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  1.    flying_dutchman2 reacted to a post in a topic: After the storm
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    Beautiful! Lots of gold..... I like it. Marcus
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    Great review, Chris! I got it a couple of weeks ago and it is another excellent book from Ab and Emiel Hoving. This book will give me the courage to build a ship in card. Marrc
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    Hi Chris, Thanks for the link. I am going to check some Dutch sites (I speak it fluently) and plug in the weight of paper/card numbers mentioned in Ab's new book. Marcus Thanks Phil, for the information. Marcus
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    Hi Chris, I am going to try my hand at scratch building paper models. Yesterday I received Ab Hoving's book "Dutch 17th Century Ship Models in Paper", from Seawatch Books. I will start with a small Dutch merchant ship. In his book, Ab discusses the types of weight of the paper but it is the Dutch kind he uses. Can't seem to find a conversion table (European to US paper weight). What do you recommend I use? Abe mentions 0.5 mm thick, 1mm thick and 2mm thick. Thanks in advance, Marcus
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    Every Fluit you have built is always beautifully executed. I always learn something looking at your Fluits. I use this knowledge on my own fluit to make sure the Zeehaen is correct. Marcus
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    Ab, Beautiful pictures, so realistic. Emiel does an excellent job with Photoshop. Do you have higher resolutions of all your pictures, especially the ones in your book of 17th Century Dutch Merchant ships? I would be interested in the Fluit pictures. Thanks, Marc
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    Ab, Glad you are feeling better. Looking forward to the Photoshop composition. Marcus
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Same here. I was just in the Netherlands but due to time constraint it wasn't possible to see it. Marcus
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    WOW, Beautiful. Clean Lines. Well Done. Marcus
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    I second that "and" I will think about your questions and come up with something that may answer or not . Marcus
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    @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

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