the middle..... Jan
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Hmmm.... the flag is the red herring. Dutch navy did not have this type of tuggies around. To the right are two Dutch minesweepers of the Dokkumklasse. However, in the middle..... The location is probably the Rijkswerf in Den helder... Your slightly uneven resize doesn;'t help either Jan
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And remember: kits tend to 'underprovide'..... Jan
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Something in common that is unique.... Quite a contradiction, isn't it ? There are loads of frigates painted around 1830..... Jan
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Quite standard for the Italian companies....
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"It's like a fly/Pegasus-kit on steroids." That would be my problem with it....I don't like steroids Jan
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Wiki says that it is the flag of the Honourable East India Company after 1801. Quite a lot of checkered frigates over there.... Jan
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No, it's not the way of planking itself taht put him off, it is that the form of the hull itself does not correpond to the form it should have (at least, according to Arjan). That requires substantial reshaping of the frames, which made him stop the build. I am with you on the point of starting implies at leastthe intention to carry through to the end. Although: there can be many reasons why a once started build does not continue. Lack of time, money, inspiration etc. can all be reason to stop and do not return for a while. Jan
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It's Holmvik, yes. In the Netherlands better known under her current name 'Furie'. She was restored form an old and worn wood-tugging ship from the sweish waters into a Dutch seagoing tug, becasue of her role in a film on the topic. She is therefore still around as an example of the last Dutch steampowered seagoing tugs. Jan
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Next one (easy one, I would say) Jan
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Euphrates Jan
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ah, now I remember, it was a troopship build for sending troops to India. Have to find a name. Wait for a minute Jan
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As said before, I would vote for something like this one (Gouden Leeuw, as drawn by Van de Velde) in a 1:96 scale All kits tend to be "HMS-ships"....
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Mahogany is dark, rather course grained wood. Apple is usually much lighter, and less course grained. The broad ones in the middle are definitely mahogany. Kits providing 'spares' are not common, so my guess is that the number provided is exactly what is in your list. Sorting by length and size shoudl give you some clue.... Jan
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Question: in the years this sub was build, there was a change from rivettin gto welding. Parts of the keel structure of the ship was welded. I can imagine that the pressurehull was (at least partly) riveted (just to be sure), but how much of the hull and upperstructure was riveted? I ask the question, as in your last pic, there seems to be only flush seams in the upperstructure, and that does not match the usual rivetting pattern. Jan
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I guess you've seen these pics... http://shipmodeling.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=979&page=2 Jan
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Something smaller and Dutch ? Jan
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Can't find anything big enough..... All English broadside ironclads seem to be black. it's not French, japanese of Russian... To large to be Belgian Diutch or Danish. Chilean, spanish, or perhaps USS (although I did not succeed in findin g anything like it....) Jan
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Let's find all navies that had large white-coloured ships. America had some of those... e.g. USS Boston and Chicago (but those had two funnels...) Jan
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Not French.... Russian is my next guess.... Jan
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French, possibly? Jan
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Think you are right....
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I like your weathered paint-work. Any chance for us to see the recipe for it? Jan
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Post #23 states that he will stop this build. I'm pretty sure he was serious about that. He is active on a Dutch/Belgian forum, and over there he has some fame for starting builds that grow more and more ambitious as they go along. But many of them come to a point where the quality Arjans wants is not delivered by the kit he is using. And then there is some ominous post 'that this build will be stopped'. At the moment he is working on a next (Corel-kit-based) build: A Dutch VOC-ship, based on the Prins Willem. To be honest, I expect him to stop that build also, and turn to proper 'scratch build'.... Jan
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