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Dave Bekers

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  1.    Warnerade reacted to a post in a topic: Union brigantine by Warnerade - FINISHED - Constructo - 1/100
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  4. Dave Bekers
    Thank you for the compliment. My wife learned me how to use our very old sewing machine (completely mechanical) and the friend who borrowed me his manual of the Scotland told me how he made the sails. When I posted the story on the Dutch modeling site of the NVM, one person mentioned that most sails are made by folding the border and that he had not yet seen the method that my friend used. In the book Ship Modeling Simplified of Frank Mastini is written about using diluted glue but he seems also to fold the borders. I am not sure how my friend got the idea to simply use only diluted glue and then cut through the dried glue. But it was funny to see that it is not common practice (for the rest, I am all the time impressed by how others build much more complicated models :-). I still need to learn how to do the planking, so I think I will sometimes look on your log of the San Francisco. As said it looks great and luckily you could transport it very well by car to a new place.
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  7. Dave Bekers
    Thank you for your reply. I looked up your current build, the San Francisco II, and that looks great. I am planning another model with a planked hull like you are working on now. Maybe in the end I will have the same impression as you :-). During the build of the Union I got several suggestions of somebody who was building the Scotland (Corel) and who gave me the instructions of the Scotland when he had finished his build. As written on the forum of the Dutch Modeling Association, those instructions gave some inspiration on how to change little things on the Union. I have posted some pictures, two of the final result, and the others of some things I changed. More pictures can be found on the Dutch forum. - Wales on the back of the ship - Sewed sails (like you) with diluted glue on the borders in order not to need to fold them - Sheerpoles (not on scale ... 🙂) - Additional blocks (made from material that was left over) with ropes for the outer jib sail and the fore topmast staysail (to give the impression that one can hoist them from the deck; these are present on the Scotland) - Reef lines on the sails
  8. Dave Bekers
    Only some weeks ago I encountered your very nice post about building the Union of Constructo. I started with the same kit about 6 years ago and due to some life events it took quite a while. After completing the model, I posted a summary with pictures on the site of the Dutch Modeling association NVM (type "constructo union modelbouwforum nvm" in a browser and you will find it). Though I have similar experiences as you with respect to the information of the kit, I was happy with the service of Constructo. After having ran out of rigging line like you did, they sent additional rigging line for free.

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