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I guess it is a matter of taste, but i don't thnik this number of drop- planks is how the duth did it. As far as I understood, the planks just below the wales didn't makeit all the way to the stern, giving room for the others to get to the stern. Check pictures of the william rex model to see what I mean. Jan
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Gripen 1591 by NAZGÛL (Matti)
amateur replied to NAZGÛL's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
That is a promising start! Jan -
They are shown in your rigging plan. The riggin gplan by Corel shows all the sheets (including those from the lower sails): the clew-lines are rigged, including the clew block, with the sheets attached to it. Only the sail is "missing". the sheets are going backwards, the fore-sheet is going inboard just in front of the main mast, the main sheets are going al the way back to the poop-deck. Jan
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not much luck with your paints this model..... But we know you'll manage. Jan
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Where did you get them? Jan
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If we learn from our mistakes, I must be pretty smart now.
amateur replied to skipper1947's topic in Wood ship model kits
Yours does pass the "standing horse test" Jan -
only 1100 to go It is only when you stick them to a match box that I realize how very tiny all these little people are. unbelievable detail!
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I like her as a working ship that was altered with the needs, although I have to agree with those oldies that the original design was far better. Jan
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But 32 meters is too large. One of the ships markus showed is a pinace of 159something, and that is 85 foot over the sterns. I don't know the size of duyfken, but that is more what a small ship looked like. Duyfken was 25 last, and had an estimated lenght of about 20 meters. What was the size of Gripen? Two or three wales. There are no fixed rules for that. Quite a lot of pics however showing both, even for relatively small ships. Jan
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As long as we are mixing up along the same lines, there will be no problem
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No this distance is about right: between the wales is about 1-2 times the width of the wale. Your current drawing looks about right to me. (but I'm not an expert ....) It would be worth asking for the scale, and the dimensions of the ship: that would make it easier tot determinie wehther or not the gunports are close to the water or not. Jan
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The scientists contradict that: only after 1650 the wales were cut through. In Dutch shipbuilding, the wales were an important part of the structure: the part of the frames were not connected to each other, it was the wales (and some thickstuff in the hull) was holding the whole structure together. It took dutch shipwrights some time before they dared to cut through the wales. It is assumed that in the late 1500 the decks did follow the wales for most of the ships lenght. Jan
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Mind, the pics of Dutchships shown are all from the post-Wasa period. It's not at allo clear whehter or not they provide you with info on how a pre-1600 ship would have looked like. Jan
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Has there been progress here? Jan
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the dialogue? Probably something like: "The first shot went home pretty well, the Frenchies didn't expect that, that's for sure' Jan
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That Billings kit was a nice kit. You write heavily modified, but what exactly did you modify (from a distance it looks about the same as my completely unmodified version) which btw did not do his terms in a glass case, so has accumulated 30 years of dust. Jan
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Usually these are used for attaching additional sails. However, I never saw these things rigged in contemporaneous pictures, so I guess they were not frequently used. the model of PW was rerigged several times over its life, so I'm also not sure how original these stunsail-things are. Jan
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Thanks, now I see. Jan
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I know that recoil has somewhere to go. But everything fixed to the gun willgo together with the gun. So the whole upper carriage willgo aft, putting stress on the connecting bolt between lower an dupper carriage, but i fail to see why recoil will put stress on this screw. Perhaps i need some more thinking... Jan
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Just silly me asking again. As the gun is fixed to the upper carriage, and the elevation screw is rsting on a metal plate fixed on this same upper carriage, where does this enormous lateral force on the screw come from? I would understand if gun and screw were not fised to the same carriage, but like it is...? Could the wedge be someting like a convenience article? There is quite a load on the screw, which makes it difficult (and slow) in turning. Getting of part of the load would make it easier to lower the elevation. Jan
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Is this the ship of which peter Kirsch gives kind of reconstruction i his book The Galleons? He draws it as if it were English build. Jan
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The replica has its own site (in dutch) Www.dewillembarentsz.nl Jan
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