GrandpaPhil

One set of sails, ready for cutting and stitching!

That light pad is an awesome tool!

@LoydB, @Glen McGuire and @Geordie Tyne,

Thank you all very much!

I thoroughly enjoyed this build!

It was a lot of fun to build!

I had a blast building my Seahorse Speeljacht and I have wanted to build my de Zeven Provincien ever since it arrived in my mailbox in 2023.

I figured that I’m not getting any younger, so I might as well build it.

I am not a fan of small scale models so I always intended to enlarge this one.

Originally, I was going to enlarge it to 1/64 to match my Revenge and my Katschip.

However, I am not really worried about the scales matching.

Both de Zeven Provincien and the Revenge are centerpiece models.

Displaying them together, when I get everything completed, would be redundant, so they’ll have their own display areas anyway.

I really enjoyed working at 1/50 scale.

I would like to build a full ship at that scale.

I am not certain that this will succeed, but I’m going to try it anyway.

Here’s the basic kit that I am working from:

And here is the start of just about every model that I have started/built for the last six years after going into a photo copying/resizing frenzy, lol:

It’s printed on standard letter sized paper.

I just printed in black and white to save

on color ink.

Also it isn’t going to matter because everything external is getting painted anyways, after adding wood grain contact paper.

This thing will be a monster at 52” LOA (130cm for all of you metric types).

I am looking forward to seeing how this goes together!

I have my sail making stuff out.  I need to finish a couple small plastic kits (a 1/144 B-25 and a couple 1/144 F-100Ds) for a buddy of mine and then I’m finishing this one.

That’s absolutely incredible!

@72Nova, @Knocklouder, @ccoyle, @Michael Mash, @Baker, @Ronald-V and @Canute,

  Thank you all very much!

I am very happy with how my Speeljacht turned out!

The Admiral added it to our living room curio cabinet yesterday when I gave it to her.

She was quite pleased with it!

She decorates the main areas of our house with my ship models.

And done:

This was a fun quick build!
 

I enjoyed it immensely!  
 

I own most of Seahorse’s line of kits so there will likely be more Seahorse kits being built soon.

Thank you very much to everyone who commented, hit the “like” button, or just stopped by!

The rudder is done and installed.

The starboard leeboard is finished, installed and rigged.

I scavenged some blocks out of my bits bin too.

I didn’t really care for the paper ones.

I think I may let them dry overnight next time.

But this one is getting leftover wood blocks.

@Knocklouder and @mrcc,

  Thank you both very much!

Thank you to all who have hit the “like” button or just stopped by!

One very rough rudder:

Once it dries thoroughly, there will be some trimming and minor painting in its future.

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Glen! 

Very nicely done!

Welcome!

That’s the quickest set of interior and deck fittings that I have ever made:

Moving on to first the rudder and then the leeboards.

I’m pretty much just building sequentially, following the part numbering.

Welcome!

Welcome!

Quick money saving tip:

Toothpicks make great belaying pins.

I just carve them with a scalpel while slowly rotating the piece.

I cut the finished belaying pin off the end of the toothpick after carving it.

It can get tedious if you have many of them, but it is no worse than any other high volume part that we use.

I have done a full galleon’s worth before, and it wasn’t too bad.

That batch is shared between the HMS Revenge and my Dutch Cat Ship.

In my opinion, they look better, and are more to scale, than what is generally commercially available.

Hull decorations and touch ups are done!

Model is sealed and ready for fittings!

Making good progress!

Glen,

  Absolutely incredible work!  

I am greatly looking forward to your next build!

Welcome!

Congratulations, Greg!

Excellent work!  Very nicely done!

The stern decorations are on!

To give an idea of scale, the lions are approximately a half inch, or 12.5mm tall.
 

I took it off the base because the base wouldn’t fit in my curio cabinet.

I am going to cut out and install the quarter badges, which depict fish, next.

Very nicely done!

Very nicely done!