amateur Posted February 25, 2013 Author #31 Posted February 25, 2013 Why not? You will be doing the same with your Wasa in a while Jan Quote
johannesludo5 Posted March 1, 2013 #32 Posted March 1, 2013 HI SIR nice work on yours Model and good pictures THANKS JOHN Quote
mtaylor Posted March 2, 2013 #33 Posted March 2, 2013 Jan, Wonderful work. The rigging is coming along well and looking very nice. Quote Mark "The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me Current Build: Past Builds: La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD Triton Cross-Section NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64 Non-Ship Model: On hold, maybe forever: CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)
Blue Ensign Posted March 2, 2013 #34 Posted March 2, 2013 Splendid work Jan, I love the sheer lines on that model. B.E. Quote Current Build: Medway-longboat-1742-by-blue-ensign-½”-scale Completed builds: HMS Indefatigable-1794-by-blue-ensign-vanguard-models-1:64-scale HMS Sphinx 1775 by Blue Ensign. 1:64 scale - Vanguard Models Queen-Anne-Royal-Barge-circa-1700-by-Blue-Ensign Fifie fishing boat Lady Eleanor Muirneag-1903-–-a-scottish-zulu-fishing-boat-164-scale-based-on-the-vanguard-models-zulu-kit/ HM Cutter Alert 1777 HM Cutter Cheerful 1806 18th-century-English-longboat-by-Blue-Ensign-ms-148-scale/ 18thc English Pinnace by Blue Ensign-Model-Shipways-1:24 scale/ HMS-Pegasus-by-Blue-Ensign-finished-Victory-Models-1:64-scale/ Heller Seventy-four 1:150 scale - modified Le Superbe/Le Glorieux kit after Boudriot, waterline setting with sails. The schooner Pickle, Jotika pob kit 1:64 scale, my interpretation.
amateur Posted March 2, 2013 Author #35 Posted March 2, 2013 Thanks! To my model, the "MSW disaster" proved to be a blessing in disguise: I'm back into little knots again Jan Quote
Arjan68 Posted March 2, 2013 #36 Posted March 2, 2013 Welcome back Jan. I've followed your build the past few years on several other forums. She really is a beauty and I agree with the others: you should finish her. With some luck you are the record holder of "slowest kit build", going for 13 years now Quote If it doesn't bend, it breaks.
amateur Posted March 2, 2013 Author #37 Posted March 2, 2013 (edited) To be sure to get the record, I should perhaps stop building for a couple of years Jan Edited March 4, 2013 by amateur Quote
Guest Posted March 10, 2013 #38 Posted March 10, 2013 Jan Dont feel bad I have been working on the Prins longer than you. Mine has been in progress for 3 years. JMS Quote
amateur Posted March 11, 2013 Author #39 Posted March 11, 2013 3 years? As Arjan syis: mine is in and out the workshiop for 13 years bij now. Actually, he is more bothered by a record than I am: building is something I do for fun, and as soon as fun (and/or available time) is gone, I just leave it were it stands. Can we see a pic of your PW? Jan Quote
Guest Posted May 27, 2013 #40 Posted May 27, 2013 I guess 3 years is nothing on you. I have been following yours but I did not realize how long you have been working on it. But I do uderstand what building for fun is and when its not fun you stop for a while JMS Quote
Ferit Posted May 27, 2013 #41 Posted May 27, 2013 Hi Jan, Your skill is very impressive especially in detailed rigging... Quote Best Regards… Ferit KUTLU Under construction: Frigate Berlin (Brandenburg Navy) Hope: Frigate Wappen Von Hamburg (Brandenburg Navy)
amateur Posted October 14, 2013 Author #42 Posted October 14, 2013 (edited) After a long and busy (and not so model-productive) I've been doing some little knots.... Mainmast finished (apart from some glue and a pair of scissors) on one side, started working on the other side. Hope I can find the time (and motivation) to do the remainder of the standing rigging before Christmas.... btw on a Dutch forum Arjan68 showed that the scale of this kit is not 1:100 as Corel claims, but should actually be around 1:87. I'm not going to redo my ratlines, but they should be slightly wider apart than I placed them. (as should be the stairs and some other details) Jan Edited October 14, 2013 by amateur Ferit, dafi, petervisser and 1 other 4 Quote
