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But as in the german cardforum guys started their corona-trigered spring-building, I couldn’t resist..... First the flat paper: Resulting in a nice curved body. Closing was a bit fiddly, but worked out OK Next came the tail section. Getting it properly inside the body proved to be a bit difficult. IN the end the section matches up with the tabs, but the tail is not completely level with the body.... And the preparations for the wings: the downloadkit does not provide the skewer, but the skewer is needed to get the wings in the prober angle, and to give them some firmness, preventing them to get loose. The wings itself were rather straightforward, although in the end not without a small problem: Upper and underside As the surface is quite large, and need to be glued, I placed a line to help me align both parts without having the need to adjust two quite soft, sticky surfaces. And all parts together: the two outmost feathers are modelled as separate parts. And there the small problem arose: bending over the underside of the wing turned out problematic: at the elbow the card tended to kink: no way to get the underside aligned with the indicated gluing area, getting the front side at the right angle and the card flat. Ah well, perhaps I wil do it again. Next the first part of the head: Clever construction: as the bird is singing, you need a way of aligning its beak (inside and outside). This rather stiff, four-layered card is a template: it has to be glued inside the head, then the beak is cut out, its throat glued in place, and the outside modelled, building it up to the desired thickness using layers of glue. Will see how that works out. Jan (to be continued)

I already found the answer to my question. Pet is on the internet (wiki-page crew works railway). So much to read and learn Jan

You mean there is something technical you don't know about? Now that is a surprise Your little machine is coming along nicely. What was its original duty? Was it tram-loco, or some kind of industrial loco (or one of those coal or peat transporters?) Jan

Almost a year ahead. It was not rainy today, but Idid the bofors. The pics are a bit lousy, but the result is more or less as it should be. The Scaldis/JSC card has the tendency to delaminate when sharply folded: the small seats therefore were a bit of a problem and I made a small start on the ships boats. I decided to do those 'as printed', and not by replicating part 220 and adding the boats interior. See you next year Jan

I also came across nickel silver, that is quite often usedby the German cardbuilders. Somewhat easier to find here. However: sellers should package it in mixed packages in stead of 10 lengths per diameter Jan

I don't know whether this counts as progress : all (but three) pieces have been used, the evergreen been painted (yes, I know, thee colours are off, but not as far as these pics suggest). Remaining work is masts and rigging. I tried myevergreen rods, but they are not stiff enough. So, I have to find some steel or brass inthe correct thickness, and delivered by a webshop with decent postage-costs. I hate ordering little thingies costing under 5 euro's and paying four times as much due to the stamp that is on it. ) Today's pics Knowing myself, it will remai. In this state quite a long time. I have now three or four models in this 'almost done' category, some for over a decade Jan

Nope: build the hull took me three years. Rigging still hasn't finished in almost 7 years. I guess the halfway point measured in parts is something different han halfway measured in time (not to speak in terms of motivation ) But why bother over the half-way point? Two things count (at least to me): the fisished product and the fun while working on it. No fun: no work and some longer time till the finished product. So what? put it aside when the fun is over, take it up again when you feel apt for building. As long as it is not your primary source of living, counting hours and parts isn't that important, or is it? Jan

Nobody believes that.... That sounds so simple, so it can't be true. madness is setting in here too. Meetings cancelled, people forced to work at home, schools closing at first cough. Interseting chain reactions: scholl closing, kids at home, parents not being able to go to work (or asked to stay at home when the kids feeling not completely well) On the bright side: plenty of space in the commuters train Jan

Did Zara ever had a camouflage pattern, or will she just be plain (ah well, we know what you do with plain ) grey? Jan

PS: third question: what are the blocks made of? They look quite smart Jan

What a nice model you made out of that Heller kit! Two questions: what did youuse for the sails? The material looks quite good (both in colour and in texture) and the second one: did you paint the lines between the hull planks just freehand?? I see no belading, runnin gor other issues in the paint.... I can't even paint a full size door without my paint running in all directions Jan

Great, another masterpiece on the go! Jan

Did the bBul ever reach his destinatiion? Jan

You label it 'thr second ull', but counting, I come to the conclusion that it is at least number four.... How much is going on in your shop? Jan

The sailplan shown in the previous post is already an interpretation of the rig shown by Chapman. I checked my edition, and rhis is all there is regarding the sailplan/rig

Chapmans rigs for the small vessels are not always correct (too much sail) the square topsail looks too heavily rigged: normal Dutch habit (even on the larger yachts), was to have the topsail 'flying' without lifts on the yards, and without clewlines). I don't think gretel was a Dutch yacht: there are no leeboards. Compared to the ships inthis drawing, the square sail is too heavily rigged, and the gaf is set too high: as the stay is around the mast, the gaff should not be higher than the eye of the stay. apart from that, I should say that the rig is fairly standard for the time and the region. Jan

Next few months? The last months your building speed was higher (or is Zara a super-super detailed kit?) Your torpedoboot came out very nice! Jan

I know what you're after, but I have a couple of things to do (work amongst others ), and a couple of models in variousstages of completion. there is a wooden Prins Willem, three paper ships (evertsen, de ruyter, v108), a small steam loco. I will not start this bird before I finish at least one of these models. The loco is not without a build-log, but that log is not at modelSHIPworld, but at a german forum ( die kartonmodellbauer: http://www.die-kartonmodellbauer.de/index.php?thread/9468-preussische-t13-pirling-1-55/). I will not start a log here (I think) Jan

Perhaps facebook is the preferred thing, but their facebookpage is quite dead. Last update a year ago. Jan

I’m no match for Danny. i dont’ dare to......

The crew has neglected her a bit ...... difficult to beleive that this ship, and that boring bit of plastic from post #13 are actually the same thing Jan

Sorry, for the time busy with something else ;) Jan

Nice little boat. Looks quite similar to the paper-kit V108. Are you going to spray an oil-canning pattern? Some of the pics show such an effect quite clearly. Would bring this little, slightly flat hull to life. Jan

At first I thought you slightly misaligned the rivets on the tender. so I checkedthe internet. Should have known: not Danny's idea, but misaligned by the original builders The model is as impressive as the original. I think you could stage the model insuch a way, that it will be difficult to see the differencebetween model and original: Low point of view, nice background. Jan

By the way, the standard way of doung this does not exist, but your way is one of the more widely used solutions jan