Adrieke

just easing back into it Sjors

Hello Piet
 
i might start a buildlog but it will most likely be just weekly update pictures

soon I ll be starting on finishing painting the hull
 
for now I am first catching up on another build.
 
a few months ago I signed up for the build the black pearl magazine, as an incentive for me to slowly get back in to model building.
 
the idea was to do one magazine each week but some other activities (I got too many things on again) got in the way.
 
I should be back on track this weekend and then I can put my main focus back on the GF
 
here a picture of the Black Pearl so far
 
 
 

Dear friends,
 
I am very saddened to write that our friend Mick passed away in the early hours of July 24th after a period of illness.
 
Eamonn (egkb) has opened a 'So long Mick' in the Shore Leave section.
Please join us there in offering his wife Elaine, family and friends our condolences.
 
Goodbye Mick, rest in peace.
Your are gone, but not forgotten.

thank you all its good to be back

yes i am back in the shipyard , and i will have some update pictures soon

just easing back into it Sjors

Finally another post - I pretty much have all the deck hardware in place and now comes the fun part ( Stepping the masts and Rigging !!!!

I have made a bit more progress - It took me about 3 weeks just painting the metal parts ( it seemed as if they were never ending ) I got the porthols all drilled and installed and started on the deck hardware.[

Ok all moved in and repaired the moving damage to the ship.....no pics but feel free to try and find it lol.
 
So I've done another set of chains (seems to be quite difficult for me not sure why ) I did try the angle with these so.....
 

 
So maybe an update sooner next time but no promises lol :)

So good to read your posts again adrieke. And thank you for the kind words. :)

Copperplates are done !!!!!
Not at the bottom of the keel because they don't do that at that time.
And when she is standing on the cradle, you don't see it.
For a while she goes on the shelf and I go back to the Fonz.
I hope to see you there also when there is an update to report....
 
Sjors
 
 

yes i am back in the shipyard , and i will have some update pictures soon

First of all my sincerest and heartfelt thanks to the may who visited and clicked the like button.  Thank you all for dropping in.
 
After arriving back home from the doctor's office this morning and a cup of coffee with Gwen I ventured back into the garage and painted the boarding ladder dark grey.  It looks a little better this way all dressed up in a coat of paint.  I also did some touching up on the paint here and there.
 
Next I grabbed the lines drawings for the dingy and put them on my drafting table.  Yup, that means that I have to redraw these to my scale of 1:50 but that should pose no particular problem.
What's daunting in my mind is the size of it and how frail it is at this scale.  It'll be a challenge alright so wish me luck.
 
I have made one photo of the freshly painted boarding ladder for yuns to see.  Hope it carries away with your approval.  I may need to add a pair of stand-off's at the bottom ship side to keep it angled out a little more.  Hey, I have plenty of this dark grey paint left   
 

 
Cheers,

Hello everyone and thank you all for your comments and the compliments, I really appreciate it very much.
 
Hi Mark, thank you and yes, in all the months that I have been working on the O19 things keep popping into my mind of happy times I had with my mom and dad.  Gwen and I talked a lot about both our fathers during this build.  I am fortunate to have met her father when I was going to the High School in her village.  Captain van Vulpen was a very nice gent and I got to chat with him whenever he was home.   All that is an extra bonus to me, bringing back good memories.
 
Hello Pat, thanks for dropping in.  Yup, not many more details to add but what is left to do will keep be busy for a while yet.  To clarify the dingy, it was actually made from wood, at least that's what it looks like on the photos.  I'll make it also from wood and in this scale it's going to be a challenge because everything has to be rather thin and light.  But so far I have not shied away from a challenge and hope to make a respectable model of it.
 
Hi Omega, good to see you here.  Hmmm, a sound track with sound effects, commands by the CO and responses by the crew.  Love the idea but then I'll have to do it in Dutch and not too many here can then understand it     Besides, when I speak Dutch I have an American accent    Hey, I ca do a pretty good immitation of the dive claxon    No, a log will already be taxing enough but thanks for the thought my friend. 
 
Hello Joe and thank you for your compliments and good thoughts, appreciate them very much.  Yeah, well, seeing that the O19 carried a boarding ladder I figured that it would be appropriate to show it.  It was a rather easy and straight forward modeling job, after I fixed my first try   I'll do my best in modeling a Skulpy figure that resembles my father.  The only photo I have of him in uniform is when he was "bootsman" (boatsman in English)  This was taken somewhere in the Netherlands but I have no idea what year.  I think that a 3D model would look better though but don't know yet where to put it.  At the time He served on the O19 his rank was Schipper, which is a non-com position.  He could very well be supervising the loading of the torpedoes.  Hey, time will tell but the thoughts of all yuns keeps the brain churning.
 

