Ondras71

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So I finished the front deck railing..
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
At the stern are the finished pillar rails of the poop deck..
 

 

 

 

Thank you for like!
 
So I finished the front deck railing..
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
At the stern are the finished pillar rails of the poop deck..
 

 

 

 

Hello,
 
A bit earlier than expected the news about the pinas-program is out. It will take another two weeks to implement the English texts. Until then I can give a short description of the program. The user can choose between three options: one is to see (interactively) how a Dutch ship (in this case the pinas) was built. In the second you can virtually walk through all compartments of the ship and recognize the various parts. In the third option, the encyclopedia, any part can be found with the description of the formula for that part and its measurements for this particular ship.
It sounds complicated, but it is very user-friendly and intuitive.
Especially for people like Amateur, who has obviously not much trust in Witsen, this program shows that this 'lay-man' was very well informed, by a shipbuilder he especially hired to help him describe the example ship he chose to tell the story of the Dutch method of shipbuilding.
I have worked about 40 years with the material from the book  and though I often first thought that he gave wrong information, I always, with no exception, had to change what I did, because after all Witsen appeared to be right. The only problem was that his book is a total chaos. I cut the relevant pages into 1200 parts, relocated them until I had a plausible story and made my drawings. After three years I was able to use the drawings for a model, which took another 3 years. In 1994 I published the book I based on Witsen's work, followed by the English translation in 2012. Now, after almost 40 years the digital version is almost ready. I hope it will convince you of the thustworthiness of Witsen's data, like it convinced me. All I know I learned from Witsen.
Soon on your screen!  
 

The deck is already in shape..     I decided to place square drains on the top deck. There are none in the plan, but all ships had them. Preparing the lath...  
I studied the cannons: The ones in the plan look older..😳   At the end of the 16th century, cast cannons were already used. I've found a current build of a same age replica of Barents' ship from 1595, which already had cast cannons with a carriage with only front wheels. The build is based on archaeological findings of wrecks..  http://debarentsz.nl/home/foto.html   A video of awreck of aSwedish ship Mars sunk in 1564, also with cast gun barrels..    Regarding Roter Lowe (1597) there isn't much to be found, I've only found this on Wikipedia.. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roter_Löwe_(Schiff,_1597   As to all the plans in the "Risse von Schiffen des 16./17. Jahrhunderts" book, I've read somewhere that these aren't very good reconstructions..   

Carved upper gunports. Frames lined with cherries ..
 

Have added another strip of planks on the side .. Removed mounting ribs of the main deck ..     Grinded the sides from the inside and measured the gunports of the main decks..  O.  

A bow deck bordered by planks ..

 

 

The deck, repaired, now looks more realistic..👌
 


As a reminder, here is the old version..  

I found out, that the plank gaps are too wide. I therefore removed the deck and I'm going to use a thinner paper (0.09 mm). It is better to redo it now, than to end up having to tear down multiple decks made the wrong way. 
 





 

Thank you, Backer
 
Treenails on the front wall.. O.
 

 

 

Thank you very much zappto!!   Front deck..
  I wish all model builders all the best in the New year 2019. Ondras71
 

left side finished ..
 

 
hawse holes, waxed..
 

...O.
Right side...

 

 

Lower deck drainage. The De Zeven Provincien reconstruction from 1665 has the drainage well portrayed..    I had already drilled the drain slope a long time ago..         The first one...    

Doors were provided with 0.5 mm nails, 0.4 mm for the windows. They're also waxed ..   I planked the front wall and placed windows and doors on it ..   I wonder, if I should place pins or nails in the front wall aswell..   In addition, I'm preparing to drill holes for the big nails on the wales, they're on the plan but, after a closer look, in the wrong distance..   Of course I am placing the nails (studs) into the ribs, clear logic .. O.

Work on the front wall ..
 

 

 
Window and door in wax ..
 

 

Small shift. I raised bases of the hips made of overlayed 2 and 1 mm spruce planks. The top edge of the railing has been drawn, polished and painted with adhesive for reliable attachment of the outer planks..


Mirror doors lined with planks...
 


 
and pins placed..
 



