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Do you bake the stuff, or are you letting it dry by air? If baking: do you have any issues with shrinkage? Jan
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I would say that from a sculpting point of view the French are more interesting than the Dutch. The Dutch din't go far beyond basic carving. (and painting it kind of goldish). Quite a lot of it on many of their ships, but not very elaborate in terms of sculpting. Salt dough, ah, sweet memories. Kindergarten, schoolparties. Fun to do. Easier to handle than heavy clay. undestructible when baked. Jan
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where can find this Awesome model ??
amateur replied to mahmoud sabra's topic in Wood ship model kits
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Did health and safety not object to ladders that sometimes where not where everyone expected them to be? Jan
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Here is a thing I don't understand: the building instructions as you showed them, tel you to first attach the deck to the frames before you start planking. This would immensly strengthen the frames. Why do you go into plakning before installing the deck? Jan
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He did it on the ship (see page 31 of this log). The difference in colour and appearance of the stain as it is now compared to the freshly applied stain is quite dramatic.... I can imagine that Remco is a bit down.... Jan
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Ouch, that's more serious than it looked in the previous pics. Is it the oil/stain layer that is rubbing off, and therefore discoulouring the wood, or is it the stain discolouring under the oil-topcoat? In this pic it looks as if the 'discoloured patches' are less shiny than their surroundings. And do you have any idea how far the oil/stain penetrated the wood? In other words: can you use a scraping steel to remove the top layer, or do you loose too much material by that? Jan
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And for all of you, wanting to know what we are talking about: http://www.punterbouw.nl/page/23 Text in Dutch, but the pictures are more or less self-explaining. Jan
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A 'punter'. Nice little one. Could be trickier than you think: these little ships are build "shell first". I thought the ship for Gwen was a more substantial build than a punter. Jan
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As far as I can remeber, he promised a ship to Gwen... Jan
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I don't have any connections with them i only know that it is a small (one person) firm. That might explain the difficulty to get to them. Jan
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Isn't there some model in the NMM collection showing the construction of such a gun-port? Jan
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Thanks. Even smaller than I thought. (I'm looking for something small as a next build, but this it perhaps slightly too small, especilly while I don't have precision powertools. Jan
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I spotted him yesterday on avgerman forum. After long thinking, i have concluded it is dafi's version of the statue of liberty:) Jan
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Hi Gabe, She's looking good. Can you tell me how large (small, actually) the cross-s ction is? Jan
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I don't know about the us-site, but the UK-site is just a resellers site, not the manufacters -site.... Jan -
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Are you sure billingboats.com is the new site? Visiting this site, I still get the message that a new site will be available from september 2015 onwards (which is, at least in Europe ) some weeks ago...... Jan -
The difference is very obvious, but you could also tell the public that that is how it was done in real life. But then again, you made keys for the doors on the lowest deck, redid already perfect parts when you thought they were only near-perfect. So yeah, I could understand that this difference is bothering you quite a lot while you are lying awake at midnight..... But seriously, your model is a delight to look at! Jan
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Looks fine to . There is quite a variation in the siz of these kruishouten. I gues there used to be some correlation with the size of the rope that had to go on it. And as the ones to bebelayed on this are the heaviest running rigging, i guess some decent size doesn't harm. Jan
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Or he is planning to issue his own line of model kits of beam trawlers @Kees, probably I misunderstand what I see (and/or do not understand the mechanics of the ship): the picture of the real-life fishbins suggests that the bottom is not flat on the deck, but slightly lifted on the outside. In your version the bottom is perfectly flat. What do I miss? Jan
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No lanterns totday, but plain rope. I tried to belay some of the lines. Its maddening work: you cant reach the belaying points down the main mast (down teh fore are no belaying points: all lines vanish into the deck). I fear for my ratlines: the ends are coming loose as I get stuck in the shrouds with my fingers or rigginghooks and other helpfull tools. Mizzen mast: braces of the main topgallant (I did not keep my camera properly upright, no worries, the mast is still the correct way up ) Not very clear picture, but the braces of the cro-jack,attached to the main shrouds, and belayed down the main mast. As my rigging here does quite deviate the Corel-stuff, I was a bit anxious that the braces woud interfere with the backstays, but they are running nice and with sufficient clearance. I'm now puzzling on the braces, sheets and clewlines(?) of the fore and main sail, Corel, Ketting, the original model all show something different, and none of them following the book...... to be continued Jan
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Hi Daniel, There is somethinhg i don't understand: on pics of the Vid, it can be seen taht the forechannels are about as wide as the postlids are high. (The open lids of the upper row of guns can be seen almost in line with the outer edge of the channels. It looks as if your channels are much wider than that. Is that optic illusion, or are you hammock cranes too wide compared to the orriginal? Jan
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