 
Hoi Freek, yes, I'm going to try my hand at modeling figures.  Remco steered me to a nice book on the how-to's.  I'll be using Skulpy for this and try to get a likeness.  I have only two photos of him.  See above for one of them.
 
Hello Popeye, thank you very much for your compliments.  Yup, this is a little different as far as ladders go but I just mimicked the ones I see on the photos I have.  Yeah, I do have some feelings of sadness now that she's almost completed but also a great sense of satisfaction by how she turned out.  There is still a lot of work yet to do when I count the display.  
 
Hi Daniel, so good to see you here as well.  No, I'm still working on her my friend.  Thank you also for your kind remarks.  Yes, I remember the rivet discussion too and now in retrospect I probably could have added them as well.  Could I still do it at this stage?  Yeah, I think so but that would require months of very tedious work that I'm not really up to anymore.  
As far as future builds, I'll continue with the VOC ship Surabaya and perhaps start the VOC Yacht in the lamp.  As mentioned in one of my previous posts I need to make a few paintings of the O19 and finish a painting of a VOC ship I started several years ago.  I also need to finish a few paintings of flowers and wildlife I have also stated.  Sooooh, stay tuned.
 
Hoi Carl en van harte dank!  Yeah, I figured all yuns would get a kick out of my crude wooden jig    Hey, it worked for me and freed up both hands.
 
Cheers, 

Hello everyone and thanks to all who visited and clicked the like button.
 
This rainy morning I made a soldering jig that also functioned as a step rung guide for bending the little lips.  I also made  new rungs for the boarding ladder from 0.4 mm brass shim stock.  Now they are all the same size and fit very snugly in my little jig. 
I just clamped the side braces to the upended parts of the rungs and soldered them nice a tight.  It worked like a charm.
 
Next came the more delicate and trying job in soldering the boarding hooks and the railing holder tube fixtures.  I used a few steel office clamps as heat-sinks and was able to solder these parts on without loosening up the step rungs.  
 
A little cleaning by removing some of the exposed solder, then fitting the railing.  That worked okay as well.  I used some 5 minute epoxy cement to keep the railing rod in place on the stanchions, which make the railing more like one piece.  I can still remove it so the crew can stow the entire boarding ladder away inside the lower part of the con or below decks.
 
The ladder still needs to be cleaned with a cleaning solvent so I can paint it dark grey.  That'll be done tomorrow after I come back from the doctor's office.  (Nothing serious, just a pre-op visit for my next biopsy later in the month).  
 
Okay, here are a few pics of today's work.
 

I took a piece of poplar out of my junkbox and made it 11 mm wide in order to get a 133 mm wide ladder.  I marked the location of the rungs 5 mm apart and sawed slots to a depth of just over 2 mm.  I had to adjust this several times with a 2 mm piece of brass to get the right depth.
Now I could make all 5 of the rungs but after the ends were bend to allow enough solder-hold to the side braces I used my duckbill pliers to make the bends sharp 90 degrees by tapping on the bend with a small hammer.  
 

Here I have inserted all 5 rungs into the jig and clamped a side brace to the jig assembly.  I soldered one side at a time to prevent shifting of the side braces.  This worked real fine.  After both side braces were soldered on I removed the little of the extra solder that usually seeps out or used too much of.
 

This is a close-up of the above picture for more  detail,  You can just see one end of the side brace.
 

Here I have laid out the deck hooks and railing attaching fixtures.  I'm sorry for not having made a few pics of all the steel office clamps that functioned as heat sinks but suffice it to say that it worked great.  Nothing got desoldered and all the parts are nice and square.
Next I assembled the loose parts for the railing and while they are on the boarding ladder, nice and straight, I cemented the railing rod into the stanchion tops.  I used two of the deck railing stanchions for this, waste not want not   
 

This shows the completed boarding ladder on the cutting board looking from the left.  No photo etch here, all hand made 
 

This is looking from the right side.
 

I have made two small holes in the deck for the ladder hooks to fit in and here I have hooked the ladder to the boat.  This is on the starboard side and looking towards the bow.  I still need to make the holes on  the port side.
 

This is looking towards the stern.
 
