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amateur reacted to Valeriy V in Varyag 1901 by Valeriy V - FINISHED - scale 1:75 - Russian Cruiser
Manufacturing gears.
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amateur got a reaction from KORTES in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
and with respect to the curvature: perhaps I overestimated the curvature in Kortes picture, but This is what I referred to:
Straight for the lower half, curved only the upper half starting some distance above the iron ring that holds it.
I guess the love for curves did play a role in this design.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from CaptainSteve in VASA by dziadek4444 - DeAgostini - 1:65
I you write 'tragedy', but the pictures do not look like tragedy.....
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from BETAQDAVE in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Nope, it is a schouw. One of our other famous flat bottomed ships. Not in the least as beautiful as a boeier.
a Schouw is build from six large curved boards, with a flat sterns.
jan
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amateur got a reaction from Valeriy V in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
and with respect to the curvature: perhaps I overestimated the curvature in Kortes picture, but This is what I referred to:
Straight for the lower half, curved only the upper half starting some distance above the iron ring that holds it.
I guess the love for curves did play a role in this design.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from mtaylor in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Hello Keith,
There is absolutely no boeier there. That is a small 'schouw', probably a tourist visiting Amsterdam, or a local owning a boat that he uses to sail on the Amstel. Boeiers are sailing ships for the larger (mostly inland) waters. The moats in Amsterdam are/were a bad place for sailing ships: you can't get into those without the help of a motor (or rowing/poling), and a boeier can't be rowed.
The moats are for transportation purposes: getting your goodies from the harbor to your warehouse. And a boeier is not suited at all for any kind of transportation. So no: no boeiers or any other larger sailing ships ever were in the Amsterdam moats. Therefore a fairly large amount of the bridges have always been fixed bridges (apart from a couple of the bridges over the river Amstel, and the canals connected to the Amstel.
And believe me: a boeier will never be able to pass a bridge as low as the one you showed .
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from mtaylor in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Hi all,
did some googling, and there is no answer. Its tradition.
I think Kortes (or Sperwers builder) slightly overdid: in most cases the lower half is not curved, and the upper part is, to such an extent that the cap is at 45 degree angle to the waterline (more or less)
I guess that it goes back to the 15th centyry, when also mastheads had a curved upper part (as far a I know: just to please the eye)
nothimg to do with bridges: the lowered mast is higher , and the flagpole is not fixed, and can be removed)
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from mtaylor in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
and with respect to the curvature: perhaps I overestimated the curvature in Kortes picture, but This is what I referred to:
Straight for the lower half, curved only the upper half starting some distance above the iron ring that holds it.
I guess the love for curves did play a role in this design.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from mtaylor in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Nope, it is a schouw. One of our other famous flat bottomed ships. Not in the least as beautiful as a boeier.
a Schouw is build from six large curved boards, with a flat sterns.
jan
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amateur got a reaction from Keith Black in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Nope, it is a schouw. One of our other famous flat bottomed ships. Not in the least as beautiful as a boeier.
a Schouw is build from six large curved boards, with a flat sterns.
jan
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amateur got a reaction from Keith Black in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
and with respect to the curvature: perhaps I overestimated the curvature in Kortes picture, but This is what I referred to:
Straight for the lower half, curved only the upper half starting some distance above the iron ring that holds it.
I guess the love for curves did play a role in this design.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from cog in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Hello Keith,
There is absolutely no boeier there. That is a small 'schouw', probably a tourist visiting Amsterdam, or a local owning a boat that he uses to sail on the Amstel. Boeiers are sailing ships for the larger (mostly inland) waters. The moats in Amsterdam are/were a bad place for sailing ships: you can't get into those without the help of a motor (or rowing/poling), and a boeier can't be rowed.
The moats are for transportation purposes: getting your goodies from the harbor to your warehouse. And a boeier is not suited at all for any kind of transportation. So no: no boeiers or any other larger sailing ships ever were in the Amsterdam moats. Therefore a fairly large amount of the bridges have always been fixed bridges (apart from a couple of the bridges over the river Amstel, and the canals connected to the Amstel.
And believe me: a boeier will never be able to pass a bridge as low as the one you showed .
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from Keith Black in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Hello Keith,
There is absolutely no boeier there. That is a small 'schouw', probably a tourist visiting Amsterdam, or a local owning a boat that he uses to sail on the Amstel. Boeiers are sailing ships for the larger (mostly inland) waters. The moats in Amsterdam are/were a bad place for sailing ships: you can't get into those without the help of a motor (or rowing/poling), and a boeier can't be rowed.
The moats are for transportation purposes: getting your goodies from the harbor to your warehouse. And a boeier is not suited at all for any kind of transportation. So no: no boeiers or any other larger sailing ships ever were in the Amsterdam moats. Therefore a fairly large amount of the bridges have always been fixed bridges (apart from a couple of the bridges over the river Amstel, and the canals connected to the Amstel.
And believe me: a boeier will never be able to pass a bridge as low as the one you showed .
