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  1. 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
  2. amateur
    But the smallest part so far were near invisible. half of that size means: invisible to the human eye Jan
  3. amateur
    Hi Marcus, Bending isn’t the bedt way to go: some need serious sideway curves, and the width isn’t constant over the length. Making templates, and fabricating planks from a sheet is perhaps the easier way to go. Jan
  4. amateur
    Nice ship, not the easiest hull to plank. (Never tried one myself, but saw lot of strugling ) Emke's drawings show enough detail to keep you busy for some time . Jan
  5. amateur
    Talent? Outside and painted you get an idea of the size of the ship. Jan
  6. amateur
    Shipmodels everywhere Although the maritime musea tend to shift from models to stories. Jan
  7. amateur
    Executed in dark blue, sigh.........
  8. amateur
    Do you already have a camouflage scheme? Jan
  9. amateur
    Looks good. How picky are you in the details of the hulls molding? In case you are, the indentation of the hull around the forward guns need a very small amount of filler: in the original it is rounded slightly below the upper plating belt, in the model it cuts into it.... Jan
  10. amateur
    The pics are easy: www.bundesarchiv.de the rest is wizardry, as far as I'm concerned ... Jan
  11. amateur
    Give or take another ten years or so Jan
  12. amateur
    Is that a framed model with a bottom, a framed one on a triangular backbone, or a box-like internal structure? JSC has some variations. And: did you also bought the laser cut detail set? Jan
  13. amateur
    I understand that you needed a break from your major build, but we want some update there Those little black thingies can become a real problem: Doing the second planking on my Prins Willem (same gun-port system), I didn't manage to get the run of the planks exactly in line with the line of the gunports. There was (especially at the ones glued to the bulkheads) almost no margin for error. In the end I decided to leave out the guns on the upper deck., and live with the fact that I can see the lower edge of the U's in some cases. I did not drill the holes for the guns. I still fear the moment of drilling, and coming to the conclusion that fifteen years age I should have used more glue to attach them to the inner planking. Ah, well, I can always decide to show her with the guns behind closed ports Jan
  14. amateur
    Next will be the aft torpedo, some railing, the compass and the guns. (In that order) I checked the pics: the box is slightly too large, and the grey squares that indicate glueing surfaces are misleading: the light should be on top of the brackets, not sitting in between them. Jan
  15. amateur
    Some more little stuff. Torpedo tube on deck, pedestal for the gun, and for the searchlight installed. Searchlight, and brackets. and installed on top of the bridge. Could have been done better. There seems ro be some interference between brackets and little square box at the bottom of the light. And now I'm really done for this week. Jan
  16. amateur
    Little, or shouldI say small progress. Today I did somerailing stuf (draf model, poland). I used scal 1:250 in stead of 1:200. The reasonfor that: stanchion-distance is still too large in this scale, and pics show that the railing on these ships is on the low side. I think this is a reasonable compromise. Draf has used gray card, and I don't think painting will make itanybetter than it is now. I also made the first torpedo-tube. More to follow (don't know when) Jan
  17. amateur
    That is small..... what is the thickness of cardstock you use? Jan
  18. amateur
    No, perhaps not, but it was standard practice in Dutch rigging around 1700. Why they did it, and when they stopped it, I never checked, but quite a lot of pic on gaff-rigged vessels show a double vang on both sides, especially on the slightly larger see-going vessels. Jan
  19. amateur
    Oops, I missed the updates on this one. I made that up just now. those Halinsky's are unbelievable. Another masterpiece! I promise: I will follow the next one more closely Jan
  20. amateur
    Today my amiration for the 1:350 PE builders increased by another huge amount. I deceded to build some 'gunlike' things, in order to replace the kit-provided parts. In the end, I have some partial results (paint still to be done), but it took me far more time than expected. In the previous post I showed how it could have looked like. So here is what I made of it. sides and pedestals added together with some barrel-like things. Actually the forward part was round (watertank), and the back end square, but that proved beyond my capabilities. Making correct sized barrels, too, by the way. They are made of tightly rolled 80 grams paper, but a strip of 4 mm wide proved to much, a strip of 3 mm didn't roll as I wanted.... placed on the conning tower, I noticed two things: the struture is a tad small (it should have reached just above the railing. Second: it does need some kind of chair. The chair I made. The size remains at it is. No-one willever know, as long as you guys don't tell the whole thing is so small that my cellphone camera doesn't focus properly. Will be fun painting. All wheels and other small stuff remains unmodelled. Jan
  21. amateur
    Do those marines wear a kilt? Jan
  22. amateur
    I don't think that in a real ship you can hitch a shroud to a rail, without the use of any clamps of pins. So, I guess there is no 'real' answer to your question. You can check how these lines were belayed (most probably) bijy looking at the way it is done in Mediterranean ships, like Tartanes and Chebeques. Those ships have a toggle set in the line just below the lower block on which the line is belayed. (like the one you have above the blocks). (in your case I would go for a half hitch (with the hitch actually between the rail and the ships hull.) Nice model btw Jan
  23. amateur
    The funny thing is... there are no pics of these small gun-platforms. the drawings suggest double anti-aircraft guns, but the descriptions of the armament do not mention them. No way that the small cardboard pieces come togethet to something like this (G16, an old WWI torpedoboat) It is tempting to scratchbuild., at least simplified: pedestal, side, two watercooled .50 brownings. Jan
  24. amateur
    This afternoon I finished the searchlights. I experimented with larger strips, but eventually, I decided not the thicken the cilinders: i left them as they are. and the next fiddly bits. No idea what they might represent. Gun -mounts?? They are gping to be placed in the angled platforms on the conning tower. Might be gunmounts, but at scale 1:250 they are strangely high.... ideas welcome Jan
  25. amateur
    Ah, missed this thread, I just asked you a question on the config you are going to build. You already answered it Jan

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