Cheers,

Hello everyone,
 
I started making sketches for the boarding ladder by using the photograph of the O19 when docked in Alexandria, Egypt.  First I thought that it seemed to have a fold-down lower section to board over the mine bin section.  So, I designed a ladder with a foldable lower section that would work just fine.  However, when I blew the picture up (no, not with dynamite    i.e. enlarged it) I realized that they stuck a board under the lowest rung, at least according to the shadow on top of the mine bins.  So, all my efforts of this morning are for naught, at least for the foldable part.  It will make it a lot simpler for me, which is welcome.
 
With the boat not fully loaded she'll naturally ride a lot higher and being clever Dutchmen they improvised.  I also have a nice photo of the KVIII with the crew posing and there is also a boarding ladder.  I think that I have enough info to make a passable ladder     
 
Well, while we must wait for pictures of the building process I figured I'd "bore" all yuns with some pictures of the O19 snorkeling.  You may have heard it said that this system was a German invention but that would be wrong.  They copied this innovation and used on their U boats.  
 
​This also reminds me of a story my father told me about what happened during one of the proving runs.
 
They were coming up to surface and as is customary the CO peeked through the periscope and to his horror he saw a close and very speedy Navy vessel boring down on them.  There was no way avoiding a collision!  So he yelled "dive, dive, emergency dive."  They got the boat down real fast but not quite fast enough because that eager beaver Navy ship thundered right over them, with a goodly down bubble and full ahead, even shaking the boat by the turbulence.  Fortunately it didn't hit the boat just hit the periscope the CO was looking through       Talking about one shook-up CO.
That was a close call but excellent performance of the crew.
 
 
I made a picture this afternoon of the O19 in snorkel mode and add a few pics of her actually snorkeling.  Hope you like them.
 

This is a copy about "trimmed dieseling" as it's officially called, from a book by van Jalhay.  I have translated the Dutch text so all you non Dutchies can understand what it says.
"An invention by a Netherlands Navy officer, Lieutenant Commander 1st Class J.J. Wichers, that would play a great role in the Second World War.  The officer of the Navy Steamship Service 1st class J.C. van Pappelendam tasked himself with the technical execution and the result was a pipe through which air was sucked in so that the boat could use the diesels when sailing under water and the batteries would thus not have to be used.  Naturally the boat was committed to a specific depth but she could practically remain submerged continuously.  The sniffer or snorkel did its entry. 
 

This shows my model of the O19 that I configured in snorkel mode.  Sometimes they would leave the communications antenna up but I elected to retract it and the battle periscope into the boat.  I have annotated the exhaust and intake pipes.  I didn't stow the dingy loading boom and tackle, too much trouble for now.  Will do that when I'm making the "official" photographs.  I love it when I can do a show and tell with this model.
 

This shows the O19 at the builder, Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam, the Netherlands in 1939.  The reason for the Dutch national flag on the con is that the Kingdom of the Netherlands declared neutrality as in the first world war.  They had all ships in Dutch registry paint the national flag on the sides.  This didn't help because Herr Hitler had other ideas.  In any case, you can see the exhaust pipe extended in this shot. 
 

This is one of the action pics of the sub snorkelen.
 

Here is another action shot of the O19 snorkelen.
 
Cheers,

hello all, 
 
This morning I did some more touch-up painting and some other minor adjustments.  I seem to be forever fiddling with things here and there.
I also installed version 2.0 of the flags.  Thanks to Remco these flags are the cat's meow, just superb.  i'm glad he send me a several sheets for possible oopsies because I had a few that didn't turn out just right.
 
Okay, we are coming close to the final part.  I don't know if I want to bore all yuns with the last parts such as the boarding ladder, the mine bun lid hinges and the dingy.  And of course the figures to crew the boat. These I can always make in between other projects.  
 
I'm leaving the build log active for the final final photos when the model is mounted on her display board.  This'll be another head scratcher but I'll overcome that one as well.
 
Here are a few pics I pulled out of my picture archive of today's work.
 

Here I have attached the Geus flag to the bow flag post and lowered the anchor for those to see who have not seen the pics when I made it.  This'll also be one one of the extra items I want to make together with a few more mines, torpedoes and deck gun shells.
 

This is version 2 of the main flag.  The white spots are from the flash glare.
 

This is version 2.0 of the stern flag.
 

Reworked the torpedo to make the sling look like it has some weight.
 

I also took a pic of the mine in it's bin.  Yeah, yeah, I know, the hinges must still be made.
 
Cheers,

Hello again everyone and thank all who visited and give your thumbs up with the likes, much appreciated.
 
