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  1. amateur
    Nice model of a nice ship. One question: why do you refer to her as a flyboat? I thought these ships were called yachts.? Jan
  2. amateur
    Found it on the internet a couple of years ago. Has been my desktop-background ever since. The pic was taken one of the times Batavia was out on the Markermeer to do some sail-trials. Hence the somewhat strange sailsettings (Mains set without the topsails, normal practice was the other way round) Jan
  3. amateur
    Perhaps you could be somewhat more specific? Is it the (non)metric-problem, the Italian (or lack of english), reading the plans as such, or a kit-specific problem? Jan
  4. amateur
    No, I did some picture-searching in my luch-break, and Batavia has the braces belayed inside the gallion, on both sides (at least on th epic I use as my screensaver, klick for full screen, it's a really large picture) Jan
  5. amateur
    Why do these guys never tell you how many part are coming? I thought under European law they had to give full information on total costs over the full package.... Jan
  6. amateur
    Yes Remco, We know you would go for six-sided bolts on the flanges It looks to me as the difficulty of this scale: what details do you incorporate and wich not: even the smaller details seem to be (or actually are) feasible, but were does to much detail destroy the overall effect..... So far: can't have enough of the detail Jan
  7. amateur
    Flower-corvette for sure, but why this one should be easy is not clear to me..... Ja
  8. amateur
    ON the yard, there should be an end of rope with a single block. After 'returning to the shrould, the rrope is belayed on the gallion (or sometimes shown: a block on the bowsprit, and then on the railing of the forecatle. I'll check my pic;s of Batavia. Unfortunatedly, I don't have pics that show where exactly the braces are belayed in the gallion... Jan
  9. amateur
    OK, I'll change my initial reaction: I don't see hints, even when they are there for everyone to see Still not a clue. A number of helpless caualties, in a cargo ship, but not a torpedo-victim. Rapid sinking of an evacuee-ship? Jan
  10. amateur
    SS Norlandia, perhaps (although, she had a rather 'normal' war-ending, due to a torpedo..... and not too much casulaties) Jan
  11. amateur
    Sorry, but you seem to see hints where there are none Jan
  12. amateur
    But no cars ? Jan
  13. amateur
    Sure looks good. btw: your workbench shows a wide area of interests Jan
  14. amateur
    I presume it's not: too many related words on the old continent look very much alike this famous four letter word. Jan
  15. amateur
    which suggest a WWI torpedo victim..... Jan
  16. amateur
    It looks a bit like "SS Regel Carol I" (apart form the fact that it has two in stead of one funnels....) Should we look around the Donau?? Jan
  17. amateur
    A year ago you started this log with
  18. amateur
    I don't know how your ship looks like, but in mine all braces are attached to the stays, and part of the lifts are belayed on the shrouds. No way to get the running rigging before the standing rigging. Jan
  19. amateur
    Thanks. Jan
  20. amateur
    I first thought of SS Maheno, but that's not her... Jan
  21. amateur
    Hi Doreltomin, Since you apear to have a book on the subject ( ) can you enlighten me with respect to the question: what made the French decide for ships with such an extreme tumble-home? Jan
  22. amateur
    Hi Michiel, Is the full track visible for those not registered on the other forum? Jan
  23. amateur
    Nope, this is pretty much how it was done 'in real'. (apart from the fact that in reality, the block was stropped in a separate strop, with two eys (one on top, one on the bottom). Too small to reproduce at this scale. Jan
  24. amateur
    Actually, the Billings kit (although not a very good kit by itself) is making a fairly good model of the Wasa. Hull dimiensions seem to be better than eg. the Corel and Sergal-versions. Jan
  25. amateur
    It's not british, so French would be an option. btw: what was the reason the French went for these extreme ships? Large tumblehome on many of them, in this case a very low freeboard, combined with a very high superstructure. Jan

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