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
    Hi Kees, Good to see you back on the workbench! As usual, your detailing and execution are wonderful. Question: is this red the final colour, or will there be a black (?) top-coat Jan
  2. amateur
    Why do you need castings? These anchors look perfectly perfect to me.... Your metalwork is outstanding! Jan
  3. amateur
    You can find the puc quite easily in the www: google for ‘taanhuis’ Jan
  4. amateur
    In the exhibit in the Zuiderzee-museum, they told us that the tanning of the sails is more important for the small working craft: out in all weather, regularly lowering sails (during fishing, loading/unloading), not much time to dry the sails. (same holds for the fishing nets). Sail-rot was less of a problem for the 'long-distance sailers, so the disadvantage of dirty work, and stiffer sails did not balance the advantages (longer sail-life). But: just a tourist guis telling us something. Don't know what his level of expertise was..). (and painting /tallowing the sails was not part of the exhibit. In Dutch texts sometimes a reference is made to Iron Sulfate, that was added to the tanning mixture, as a pigment to get a nicer shade of red). Jan
  5. amateur
    The Dutch also imported catechu from the Indies for this process. They used quite a lot of it, as not only sails, but also rope and fishing nets were treated this way. I have never seen ochre used in all presentations I saw on this process: the cooking of the nets ans sails in the bark-solution results in a reddish brown colour. Jan
  6. amateur
    Depend the quality of the model, and the budget of the buyer, but there are quite a lot of models of vic around. Prices range froma coup,e of dollars, to absurd (asking) prices, but I guess most go for fairly low prices. Jan
  7. amateur
    I sure do! (and the 'spare parts' add to the overall impression!) jan
  8. amateur
    Beautiful ship! question: does the colour differences remain over time? the socalled wallnut in the European kirs also show rather large colourvariations. These tend to disappear over time, as the wood changes colour due to the influence of sunlight. Jan
  9. amateur
    Second question: In the book on he Tasman ships, I can't find any reference to the number of anchors. (and according to your pic, we own the same version of the book ) The drawing shows four types: Sheet, Best bower, small bower and kedge. Those four will (with some trouble) fit on the fore chains. (on the CD-rom: drawing 4b) Jan
  10. amateur
    The pics of the model as shown in the book, show only four anchors: twp large ones on one side, a large and a small one on the other side. No idea how you could stow six on this ship. I am puzzling on it also for Prins Willem, there are texts saying that there shoudl be six anchors on a ship of this size, I can only manage four. I sometimes wonder whether some of them are kept as spares down in the hull.... Jan
  11. amateur
    Tintin is French, La Licorne is a French ship of the line, not an english frigate. She is loosely based on Le Soleil Royal. Jan
  12. amateur
    Very unguided: quite a few landed witin kilometers of the launchplatform Jan
  13. amateur
    With respect to glue: you will soon discover that 'easy' works best. so, don't use glues that are not made for the purpose.... besides, at your scale, rubbery seams between deckplanks are way out of scale: you get a striped deck. (But perhaps you are after that). Caulking seams (as well as the wooden props over the nails) are only centimeters wide n reallife, so at scale 1:100.. paper, black thread, etc are all over scaled. The sharpie will deliver wat you want: the suggestion of seams. With respectto tools: buy as you need them. Don't be tempted to stuff your room with elaborated tools (unless you are after that ) Jan
  14. amateur
    Congrats!! Hope your business will flourish! question: did I miss it, or did you not mention the size of the finished model in the description? Jan
  15. amateur
    Most parts of the standing rigging end up in tackles, deadeyes or something like that. You can tension them, and retension when the standing rigging sags. I secured my stays in a very late stadium of the rigging process., I am left with virtually no sagging. Jan
  16. amateur
    And they also do not show up in the liner-periodpic...... could it be a method of hauling in the mooring cables? I would consider rerigging them slightly different: in the pics you can see that the chain runs via the head of the winch, resulting ina chain that runs fairly high above the deck. You can see thatnicely atthepic with the lightingfrom aside: it almost looks as ifthere were two chains,but one is the chain, the other one the shadow. Jan
  17. amateur
    Besides, Europe is almost washed over by tourists. All large cities are just unbearable during the holidayseason (which runs full year, at least in cities like Amsterdam...) Although I do not agree withBob (kits are defnitily much more fun than a river cruise, as you can add to it, and work at your own speed), much more fun outside the large cities, and just on your own. (Or at leat: outside those herds of tourists, running behing a guide with a red umbrella) Jan
  18. amateur
    But they kept painting the gunturrets I knowthe real thing never went into this state, but your pics could have been pics of the original I like your style. You stop exactly at the point where more would be 'overdone'. Jan
  19. amateur
    On second thoughts, i like v4 better than v2 Jan
  20. amateur
    Sails to yards first, without doubt. Jan
  21. amateur
    I am still surprised by the relatively small part of the hull that is below the waterline. The camo-pattern is a very nice one, indeed. Jan
  22. amateur
    Just a question: did you use the red parts straight out of the box, or did you paint over the red? Jan
  23. amateur
    Very nice. And now the plane around it Jan
  24. amateur
    Hi Ed, I could have hit the like-button, but I wanted tot say that I enjoyed all your posts (even the ones were you said you were only showing repetitive work ). The final result is absolutely fabulous. And although the artwork is perhaps a bit amateurish, the point of view of the picture really shows the impressive height of the ship. Turn it into a black-white pic, and photoshop New York harbor in the background, and nobody can tell this is a model. Jan
  25. amateur
    But the smallest part so far were near invisible. half of that size means: invisible to the human eye 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...