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Prins Willem 1650 by mhkash
amateur replied to mhkash's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Do you work from drawing, or from the Corelkit? PW makes a nice model. Jan -
Coming along nicely. hope you stacks are not fitted permanently, you put them back-to-front.... I found getting the right colours a bit problematic (as did the paint shop who helped me ....) I noticed that you painted the upper decks blue. Never realized that they were not always green. (I did them green, as per the billings instructions) Jan
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How come that the ship is rusty but the two aft gun towers looks as if they were in the factory yesterday....? And now a serious question: what was the function of thise heavy chains rigged at the bow? Jan
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Down-sizing rope ratio compared to the proper scale
amateur replied to Sandor Laza's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
I guess I gave this link before. It is one of the models Mamoli based their kit on. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/NG-MC-673 It is a contemporaneous model, with original rigging done by the builders of the 1:1 ship. Notice the heavy main stay. Almost as thick as the yards of the square sail, and as thick as the gaff of the top gaf sail. Jan -
Down-sizing rope ratio compared to the proper scale
amateur replied to Sandor Laza's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Hi Sandor, Is it the rope that is too thick, or is it your expectations that did expect something small? Bear in mind that the old-fashioned hemp-ropes needed to be way thicker than the modern materials to have the same strength. On my Prins Willem (scale somewhere around 1:80-1:100), the mast is 11 mm in diameter, the main stay around 1.8. It looked a bit heavy at first, but now the whole rigging is done, and all is more or less in proper thickness, the total picture looks right to me. The only thing: The first version of the 2 mm-rope was too coarse: you could see the strands from 'quite a distance'. The rope should be proper laid, otherwise out looks out of scale. [edit]. My post crossed with the previous. One additional remark: the Dutch contemporaneous models tend to be 'oversized' when it comes to rope-thickness: from that point of viewchoose 5% oversize, and not 16% undersized thickness. The other reason to choose the oversized stay: all ropes have a more or less fixed ratio to the stay. Choosing undersized stay, will make using the proper ratios fro the remainder of the rigging more difficult (less sizes available between .1 and 1,5 mm than between .1 and 2.0 mm.) In the end the variation in thickness of the ropes used is what counts for the overall impression. Jan -
JSC has multiple ways of building the hull. This one I didn't know. Warning: tolerances are quite low, especially when starting the hull. Make sure you work as precise as possible. Question: do you have a scanner/printer? If so, it may be worthwhile to scan the kit, and use the scan to provide spare parts, or test-parts for the difficult parts. Jan
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Matthias from Berlin, Germany says Hello
amateur replied to victory78's topic in New member Introductions
Hallo Matthias, Welcome at MSW! and for all interested in the buildlog of this noce model: it is here (in German) https://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t2889f685-Zeesboot-um-ca-Massstab.html Jan -
Porsche 934 by kpnuts - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/12 - PLASTIC
amateur replied to kpnuts's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I like them as they are now: put aside, but not too neatly. Jan -
Old Build Logs Missing Some Posts
amateur replied to mikiek's topic in How to use the MSW forum - **NO MODELING CONTENT**
Hi Maury, did you hit the “ignore”-button on your own log? Your last post dates from thursday, and was right on top of the list. (at least, when I looked at it) [edit] just checked. You can’t ignore your own topics. you can change the sorting of the list of postings. Perhaps you changed to something else than ‘recent first’ Jan -
A Larger Model Cannon
amateur replied to normanh's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Can't see it based on the pics, but it could also be a brass signal gun. And it looks as if the carriage was brown from its beginning. Jan -
I see, I already thought so: hz sounds like huizen, but it is a non-existent code. For all non-dutch: Dutch law presribed an indication on the mainsail which made the ship reconizable: the lettering refers to the home-port, the number is just a count: the order of registration. First ship registerd got a 1, second 2 etc. Jan
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Looks great! in the first pics only the fact that the lid on the 'bun' are missing (and show a non-rendered grey insidegave themodel away. in your last pic,I guess most skippers wouldhave reduced sailjust to main and fore-sail, and would have stricken bezaan and kluiver when the wind startd to grow steonger (especially because the fishing gear is still out) Is Hu37 a fictitious ship? (Couldn't make out the village that uses hu as indication) Jan
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There are even places where you can rent them for a day out. Near higway A12: duckcity.nl. Rent a Duck for a party, day out, etc. Seems to be a nice business.... I don't have positive memories with those ugly ducklings: leaking, not wind and water proof. Jan
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It is not isolated, the last pic in my log also rotated. but as it is long ago that I uploaded it, I don't know when it rotated. It only happened to the pics that I made using my Iphone, manually rotated, and uploaded. When uploaded it had the orientation I gave to it, now it is back to its original orientation. No need to correct it, but just to letyou know that something changed (somewhere, sometime). Jan
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Hi Mike, The question often arises. But - without any pics or additional info - my guess would be that those models are worth their sentimental value. Remembrance to (grand)dad, but without any monetary value to the outside world. As you say that they have been in a bedroomshelf, my guess is that they are something like 'decorators models', that were quite common between 1935-1975. Mass produced, intended to give the impression of a somewhat older model, depicting a shiptype, rather than an actual ship. Jan
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Perhaps a stupid question, but what ship/model is shown in the new banner? (or do I now officially qualify as an outsider by not knowing ? ) Jan
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Fun! Another out-of-the-ordinary build.:) Jan
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Haven't posted here for some time, but the model has turned out very convincing! All the research and work has certainly paid off. Jan
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Can your "home production" cope with the potential increase of demand without damage to your health, or are you in for a 24/7 year -round production scheme to keep up? Jan
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In my experience: the pinrail does not split at drilling (especially not when using a sharp drill in a dremel), it splits when you try to force a 1.55 mm pin in a 1.5 mm hole..... I didn't drill many rails, but for me the following, rather lowtech solution worked: take the piece of wood, mark the positions of the pins (using a needle, and along a ruler to get the holes on a straight line, evenly spaced. Drill 'pilot holes' using a .5 mm dril (by hand, why not?) and drill again using a 1,5 mm drill btw: you could also stop at the .5 mm, as these are probably more in scale. You can use .5 steel wire to make your pins (using while glue to form the head). His will help you to make strong, thing and long enough pins. I think (but am not sure) that Edt shows this inhis Yong America build log) Jan
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According to wiki: build as an 18 gun, three masted privateer in 1757 by the french . refitted/reclassed as mortar-vessel twice in her career. Jan
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Bentley 4.5 litre (altered version) by kpnuts 1/12 Airfix
amateur replied to kpnuts's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I didn't realize that the whole back-end of the car would turn in mahogany, I thought it would be the upper side only. And with respect to the wheels: as the respoked ones are so much better than the originals, I don't beleive you when you say you are never goibng to do that again. You will be doing it, as it is worth the time and nasty words. Jan
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