amateur Posted December 30, 2013 Author #43 Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Today, I managed to do some work on the standing rigging of my Prins WIllem. I made some pics, but one way or the other, there is no way I can get a link copied into this post (pics are taken with a very direct flash in a dark room, so there wasn't much to see anyway \ I managed to snip of all loose ends of the ratlines in the fore mast (wothout doning any damage to other lines) Standing rigging on the fore is finished now. I also finished rattling down the main mast and secured all knots by a small dab of dilluted white glue, and I made the last stay on the mizzen. Hope to continue tomorrow, and also to show you some pics. (I hope I will figure out by tomorrow why I can't copy-paste any links into my postings. ... Ah well, IE11, stupid microsoft....Google Chromedoes the trick. I suspect uninstalling IE11 also) Jan Edited December 30, 2013 by amateur Piet, dafi and avsjerome2003 3 Quote
mtaylor Posted December 30, 2013 #44 Posted December 30, 2013 Hi Jan, She's looking good. Nice work on the rigging. As far as your posting problem, if you can, un-do the IE 11 upgrade. It's rather simple: http://www.wikihow.com/Uninstall-Internet-Explorer-11-for-Windows-7 There's an issue with IE11 and the board software. If IE 11 is needed for some other site, try Chrome or Firefox. Quote Mark "The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me Current Build: Past Builds: La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD Triton Cross-Section NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64 Non-Ship Model: On hold, maybe forever: CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)
amateur Posted December 31, 2013 Author #45 Posted December 31, 2013 Figured out that yesterday evenning. Used Chrome to upload the pic... I don't like microsoft at all.... Updates should do MORE than the previous version not LESS..... Jan Quote
Guest Posted January 23, 2014 #46 Posted January 23, 2014 Hello Jan Your ship is looking good and it gave me some incentative to start on my Willem again. I got my enthusium back today also by visiting the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. The newely opended ship exibits are exceptional. There is much more displayed than I have seen before. You may be farmilular with this but I purchased a new book "Message in a model" by Ab Hoving. As you probably know he is the lead restorer at the museaum. What a fantastic book. It has wonderful illustrations of the models and stories of the ships and their history. JMS Quote
amateur Posted January 23, 2014 Author #47 Posted January 23, 2014 Actually Ab WAS the lead restorer. He retired last year. The new display is nice, yes. I like the fact that Prins Willem is on display again. And is displayed 'the old fashioned way': just by itself, in a free standing glass case, so you can go round, and round, and round, and have a pretty good view of everything.... 'Modellen vertellen' is a very nice book indeed. Lots to see, lots to read, even (or especially) for those interested in the story instead of the models themselves. Jan Quote
dafi Posted January 23, 2014 #48 Posted January 23, 2014 Completely lost this one out of sight - shame on me! Daniel Quote To victory and beyond! http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/76-hms-victory-by-dafi-to-victory-and-beyond/ See also our german forum for Sailing Ship Modeling and History: http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/ Finest etch parts for HMS Victory 1:100 (Heller Kit), USS Constitution 1:96 (Revell) and other useful bits. http://dafinismus.de/index_en.html
amateur Posted January 23, 2014 Author #49 Posted January 23, 2014 Hmmm... I see the model every day, otherwise I would have forgotten it... Far too less time to do some serious work on it. Jan Quote
Guest Posted January 24, 2014 #50 Posted January 24, 2014 Jan You are a lucky person if you can visit this type of display at the Rijks on a regular basis. I went back again today because there is so much to take in. There is nothing even close to this back home. JMS Quote
demonborger Posted January 24, 2014 #51 Posted January 24, 2014 I love this ship, great build of her so far! White anti-fouling paint looks the best Quote Kits owned: Mamoli Royal Louis, Mamoli Friesland, Mamoli HMS Victory 1:90, Occre Santisima Trinidad, Constructo HMS Prince
amateur Posted May 31, 2014 Author #52 Posted May 31, 2014 Not the best of pictures, but I'm still working on him.... dafi, MarisStella.hr, avsjerome2003 and 2 others 5 Quote
amateur Posted June 3, 2014 Author #53 Posted June 3, 2014 Did some ratlines this weekend. Ratlines almost done by now, just the other side of the mizzen to do...... Jan avsjerome2003, WackoWolf, hexnut and 3 others 6 Quote
