
Olli Sukunimisson
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Welcome! But be warned—you can never stop :) Building wooden ships is 1.2 times more addictive than tobacco! 🙂 You won’t even realize when you start your own scratch-built POF.
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Hello, gentlemen! I have been dancing around tiny things—progress was slow, and I had nothing to show. But now—gun carriages! The story starts here. The provided cannons were slightly unbalanced and couldn't stand still on their given carriages. But this is ship modeling—we welcome every challenge! Let's move the cannons slightly backward. Better. And yet, my soul found no rest. It wanted something more. I made dozens of attempts to create better carriages. And now—ta-da! I’m sure that Archimedes and Alexander the Great designed wheels for their gun carriage models this way. But I knew nothing about their methods. As for me—I’m the proud inventor!
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Thanks, Hans! Your decision fits me unbelievably well. I’ll admit, I’m a bit greedy (I know, I know), and the price of the Duyfken was a big factor in my choice. I’m just not ready to buy a kit for 500+ euros yet—someday, definitely, but not right now. And there’s great freedom for experiments, which is also great.
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Gratings. Oh, gratings. I’m sure you know the right glorious way to make them—less time-consuming and more precise. After countless experiments, I’ve settled on carving. It’s not a difficult method, but it does feel too Finnish. You know, there’s that national mindset—sisu. A mix of calm, acceptance, and stubbornness. Mostly stubbornness, at least in this case. Because these gratings? They’re not even in the plans. Hans intended to cover the gratings on the forward and stern decks with some sort of fabric cover. But no—I’d rather have removable gratings there. It’s important to be able to see what’s happening below deck. By the way, if I were building my Duyfken now, I’d make this space into a piece of the hold.
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