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  1. 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
  2. amateur
    If there is more to follow, I'll keep waiting Jan
  3. 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
  4. amateur
    The rivetting of the secondary guns is somewhat too pronounced as far as I'm concerned. Less is more when it comes to these rows of rivets.... Jan
  5. amateur
    The last "official price" before Mamoli went out of business coupleof years ago was around €450,- Jan
  6. amateur
    Clean and crisp work! Jan
  7. amateur
    Masthoops are not very common on dutch classic ships. Mostly rope with parrels. I don’t know hoe Billings does it, but the mastconstruction sounds rather like the original. Two wooden parts going through the deck to the keel. One iron bar sticking through these parts snd the mast. Jan
  8. amateur
    'k zou er niet te veel op rekenen Jan
  9. amateur
    Ask @dafi or @Hubac's Historian, they are rather experienced in rebuilding plastic kits...... I think they do not use knifes but a steel needle. Jan
  10. amateur
    Would be my advice too. Stern is OK, so modifying that will draw attention to any imperfections. just adjust rhe irons,a nd leave the woodwork as is. Jan
  11. amateur
    Wow, didn’t do anything for over a year. Didn’t realize that it was that long. Must be the longest (intime) more or less running buildlog in MSW. Anyway: did some work on the port-side gunport lids. See you all in oktober 2021 Jan
  12. amateur
    Trying to become an another 'armchair expert' (btw did not succeed so far), I spent some time looking at pics of this ship class. you already knew ofcourse, but these 'interbellum-designs' have beautiful lines. I also came across some drawings showing them in the 'old fashioned' white-yellow paint scheme. That would be a nice contrast: another of this class in another scheme. Or are those drawings just fantasy? Jan
  13. amateur
    Interesting paintjob Jan
  14. amateur
    Railing adds to the realism. Well done. (and apart from a few nerds, no one will count bars) Jan
  15. amateur
    The flag is much better in looks and feel, but I think it is the wrong side connected to the pole: as far as I know, the little cross should be on the side of the pole. Jan
  16. amateur
    Chuck explains it here. (In his log of Cheerful) Printing on very thin paper. Sounds easy. But I guess some trial and error is needed before it works.
  17. amateur
    Looking good. Is there a way to get the flag hanging somewhat more realistically? "Hanging" like this it does no justice to the realism of your model. Jan
  18. amateur
    Which is not compatible with the location of the wreck. The zuiderzee was a rather shallow, relatively large open water, with in some locations a bogland between water and coast. No way vessels could be drawn. same holds for 'favorable wind': winds can be from the same direction for weeks. Waiting for favorable winds can take some time. Interesting to see a mast like this. Never saw one in the context of Dutch shipbuilding. But then, medieval ships never my main interest Jan
  19. amateur
    No pics..... Luckily I know where to find them Jan
  20. amateur
    Don't tell me that you had any doubts on that. We hadn't Jan
  21. amateur
    Ah well, didn't see that on the pic. All the same, I am a bit puzzled by the fact that it seems tha although the important information is on the 'land-part', more ink has been spent on the ships. But on most maritime charts, the compass rose is drawn with at least 8 points, there are some bearings on landmarks etc. This is more like a landowners map, trying to find the best place for his new development.... You say there is a copy of the map dated 1750. Does that one have the ships also? Jan
  22. amateur
    I don't know how it was in the UK, but in the Netherlandse (and other "EU-countries") larges sheets of paper were often/always made with a watermark. This mark can be quite helpfull in dating the map (at least biy providing a time-fence). By the looks of the map itself, I would vote for late, rather than early. Also: the detail of the roads (canals?) are far better drawn than the details of the coastline. My guess would be that the printer of this map did a nice job on the street-layout, and just put a nice lithograph of the ships in the part where there were no streets to display. (in which case he would have copied the nice painting in his (grand)fathers house, and thus display ships of an aera already gone by th date of the map) Jan
  23. amateur
    I checked the Vasa-forum, and there Fred Hocker describes that on Vasa the inhaul and outhaul tackles were actually the same tackles. Inhaul actually not very often needed, so if needed, the outhaul was released from theringbolt in the side, and attached to the ri gbolt inthe deck. the inhaul was probably rigged to the ringbolt on the other side of the deck. Jan
  24. amateur
    She's a beauty!
  25. amateur
    probably while this doesn’t look like normal rigged deadeyes, there seems to be some strap over them. Besides: all other stays visible in the pics are rigged with some sort of turnbuckle-like construction. Jan

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