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  • Birthday 04/14/1978

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    Leuven, Belgium
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    besides modeling: playing classical music (Bassoon), Aikido, horse-riding, materials science, nano electronics, ...

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  1.    catopower reacted to a post in a topic: HMS Beagle by Michiel and Raphael - OcCre - 1:60
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  13. Michiel
    Cleaning done repairs started... put the window frames back in and the broken of deck parts, also the broken piece of deck is back in place next step is repairing broken masts:
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    It's been a while... mostly because of the other projects. I started using gold leaf to redo the previously gold painted parts. I really like the effect. It is however hard to make pictures that realty do justice to the result. the left port is still in the original state the right one is in the new state.
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  21. Michiel
    so I carefully removed all the rigging, all the parts that came loses, and some very ugly previous repairs. Come to think of it those may have been done my an about 30 years less experienced me. After that I started cleaning. This really took several hours. The cotton swipes kept turning black. It sort of gave that feeling of those movies of professionals cleaning a discolored layer of varnish of an old painting. In the end, I think she is more or less clean and ready for the repair. fortunately it seems there is no structural damage. about 7 compound parts have come loose form the deck and sides. There are two part of the masts broken, and the anchors are broken and the broken of parts are missing. Also the decorative piece on port starboard side next to the stern is gone. The square pannel you can see in the picture below on the port side. I'll have to recarve that. I usually carve in a bit more detail so maybe the main challenge will be to stay in the style of this model.
  22.    Michiel reacted to a post in a topic: Statenjacht by Michiel - Billing Boats - 1:50 - RESTORATION - 1970 model
  23. Michiel
    In the mean while, some progress on the masts and rigging.
  24. Michiel
    As you can imaging the chaos is complete. The following pictures are not for the faint hearted, but I promise it will become better from now on:
  25. Michiel
    I recently came in possession of two models in certain states of, well, being. one is just in a early state of building, and has been in this state since as long as I can remember. At some point I'll start an other log when I come to finish this one. the other is also older then I am and used to hang in my parents home... until it came down. After the unfortunate event she ended up in the attic. After another unfortunate event about a month ago she is now in my workshop, and I hope to restore her to the state I remember. The original build took place around 1973 on board the ship my father was serving his apprenticeship on. With the two models also a pile of picture albums came in which found these two.
  26. Michiel
    On my phone I have difficulties with adding text. Somehow this always adds lots of empty lines. So I now just dump pictures and skip the text. May add some later on a laptop. Anyhow, here's a few shots on the progress. assembled the main mast and a lot of small things on the deck. Also added some figures to make it more lively. That are Darwin and Fitzroy discussing the progress on the second picture... 😉
  27.    Michiel reacted to a post in a topic: HMS Victory c.1765-1791 by Steve Anderson - FINISHED - 1:64 scale
  28. Michiel
    very right, but this thread is for the thinnest rigging rope not for cable.
  29. Michiel
    Hey Chimp, I agree, but then again what you get here for the price is actually quite a lot. I think the rope is not too bad. For my other build I also make my own, mainly to have it all to scale, and to have a orientation correct. In the other build I use pure cotton and a homemade device to turn the thread. There are pictures in the prins willem log if you like. I do agree it is quite fun. Here's a picture of the rope from my kit. so here I hooked up the digital microscope. the rope to the left is from the kit, the middle one from the picture above. The one to the right is my own. You can see the twist is wrong in the one from the kit. Indeed the one made from cotton is much cleaner than the kit one the sails are a bigger problem than the rope. I may replace those by something with a finer weave, like silk. my biggest complaint about the kit would be that many visible parts are made of plywood, which then needs to be painted. This I don't like at all. If I would suggest something to the supplier is to replace those two boards by solid wood.
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  31. Michiel
    Here is another update, putting together the smaller deck details and putting them in place. All ports are also closed again. The pins for the rigging seem way too big to me... should have looked for a replacement but i need to continue with this build. same goes for the brass eye bolds.
  32. Michiel
    tx. Yes indeed the book is next to the build.
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    That was fun. Not the most difficult hull i ever did but also not the worst. I still do not know if I like or dislike the fist layer plankings. They are rather thick maybe too.
  36. Michiel
    11 strips of second layer planking left...

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