De Zeven Provincien by Grandpaphil - 1/50 - Based on the Seahorse Kit

[GrandpaPhil]

I had a blast building my Seahorse Speeljacht and I have wanted to build my de Zeven Provincien ever since it arrived in my mailbox in 2023.

 

I figured that I’m not getting any younger, so I might as well build it.

 

I am not a fan of small scale models so I always intended to enlarge this one.

 

Originally, I was going to enlarge it to 1/64 to match my Revenge and my Katschip.

 

However, I am not really worried about the scales matching.

 

Both de Zeven Provincien and the Revenge are centerpiece models.

 

Displaying them together, when I get everything completed, would be redundant, so they’ll have their own display areas anyway.

 

I really enjoyed working at 1/50 scale.

 

I would like to build a full ship at that scale.

 

I am not certain that this will succeed, but I’m going to try it anyway.

 

Here’s the basic kit that I am working from:

 

And here is the start of just about every model that I have started/built for the last six years after going into a photo copying/resizing frenzy, lol:

It’s printed on standard letter sized paper.

 

I just printed in black and white to save

on color ink.

 

Also it isn’t going to matter because everything external is getting painted anyways, after adding wood grain contact paper.

 

This thing will be a monster at 52” LOA (130cm for all of you metric types).

 

I am looking forward to seeing how this goes together!

Edited yesterday at 02:17 AM by GrandpaPhil

[catopower]

Hi GrandpaPhil,

 

Taking on another build, and a big one too!

 

Your Speeljacht turned out really nicely. Will be interesting to see how this works out as an enlarged scale model, very daring of you!

 

I've been thinking about doing this myself with one of the Shipyard frigate kits, but only to take it from 1/96 scale to 1/72 scale.

 

Looking forward to watching your progress!

[Ronald-V]

That's going to be a monster! Will be nice to see this Dutch ship come alive