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  1. Baker
    Welcome to MSW
  2. Baker
    Actually, yes and no. On almost all ships with the fore mast in front of the fore castle it is attached to the bow (in a hole in the beakhead knee). On ships with the fore mast in the fore castle you see all the possibilities. Rules, habits, or maybe they had the same problem at the shipyard every now and then and they just did what suited them best. In this era, information is sometimes unclear. But When the fore mast is so far forward, she has less support in the ship than when she is in the fore castle. Perhaps the strength of the fore mast was not trusted to absorb the extra forces of the forestay of the main mast. If I still got my lessons in mechanics right The setup with the foremast in front of the fore castle can only absorb forces in the forward direction (2 support points). The setup with the foremast in the castle can (should) absorb forces in both directions (multiple support points). Who knows??
  3. Baker
    This resulted in the same problem. But the solution is near. not completely in order yet but on the right track.
  4. Baker
    Great work. I made this model years ago and still have it. was fun to build.
  5. Baker
    We do have a colorful language. Just search for "kinderkopjes" (heads of little childs) on google... Continue with the upper part of the main mast. Building the top of the mast (not the "mast top" ) glued in place and sanded And a test fit. It should become something like this. Someone (I) forgot that the mast must also have a support on the lower deck. So I drilled a hole in this deck and hammered a nail in it And drilled a hole in the mast. plan B but effective And discovered my first rigging problem. Long time ago a modeller had the same problem. Beautifully solved by Bjorn Landstrom in his book The Ship. to be continued
  6. Baker
    Impressive model and crew.
  7. Baker
    Great work on a beautiful model
  8. Baker
    Congrats, again 2 beautiful models built
  9. Baker
    Thanks, First I will try to finish my Bounty project. Thanks Thanks, I once built about 60 of these models a year and had always about 100 kits in stock. After years and years, I felt like Charlie Chaplin on the assembly line in his movie Modern Times Said to myself: Backer, what are you doing, this is no longer a hobby. So, did a big clean up of all these models and made new cabinets to place them ( this took me 2 years...) And, start building something else. Now i build boats and a few military models.
  10. Baker
    Years ago I found some old ammunition in the ground (this is normal in this part of the world...) I tried to make the copper on my plastic Bounty look like this. (page 2 on the Bounty build)
  11. Baker
    Here we go again. The Bounty build is restarted, If everything goes according to plan, she will be ready this winter The yards are painted. And now i can start with the rigging. I had the idea of adding sails. But since my base plate looks like the bottom of some kind of dry dock this is not really appropriate. A ship with full sails in dry dock ... not good. So no sails or maybe furled sails. Welcome back
  12. Baker
    That's not good Fortunately, most tomatoes survived 🍅 And indeed, more wood for ship models
  13. Baker
    Finished Apply the decals Final painting job Glued on the base and a wash of diluted mat black Numbered The Stoewer Einheits Pkw. family. The 2 on the left are from the French company Al-by (resin) Looking at the numbers, these were built at least 25 years ago An ancestor of previous vehicles : The Stoewer M12 (build from parts of Hasegawa, Airfix and Esci) Basically a normal car "sawn" in 2 and extended Thanks for following, comments and likes.
  14. Baker
    Great update. This was worth waiting for
  15. Baker
    Can happen to anyone, noticed just in time. If you only know what I've already had to rebuild on my models
  16. Baker
    question Normally this deck is not bent. Are you sure nothing is wrong. Now you can still adjust this if necessary Greetings Patrick
  17. Baker
    And welcome to MSW
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  19. Baker
    Nice Patton (M48A3 ?? )
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    Small painting update. Painting is done in the same way as my other military models Basic color dry brushing with light gray (and then install the window) Apply all other colors To do , decals and dry brushing with sand. Thanks for following
  22. Baker
    Thanks for this nice French text. Great that you speak four languages (always handy) I once learned French as a second language at school. Some German during my military service in Germany And some English in between. Looks they had interesting models. Too bad the company no longer exists. You can apparently still contact them according to the website http://www.aeropiccola.com/index_eng.html In the meantime, the second mast top is finally ready. Now continue with the top part of the main and fore mast. And now we make a "ezelshoofd" (donkey head in Englisch ) What does a donkey have in common with a mast part? Thanks for following
  23. Baker
    Nice work on the cannon(s).
  24. Baker
    Great work Luponero
  25. Baker
    Noticed today Since the last update the "edit button" has been moved

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