amateur Posted June 9, 2014 Author #54 Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) And today I did the othger side. Ratlines finally finished. I secured the knots with white PVA (diluted), but as that is still drying, I did not snip off the ends. Studying the rigging plan I discovered that two clamps on the bowsprit would be too few. So: destruction in a mild way, and replacement by four new ones. As there will ben loads of rigging line onto them , I didn't pay too much attention to the fact that they are not equal shaped. (and besides: the difference is below 1 mm) And here the first part of the crowsfeet on the main mast. The block is made from a strip of wallnut 3x2 mm, about 1 cm long. Problem is the same as usual with these "add-ons" to the stays: the rope with with the block is stropped has some resistance, so forcing the block into the right direction by tensioning the crowsfeet, results in a kink in the main stay (which is already is under some tension, so there is still some thinking to do....) Jan Edited June 9, 2014 by amateur avsjerome2003, GuntherMT, Piet and 4 others 7 Quote
Piet Posted June 10, 2014 #55 Posted June 10, 2014 Nice work on that strop Jan and great job on the re-work of the added clamps. Can't tell from here , less then 1 mm - - really now She's looking fantastic! Cheers, Quote Piet, The Flying Dutchman. "Your greatest asset is not the quantity of your friends , rather the quality of your friends." (old Chinese proverb) Current Builds: Hr. Ms. Java 1925-1942 VOC Ship Surabaya Planned Builds: Young America Diorama - scale 1:3000 Future Builds: KPM ship "MS Musi." Zuiderzee Botter - scale 1:25. VOC Jacht in a 6" lamp, Buginese fishing Prauw. Hr. Ms. Java - Royal Navy Netherlands Cruiser. Completed Builds: Hr. Ms. O16 Submarine Hr. Ms. O19 - Submarine Royal Navy Netherlands Ship Yard Diorama with Topsail schooner - Friendship Sloop Gwenfra Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack Golden Hind - Cutte Sark (both not in this forum)
amateur Posted September 7, 2014 Author #56 Posted September 7, 2014 My summer didn't go completely unspent... (sorry for the quality of the pics, they were taken wth a not so goog cmera...) All running riggin gof the bowsprit is more or less present. I 'only'' have ot belay the loose ends. One of the problesm at this scale is taht the rope is quite springy, and the yards not heavy enough to prevent teh rope going everywhere. I also redid the crowsfeet at the foremast, the rather whitish rope started to anoy me. Actually, I still think the crowsfeet should go altogether. It does look a bit out of place and period for this ship.... Jan GuntherMT, foxy, Piet and 3 others 6 Quote
GuntherMT Posted September 7, 2014 #57 Posted September 7, 2014 So many little tiny ropes... Quote Brian Mystery project coming soon! Current build - Medway Longboat Complete - Armed Virginia Sloop Complete - Carmen (First Build)
amateur Posted September 8, 2014 Author #58 Posted September 8, 2014 It's fun, those little ropes. Although quite time-consuming. I'm not going very fast, as I try to be a little bit more historically accurate than the Corel-drawings. i.e more variety in block-size, rope-thickness, and a slightly more 'dutch' rigging practice. Therfore, progress is slow, and as I have large interuptions in my work, startup-time is long, the next time I start (first problem is always: how did I do that last month....) Jan Quote
dafi Posted September 8, 2014 #59 Posted September 8, 2014 Wonderful build!A pleasure to see :-) XXXDAn Quote To victory and beyond! http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/76-hms-victory-by-dafi-to-victory-and-beyond/ See also our german forum for Sailing Ship Modeling and History: http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/ Finest etch parts for HMS Victory 1:100 (Heller Kit), USS Constitution 1:96 (Revell) and other useful bits. http://dafinismus.de/index_en.html
amateur Posted November 17, 2014 Author #60 Posted November 17, 2014 It has been a long time. Lots of other things to do, but now the fore-yard is ready for hoisting. As soon as it is in place, I will try to install the parrels. It's fiddly work, as almost all blocks are slightly oversized, it will be quite crowded down at the mast... Besides, I do not have a straightforward rigging plan: I skipped the Corel version long ago, and are somewhat stumbling about, using various sources. That doesn't add to the speed Jan cristikc, Piet, avsjerome2003 and 1 other 4 Quote
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