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from cog in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
and with respect to the curvature: perhaps I overestimated the curvature in Kortes picture, but This is what I referred to:
Straight for the lower half, curved only the upper half starting some distance above the iron ring that holds it.
I guess the love for curves did play a role in this design.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from BETAQDAVE in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Hello Keith,
There is absolutely no boeier there. That is a small 'schouw', probably a tourist visiting Amsterdam, or a local owning a boat that he uses to sail on the Amstel. Boeiers are sailing ships for the larger (mostly inland) waters. The moats in Amsterdam are/were a bad place for sailing ships: you can't get into those without the help of a motor (or rowing/poling), and a boeier can't be rowed.
The moats are for transportation purposes: getting your goodies from the harbor to your warehouse. And a boeier is not suited at all for any kind of transportation. So no: no boeiers or any other larger sailing ships ever were in the Amsterdam moats. Therefore a fairly large amount of the bridges have always been fixed bridges (apart from a couple of the bridges over the river Amstel, and the canals connected to the Amstel.
And believe me: a boeier will never be able to pass a bridge as low as the one you showed .
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from BETAQDAVE in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Hi all,
did some googling, and there is no answer. Its tradition.
I think Kortes (or Sperwers builder) slightly overdid: in most cases the lower half is not curved, and the upper part is, to such an extent that the cap is at 45 degree angle to the waterline (more or less)
I guess that it goes back to the 15th centyry, when also mastheads had a curved upper part (as far a I know: just to please the eye)
nothimg to do with bridges: the lowered mast is higher , and the flagpole is not fixed, and can be removed)
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from druxey in SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht
Hello Keith,
There is absolutely no boeier there. That is a small 'schouw', probably a tourist visiting Amsterdam, or a local owning a boat that he uses to sail on the Amstel. Boeiers are sailing ships for the larger (mostly inland) waters. The moats in Amsterdam are/were a bad place for sailing ships: you can't get into those without the help of a motor (or rowing/poling), and a boeier can't be rowed.
The moats are for transportation purposes: getting your goodies from the harbor to your warehouse. And a boeier is not suited at all for any kind of transportation. So no: no boeiers or any other larger sailing ships ever were in the Amsterdam moats. Therefore a fairly large amount of the bridges have always been fixed bridges (apart from a couple of the bridges over the river Amstel, and the canals connected to the Amstel.
And believe me: a boeier will never be able to pass a bridge as low as the one you showed .
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from Piet in Smit Rotterdam by Sjors - Billing Boats - 1:75 - Sea tug
And here are some pics of Smit Singapore: http://www.hobbyjan.nl/site/index.php?id=110&pagina=21
These are coloured pics.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from Piet in Smit Rotterdam by Sjors - Billing Boats - 1:75 - Sea tug
I guess that Smit Rotterdam had those copper coloured props. Still looking for a pic....
(which turned in something else due to heavy use, so: 'do you build 'as new', or 'at the end of her life'.
Here is 'new', unfortunately in BW-photography
Pic found here: http://www.hobbyjan.nl/site/index.php?id=109&pagina=1
jan
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amateur got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Arabia 1856 by Cathead - FINISHED - Scale 1:64 - sidewheel riverboat from the Missouri River, USA
Thanks, I can follow your line of reasonimg.
as for looks: I don’t like the completely enclosed versions, the open and straight are better, but the B-version is my favorite.
What is uours: from the beginning your working sketches used the A-version.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from Cathead in Arabia 1856 by Cathead - FINISHED - Scale 1:64 - sidewheel riverboat from the Missouri River, USA
Thanks, I can follow your line of reasonimg.
as for looks: I don’t like the completely enclosed versions, the open and straight are better, but the B-version is my favorite.
What is uours: from the beginning your working sketches used the A-version.
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Arabia 1856 by Cathead - FINISHED - Scale 1:64 - sidewheel riverboat from the Missouri River, USA
No, that was not the point I did not understand.
I meant to say that when I look at that painting, I am struggling to see the back-end of the ship, so I don't understand how you conclude from that painting that there is not stepping in the superstructure.
Even more: the superstructure just behind the paddle wheel does step back...
Is there anything in the aerials made during the excavation that does give a clue in where the superstructure stood on the deck?
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Arabia 1856 by Cathead - FINISHED - Scale 1:64 - sidewheel riverboat from the Missouri River, USA
Actually, I don't see how you can conclude on the stepping back aft based on an artist impression of the from side.....
having said that: I like the stepped back version more thatn the other one. Although a profit maximizing owner perhaps disagrees....
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from mtaylor in Stug 40 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - GPM - CARD - WW2 German Tank -
Hi Dan,
Good luck with your health!
I guess your sydney-version will be better than the Canon-free download version?
That one has stairs without even trying to do individual steps
Jan
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amateur got a reaction from mtaylor in Arabia 1856 by Cathead - FINISHED - Scale 1:64 - sidewheel riverboat from the Missouri River, USA
Thanks, I can follow your line of reasonimg.
as for looks: I don’t like the completely enclosed versions, the open and straight are better, but the B-version is my favorite.
What is uours: from the beginning your working sketches used the A-version.
Jan
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