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Many thanks Martin. I`m pleased that you are also on board..... Nils

Thank you very much Denis, unfortunately I did`nt order any planks yet, I intend to use pear wood 2 x 15 mm and place them onto the mold in one length pieces, but I do`nt have any experience with pear wood to date, especially for the bending behavior...in comparison to pine wood planks I usualy use... Nils

Many thanks for your words Frank and Eberhard, Frank, rather nothing of the boat to be seen yet, but I`m gathering information and upfront trying out things with test dummies...., stay tuned for more... Eberhard, thanks for your information and link to the "Arbeitskreis Forum", though it can only be opened to registered members, but I think I probably saw that one on the web some days ago in the "Wettringer Forum", a beautiful build !!, built by a very talented young man named Mathias Nils

Nice progress Nenad, love it that you`re making all those small fitting out details yourself... (a true scratch build) ! Nils

Wonderful build B.E, as usual and known from your shipyard, neat tidy, well built, wood handling and superb color giving... The ships boat looks great ! Nils

Thank you very much B.E. for looking in, yes, its a small craft this time, should`nt be too difficult, but a broad range of new technics to investigate and for myself to try out.. Nils

Many thanks for looking in and for your kind replies,..... to Chris, Dan, and Gary... also for the "likes"... Moin Chris, its not very large, although it will be a rather large scale, but I hope to make something I can be pleased with myself Dan, you`re very welcome, stay tuned.... Gary, thanks for your good wishes, much appreciated.. Nils

Hello freinds and fellow members, today I would like to introduce my new project comprising a model of an traditional working- and fishing boat, as used in the German Baltic state Mecklenburg- Vorpommern in the region called "Darss" with extended national Parks, many decades and years ago. These beautiful wooden boats today are being much cherrished, restored by knowledgable boatbuilders with love and are mostly owned and sailed by enthusiasts for heritage wooden craft with red/brown gaff- und lugger sails. Some have been motorized. There are several regattas on the Bodden waters now an then, a most lovely sight.. Around easter time this year my wife and I decided to do something for our health and we experienced a 7 day "fast hiking week" in the Darss region at the seaside, together with a group of 26 persons and with a trainer. During the hiking tours we also came across little fishing boat ports, and here is where found my inspiration for building a model of one of these lovely boats. In actual they bear an FZ....... registration number on their main sail and they are determined the category "Zeesboat". They are planked either karweel or clinker type and have a swivible centerboard. Mostly they are ketch rigged or single masted with sloop rig. The lengths differ between 9- 12 meter Before beginning there will be a preparation phase, as I mostly do, for the model in scratch build, as I unfortunately to date have no experience wih clinker (lapstrake) building, and some of the idias spooking in my mind have to be tested first, in order to do a near to original lapstrake planking. I intend to plank over a mold / plug and to reinforce the hull later on with separatly added frames, after the hull is taken from the plug. The scale will be somewhere between 1:20 and 1:32. Planking will probably be pear 2 x 15 mm, held together with blackened brass pins and mini clench-discs on the lapstrake inside (resembling the riveted plank boatnails along the horizontal seams) I beleave that there is at this time no other Zeesboat model presented in the MSW forum yet. For doing this model I even decided to postpone the intended model of the seagoing "Hainan Junk" to a future project Nils Preparation Phase it may take some time from now to kick off the begin... pin diameter 0,6 mm, head 1,3 mm, The washer hole 0,6 mm, OD 1,4 mm, 0,3 mm thickness Typical open Zeesboot with open rudder stand and working cockpit and small deckhouse before the mainmast ... seen in the little port of Wiek old boat, new restored, cabin added to the cockpit Boat "Marie Luise" using some srap planks 2 x 12 mm and camfering the upper edges of the forelast plank for the landing surface dummy.... connecting the planks with flat head brass pins (slight countersink) interior side of lapstrake resembling (in lack of suitable clench washers) the clenching with small pieces of plastic tube.... have just received a sample of mini brass washers, that will do perfectly for "clenching" to the pins... clench washers size in relation to the pins here the planks are chisilled for fit and smooth flush transition to the dummy bowpost. The brass pins are here chemically blackend.... this will be my basic building plan... (out of a publication I recently bought from an antiquariat) Nils

Hi Gary, beautiful work, both fishing trawler and boat workshop diorama... Nils

very nice project Karl, I wish you good success in all sequences.... Nils

excellent work Dan, those vent machines and - ducts are beautiful Nils

Many thanks Eugene, for sharing those wonderful pictures of the Avos model, and also those of the Brigantine "Phoenix manuals". I am much impressed of the well thought through construction details of these Korabel kits Nils

Just catching up on your build Antony, excellentwork !! Nils

Wonderful mini scale modeling Patric, its always a delight to study the many fine detail-work.... Nils

Lovely work on the 3 funnels Dan, you`re on the end straight with the model, wish you all the best with the remaining fitting out Nils

Hi Chuck, congrats to those beautiful carvings... Nils

Hi Siggi, congrats on modeling those lovely figurines, I just love them..... very well done ! Nils

Nice Progress Dan ! yes, those superstructures are not easy and you`re doing that job very well..... Nils

Hi Kees, beautiful, the fake riveting, and I also like the 3 figures you turned into the fishing crew... Nils

Hi Dan, any updates on the Leviathan so far ? Nils

Excellent planking and treenailing Arthur, love the look of it.. Nils

Well done Javier, your Lugger looks great, lovely work Nils

Very interesting and well performed build technique Antony ! Your attention to details in timbers and joinings is amazing... Nils

Beautiful work Woodeater ! thanks for sharing your build log pictures..... Nils

No Wefalck, not member of the German Forum, it would be too time consuming for me with two memberships, but thanks for the kind words.... Nils