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Many thanks for your nice comment James, These boats are from the days when the fisher families who owned an own Zeesboat were depending on good catches, to enable being well off and having a worthy living. Todays Zeesboats are mostly and basicly former fishing workboats that have been converted to leisure-craft with often changes in the super structures, rigg and with modern sailcloth material. It has been a revival of wooden built boats and there are several buildyards around the Bodden areas having a good business in these days for changing, repair and overhaul. Also wood-boatbuilders find occupation more often, and especialy after the german reunion I guess most of these heritage- and used craft are scarcely and rare to find. Anualy there are several regattas of Zeesboats on the Bodden waters and it`s a great sight to see the armadas of red/brown sails. It always reminds me of the song "red sails in the sunset......" Nils -
Many thanks Mark, the two fishermen crew I had from begin on. For the fish I came across by finding these with some luck in two sizes under "doll house accessories in scale 1:12" Nils
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FINISHED Final pictures The Zeesboot in scale 1:24 (in workboat mode) is now completed. The Zeesen-sack at the end of the Zesse-gear ground net is just being hauled up over the stb. side with a tackle in the upper mainmast, after a nights drift with the Zeese gear sweeping over the Bodden ground. It`s been quite a good catch and the fishermen are pleased with their work. The bow and stern prolongation-spreading-poles have been shifted in again and secured on deck. I named the boat LORBAS and the home port is the harbour of the town Barth. ( This is not a model of an actual existing boat, and the fishing-craft registration # on the sail is from a boat that has been scrapped many years ago) The build provided much fun over the last months and I think it turned out as one of my favorate models Nils
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update the rigging is done, the sails all set. I now need to clean up the rope ends in coils and do the fitting out. The finishing line is already in sight. My wife and I shall have a weeks vacation at the Baltic sea from 4th Oct. on Nils the standing and running rigging is all in Polyester rope in different sizes the cabin upper part is removeable, the anchor chain is made from chemically blackened brass all the blocks are from Master Korabel
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Many thanks Keith and Eberhard, Keith, the idea with the day-tank (refueling) came to me when making the engine bonnet. Eberhard, that tip with backing up paper also came from my wife, I tried it, but had problems in ripping the paper off afterwards. I`ll rather stick to the starch reinforcing method Nils
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Update for anyone that should be interested in the way I make the sails, here a few pics of todays work...... Nils this was what helped me in dealing with the bolt rope being mounted under the zig-zack stich (using a darning needle, a tip from my wife, and it works very well) the rather thin red cotton cloth was reinforced with starch in the sewing area. After bringing on a clean zick-zag along the edges it was easy to place the bolt rope correctly in center alignment the small sail fastening loops need to be made at this stage after folding the sail edge 180° the bolt rope comes to lay at the outer sail edge The registration #, FZ for Fischerei Zeesboot. The actual boat bearing this registration was layed up, broken down scrapped many years ago The large main sail is equipped with mini eyelets for lashing to the mast and to the gaff. Also the reefing strops are brought on Fisherman senior is refueling the 20 Liter day-tank under the engine bonet, as both men are bringing her over to the yard, under machine, some miles away, for further rigging and fitting out
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Update I have started with the sails. The flyer and the mainsail are intended to be red, the other 3 (already sewn sails) are brown. The red sail cloth is too thin and wrinkels under the sewing machine foot, so I`m giving it a second try with either diluted PVA or with laundry starch in the appropriate places The FZ 53 identification # on the red main sail was printed by my local copy shop, in the same quality as the 5 Elbe sail # recently. Allthough I had sewn many sails this way to date, I had a problem in getting the 1 mm thick bolt rope to alline properly under the zick zag stich this time. Thankfully my wife gave me a good suggestion how to fix that, and it works well. The foot devices for the machine are of great help and I could`nt do without them. Nils brown foresail, mizzen sail a top sail red, flyer and main sail these are the two needle guide and foot devices I am using
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Many thanks Keith, I`m admiring your rigging and sailmaking of the Germania schooner, its a real masterpiece of maritime modeling, in museum quality. Mine is just a workboat and therefore the rigging, sails, etc will be a bit easier. I am just preparing for the sails patterns. the red and brown cotton sail cloth are already here. For the sail fastening to mast and spars I bought some mini 1,5mm eyelets and the appropriate tools for setting them. The copy shop promissed me that there is no problem in printing the white color reg. # to the red mainsail. The model shall bear a revival reg.# of an actual Zeesboat that was layed up and broken down many decades ago, so there will be no interfierence with the reg.# of momentary actual craft and / their owners. Nils the duck seams are at 24" for the 5 sails here red/brown cooton sail cloth, the small eyelets, tools for setting. At the point of the needle is a sample of a mounted eylet with ID 1,5mm, OD 3,5mm the scetch is showing the intended sail lashing to the mainmast. I still remember this from the rigging of my actual "Cornish Cormorant" sail dinghi with brown gaff sail, many years ago.
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Update today I sewed the pillows for the two berths and made an accessladder from the work cockpit to the deck, and belaying pins for the main sails Nils for the pillows I found a bit of chequered cotton cloth ladder and belaying pins
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Hi Gary, I`m pleased that you looked in again and that you liked the meantime progress. I`m preparing to make the rigging and the sails next.... Nils
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MONTAÑES by Amalio
Mirabell61 replied to Amalio's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
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Very nice clipper drawing views Simon, thanks for sharing these Nils
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amazing work Michele and excellent photographing, are you using the black blanket background technique ? how is the object fixed in position for the poses shown ? wonderful framework and the warm wood tone is beautiful Nils
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Thanks for input Chris, The german names are Butt, Flunder, and Scholle. I used Scholle for Google translater : plaice They all taste the same I find. Nils
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Update made the bow sprit, the two traveller rails, some fittings for fastening the sails, and the extendable poles of the fishing gear. It looks like all is ready for the sails to be sewn. The plaice are in one box and hering and cod in the other. I intended to apply Syren blocks for rigging, but the postage costs to germany are too expensive, so I found a source in Germany selling Master Korabel blocks, which are also good in quality. Nils over all view water stay and fittings bow view aft view the chain has soldered links, and will become a greyish coating (fake Zink) view into the cabin, berths and the front compartment anchor chain storage. plaice, hering and cods are in the boxes, I need to get some eels from somewhere
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excellent work Michele, I love the lines of these french ships, and your model will be a beauty Nils
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wow, what an elegant hull the chebeque has, everthing is trimmed for speed.... Beautiful work Daniel Nils
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Update now the semi round nutwood outer deck rails are mounted, and also the beech foot rails attached to the anchors. The larger and smaller deadeye are ready for rigging the masts. The deadeye fastening screws are still to be shortend a bit. The bow sprit spar has to be made fastend to the deck and rigged. The poles for bringing out the Zeesen network (Fishing gear) will be made later on Nils rails mounted deadeyes safely mounted to the deck anchors There are 4 smaller deadeyes for rigging the mizzen mast
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Hi Dan, thanks for you`re nice comments.... Now that the deck finaly is complete it gave me confidence again, to build on with the model. Yes I`m proud of the little tuc-tuc engine, a pitty that it will never run... Nils
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