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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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Marcus shows foure ships Dunken pictures of the model by hoving, hovings reconstruction of the barentsship, without the frames A side view of a 85ft pinas, and finally geralt de weerts reconstruction of the same ship. The reconstructionof De Weert is being build at full scale in Harlingen. Jan
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Do you have acces to segelschiffsmodellbau.com? There is a guy names Bela, who is trying to reconstruct a dutch warship of around 1600, basing himself on the socalled Peller modell. Site is in germna, but i expect tha's not a problem to you. Jan
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You should certainly look for that geunieerde provincien reconstruction of emke and howing. That is a ship of these kind of dimensions and appearance. There is a pic of this model on a site de-paula-lopes.nl (Page is in dutch, ship is almost at the bottom of the very long page.) Jan
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I was born long after the war, but due to your stories, I more and more realize what young men like your fathers, uncles, and their families went through to make Europe a safer place.... (and also: how very young they actually were at the time...) Thanks for telling us our history! Jan
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Papegojan 1627 by mati - FINISHED - 1/48
amateur replied to mati's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Must be a supersized matchstick Jan -
Yes, but the roter lowe is a quite old reconstruction, not at all in line with present knowledge. duyken fits in with the barentz ships quite nicely. Jan
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Igive the same reply here: hoving has a nice book onthe ships of willem barentz. Not warships, but definitely esrlier dutch ships. Around 1600, which is the period you need. He aslo did, together with cor emke a reconstruction of an early merchant/warship of the east indies companie: the Geunieerde provincien. There is, as far as i know, no englich publication of that one. You could try to get a booklet titled Scheepshistorie, part 1. It has a nice dutch text, and illustrated on the reconstruction. Jan
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Papegojan 1627 by mati - FINISHED - 1/48
amateur replied to mati's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
That gun is a fine little model in itself. Jan -
prins Willem was a kind of replica originally built for a tourist attratction in Japan (by the name of holland village). The ship looked as the prins willem model at the outside. On the inside, however, it was more like a restaurant. Couple of years ago it was transferred fromjapan to Den Helder in the Netherlands, were it was kind of major attraction in the old navy harbour. It was open for the public, and you could rent her as a party centre. Due to health and safety (both in japan and the netherlands) there was a sprinkler installation. However, when there was a fire in the hold ( it started in the kitchen) that installation wasn't able to keep the fire down. As the ship was all steel hull, the heat was quite large, and the firebrigade could not enter. Exit ship. The original builder bought the remains, and transferred them to Harlingen. They planned to rebuild the ship, and turn it ( again) into a tourist attratction. As there wasn't much left, and due to the crisis, money could not be raised. The remains were scrapped and sold to Hoogovens, for recycling. That was the end of Prins Willem. As it was only outwardly a kind of replica, not much was lost. The touristic centre in Den Helder lost an attraction, although even there, there are much more interesting ship available. Jan
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That Prins Willem was destroyed by fire didn't harm anyone. (exept the firm that used it as some kind of disco) Jan
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Ipresume that that is how ashort stubby Preisserturns into a long stretched one.... Jan
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Same here: still reading an admiring your progress! I guess yourmounting blocks correspond tothe frame. Jan
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Impressive output Jan
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Seeking information on determining load waterline
amateur replied to trippwj's topic in Nautical/Naval History
I used to know someone (died long ago) working in the Rotterdam harbour, His job was in putting the famous plimsol mark at the hull of newly build freightships. According to him, in the fifties and sixties there used to be a rather large difference between the loadline dring design, and the actual allowed load-line after the ship was completed. Jan -
Next he will show us that it is fully functional Although it is on a centimeter-scaled mat, and there is one huge match-stick in front of it, my mind is still struggling with the size of this gun.... Jan
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Have you seen the model by Peter (Mr Hollom). That's becomming a real stunner: (can't impute a link here ...., search for Hohenzollern) Jan
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Even using a dremel, it remains carving. We can't see the tools you are using, we can only judge you by the superb result Jan
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