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  1. amateur
    Be honest: dubz is not the only one happy with the new chain. It is so much better that you have to be pleased with it yourself I like the black and white pics, I don't know why, bt the detail stand out even more in those BW-pics. Jan
  2. amateur
    Blokzijl is a ni ce, but very small town, and the wieden are a beautifulll area (lots of water and reed). The ship you get when you rent a punter in Blokzijl is this one: a relatively small inland sailing ship. in Giethoorn they use the same type, but without mast (as these need to fit under the bridges that connect the houses to the main street. Also with much lower boards, as they don't sail in open water, but are propelled using a long stick,pushed aginst the bottom of the canal. as you see, lots of tourists overthere, mostly japanese and american. Not nice, too crowded, too commercial...... jan
  3. amateur
    Hi Marcus, whatever ship that is, I don't know, but it is certainly not a punter, (at least not what is called punter in the Netherlands). The same holds for the ship to the left. It looks more like a tjalk to me (or it could be a non-dutch ship. It could be a german inland sailing ship) Edit: Second thiught: it is most certainly a coastal/inland sailer, a klipper. You need the form of the bow ro be sure, it could also be a tjalk, but the rudder is slightly too small for a tjalk. Klippers have huge main-sails, and large cargo holds. Not wooden ships, but steel ones, and designed somewhere at the beginning of the previous century.(around 1880-1900) Jan
  4. amateur
    I had the same thought: at this size, you should be able to make the gun/carriage from wood resulting a more convincing result. The additional worth of a 3D is making parts that you can't do yourself due to size/complexity. Small guns with nice emblemata on it, complex lanterns, carvings (especially the repetitive ones that are used all over the ship) Is this printer capable of doing that kind of stuff? Jan
  5. amateur
    possible, I ended my subscription two years ago, as the magazine evolved into a direction that is not mine (no more old fashioned building articles, but lots of technical 3D printing stuff). Not worth the money for me anymore. I checked they have a Zuiderzee-punter in their drawings-archive. @Marcus: the sail is large, but don't be mislead: the largest punter was somewhere between 6 and 7 meters. Not huge at all. Jan
  6. amateur
    Triple layer? Sorry, didn't notice that. Probably my eyesight Jan
  7. amateur
    You actually did manage to spray the gunbarrels in two different colours.... There should be a jaw-dropping emoticon for builds like this one Jan
  8. amateur
    Are you sure the measurement of the main yard is correct? it sounds so long compared to the distance to the deck anderson does not give very precise numbers, just text and rather basic drawings.... Jan
  9. amateur
    https://www.dezeilpunter.nl/de-bouw-van-een-punter At the bottom of the page is a small film. In dutch, but nice pics
  10. amateur
    Google punter and giethoorn This type of ship is a rather common type used well into the seventies for local transport. No sails no rowing. Just pushing a long stick punters are the last ships build shell-first: a fee planks, frames added afterwards, jan
  11. amateur
    The hull plates have a tight fit: 1mm would have been critical. Jan
  12. amateur
    I started, but due to orher tasks (garden, home work) she is still unfinished..... will be following with interest. I guess you know the tutorial by hart, it is excellent jan
  13. amateur
    Yamaha-site will be closing vrry soon. Download one if you need one! jan
  14. amateur
    Beatifull work! that yamaha, is that one of those things consistong of a trillion parts? jan
  15. amateur
    I was going to ask whether you would cut into the roede. The answer is obviously yes. Do all four vanes have the same template? As in real life they don't have: the binnenroedeen de buitenroede are different: in the centre, they lay on top of each orher, the tips have ro be in one plane, making the inner one straight, and the outer one curved inside. Jan
  16. amateur
    Looking good! Jan
  17. amateur
    To please @cog, here are some better quality pics (Canon 400D, Tamron-macro-lense, tripod: this is the best I can deliver :)) The first is the focsle, after some tydying up, and finishing off ropes. The problem is: as the deck shouldn't be there, the belying pins are much to low, so there is no way of forming neat rope coils: they should almost all be put down on the deck. The second one is an oldie: nothing changed here: Here is the line that was cut of in the block. Good enough for me And here the top: And here the work still to do: Main mast, and mizzen, both rigged, but not finished..... But tomorrow my summer holidays are over, and work kicks in..... And yes: all the fuzz you see is dust. After 15 years, she is getting a bit dusty Jan
  18. amateur
    I wasm't so much wondering as to whether the question would be asked, but more who would ask it. I got my answer Perhaps tomorrow, not now: battery of my camera is flat, and I don't like to start up my PC to transfer the pics. Jan
  19. amateur
    And my first problem showed up: Corel does not have proper belaying points for all ropes around the fore mast. in stead you have to glue the rope into a hole in the deck. So, when the rope does need retensioning, there is no way of doing that without destroying what is there..... I cut the rope from the hole, but was left with too little lenght to reattach it. I glued a new rope into the deck, and will try (wish me luck) to hide the fact that there are two ropes in the first block it will go through..... And forgive me the quality of the pic: done with an Ipad, with no flash. I promise better pics will follow (don't aks me when ) Jan
  20. amateur
    Now, where was I? PW is still on the table, but since we decided to sell our previous home, no work was done. So, it was like this, and still is, gathering dust on the table. I would like to do some work on him this week, but there are so many orher things to do: garden, house-things, work Jan
  21. amateur
    These type of ships are more often found in cardboard than in kit-edition. (titanic being the exception ) Jan
  22. amateur
    Hi Marcus, May I suggest starting at the lowest wale, and working up/down from there? The location of the wales does have quite an effect on the visual appearnce. Getting their position right after planking might be troublesome: getting it right before planking is easier: you cab draw on the hull until you are happy. getting the other planks in position is easier: they are thinner and easier to handle than that heavy wale.
  23. amateur
    Apparently, you are not too happy. Am I still allowed to say I like the result? Many of the issues you mention are not very prominent in the pictures, so all I see is a nice model of an unusual (at least, atMSW) ship. with respect to the masking tape: tamiya sells a masking tape that is rather flexible, so that is easier to stick to curved, and slightly uneven surfaces. When paint does bleed, I discoverd that scraping using a sharp knife most of the time works better that sandpaper: scraping does not damage the surface, sandpaper does. Jan
  24. amateur
    Too light is better than too heavy. please give us a video. She deserves to be in the water!
  25. amateur
    Hi Doris, did you change your goldpaint since the SoS? Jan

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