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  1. Your models are a joy to look at! Thanks very much for sharing Jan
  2. In some cases the english just reused valuable timber of an old ship. Pretty sure that this factory/warehouse/mill has some heavy timbers that had a previous life as deckbeams of HMS whatshername. Problem is: which one. And I don't want (at least, not yet) try google pic Jan
  3. Or is it the jolly sailor inn, with parts of an other hms?
  4. Was that hms something, taken apart and hidden below thefloorboards in case the French would come:) Jan
  5. Lost in translation....... I checked my literature. It's called a knight. The rope from the yard is lead over the mastcap, down along the mast, through a hallaird-block, up again over the mastcap to the yard. The rope trough the knight and the halliardblock is names halliard (surprise, surprise....) The method of hoisting a yard using jeers and jeer blocks is english, and much, much later tahn halve maen. Jan
  6. Try knighthead... In both languages it is named after the type of head which was carved on top. In england they used to carve figure with an helmet, in the netherlands they used a type of servant (knecht) Jan
  7. Which leaves the other two. Both are last in a certain sense. So my first guess: Kamikaze, the last one sailing of the class, she ran aground in 1946. Jan
  8. Google for barentz harlingen. They are dong a replica of a1600 ship overthere. Jan
  9. Thereshould bea knechtbehind every mast. It was needed to hoist the yards. I would follow your drawings with respect to the beting (or actually absenceof it) You could make a less heavy build pinrack. These ships had only one heavy beting: just behindthe fore mast, on the lower deck. This was used to belay the anchor ropes. Jan
  10. Both in dutch: 1 knecht, used to hoist the main yard. Positioned about were your little hatch behind the main mast is..... 2 beting, and i very much doubt whether that thing was there on this ship. Belaying lines this was was quite unusual on early dutch ships. Lines were either belsyed on a knecht, on on clamps on the mast, or on the inside of the railing. Jan
  11. I hAd a dremel, but itwas too heavy, too large and too powerfull imo. I use a minicraft now. Jan
  12. Drawing orfinished product? Are these winches the same as on the famous victoryships, or do you look for something earlier? Jan Jan
  13. The wonders of google translate.... 'Openstaande' in dutch means 'not closed' (you can have an 'openstaande deur', which means that is is not closed....), or it refers to bills not yet payed (an 'openstaande rekening' means an 'unpaid bill') Google should in this case translate 'outstanding' with 'uitmuntend', 'voortreffelijk' or 'buitengewoon', which are all accepted (but apparently not by google....) ways of expressing admiration. Which, I have to admit without any reservation, this carving and painting deserves. Jan
  14. That's an Island ferry, but not for inland waters.... Somewehere in the outer Hebrides in Scotland, perhaps? Jan
  15. Yep, thats her. Long gone by now (as is her company) Jan
  16. Sure, i always show dutch ones Jan
  17. Then this is the next one. First hint: it's a tug Jan
  18. No, it is exactly what you should expect: take two peices of brass wire, and try to make it look like shrould laid: you will notice that you have to turn your wires counter-clockwise (which is left) I don't think most viewers of our models will notice the cable-shrould difference in a model scal 1:64. Also the difference in the way the shroulds are round the dead-eyes will be lost to the average spectator. But it is the builder who decedes.... Springy rope is a nightmare: I am currently doing the rigging of the Prins Willem (Corel 1:100), and the yards are not heavy enough to counterbalance the springyness of the kit provided rope. Quite frustrating.... Jan
  19. Hi Diederik, You could also upload the whole bunch to a picasa-webalbum, and put the link to that album here. something like: https://picasaweb.google.com/101597346346552139735/ZevenProvicien?authuser=0&feat=directlink Jan
  20. HMCS patrol boat, canada, sunk in WW1, but no war-casualty. Google all of the above, and you end up with HMCS Galiano. I guess, there is no other that fits the bill. Jan
  21. That's because he's one of the remaining four Jan
  22. No. hollidays are over. Due to the background my second thought was canada....(my first was: finland or sweden, but as you say it is outside europe...) Jan
  23. Apart from the fact that the lower plank is about 0.5 micron wider than the adjoinging one, I can't see any flaws in the planking. (That is, if the offending plank is in your pic, perhaps you left it out....) Your ship looks absolutely stunning. Jan
  24. that's very nice! Did Tromp had an open funnel, or was she fitted with one of those caps on top of the funnel? Jan
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