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  1. amateur
    After an afternoon struggling with tiny piecies, I can tell you. Although our first 'paper experience' dates back to early childhood, building with paper IS NOT EASY😡 I did the backside of the ship, and one side up to the bow (including rubbing strips) Although looking OK from a distance, I am not quite pleased with the result. 1. The grey tends to t nd to yellow/green when in contact with water. Strange, as the ink should be waterproof..... 2. I can't get the colour of my paint correct, it is something else than flat grey, so, making corrections is not easy ..... 3 due to thefact that upper and lower hull do not butt,but overlap, i needed a small filler between both hull parts, to get enough lenght at the bow. Will createa minor problem with part 17 (formost bulkhead) having said all that, here are some low quality (cellphone) pics. over all view from acceptable distance Filler peice, and some paint, as the after part of the bow section lost some colour. Under flashlight, the grey is even more off than in real life Same on the other side...I grabbed the mod l with wet fingers, so there was a rather yellowy discolouration in that area. I guess this will be the "wall side" of this model,especially while the rubbing strip is off by at least half a millimeter (width of the strip is around 1.5 just for reference) and the last pic of today: the gluestrip for the upper deck.
  2. amateur
    That's where his Testors fillerand paintbox come in handy After I had some ripp off, Danny said that usind Testors dullcota spray makes the cardboad surface quite resistant to that problem. No idea whether that also holds for these laser-parts Jan
  3. amateur
    And don't forget that the lion has two tails (between his legs...) there is a Dutch saying: 'going with your tail between your legs', which means so much as 'leaving as you know you're beaten.' Fits in quite well with his facial expression. Someone had some fun I guess... Jan
  4. amateur
    I actually wouldn't want to behave it like that: it will crumble ...... I checked my pics with (parts of) the lion. Not overly sharp :(, but I guess you can see enough on it. (Long time ago we had someone on MSW building a cardboard-version of the Utrecht, and he asked me to get pics of the carving details. I have some more on other parts, if you like) Jan
  5. amateur
    Thanks for restarting! Jan
  6. amateur
    I'll never get used to that 'wrong direction' of the wingtips Jan
  7. amateur
    Reading about these things does not have the impact as seeing it happen..... Jan
  8. amateur
    Is that total barrel lenght, or measured from the pont where it comes free of the mount? jan
  9. amateur
    I guess you checked maritiemdigitaal on any interesting pics? http://www.maritiemdigitaal.nl/index.cfm?event=search.getsimplesearch&database=ChoiceMardig&needimages=true&searchterm=Kruiser java&allfields=&title=&keyword=&creator=&collection=&shipname=&invno=&museum=&startrow=1 problem is that their searchengine isn't too good. Searching dor hrms java dosnt give too many hints, while searching for Java gives way too many I searched for kruiser java, which gives a nice bunch of pics. Jan
  10. amateur
    Just a question: if this result is labelled 'quite acceptable' how on earth does '(near) perfect' look like? If ever my results came out half as good as this, I would be very, very happy indeed..... Jan
  11. amateur
    Tbit late, I had a number of pics uploaded in picasaweb. I can't give a link to these as google decided to stop the service. I'll have a look at home, check wether or not I can upload them The grey thing the lion is holding is the sign of the cityof Utrecht (red and white) Jan
  12. amateur
    Quite a number of lines going through the masttops (check eg EdT's build log of America), down to the railings. Therefore the mast area is crowded, but sail handling is more efficient from down under: no need to send up large amounts of sailors high up in bad weather: sail adjustments could be done from deck level. Also: you cabn get more men to a line when the line is all the way down to the deck: the number of people that fit on a top is relatively small. So yes, there is a reason (and it was standard practice from quite early on: also 16th century rigging also had this practice) Jan
  13. amateur
    Can't you use Gwen's computer to start a build log ? Jan
  14. amateur
    Yip, solvent one. I discarded the pva, as it tended to leave visible changes in the card due to rhe water, might switch back to PVA though, below the promised pics: bow and stern closed. No problems (apart from fingers wirh glue )
  15. amateur
    Finally, found some time to work on the hull. again a learningpoint: find some acceptable glue. this one tacks easily, but is rather thick, and is setting too quick, resulting in those nastly 'threads' of dry glue when applied with a small applicator. now I have to fins my pics.... (I took them, but where did I leave them ...) Jan
  16. amateur
    And I think it is not only fresh air for those working over there. I don't know how many fires there were to keep the steam pressure on. Coals also need some air to burn Jan
  17. amateur
    No plastic, no PE, no airbrush. Don't you feel a bit off your feet ? Jan
  18. amateur
    Yup, as far as I understand the business of model building, there are two ways to go with a kit: just plain out-ot-the-box without thinking, or discarding parts (sometimes very large parts) of it, and just try to improve on the kit. Some even say that that second route will inevitably lead to model building without kits. But look on the bright side: three years of fun from one box. That is not too bad Jan
  19. amateur
    I checked Witsen He describes grating as you made them: the lower layer, measured about two inches high, two wide, the upper layer nailed on top, battens half inch thick, about 3 inch wide, I guess the lower layer is around two-three inches apart. so you would be correct, as soon as you follow the advice of Hans: sand back until zero thickness jan
  20. amateur
    A grating expert? What do you want of him? Jan
  21. amateur
    btw The foto is from the book by Heinrich Winter, describing the model of a Dutch 80 guns ship. (model lost in the war...). Mamoli based its model on the book and the drawings that came with it. Jan
  22. amateur
    The plan is correct, but due to the form of the bow, you'll notice that the planks will have a severe tendency to do what you see on the foto. There is one thing where the plan is not correct (actually, more, but this one is easy to correct): The hawseholes are one wale too low: the should give acces to the main gundeck, the way they are drawn now, ends up below the deck. Jan
  23. amateur
    Nope, straight from the printer.... will have a look in the shop. Jan
  24. amateur
    Took me some time, but today I managed some work last week i doubled all frames (below waterline). next I attached the first bottom plate. Put it in model by rolling it on the inside with my x-acto knife handle, on an oldfashioned (foam) mousemat. Worked perfect after the glue tacked, IPutthe second skin on. It almost fitted some disaapointment when I removed the tape, after drying. Somehow the colour sticks to the tape. Glue residue, sooemthing to do with my print, I dont know. Need for touch-ups ... and I had a very small overlap at the corner. I cut a very small sliver away, but in the end that turned out to be a chunk that was way too large. Some need for touch up.... I will dollow the kit in making an overlap between the lower and the upper hull. Butting red aginst grey seems to be too much of a ask for me. apart from the need for touch-up, I am not too disappointed: some slight starving cow effect, but not too much. All other skins are curved, angled and otherwise problematic, so I keep my fingers crossed Jan
  25. amateur
    Exactly how much do you use from the kit itself? it looks as if you replace almost everything Jan

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