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  1. amateur
    Hi Carl, Question on your tools: Where did you get your tweezers? Mine have problems in keeping the points neatly centered opposite to each oher when I try to hold something small. (resulting in potential loss of parts, as they are launched into outer space....) Jan
  2. amateur
    Fun, the end of the booms, yellow disk of around 1.5mm diameter. Don't even think of breathing while you try to pickthese up. Fun: the designer made a mistake: heprinted 12 booms, while there should be 14 of them. A well, what would a kit be without small problems? Jan
  3. amateur
    Not a log, but to show I did some modelling these last weeks... This guy is sitting on one of my shelves for ages (not as long as my others, but still....) So I decided to give him a kind of boost this week. Modelling at the dinigroom table has it advantages when it is cold upstairs The model is made by Scaldis, a dutch company. She shows MS Axeldijk, one of the ships of the HAL shortly after the war (she is a coverted victory ship, as you will probably see) All in all the model is around 55 centimeters, still workable, but small enough to drive me mad with the tiny pieces of paper. No scale 1:500 PE models for me And no, I don't know why my iPad turned some of my pictures 45 degrees .... Jan
  4. amateur
    With all those interesting builds, there isno time to do something myself...... Jan
  5. amateur
    Great. Would definitely like to give this a go. Still trying to find a type of paper that is good enough to do these kind of models, but also acceptable to my printer..... Jan
  6. amateur
    The carvings are nice, but why did you choose not to model rge knights head on the main knight? Those carved heads were quite typical for the ships in this period. Jan
  7. amateur
    Great! New updates coming! (although I have to admit: cheating on your side takes a while to accept on our side....) Jan
  8. amateur
    Progress would be nice Is that deck plated, or planked? Jan
  9. amateur
    I thought something completely different: these ships must have been quite daunting for new crewmembers: how much drills did you need to find your way in this maze of turrets, gangways, decks and guns. And not only in broad daylight in harbour, but also at see, in darkness, in the heat of battle. Glad I wasn't there (nor on any other battleship in action) Jan
  10. amateur
    Nice! Jan
  11. amateur
    Would be nice. By the way: how's the model?
  12. amateur
    I'm following with interest. Still contemplating my possibilities is such a model (Although greatly hindered by lack of space, and lack of powertools, not to mention time.....) Jan
  13. amateur
    All roads?
  14. amateur
    Do they have to be working, or just 'cosmetic'? I did some hinges, using just using ordinary white paper, painted black. (yes, closed ports.....) Jan
  15. amateur
    Ithought so. Time flies when you' re having fun
  16. amateur
    But he still needs the upper gundeck before the masts can be stepped...... And considering he is only into his fourth (?) year for the lower gundeck, I 'm not sure whether we normal mortals will see this beautiful ship fully rigged..... Jan
  17. amateur
    I never had white pva glue fractured. It remains slughtly pliable for quite some time. Sounds like bad ju ju.... Jan
  18. amateur
    file, caliper, and some eyeballing (but I'm not an expert ) Works fine as long as there are not too many yards. The drill didn't work for me: problems with centering en getting the whole thing stable. Jan
  19. amateur
    Hi Marcus, Some ofthese ships had a second (small) mast set up, like the haringbuis. Mainly to help them keeping position while at work. Notvery common on these ships, though.... Jan
  20. amateur
    This one, for instance You see the typical design of the bomschuit: it is like a box... They were designed to get ashore at high tide, so that they could be unloaded and serviced at low tide. This because many of the fishing villages at the northsea did not have a harbour (completely impossible to dug a harbour in the flat sandy beaches. Jan
  21. amateur
    Could you be slightly more specific? Ship, kit, scale, problem you have so far..... Jan
  22. amateur
    I checked on the internet, it is different: the model is only showing the inside! Great model to look at when finished! Jan
  23. amateur
    Airships are also ships Question: the drawings show the construction as build (the framework of the body, the ribs in the wings, with the cut-outs to keep the weight low) Is the kit also 'as build', or is it only showing the outside of the plane as it was? Jan
  24. amateur
    That's a serious drop in quality..... Areal shame. Unlessthis is tobe used to plank the inside of the hull (which it isnot, i presume) you have an issue there. Jan
  25. amateur
    You mean you never break the tip by letting it go down on the floor? (Or did you just by an increadible amount of those things in 1984. ) Jan

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