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About flying_dutchman2
- Birthday 07/18/1957
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Crown Point, IN, USA
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Dutchman living in the Midwest.
Dutch Merchant Ships (1600-1850), Everything about VOC history, Woodcrafts such as Carving & Scrollsaw. Bonsai with Japanese Maples. Edible gardening. Birding.
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Technical drawings & Dutch shell first
flying_dutchman2 replied to Jules van Beek's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Jules, I second that from @druxey, is there a thesis or dissertation on the above information? If so, I would love to read it. I would also like to see the biography list of all the references you are using as you have some interesting articles that I have not heard of before. Thanks, Marcus -
Technical drawings & Dutch shell first
flying_dutchman2 replied to Jules van Beek's topic in Nautical/Naval History
This is a fascinating topic and I have been reading this thoroughly. It also gives me a better understanding of it all (Thank you Jules). I use Witsen's manuscript and Hoving's book which is an interpretation of Witsen's manuscript plus several other books to attempt to either built another Fluit (First I need to finish the Zeehaen), or the war yacht, the Heemskerck. Marcus -
Technical drawings & Dutch shell first
flying_dutchman2 replied to Jules van Beek's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Hallo Jues, The following link are from two Dutch model builders that are building models "shell first". They are both very interesting threads to follow. Winter's Hollandse tweedekker 1/75 POF bouw door Stephan Kertész | ModelbouwForum.nl Marcus -
The Sinking of the Bismarck ... with LEGOs ...
flying_dutchman2 replied to uss frolick's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Thanks for posting. It is amazing how this was done and the work that went into this. I like how all the figures were swimming a backstroke when the ship went down. Marcus -
Drafting
flying_dutchman2 replied to mangulator63's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
@mangulator63 "I'm just curious, does anyone still sit at a drafting board and design and draw anymore?" Yes, I do. I still have my drafting table and Rotring pens (from 1978 when I studied landscape Architecture at the Horticulture College in the Netherlands) and still use them. My present built went from 1:75 to 1:37.5. I have a fast pc with TurboCAD installed on it. But firing that up and scanning in the plans, blowing that up to twice the size, printing them all, and then taping that all together takes much longer then cutting a piece of velum from a 5 ft wide 100 ft long roll. Measure by hand the dimensions on the original plans and transcribe them on the 1:37.5. Marc -
After reading with much interest, this has been very educational. Philemon1948 "Is this true? Were drawings not used before they started building a ship in the seventeenth century?" The Dutch were well known for not putting anything on paper. The master shipwright had it all in his head and they taught the younger shipwright and he taught it to the next on and so on. Nothing on paper so when you read through books lets say the book "17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships by Ab Hoving and Cor Emke" , drawings/plans are from paintings, edgings, maritime archeological excavations and contracts from Witsen and other authors. Nothing like "we got plans from this and that. Unlike other Western European nations that put everything on paper and some of this has survived to this day. This makes it more difficult for the present model ship builder to built a model because it never is exact. Reading through these 2 books I have mastered the art of reading and understanding contracts. It did take several years and help from Ab Hoving. – A. Hoving, A. Lemmers, In tekening gebracht. De achttiende-eeuwse scheepsbouwers en hun ontwerpmetoden, 2001, – A. Hoving, Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, 2012. I figured if I master understanding contracts I can built any Dutch Ship. Philemon1948 "The flute and the pinas represent two different ship types although they tend to have many features in common". On the site of De VOCsite : Scheepstypen van de VOC it discusses a "Hekboot", which is the best of both worlds. The bottom part of the ship is a Fluit and the top part is a Pinas. Dutch quote "Het is een soort mengvorm met als onderschip de kenmerken van een fluit en de bovenbouw van een pinas". Just my 2 cents. Marcus
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17th century Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding
flying_dutchman2 replied to bruce d's topic in Nautical/Naval History
I have the book and it is a great addition to my library. It has helped me with building my Dutch ships. My interest in building Dutch ships is the method and technique the Dutch used. Ab Hoving has written a good book about this and he has several articles on this as well. Marcus -
As a frugal Dutchman, I have been making them for the last couple of years (I make almost everything myself, about 95%). I take a round dowel, clamp it, on a drill press put in 3 holes in a triangle. Use my crude home made lathe and put the dowel in the chuck from the drill and use an abrassive cord to make the groove. Cut off the deadeye a bit wider and sand both sides a bit round. As someone already said, if you only need a few, you can purchase them from any online store. Marcus
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