This morning I started out replacing some of the bothersome decals.  Remco PM'd me telling me that there are smaller bow numbers on the decal sheets.  And yes, there are so I replaced the bow decals and also the load numbers decals.  They are now in the correct place, both bow and stern.  Much better looking, I'm a happy camper     
 
After that was done I started with redoing the aft deck railings, making them look like in the ones in the commissioning photo.  Not as easy as I hoped for in trying not to damage the boat in any way.  The epoxy cement did a good job holding the stanchions in.  I was trying to safe them - - - being the frugal Dutchman ) but then I decided "to hell with it" and put a 4 X 4 - - - mm that is   - - - slat on the deck and pried them up with a small pair of pliers.  I filled the holes, soldered the angled side braces on in situe, soldered the tops on and restrung the cable.
After I was happy with the result I touched up the paint that was removed.  There was no damage that I could see.  Lucked out again 
 
So, I took a few pics for my records of today's work and share them with all yuns below.  Oh yeah, I installed the deck torpedo launcher as well, works great and so do the doors.
 

Self explanatory.  That little divot in the cable has been straightened.  I left one stanchion at the aft crew hatch.  There was one according to the commissioning  photo.  I think it served as a handhold for the crew getting in and out.   
 

This shows the new decals I received from Remco.  They are white on transparent decal paper so the paint can be seen through it, no messing mismatching colors or painting around them.  They are perfect!      
 

I couldn't resist taking a shot of the torpedo launcher inside the deck structure.  I closed the starboard side door to prevent back glare.  It swings freely out and in.
 
Cheers,
    

Hello all, again - very little done on the O19 today.  Just a little more paint touch-ups.  I'll also need to redo the load nummers, they are too high.  Fortunately I have enough of them so there is no problem.
I didn't take any pics of the decals being placed on the model for that very reason.  After that's done I'll put the edge sealer on the decals and then maybe take a few pics of her.
 
There is still plenty little piddl'n stuff to do before we can truly call the model completed.  I need to make one torpedo from aluminum rod so the loading sling looks like it has some weight on it.  Thanks for pointing that out.  Then I need to make the boarding ladder, hinges for the mine bun lid, new flags and the dingy.  My real challenge will be to make a few members of the crew.  I'll start with my father of course and at a scale of 1:50 he would be about 35 mm.  That seems about right when looking at the photo where he is standing next to the con.  I like to place him in the "bathtub" or the bridge with another figure.  This can always be done after the model is completed.
 
I also cleaned up my build dock and put new paper on the board, it looks neater that way 
 
Okay, we had a little discussion about the railing and I went to my photo archive and dug up a bunch of photos with the O19 having railings.  I mainly used the official Wilton-Feijenoord drawings for my railing.  It shows the railing and from where to where it was placed.   I may have to remove a few stanchions on the aft deck when taking a closer look at the photos.  This is okay, no problem.  Looks like the builder deviated from the plans.
 
The railings were still on the boat on her voyage to the Netherlands East Indies from Holland in 1939.  I have two pics with the O19 in Alexandria, Egypt, one of her stops for fuel.  Before arriving in Alexandria though they performed magnetometer tests in the Mediterranean Sea, submerged.  This shows that the O19 did go submerged for quite some time with the railings installed.  Unless, as Freek pointed out, they removed them and stowed them before diving.  Seems like a lot of work each time she comes up and goes down again.
 
In any case, the reason for my model is to show how the boat actually looked like with everything on it, including the things that may be temporarily stowed for underwater cruising.  Obviously they wouldn't load torpedoes, have the AA guns out or the dingy out and neither the boarding ladder.  It's for static display and show and tell 
 
I hope all yuns don't mind me having the railings on a submarine 
 
Let me add a few pics for you to see a submarine with railings 
 

This is the official drawing from WF.  Here you can see from where to where the railing runs.  On the last photo below of the commissioning in 1939, you can see that they didn't run the railing as far back as the drawing shows.  Well, one more small alteration to make.  Yes, the drawing still shows the original identification number, K XIX, which was changed to O 19.
 

This picture shows the O19 docked and presumably in the Navy base Den Helder sometime in 1939.  Here you can see the railing stanchions.
 

This shows the O19 in Alexandria, Egypt on her way to the Netherlands East Indies in July, 1939.  The railing is clearly visible here.
 

Here is another photo of the O19 in Alexandria, Egypt on July 1939.  The railing is clearly visible.  Yes, it was common practice to span tarps over the deck for shade.
 

