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Looking good and you are doing a great job on the masts. Marcus -
Beautifully executed. Looking really good. Marcus
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Pumps On the Zeehaen there is one on the left close to the windlass and one on the right somewhere in back. On modelbouwforum.nl there are several Fluits being built and all of the ships have there pumps located the same way as the Zeehaen. There are no 2 pumps together. Mast bands Some ships do and some don't. Marcus
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Thank you both, I will definitely look up both of them. I have heard from some people that they make those themselves. Thanks against, Marcus
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Hans, In post 152, last picture, the clamps. Self made? Here you can purchase them in 6" (15cm) and up. I have not found anything that small. Marcus
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Hans, She is coming along beautifully and, your attention to all the details is well done. Marcus
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Kees, Hij is er weer (he is back). Your details look great as always. Marcus
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I use the book all the time. Many detailed descriptions of how - to do this and that and the methods apply to any type of ship, be it a ketch, bark, fluit or ship of the line. Excellent book for your library. Marcus
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Thanks, this is a great site. Lots of great stuff. Marcus
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Patrick, I like your staghorns and especially the pumps. I know that my Zeehaen needs a lot of the staghorns and a few of the pumps.
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What is the name of the Dutch internet modelshop? So I can see the material that you got and compare it to material that I can get here. Thanks, Marcus
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Hans, Your post no. 121 bottom picture you show your gunport hinges. What material is that? Copper? How thick is that? Marcus
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Hans, Finally caught up with your build. Beautifully executed. I've always built merchant ships but for a scratch built warship I will be building this one and as far as I know the book from Otto Blom is the best out there. Marcus
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# Jean-Pierre. The built looks great. I like how you did the decorations. Also, noticed that your taffrail is very different compared to mine. I like that about Fluits, numerous variations. # Jan, Thank you for the linguistic history lesson. Fascinating! Marcus
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Jean-Pierre, Beautiful!!! You did a great job so far. I like your explanation of the decorations. I hope my Fluit will look as good as yours. Marcus
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Either a torch or plank bender will work. I think a plank bender gives you more control. Marcus
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Gorilla glue if they are small pieces. I have done that with epoxy. My motto is, if all else fails, epoxy is your answer. Love the pictures. Those are beautiful looking bikes. I am signing off and I am now going to reminisce. Marcus
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Great that you are starting this up again. I will follow this built with great interest. Your fluit has a slightly different stern than my Zeehaen. Mine is round and bulging and yours is flat and then bulgy. Yours is easier to add the decoration (versiering) than mine. Will figure it out. Marcus
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CBX 1050 and a GSX 1150 wow, I remember those very well. In college (no money for a car) started with a 1981 Honda XL250S, moved up to a 1983 XL600 and that was a kickstart. Had that till 1988 when I finished grad school. Went to work in Saudi Arabia and had several Huskies. No spark arrestor, short exhaust and go all out on sand flats with others. Always wore a helmet. Marcus
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Most mechanical objects follow strict protocol in building / rebuilding. You can't improvise. You do that, you get hurt or you die. What type of motorcycles do you build? You must have glued the canons on the deck. Oh well. All together the fluit looks great. Marcus
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Too many guns on that drawing. Someone had a dream and put it on paper. The average amount of sailors on a Fluit was around 20 and usually they all came from the same town. Narrow decks were for less toll. Some fluits had 6 to 8 canons, most had only a few. They sailed in convoys and were protected by war ships. I would not place those canons where they are now. There must be other places on the decks where you can put them without interference from the grate. Marcus
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I built only Dutch ships and they are known to have bluff bows. Presently building a Fluit. Towards the stern the wood bends both ways. All I use is water and when I really have trouble, heat, but that is rare. I soak the heck out of them, sometimes for weeks. But this is my method and we all have different methods. Whatever works. Marcus
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Gentlemen, Ammonia is a Big NO-NO in making planks bendable. Technical background. Wood is made up of cells that have lignin, which is a complex organic polymer deposited in the cell walls of many plants, making them rigid and woody. Ammonia reacts with the lignin by making the cell walls mushy. It destroys the cell walls of the wood and over time warps the model. Your plank falls apart. Just think of what happens to all the planks of your model. Marcus
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