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When turning to pva, make sure your rigging line is natural stuff.

The guterman polyester thread   I used doesn't mind the PVA, and keeps loosening up ....

Jan

Nice work! 

Almost all inland steamtugs had funnels that could be lowered.

It is rather difficult to find a pic of a lowered funnel, though. I have been looking for it, and I found one (at 1:35 you see a boat nearing the bridge) 

Jan

Nice model!

normally Corel has a rather basic numbering system, showing what goes where. Not easy to follow, but it leaves little to guess (only number matching)

As soon as I understood the system, it worked like a charm.

can you give a pic of the plans, that might help in finding the solution to your problem(s)

Jan

 I think both of them arr models of the same ship: Cutty Sark. 

With respect to value: they do not look alike very high quality model, so I suspect sentimental vslue exceeds market  value.

Kit or scratch: difficult  to tell from these pics. 

Jan

Welcome!

Is your boat live-steam ?

Jan

Hi Keith,

true, but they won't differ inches in length....

Jan

Although pic 1 in post #1 suggests a normal (ie equal lengt) shrouds.

The photo isn't quite sharp, but it looks as if the seizings are in place, and the shroulds just snapped above the dead eyes.

In that case, the length of the shroulds should pretty much show you where the upper dead eyes would have been. Does that help in any way?

Jan 

Although a lighthouse does not claasify as ‘non-shipping related’ 

Papershipwrihgt does have nice kits with loads of tiny parts. I’m trying to do one of the free downloads. Advantage of downloads: everything eaten by the carpet-monster can be reprinted.

Jan

But that is my point: when you say ‘original’, some of us read ‘the situation as s functioning pond yacht’’, some us read ‘as a schooner of around 1900 would have been rigged’.

These two are fundamentally different, and lead to different reading suggestions, and different choices.

And given the rudder pin, and the lead keel this model has been a pond yacht at least once in its existence

Personally I would go for a pond-yacht rigging (although seeing the set-up for the sailboom, that doesnt look to have been self-tending, so there is some ambiguity in the rigging remnants)

Jan

I'm not an expert on pond-yachts, but I'm pretty sure that a pond yacht is not rigged as per Petersson's diagrams.

Pond yachts should be able to sail themselves, so they have a simplified rigging. I think that you need to have a serious look at the 1950's and earlier literature on rigging and sailing pond yachts. (as a pond yacht rigged like a  model schooner will look a bit "unbalanced".

Jan

Is that a 1cent, or a 5cent coin?

Jan

Dutch quality engine

Don’t think SD14 ever had one of these (the info on the engine-model suggests it is early 1960-ies, the ship is eraly 70-ies.)

However, it is rather basic card-model, so it should scale down nicely, and it sure looks like a ships Diesel.

Jan

Is the engine part of the kit, or is the kit "only" the steel hull and superstructures?

Jan

Mid-level of detail. Yeah…..

Labelling this as ‘mid-level’ reveals your true ambition level. 
But although it is only midlevel detail, it is top-quality as far as I’m concerned.

Jan

You learn something new every day.....

In Europe things are a bit different (mainland, at least): there the postal services can handle a kind of in-between type of mail: the 'rather stiff, not completely bendable stuff', you can use the famous padded envelopes for that. Not as shock proof as a full size package, but transported at nomal postage rates. Ideal for sending booklets, metal pins, and card-models. (and certainly much cheaper for both seller and buyer than a full-size cardbox).

(but usually the damage risk is at the buyers end)

Jan

For those not knowing: Kaap Skil is located on the Isle of Texel, Netherlands

It is a large diorama of the Dutch fleet supplying.

The diorama is build by the well known firm Artitec.

Worth visiting. 

Jan

Hi Kevin,

Interesting concept: a paper model of a steel ship that has all the parts of the original...

All paper/card parts look as if the card-material is not very stiff (at least, the cut-out parts look a bit wavy in some pics).

How do you manage to get the whole thing straight, and how much flexing doens remain after glueing down?

(and how many helpers do you need for moving around your model as soon as you reach the waterline of this beast?)

Jan

With respect to Amsterdam: since the 'refit' a couple of years ago, the amount of models in their main exposition is relatively small.

The other models are not on display on a regular basis, but are only out of the storage rooms if they can be used as an 'illustration' in the temporary displays. (The same also holds for the Rotterdam Maritime museum). In case you want to see, or even photograph, a specific model: you should contact them before hopping on a train.

Actually, when in Amsterdam, If I were you, I would not skip the maritime department of the Rijksmuseum: both Prins Willem and William Rex are worth the additional mile.

Jan  

I guess you already know this one?

If it has not already been discussed, it will be - sooner or later....

And perhaps Marc @Hubac's Historian can answer your question right away..

Jan

Thanks, took me some time to find your suggestion, your post was hidden behind some rubbish......

I don't know how your german language is developed, and I don't know whether the pics show up for non-registered users, but here is a buildlog: the builder uses all the additional laser-sets, and reports a well-designed kit, not easy, but without issues.

https://www.die-kartonmodellbauer.de/forum/index.php?thread/10804-schlachtschiff-uss-arizona-bb-39-1-200-von-gpm/

Jan

Are you going for stunning models with lots of details, or for interesting models?

There are also some relatively old, not so stunning, but nonetheless interesting models around.

For instance the so-called Mataro-model in the Rotterdam Maritime Museum, a model dating back to the time of Columbus, but not a large, or very well build model. 

Jan

I thought GPM has a 1:200 model of USS Arizona?

https://www.papermodel.com/260585-battleship-uss-arizona.html

Jan

Is the interior of the bridge supplied by Billings, or did you make one yourself? 40 years ago the interior was a bit more 'basic' 

Jan

Thanks . Wouldn’t have found out without the hint ingenious system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie-Masker

Jan