This is a picture of the O19 going out to sea for proving runs.  My father was on board for each one of course.  Oh, I remember one hair-raising story he told us about what happened on one of these proving runs    Shudder, shudder.
 

I may have shown this one before but this is a photo of the commissioning of the O19 on July 3, 1939.  My mother, sister and I were there to witness the event.  I have annotated the picture where it shows my mother holding my hand  but my sister and I are hidden by the Geus, the flag at the bow.  Hey, I was only 5 years old then but I still remember quite a bit, it must have made a big impression on me, I guess     Remco directed me to a website where I copied newspaper articles about the commissioning where my father's name is mentioned.  This was his third trip to the colonies.  Oh, sweet memories
 
Cheers, 
 
 

Hello again.  This morning I took the bull by the horns and removed all the old decals.  If I have to repaint the effected areas then so be it.  As it turned out I only had to repaint both sides of the con and the starboard bow.  The paint on the con was discolored under the decals and with placing one before,  the paint just looked terrible because i used a brush to repaint it.  Just a sanding with some fine sandpaper, then wiping with a damp rag with enamel paint thinner, masking the area and shoot with a few coats of enamel paint.  
 
Sorry Remco, I was going to send you a personal message regarding this but got so wrapped up with this that it was your bedtime by the time I finally had a minute.  Had to help Gwen too, well you understand how that goes.  
 
It only took an hour or so and I now have a good looking finish for the decals.
 
As the paint was drying I started to paint the railing stanchions and could only complete the starboard side.  The port side will come tomorrow and then I need to give the railing cable a coat of dark grey paint.  I have no clue what color they used way back then but the dark grey may off-set it nicely with the light grey.
 
I made a few before and after pics of the repainting project for my own records and archive.
 

This shows the masking off of the forward part of the bow.  I could use the hull plating lines to prevent a paint ridge.  I have added three coats of enamel paint.
 

This shows the masking of the con.  Here I could not  prevent a paint ridge at the aft end but it worked out that the very thin ridge kinda looks like a weld seam. 
 

Here I have just removed all the masking.  This pic was taken with flash and it shows the ridge at the red bottom and a few specs I need to address yet.  I want the paint to dry and harden for a few days before i can work with it.  It looks very good op close and I'm happy.
Yes Andy, the nav lights or side light as you call them, will get their correct colors and perhaps a lamp too.
 

Here is the con with all masking removed.  Both sides look very good, better then before I must say.  The sanding helped smooth it out quite nice.
 
Now comes the tricky part, putting the decals on - - - correctly! 
 
Cheers,
 
 

Spanker boom and gaff and spanker sail are on also a few ropes.
 
Now I can move to the main mast and make the yards  and all that stuff.
Another update can take a while so enjoy this one ( at least I will    )
 
Sjors
 
 

Hi Guys,
 
Just a quick update to let you know how things are with the Aggy.
 
I haven't been totally idol but the progress on the ship has slowed slightly, the rigging continues and has seen all the breast ropes and backstays completed on the Foremast, all 4 anchors are made up and ready to be fitted when the time is right and I have made a new stand for the ship.
 
Oh ya, I also got some new toys, a swivel vice and a Clarkes Belt and Disc Sander.
 
All that remains for me to do now is, fit the Main Mast Breast Ropes and Back Stays, all the Braces and Sheets, some Cluelines and all the Tacks. Fit the anchors ( already made ) and the ships boats ( already made ).
 
I have the glass for the case so that needs to be assembled, once that's done I can take the inside measurements and get the base made up. So I would say in all about 2 - 3 weeks work left. Cleaning the ship will take some time before she goes under glass so I will have plenty of band aids and glue on hand for that task
 
OK enough said, time for some pics, rigging pics will follow soon.
 
My new belt and disc sander
  
 
Vacuum base swivel vice

 
The start of the new stand, all pieces are pegged with no glue used at all
 
 

 
Here's the finished base with a coat of Rosewood stain
  
 
I do hope guys that that will suffice as a quick update. There will be more to follow soon.
 
Be Good
 
mobbsie
 
 

soon I ll be starting on finishing painting the hull
 
for now I am first catching up on another build.
 
a few months ago I signed up for the build the black pearl magazine, as an incentive for me to slowly get back in to model building.
 
the idea was to do one magazine each week but some other activities (I got too many things on again) got in the way.
 
I should be back on track this weekend and then I can put my main focus back on the GF
 
here a picture of the Black Pearl so far