 

Looking at Kevin's picture:  I have always had a mistrust of being able to get the holes to exactly match up with the dowels.  I just thought of a way to do it.  Use a third piece of wood.  One that is as wide as the channel is thick.  Make it thick enough that a drill bit has to go in perpendicular. Site the dowel locations as holes in it.  Use it as the gauge to drill the holes in the hull and in the channel..  I beg forgiveness of this is standard practice already.  I just solves a long standing  how-to-do-it for me. 

Please look in and post an update for us on you and your life now and again Doris.
 
I have truly enjoyed following your fantastic builds over the years and even though we have never met or even talked, consider you a friend. I do hope you find a place in your life that returns some of the joy you are missing. My wife and I will be thinking of you and hoping for better times in your life.

A model of a Spanish (originally Portuguese) galleon in a navy board style.The materials are boxwood, pear, linden and ebony.Probably some photo-etched parts.There are few source materials, plans are imagination rather than reality.Probably the only contemporary painting and the galleon is the fresco in the Hall of Battles in El Escorial located in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Besides, one more drawing.

 
 
I made the frames of pear wood - 1.6 mm. Every second one frame will be cut after sanding the hull. Everything stuck together temporarily by seccotine glue.
 

 

 
 
After sanding, I carefully disassembled the sections of double frames. Then I cut out the unnecessary material and gently sanded the center of the frames.
 

 
 
 
 
 

Hy Marc, 
I was told by the chemistry doctor Kremer that the vermillion red was much too expensive for a hole hull so minum (lead oxyd) was in use - this was also available in several shadrs by adding black brown yellow or painting it over a whitened surface. Dr Kremes was responsible for the pigments of several Dutch reconstructions of sailing boats and is very well aware of the cost of colour for... hold your breath a moment... a hole SQUAREMILE of surface for a threedecker ship to be painted. 
So the kutcome may be the very same but the material input isn't that exclusive and luxurious only inside in the officer's and admiral's, he suggested the use of expensive materials for personal presentation.
 

As the beautiful made graphic parquet suggested in this direction very much. 
 
 
 
Her a side look from MODEL REDUIT de BATEAU B°289 1987 page 26 a picture from the MdlM of the Tanneron model. It shows how well craved and sculpturic the horses were and how less care Heller put into a well done reproduction of this ship - adding two seperat casted horsesvwould give a completely better effect. Hope this helps a bit with the detailling of the complexity of the Apollo chariot in the Couronnament and it's sourrounding details.
 
Sorry for the bad quality I saw this at packing my removel boxes and took for Kirril and you two fast shots. 

Oh , I see ...
by the way, just some thoughts...
spritsail yard attaches to the bowsprit in the same way as yards attached to the masts...
consider it logicaly if You rigging yards on the mast with tie and parrals ,but not just permanently lashing :))), 
than why spritsail yard You want to  attach to the bowsprit in this strange way ,with lashing...? :)))
But if You like rope parral, You could try to make it in a little bit different way, like on this drawing of GH reconstruction

Good day,
There are many other pictures of 17thvcentury vessels/galleons? Where we could see the same arrangements of spritsail yard - with parrels -please see my signature with link to the famous  Dutch Artists of17th century...
And ,there is another,one more  way how spritsail could be attached to the bowsprit- with tackles/ and looks like without slings...which also often used in that time...

My shipbuilding is going slow because I can only work in my spare time. Here are a few more photos of me.

Hi
I am a new ship modeler from Lithuania. There is a second model of my ship (the first was Corel Company VASA). In my country are many people (about 2 million), so there are many people who make ship models, there are many company's which sells ship model kits. The most serious company in Lithuania is COREL. So I doing this company ship models. Now I'm doing COREL - WAPPEN VON HANBURG. This is Corel company's most expensive and sophisticated set of ships. I want to say that COREL kits are complex. But I like this company because the quality of the materials is good. 
 
I think it will be difficult to make this ship model because the first deck cannons have to be installed before the taller decks can be made and the sides of the ship glued. Swiss. Therefore, ground-floor cannons may be broken.