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  1. amateur
    And with respect to arches inthe inside of the wall. Not uncommon in medieval walls: Jan PS this is the inside of oneof the gates you showed before: the Helpoort in Maastricht, Netherlands, dating back to around 1250, although in its current form mainly resulting from a rather romantic view on the middle ages in 1880...
  2. amateur
    Reading of your new layout, for one moment I thought you were making an attempt to do this: typical mainland Europe solutionto have a river (and harbour) inside your city, and unwanted guests outside. Jan
  3. amateur
    I needed a cable, and cables are made from three separate ropes. Normale ropes should be made from single yarns.. The thickness needed can be computed, but has a large trial and error in them. Amati rope has some stretch, but it required no real stretching. What I did not like in the amati rope, was that especially the smaller sizes were not so clearly defined: you can't see the separate strings that makes up the rope. Jan
  4. amateur
    And yes, making rope although the kit alteady provided it sounds silly, but it was like this: I have a corel-kit, providing 3!sizes. That didn’t eork out: too little variation, so I decided to take the plunge, took the aforemdntioned table, bought a number of sizes (amati, as that was what the shop sold), and started. I missed however the largest size, and made that one myself, usung an improvised rope walk build from lego-parts. You can make your life as simple or complicated in this hobby. That is the fun of it. (My private problem: the complicated route takes more time than I have available ) Jan
  5. amateur
    Suppose this is a silly question, but doesn't amati provide you with rigging thread? That would be a nice guess for the amount you need...... Using amati-thread, I didn't stretch it. Had no problems whatsoever. I did stretch the rope I made myself (using the amati-thread as basis). Jan
  6. amateur
    Nice! Can I have a grandfather like you? Jan (ps. I guess one of the moderators will shift this buildlog to somewhere else - no idea where they will place this one. It doesn't quite match the sorting system.)
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    Hi Nils, is it just me, or does the link not function? Jan
  9. amateur
    Looking at what I can see from the drawings, my guess woud be: the basswood strips run to the sides of the stuffing box, the strip K4 is glued on top of the basswoodstrips, thus connecting the two (the grey area that is indicated on the drawing) K7 is glued to the inside of the keel. The part of the keel that is not coveredby K4 at the underside is to be sanded away when all is dry and removed from the building board. What I can’t make out: drawing and sketch do show the keel left-right changed... Jan
  10. amateur
    I can’t help you, but adding a more ‘informative title’ to your post will probably attract a more knowledgeable builder to you question. Jan
  11. amateur
    Shame.... I was hoping for an update. Question: how are you going to prevent the air inlets from cloggi g up when painting? Jan
  12. amateur
    How did I miss the end ofthis journey? Congatulations on a very, very impressive model. Following your log has been a pleasure. Jan
  13. amateur
    Those birds are as good as your ships. I especially like the second one: just before getting the fish out of the water. Jan
  14. amateur
    The size an number of the gratings is based on the contemporaneous model. So, why should you change? Gratings were used for all ships with a lower gundeck. Real warships had even gratings over the full length of the ship.Or do you mean the number of strips used for the gartings (the size of the holes. Than you should try to follow the rul that the size of the holws is slightly smaller than the with of a foot (ie around 10 cm). The museum-model has holes slightly wider than that, but not as wide as yours. Jan
  15. amateur
    Nothing wrong with the gratings: rather like the usual standard in 17th century dutch shipbuilding..... Jan
  16. amateur
    Quite a lot of the nao-recontructions are influenced by models like this one, the Mataro-model (on display in the maritime museum in Rotterdam), supposed to represent a spanish nao of around 1450. (Pic from the museum website) (own pic) Jan
  17. amateur
    Matthew ofBristol is perhaps more in the correcttime frame, or San Salvador (diego maritime): bit later than Magelhaes, but nice ship... Jan
  18. amateur
    You are asking for something almost impossible: in thta period ships were not built accordi g to plans, butbased on main dimensions, experience and rules of thumb. There are some (but ot many) artists impressions ofships around that period, but those drawings, however interesting, are hardly usefull to reconstruct the ships of that period. No ships survived, and acheological evidence isvery scarce. In other words: historically accurate plans are not available. Your best line will be search for reconstructions ofspanish/portugese ships of that period. Quite a number of reconstructions of Columbus ships exist, there is a reconstruction of a Portugeseship (the pepper wreck) that can provide a starting point for your model, but that one is a bit too late. (1600 in stead of 1500) Jan
  19. amateur
    From what I have seen from others on this site, eg @Old Collingwood or @RGL, it is a mix of both: some parts to be removed and replaced by PE, others remaining and sticking through the deck. Jan
  20. amateur
    The printing is superb. (Although I am still undecided whether I like the slighlymore clunky looks of the PE more than this almost perfect plastics) Question: what do you use for your rigging? it looks as if you have multiple sizes. Jan
  21. amateur
    Btw: in some of his vids, the robot shows up. Guess this black robot is also doing his ratling down
  22. amateur
    This guy is fantastic: both his modelling and his filming. He also does wonders with plastic: Jan
  23. amateur
    No, just too many things at the same time..... And as that is more or less a structural 'problem' these projects all go very, very slowly. All projects (card) that got some attention this summer: only the birds got finished 'in one go'. All others are extended projects Jan
  24. amateur
    If there is more to follow, I'll keep waiting Jan
  25. amateur
    No, that can'tbe correct. The mast should have and angle somewhere between the rake of the aft mast, and the main mast.i The masts are kind of fanning out: the forward mast vertical, or slightly raking forward, the main mast vertical or slightly backward, the mizzen masts raking aft, the rake increasing from main mast to aft mast. Jan

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