Halve Maen ~1608 by hlipplaa - 1/30 - POB - Dutch East India Company

[hlipplaa]

Hello my name is Hjalmar i'm 30 years old and I come from Amsterdam. I havent introduced myself on the forum section for making introductions, I hope noone minds.

 

I'm building a model from drawings i got from a dutch modelling site. The scale is 1:30 and i'm using pear and apple wood mostly. It's a bulkhead structure planked and the sides have veneer second planking. The topside planks are about 2 mm pear. The first planking layer is limewood.

 

I'm using a phone camera so i hope the resolution is good enough.

[hlipplaa]

These are the first pictures i started to make.

[hlipplaa]

Some more pictures

[hlipplaa]

The ships boat I made wasnt really good. Its sort of a skiff model.

[hlipplaa]

So i made a more suitable boat. The gluestains are abit of a problem though on the outside of the model i made. I used UHU Hart glue for wood.

[SawdustDave]

Welcome to the forum sir. Very nice work on a beautiful ship. Thanks for sharing.

Dave

[Omega1234]

Hi there and welcome. Looks great! Well done.

[hlipplaa]

Thanks for the kind replies. Does anyone perhaps have a tip for me how to remove UHU Hart glue from wood. I can only think of carefully sanding.

The glue contains methylacetate and n-butylacetate i believe.

 

The problem with sanding the little boat is its very fragile. But a solvent and wiping it off may cause joints to become weak too.

 

Anyway, i hope ill hav some progress to show soon. I just got a mini lathe for my birthday so i can turn wood now. Gonna make a capstan first i think, plenty of examples on this forum i've already seen.

Edited July 20, 2014 by hlipplaa

[Piet]

Hello Hjalmar,  welcome a'board.  Love those old Dutch ships, that's why I started a self design of an imaginary VOC ship of around 1665 era.  Put that aside to make a model of my father's submarine of the Koninklijke Marine he was on from 1938 to the end of 1941.  Both are listed under my signature.

 

That's a nice large scale for your model, that gives you ample chance to do some great detailing.  I'll be following your build with interest.

 

Seems my whole family is from Amsterdam, loved to visit and spend many an hour in the "Scheepvaart Museum."

 

Well, I emigrated to the USA in 1957 and am retired now and live in Palm Coast, Florida, love it.

 

Cheers,

[hlipplaa]

Piet and also Sawdusdave i've seen your builds they're both great. I'm going to make alot of details indeed, hope it works out well.

I'm doing the standing rigging. No sails but all the other rigging i mean.

Hope ill have something nice to show soon.

[hlipplaa]

Made capstan and mast + spreaders + top.

 

Still have to add some blocks that prevent the topmast from sliding down. These blocks rest on the spreaders.

 

The capstan still needs a blocker.

[popeye the sailor]

hello Hjalmar......welcome to the Halve Maen fan club! super work your doing thus far....looking forward in seeing more progress on your fine build! your new.......welcome! not a problem jumping right into a build.........hit the ground runn'in!

[amateur]

Nice model of a nice ship.

One question: why do you refer to her as a flyboat? I thought these ships were called yachts.?

 

Jan

[hlipplaa]

Hello Jan,

 

You are right. I just translated it wrong. Text was copied from a site.

 

It is a yacht, but was also called vlieboot in dutch, because the bottom is abit flat.

[hlipplaa]

Made some more progress. Made a pump too.

[SawdustDave]

Something about these little pumps....fun to create, and they look great as a deck fixture.

Nice work Hjalmar.

Dave

[Omega1234]

Very nice!

[hlipplaa]

Thanks all! Hope to get some more nice detail pictures soon.

[amateur]

You don't know either, of course, but I still wonder why some drawings

place doors in the lookout-post for the helmsman....

 

Nice pump, by the way!

 

Jan

[hlipplaa]

Yes but i didnt really make the interior of the ship, so the doors are convenient for me, but there probably werent any doors in there.

[hlipplaa]

Almost all the major deck fittings are done. Only need to make a flagpole. Then small details need to be done.

 

But now i have to decide what to do, stain it or not. The wood used for the decks is apple and the rest of the wood mostly is pear. Not sure if staining will make it look better.

[popeye the sailor]

judging from all the nooks and crannies......I think it would be a trial to stain. then again, I know better than tell a modeler something is impossible it might be better to lay on some clear coat and let the wood grain pop! very nicely done.....she's a beauty

[Omega1234]

I'm with Popeye...staining would cover what is already naturally beautiful wood. But, that's only my opinion. It's your model and it's hard to go wrong when you follow your instincts.

 

All the best.

[hlipplaa]

Made some clamps on the masts, made the gun port hatches, varnished the ship. Made a flagpole.

 

There are alot of different models with different solutions or interpretations of what the ship used to look like.

 

I have a question:

 

I dont know what these parts are called but they are used to belay heavy lines. Something like a bollard. I made a picture to show what i mean. I've seen different versions on diffrent models and on the half moon replica from Albany.

 

If someone could tell me what to call these parts, i know im showing only the on-deck part of it, they run belowdeck and are a structural part of ht e ships construction.

 

So if someone could tell me what part 1 and 2 are called it would be really helpfull for my "research". Of course i will be eternally grateful.

 

Part one is connected with a big block to the line(s) that are connected the yards i believe.

Part two is located in front of the main mast.

Edited August 31, 2014 by hlipplaa

[hlipplaa]

Made some more progress.

[SawdustDave]

Great looking deadeyes mate. Neat idea for the lid hinges.

[amateur]

Both in dutch:

1 knecht, used to hoist the main yard. Positioned about were your little hatch behind the main mast is.....

2 beting, and i very much doubt whether that thing was there on this ship. Belaying lines this was was quite unusual on early dutch ships. Lines were either belsyed on a knecht, on on clamps on the mast, or on the inside of the railing.

 

Jan

Edited September 1, 2014 by amateur

[popeye the sailor]

there are various forms of sampson posts and fife rails, which is what you have pictured above. I have a few pictures of the ship, but they don't show these aspects very well. I'm going with what the Billing supplied parts produce........once the deck is sealed, I can start fitting out the deck layout. I like what you did with the dead eyes.......not sure what I want to do, but I may just keep with the supplied parts here as well.

 

very nice progress!

[hlipplaa]

Thanks for informing me.

 

By the way i dont have a kit i make everything myself from scratch, except for the deadeye blocks which i bought.

 

On the replica ship of the half moon there is a knecht near the main and mizzen mast and also a beting.

 

On my drawings there are only clamps on the masts and pin rails on the sides.

 

On many models on this site theres a knecht near all three masts.

 

So i think ill make one near the main mast or next to it. And one near the mizzen mast. The foremast has lines running through the deck.

[amateur]

Thereshould bea knechtbehind every mast. It was needed to hoist the yards.

I would follow your drawings with respect to the beting (or actually absenceof it)

You could make a less heavy build pinrack. These ships had only one heavy beting: just behindthe fore mast, on the lower deck. This was used to belay the anchor ropes.

 

Jan

Edited September 1, 2014 by amateur