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The fun of those old postcards is that they are all the same, only the direction the smoke plume is going differs Always a crowd on the Quay, as the ships were mostly going to the east (hence the white colour , and the sun-tent on the rear deck). The most renowned of the cruisers was Gelderland, taking Kruger to Europe after the Boer-war. Getting a second life as German anti-aircraft ship in WWII (under the name of Niobe). The other five were less famous, and were shorter lived. Here's the next. Not too difficult, I think Jan
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One province or the other, what does it matter Holland Class protected cruiser. Six of them build. All of them photograhped at this specific location, of which I am not copmpletely sure: I guess it is the Nieuwe Diep at the Den Helder Naval harbour. Jan
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Here I am again: the same pic is also around with the name of one of her sisters: HrMs Brabant. Jan
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She is a dutch one. Very nice ships they were, elegant and compeltely not up to their task I'll be back in a minute, I guess she's gelderland. Jan
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He is nice! How long is the model? 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
But the last post is quite old. Did something happen to the ship or its builder? Jan -
Your discovery that there isn't much is correct. Not only in recent literature, but also inthe contemporenous literature there is fairly little. That's a result of the fact that there wasn't a standardied building system in the netherlands. Building used to be very much driven by learni g fromfather to son. With respect tothe stuff at the frisian museum, you have to be aware: part of their collection is from local builders, but part of it also comes from amateurbuilders like you and me. There are actually models in their collection straight from the billing boats catalogue.... So, there is some pretty coolstuff over there, but also some less authentic material. Btw do you already know the maritiemdigitaal.nl site? Jan
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The easiest way to plank te bow is using a couple of filler blocks to get the shape right, and planking that over. Jan
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Can you explain how to dothat. When i tried, theytend to leave their position.... Jan
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Thanks, same toyou! Jan
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I'm in the same group as popeye: untill now i did not realize that you would stop after setting up the lower masts. But, in fact, it helps setting your model even further apart from all those out of the box stuff. I've said itbefore:this one is amongst the best Wasa models i've seen ( if not: the best) Jan
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Some people are real delfship wizards. I've seen someone doing a dutch pinace, modelling and drafting all separate components of tehe ship. I still don't manage to get a simple hull done..... Jan
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Tyne or Clyde built steel barque. First guess: Glenlee Jan
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At least, I had her country of origin and date correct
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I think it isso ething like a steam screw sloop/corvette of the royal navy, somewhere around 1880 Jan
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Hi everyone, I did some work over teh last days. I reshaped one of my anchors (Still not perfect, perhhaps I'll need to build one myself). The problem is that it is to short, and too wide for the timeperiod. (and Corels casting is lousy) I did some rigging on the foremast: Problem is: miniature-rope does not quite behave like the real stuff. It allways curves in the wrong direction. That's particularly annoying at the topmasts... This is 0.15 mm Amati rope, it has been stretched, moisted, and waxed, and still...Problem is that the yard is so light, that it will not counterbalance the force of his springy rope... I made some addiotional holes in the fore-tope to get the ropes down to the deck. A bit fiddly work, but I managed. (some of my ratlines worked themselves loose in the proces of rigging , That's a problem I still haven't solved) In the meantime: on to the next ropes.... (same mast, other side of the ship) Jan
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Yup, that's him. The first, last, one and only whaler we had in the last century. Jan
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The same to you!
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Looks great. One question though: I see that your rudder sits quite high compared to the bottom of the keel. Danny's rudder has its bottom side flush with the keel. Is that why number 5 went out of sight? Jan
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possibly, yes Jan
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Interesting idea! Btw: does your admiral alrady realize that therewillbe enough to do two half-hulls from a full-hull kit? Jan
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Not much time to find a new one. I post an old one from MSW-1 (But I'm presumable the only one to remember) Jan
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I'll post something tomorrowmorning. .
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Uss Choctaw, 1864, perhaps?
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A cloathing pin in a vice does the trick for me. Put the rope around the block, and put in the pin, such that the rope is held in place. Tie theknot, put someglue onit, and you're ready for the next. It even works with blocks that are smaller. Jan
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