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Keep them coming!

A nice model and an interesting idea for the presentation 👍🏻

I have a bit of weak spot for those pacific craft and have built a couple of models of Micronesian craft.

Indeed, a fine model and very well-animated crew!

At 1:48 scale it must be almost beyond private home-size ...

I like those small sloop- or cutter-rigged ships and such tiny models.

Seems like a nice model, but on most pictures the hull is barely discerible from the dark base-board ... do you have Photoshops or something similar in which you can lighten the shaddows? That would help.

I have some interest in this ship, as her sister was sold to the Prussian government because Napoleon III forbid her sale to the Confederates in 1864. She was second iron-clad in the young Prussian navy, but they were not happy with her, as Armand Fréres cobbled her together quite quickly (not to say shoddily) in order to profit from the American Civil War.  

Very nice model indeed and I love those sail/steam transition period ships and iron-clads.

When I looked at the pictures, I immediately thought of the French style of warships from the 1860s/70s with their very pronounced ram and the date of 1898 puzzled me. Looking further down the row of the pictures I also noticed the old-style wooden carriage slides for the guns, which would have been very anachronistic in 1898.

So I did a quick search on the Internet to confirm my suspicion: I think you built the KÕTESTU ex CSS STONEWALL from 1864!  The AZUMA of 1898 looks rather different with three funnels:

For comparison the CSS STONEWALL:

Where did you get the detailed drawings from ?

Regards,

Eberhard

Javier, this is a wonderful little model! They are getting better and better!

The shape of these Dutch boats is a particular challenge to plank. Did you do it in your usual fashion?

Saludos,

Eberhard

Ahh, another Baron - very nice indeed.

How many of those little model did you do by now?

Nice model indeed!

Somehow I missed that museum when I visited Pisa a few years ago 🤨

Beautiful little model indeed!

I was not aware of this type of Portuguese vessel. What is striking is this mixture of 18th (e.g. galion) and late 19th century (e.g. sail-plan) feastures, and the mixture of Dutch and Portuguese features.

Followed the building process in the ModelWarShip-forum and it is indeed a very nice rendering of an unusual subject - love these working ships that keep the more spectacular ones running and our coasts safe!

What scale is this one?

Beautiful as always !

I didn't realise how big the prototype was until I read the description ... a figurine or something like this to give the scale would have been useful here. Nine metre long oars !

Nice rendering of an unsual subject !

This kind of steering with ropes on a yoke is unusual and mainly seen on Arab craft and today on sports rowing boats.

Nice model of a Marker Botter in summer-rig! What scale is it in?

One of the most important ports from which they operated was missing from your list: Volendam.

The Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen has a couple of them in preservation: https://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/zuiderzee/zuiderzee.html

Nice model of a rather rarely modelled prototype.

Is it still in 1:150 scale ?

Ahh, another Baron 👍

Again, it is quite impressive, what can be done with cardbord and paper ... what scale is she actuall in ?

Another very nice model indeed. What scale is she in ?

Very nice models.

These kajaks always fascinated me and I have collected a lot of references on them over the years. I didn't make a big effort to obtain any, but I have none of the dozen or so of the papers etc. in my list.

What kind of paint would they have used on these boats ?

Indeed, as I said repeatedly during the log: a wonderful and evocative model !

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My god, I lived in Rome for a while and go back there from time to time, but I didn't know about that part of Vatican museums. Whenever one can travel again and we are heading for Rome, I have to check this out !

Ahh, another skin boat ... I not very often look around the gallery (I am more interested in the processes than the final products, I must admit ...), so I missed that.

Ahh, you are interested in kayaks too ! And canoes ?

A few years ago I happened to work in one of the French institutes for Arctic studies and as a kind of bonus lesson we could give on a pet subject, I gave one on kayak typology and construction.

Where did you get the drawings from, form Adney & Chapelle (1964) ? I have quite a collection of books on indigeneous kayaks. However, as I am working in small scales, kayaks are not so interesting and practical subjects.

Talking about Adney, a bark canoe, perhaps a 'voyageur' one, is also on my list.

Eberhard

Harvey, the one the distinctive crab-claw sail in the image above is another one on my list, the museum in Berlin has an original one.

Would like to see more of your models ...

Eberhard