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wat mooi...... je zou er stil van worden Jan
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I'm going to give this one to Werik: Actually it is HrMs Heimdall, one of the steam powered gun boats of the Dutch navy. She looks a bit like an accomaodatioship, as she was refitted as mine-sweeping vessel. (were the gun used to be, a kind of 'shed-like' accomodation was erected.) With gun they looked like this: Jan
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Nope, but again, correct class. Jan
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Close, very, very close.... She's not an accomodation ship. Jan
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Just before I was to turn of my PC. Something completely different. Jan
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Giving her build-date and builder is as good as tellin gshe was named SS Namdo Wrecked by a seamine in 1944 Jan
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1910-1920 tramper? Quite a lot to choose fomr, so give us some time Jan
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Unless Werik is an alias for Piet, in that case it's O19 Jan
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Andy, why do you think so? I wouldn't dare to do so Actually the picture I found was labelled "USS Sable (sistership of USS Wolverine)" As the pic is rather widespread on the internet, I did a left-right flip to make google-picture-search slightly more difficult. Jan
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Took me quite a while this one.... A quite sure the next one is gone in minutes (even though Andy is not here at the moment) Jan
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diving in Toulon Tromblon (1875) It was the hint on the year that did it for me Jan
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Never knew the Frech did build so many strange vessels Jan
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still existing as a famous dive site or so? Jan
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No there isns'nt: the turning of the dead-eyes is the result of the tension in the lanyards connecting the dead-eayes. It becomes less when you hve a lower tension, but then your shrouds will not be straight.... It happens almost Always, and in your case it is quite pronounced, as the distance between the deadeyese is large enough tot have almost a halve turn between them. It will become slightly less when you start your ratlines: have the spacer in place when you start doing your ratlines, and make sure the dead-eyses are facing front. The combined ratlines will make it less easier for the shouds/dedeyse to twist. Jan
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Or one of those funny shaped gunboats?
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I would say: no. Those spacers weren't introduced till long after 1800. Second remark (but that implies redoing all....): your dead eyes are way too far from each other. The distance between thme shoul be around 2-2.5 times their diameter. The upper deadeyes should be below the railing, so that sailors standing on the railing could step upon the ratlines between the shrouds. Jan
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The French had some weird hull-designs in the 1880-ies.... But I cant find this one (actually, I still don't know whether we look at the front or the back-end Jan
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Always thought that for the resin-guys 1:350 is considered "large schale" Are you going to do the resincasting yourself? Jan
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Is it a ship, or just part of it? Strange things they build in the previous centuries... Jan
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You're right, I missed some of the PW's... Jan
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5 people? Andy, you, me, and ?? I guess you're also going to do the inside carvings? What surprised me at the Original model, was that the carvings are rather cruse, and that the Original builder did not quite try to use his paint thin: quite a lot of detail is lost in the amount of paint. Jan
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Sorry, but why was this too easy? For us Europeans, all these lakers look alike, so for us it's quite tough Jan
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Looks a bit like Norseman (apart from the colour, that is...) Jan
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