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And greetings

9 hours ago, Louie da fly said:

Nice to have got this far. A real milestone!

Congratulations.

There is a lot of research and work in this build

Attach the rudder to the stern.

Making hinges.

The plastic hinges will be a weak point. To fix this, copper pins of diameter 1mm are placed.

Holes are drilled in the stern at the right place.

A knock with the hammer, and the rudder is well fixed. This will not come loose anymore.

Finish the hinges 

A light layer of metal paint is first applied under the white layer.  The upper hinge is painted black.

Bolts are attached on the helm.

Painting on the bottom in white and after some polishing and dry brushing the rudder is ready.

I do not find any paintings or drawings from this period with chains or ropes attached to the rudder.
These will therefore not be applied.

Thanks for following

Well done.

Congratulations.

Greetings Patrick

Very well done Steven.

Beautiful detailed

Hello everyone,

Thanks Ondras for the compliment.

Back from vacation and returned to the shipyard.

The rudder and helm are sanded and in the right shape.

The upper part is collored and the lower part has a first light coat of white paint.

Now further details are made. I started with the hinges, as always in plastic.
I would rather have made them in metal. But after a eye surgery, I have trouble viewing small metal objects under a lamp. All metal parts  shines so brightly that I do not see what I do.

Before folding the plastic, it is treated with thin plastic glue. This makes the plastic soft and bends easily. Gluing on the wood is with CA glue

Thanks for following

Well done Ondras.

And greetings from Belgium

Does indeed look like a simple model to build and with clear assembly instructions.

Also with enough extra detail. 

Maybe a good model as a first build ?

A pleasant awakening for me when I read this. At half past six in the morning (in this part of world)  😪💤

6 hours ago, canoe21 said:

Great work as I have come to expect from you and also full of surprises

Thanks Lawrence

I started with the rudder. 
Nobody knows if the Golden Hind had a whipstaff or not. They came into use somewhere in the second half of the 16th century. so adding one is not completely incorrect.

The rudder is made of 3 pieces of wood.

The helm. I find 2 ways to attach the helm to the rudder. The helm passes through the rudder. Or the helm goes around the rudder
Possibilily 1 is apparently from a later period, from the beginning of the 17th century.
Possibility 2 seems to be the most common during this period. So this it will be.

about in the right shape and bent.

My roughly made rudder with the helm. Still a lot of sanding and detailing to do.

Thanks for following

Thanks;

Maybe I should install a mine juke box...
Party 🎤🎸💿🎺 

Beautiful work Dick,

Very accurate and precise.

Beautiful work Radek.

Well done.

Hello,

Because of the exceptional warm weather in this part of the world and other urgent matters that came first, there is little progress to report.
But in the meantime I have succeeded in placing the LED lighting. The quality of this work can be much better. But, once the deck is fully placed above it, little of this will be visible.

The LED lighting is purchased just after Christmas and New Year. Then there is sale, 40 LED lights with battery holder for about 2 euros ($ 3?)
The lanterns are made of plastic sheet. Where the lighting remains visible, lanterns have been placed. Not at other places.

a first "prototype"

There is still room enough to place the deckplanks above the lantern

visibility through the cannon ports

I do not think that in the 16th century there was one ship with so much lanters below deck as on my model ....

Thanks for following and reacting (the like button is now a reacting button, i noticed 👍😉).

Greetings from Belgium

On 8/4/2018 at 5:19 PM, Muskies said:

Very happy to say that cheep fake fantasy model was sold for $535 in a bidding war between three people in the first hour, not bad for a $50 initial investment.

Your children can sell very well 

And 

Greetings from Belgium

Congratulations to you. And your assistant 

Interesting build to follow.

I had no idea how such a ship was built at that time. Until now.

Great work Steven

Greetings from Belgium

Greetings from Belgium

On 19-7-2018 at 6:36 PM, goetzi73 said:

Some thoughts about the door in the wall of the after castle. I've found only a few drawings, that are not very reliable in my opinion. I think the authors took some "artistic liberty" due to sparse informations. 

I took a drawing from a spanish carack ~ 1500 but I'am not sure yet, wether this is appropriate for a simple merchant ship or not. 

A nice model of a Hanze ship (in German or English)

http://www.modelships.de/Verkaufte_Schiffe/Hanse_Schiff_1/Hansa_ship.htm

And on this site (in dutch)

http://www.zuiderzeehoorn.nl/pg-27093-7-105505/pagina/15e_eeuw__-_kopie.html

Also a model