Jump to content
New Publication - Ship Modeler's Handbook - This Opportunity Will Soon Be Over - Order Now!! ×

amateur

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,439

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by amateur

  1. amateur
    Ureading your log, I already spotted it in yesterdays pics. ah well, every model has a good and a better side. Jan
  2. amateur
    Thanks! Jan
  3. amateur
    And will you be able to resist the urge to sit the remainder of the day next to your model: door open, door closed, door open and closed again? (I would not....) great fun reading your log! Jan
  4. amateur
    What a beautifull model! Outstanding work, and a really nice buildlog to follow. forgive me my last ignorant question, but what kind of medal is lying on the pedestal? Jan
  5. amateur
    Don’t overdo the colourdifferences. It is a small model, so you don’t want an overwhelming zebra-like effect Jan
  6. amateur
    Yup, dangerous stuff. Btw Ever thought of using square dowels to pick the dirt of your cooking pans. (I guess they Work better than round ones) Jan
  7. amateur
    Did the keel-rabbet sit in the middle-line of the wioden hull? I had sevre priblems getting the keel in the middle and square. My schooner is still sitting unfinished in my room.... (Started in 1991, but abandoned before rigging was completed) Jan
  8. amateur
    You can almost see the little sailors run to their battle station! (And your hand keeps being unexpectedly large ) Jan
  9. amateur
    Over here, there used to be very small wooden clothing pegs (actually intended to hang your chrismascards on a string). no glue whatsoever. I can't find a picture of them, only of minipegs that are ways larger (1 inch) than the ones I have ( .5 inch). Jan
  10. amateur
    You nailed it! So much better than the first attempt. Jan
  11. amateur
    But as you gun tackles wont have svere stress, the method shown in your manual works fine, and will prevent uggly oversized knots..... the two ends that need to be glued are half hitched to each other, so no diffucult splicing or so. Jan
  12. amateur
    Really have no idea why you replaced the ones from the kit The whole thing is starting to look like your usuals standards require: superb! Jan
  13. amateur
    The deck is a little bit too clean, otherwise you could almost think these are pics of the original. Your detailing is great!! Btw: it looks as if you do far more than cutting on your cutting mat...... jan
  14. amateur
    I understood that, but I tried to make the point that selling in a Dutch context, the price could perhaps be higher. Jan
  15. amateur
    Nice bunch of models in that library. Don't think our library could find so many good models in progress in this region Jan
  16. amateur
    It is not an unusual subject (at least not here ) It was (is) a famous ship: the personal yacht of Beatrix, presented to her for her 18th birthday. This kit was available i. The seventies ans eighties in almost all hobbyshops around, as well as other kits of authentic shipmodels. Decent quality for a fair price. Your Dutch market will be limited, however: most people who want to do this model already did it 35 years ago (and no, I did not build her, but it is slightly too large for me) Jan
  17. amateur
    Or Popeye uses a very old version of iOS..... The vids don't work on my somewhat outdated Ipad, but function without problems on my new Iphone. And to Popeye: the vids are better than the pics Jan
  18. amateur
    Ok, it is a bit on the late dide (1608), but this drawing shows them attached to the shrouds https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1898-A-20079
  19. amateur
    Or for that matter the books of Philip Reed are very instructive. (clear text, and very detailed photo's) Reed uses wood shavings mounted on thin paper. These can be cutted with a knife to the desired width. These planks in turn are used to plank the (solid) hull. Jan
  20. amateur
    Not to be started for a while, but just to let you know that Johan Scherft did another of his wonderful birds. This time it is a bluethroat. I think that it is a European bird, not known in the America's or Australia. The blue is very blue indeed, size of the bird is about 'finch' for those who want to give birdbuilding a try: www.johanscherft.com Jan
  21. amateur
    Hi Doris, happy newyear to you! With guns she looks terrific. Is it the picture, or do the two aft guns on the lower deck have a lower calliber than the other guns? It looks as if they are not so thick as the others, and more like the guns on the upper deck. Jan
  22. amateur
    I never had thought that Disney based its ship on an existing ship Where did you get the drawing of the ship? The only version I know is a very low-resolution one in the internet, but that is hardly enough to recognize it as a ship. and another question: how long is your model? Those VOC-ships were around 130/140 feet, which is slightly under 40 meters. At scale 1:100, that would come at 40 centimeters. Yours does look longer than that. Jan
  23. amateur
    Interesting choice! Why this ship? (And do you really build in your car??) Jan
  24. amateur
    But Icouldn't resist.... So, here ist the redo (better now ) and one of the guns. Five parts (one of them being .5 mm styrene rod). and a front view, not quite symmetrical, but almost The starboard canvas railing cover turned out better tham the left side. Some sources show the railing on the topdeck with canvas, but the light does not stand high enough to get above the railing, so, no canvas there Jan
  25. amateur
    Missing in the tutorial Chris made, are the screws. I now understand why These eleven parts make up the screw and the shaft. (To be made of wire/styrene rod). It is not difficult, but the parts are tiny (nad my fingers are not). Took me the better part of the afternoon. For those who are going to do the hull, beware: in the aft frames is a hole for the shaft and a lighter red indication on the hull. Both should be opened to insert the shaft. As my skin tended to kink in that popstion, I did not open the skin. The result being that I had to cut the round red tube to a reasonable fit on the hull. Let's say that the largest problem is not visible when the model is placed upright And this is the screw (my cellphone absolutely redused to focus on this part, the styrene rod is .8 mm diameter. So it is tiny. Diameter of the screw is around 8 millimeter. And all mounted. (My watercolours won't do the styrene. Need another walk to the shop for a acryllic red paint) I'm not going to do the second one today (btw yesterdays railing will need a redo) Jan

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...