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  1. amateur
    Hi, Danny's work (both in wood and in paper) is fantastic, and inspired quite a lot of us. However, Danny will not read your praise, he died earlier this year. Jan
  2. amateur
    Hi Doris, Your rigging looks absolutely wonderful. (do you make the rope yourself, or do you have a source for that?) The only thing I do not quite understand is the rigging of your top-rope: you used a sheeve rather high in foot of the topmast, I would have expected a sheeve somewhere further down the heel of the topmast (like in Andersons book pages 176/177). Rigging it through a lower sheeve would enable lifting the mast above the level of the cross trees. [edit, 10 sept]. And looking again, I realized that the set-up is exactly as in Anderson, but not with a single, but a double top-rope. I should have seen the other rope going down. Did take me some time to understand that what I expected to see, is on the other side of the masttop. (And thus not visible in your pics as all pics show the same side of the model) I should have seen it at once yesterday. As one of my teachers said: please think before you are going to ask silly questions.... Jan
  3. amateur
    Hi Doris, Thanks for the update! Stunning quality as ever.... Jan Dirk
  4. amateur
    Interesting to see that they rigged the lanyards 'upside down' in Kampen: the stopperknot is in the lower deadeye, not the upper one. Jan
  5. amateur
    I'm always surprised at the increas in size between Dreadnought and WWII ships. Jan
  6. amateur
    You could (when you have loads of time) go through the danish navy archive, whether or not there are any usefull drawings. (Nosearch available, no sorting in the archive, so random clicking needed....) I found some that may be helpfull: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/billedviser?epid=17149179#208161,39521644 same here: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/billedviser?epid=17149179#208163,39521646 the decks have been marked in red, in this ship, the poop-rail is even lower (ie non-existent), and no deck-openings. the other one on the rig: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/billedviser?epid=17149179#208164,39521647 gaf-rigged, but having a full length lateen yard. Jan I
  7. amateur
    AllBentleys in the internet have gloss bonnets, and not so glossy bodywork. looks as if you hit the nail on the head. Jan
  8. amateur
    Actually, I see a stylized daisy..... My first idea was 'button'. Can it be the remnants of a metal button, dating some time (but not too long time) back? Jan
  9. amateur
    As I understood, it is a fictitious name, for a ship based on real contenporeneous drawings. I tried to locate the drawings in the NMM-archive, but there are so many that I did not succeed (so far) Jan
  10. amateur
    With regard to thebon et in the main sail, I would say the artist did his job: you can see the bonnetn both sides, part of it being hidden by the dragon/wolf. (Would not guess that being a dog) And going by the way the artist draws the fishy things in the water, perhaps the detailing in the ship might not be acurate to the smallest detail Jan
  11. amateur
    Very nice barrels. Pewter figurines used to be rather popular till someone found out than neither the production nor the playing with it was not without some health hazards Perhaps your hippie-dude uses resin nowadays. Have seen some very nice results with that. also in this forum: Jan
  12. amateur
    Sometimes Ithink those soldiers were very, very tired of war, and rather proud of their superior machines. In that case 'telling the enemy' doesn't count anymore, telling others on how the machine operates still does. Jan
  13. amateur
    That is not true, although you don't see the individual parts, you do see the difference between a model with and without PE. Espcially when done with care, like yours. and if only seen on pics, we can only encourage you to place more pics Most of the small scales here are warships. Itis niceto see something slightly more peacefull jan
  14. amateur
    Here you can see the shoulder-rests of the gun. (I think different type of gun/sub, but the principle is the same: the rests help to steady and point the rather heavy gun) Tpic downloaded here: http://www.ww2technik.de/dsub_geschuetze.htm Jan
  15. amateur
    Hello Yves, I hardly dare to ask the question, but isn't the shoulderrest of the smaller gun upside down? I thought those brackets should rest on the shoulder of the gunman. Jan
  16. amateur
    Thanks, was going to ask: with or without topgallants nad with or without bezaan Jan
  17. amateur
    What type of rig will she get? Jan
  18. amateur
    What's wrong with the grass? It is green, and looks healthy. That's mre than you can say about my grass...... the model is getting along nicely. Fluits are the more difficult togetitright: nasty roundings everywhere.... Jan
  19. amateur
    Isn't that too easy for you, just buying near perfect guns, without any PE to add to it? Is your PE deck glued? It looks as if there is a little gap between deck and the underlying structure. Jan
  20. amateur
    He means: yes Jan
  21. amateur
    You mean basswood? Jan
  22. amateur
    You have my attention. long, very long time ago I ordered some drawings at Smit-international to do a modern tug. I ended up with Billings Rotterdam. The drawings are still lying around somewhere, fading I guess. Jan
  23. amateur
    I was (again) looking at your last development. Wondering: what paint does he use, and how is the guilding done? It is not flashy gold-leaf, but is also not just yellow ochre-paint. Jan
  24. amateur
    Nope, just curious when you mentioned the problem. Jan
  25. amateur
    Sorry, I thought they were hosted here, as the link-address that pops up hovering over those question marks is something like this: https://modelshipworld.com/uploads/monthly_09_2014/post-96-0-67177900-1412022422.jpg That refers to a non-existent file, but with msw in the address.... That made me think 'should be visible, but is not....' Jan

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