Alex K.
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Thanks Peter! It was a pleasure seeing your ship as well, and it was nice talking to you. I hope to see you next time. Alex
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Lately I've put some effort in creating a showcase for the Friesland (acrylic). The glue came out near the edges, I guess I should have used more liquid glue, even though this was the supplier's preferred glue (acrifix 192). Removing the glue and polishing should be possible, but where I tried it, you can still see it. Anyway, I added ledlights and this is the result:
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This weekend I managed todo some more. I decided not to use the Mamoli lifeboat, but I already ordered a life boat from Kolderstok a few years ago for this purpose.
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The modelship builders day in the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam was a great success.. 🙂 Some pictures: And the Friesland:
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Thanks Zappto 🙂
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While waiting for my ordered rope, I have some small pieces of rope that I can use for the following.
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Finally it fits. Mostly with bending. I tried the dremel, but that didn't give the right result and I didn't want to destroy too much.
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But while placing it, I ran into a problem... And scraping some wood off the top of the rudder didn't have the desired effect. I may have to put the dremel into the lower part of of the decorations on the back of the ship. I'll take some time to think this over..
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And I decided to do some woodwork, the rudder. Laminating with walnut strips makes it look just a bit nicer.
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On the 30th of Sept, there will be a meeting of model ship builders, organized by a Dutch model ship building forums, in the National Maritime Museum (Scheepvaartmuseum) in Amsterdam. https://www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com I am very proud to be showing this model there together with many other hobby ship builders on this unique location.
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Good morning, After a long pause in this hobby, I am now enjoying this hobby once again and continueing this ship. This is the current status. Even though it seems it's almost finished, there is still somework to do: - continue with some more sails - building the life boat - complete the upper row of cannon hatches - anchors - finishing touch details I plan to keep you uptodate. 🙂 Best Regards, Alex
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It's been a while since my last post. But I've made some sails now, and started the rigging. Some hatches got damaged, but I'll fix those later. Some pictures.
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Hi Zappto, I’ll make them half-wrapped, then most details will be visible on both rigging and the ship itself.
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I've been building this weekend quite a bit. And I ordered sails from Kolderstok. They're actually for the Zeven Provincien, but that is the same type of ship, and the size matches as well. So with a few adjustments I can use these.
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Some time ago, I noticed that the front of the ship didn't fit properly. I decided to rebuild it a bit. See below pictures. The red arrows show that that part is a bit too low.
Our Emblem ®
