Antje (KW49) 1959 by kees de mol - FINISHED - scale 1/75 - Dutch side trawler

[Piet]

Yeah, stuff happens Kees but I'm glad you were able to salvage your work.  I surmise that you found new primer?  

 

Cheers,

[popeye the sailor]

don't throw it away Kees.......here is how I decant paint from spray cans with hardly any mess at all

 

https://wenzelswharftips.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/decanting-paint/

 

there is a good chance that there was a problem with the nozzle,  and not the paint itself.  then you can try the paint through an airbrush,  to see if you have better control.

 

good you were able to avert disaster....your doing such a superb job with this build!    I just upgraded to windows 7....everything is so small!   gotta go highlight the picture so I can drool over the detail!   

[kees de mol]

Sorry for the small photo's I coppied them from my blog but its not a succes. Next time bigger photo's

[kees de mol]

Hello fellow shipbuilders!

 

I have done some work on the ship. Nice to work on those detaills but it takes a lot of hours to make and also to find out how everything was build in 1959. I made use of different photo's of different ships to make everything. Now on with the hull and other things.

 

Edited November 10, 2015 by kees de mol

[popeye the sailor]

superb detail Kees!.........right down to the electrical conduits!   I see you didn't post the picture you sent me...........is there to be a drum on the port side as well?

[cog]

Great save on the primer Kees. Love the detail your showing. Almost a picture of the real thing!!!

[kees de mol]

is there to be a drum on the port side as well?

Yes both sides

[Piet]

Everything looks so realistic, I almost expect someone walking across the deck and opening one of the doors.

 

Cheers,

[Jim Lad]

Absolutely beautiful work, Kees!

 

John

[mtaylor]

Beautifully done.  The details jump out and look marvelous.

[kees de mol]

A little bit of work done on the bulwarks. The model looks much better now all the raw parts have their finishing touch. Now some more work in detaills on the inside of the bulwarks and the some adjustments to the front of the ship and her structure. Pics will follow soon.

Kind Regards, Kees

[popeye the sailor]

nice work on the bulwarks and scuppers...cap rail looks very good too! 

[Krelis]

ok, 11.95, sold

[cog]

Typically Dutch Jan. I would ioncrease the bid if I had the money. In fact it's priceless!

Edited March 31, 2015 by cog

[Krelis]

Typically Dutch Jan. I would ioncrease the bid if I had the money. In fact it's priceless!

Just kidding of course, I only admire Kees' speed of construction where he does not even bother to take the price tag off his base material, typifies Kees as a very practical boat builder, and a true artist maybe?

[kees de mol]

ok, 11.95, sold

 Sorry it is allready given away   The price 11,95 is for 2 square meters of plastic I believe.

[kees de mol]

Hello fellow shipbuilders

 

Last days I worked on two or three different things. The frontmast, a hole for the postside trawl gallow and I have lenghtened the spraydeck.

 

First I marked the position of the opening. This opening was added to the ship ten years after she was build. It was necessary because of the extra trawl gallow (which was placed to guid the portside fishingline to the fishingbeam).

Then I cut it out and sanded/filed everything smooth. Some halfround to make it all look good and finished.

 

nice and clean

 

Marked

Super handy this disk cutter

 

cut, sand, file... and relax

 

 

 

 

 

some halfround to have a good finish

Yes! It fits.

 

 

 

Then I did some work on the fronmast. I gave hem his final position and I adjusted him to the spraydeck.

 

The frontmast in his position

 

 

 And then the extension of the spraydeck. This also was done ten years after build. It was made to protect the fishermen against the waves. Some years later the extension was removed again.

 

 

 

 

After some adjustments I gott it right.

 

 

It doesn't makes the ship more beautiful but I think it looks very sturdy this way. With all the additions you can really see that the ship is a true workingship.

 

 

 

 

And now a nice pic of the ship with both masts in place. Looks good hey?

 

 

Edited November 10, 2015 by kees de mol

[mtaylor]

I didn't realize how big this model is until I saw the pic you holding the ladder against the mast.   Very impressive work.

[cog]

Mark you beat me to it, it looks like a hughe sucker!!!

 

Those last details do make it look like a working vessel Kees. Very nice finish on that mast and spraydeck. Functional improvements do not need to be beautiful, they should be practical, as shown

[kees de mol]

I didn't realize how big this model is until I saw the pic you holding the ladder against the mast.  

How perspective can do strange things. The ladder looks much bigger than it is. By the way... this explains why my belly looks that big. It's all a matter of perspective

[popeye the sailor]

I agree with Mark.......although your not holding the ladder.  it's already in place       Carl has it right as well......functionality is a huge factor in these subjects........practicality is the mother of design     my Nordkap is 32 inches long @ 1:50 scale.....how long is the Antje?   she looks great......the extension and masting really adds to the complexity and design!    very very nice! 

[kees de mol]

Hello,

 

Thank you all for the kind repleys and the likes. The Antje is 58cm/22,8inch long. At the photo's everything looks a little bigger than it is in my opinion.

 

I like the ship as she is now. Some older fishermen who follow my build on facebook asked me why I build here with all the later additions. They say the ship was much more a beauty when she was just build. I asked them how many ships where changed in beamers around 1960. The tell me almost every trawler. How many of the trawlermodels in the local museum are with these additions? Non....

 

So I think it's not a bad thing to build her this way. Alltough she wont come into a museum, but thats not the point.

 

Kind regards, Kees

Edited April 1, 2015 by kees de mol

[Krelis]

Makes me wonder why the shipyard did not install a forward portside gallow in the first place.. was the extra line to give the trawl a wider spread, or maybe for a more easy retrieval of the trawl?

[popeye the sailor]

build her the way you see her Kees.......never mind the nay-sayers 

[amateur]

I like her as a working ship that was altered with the needs, although I have to agree with those oldies that the original design was far better.

 

Jan

[cog]

Kees,

 

No matter what others say, I like it any way you want to build her. WIth, without ... I like to follow your build and see what you come up with and be asthonished by the versatillity of the material you use, and your craftmanship. Keep on going

[kees de mol]

Part one:

 

On the frontdeck I had to make a railing and today I started with this thankfull job. Readymade-raillings are for sale but I dont like them because they never fit the way you want and I think they are ugly. Make them myself it is then. First I make a design and then I mark the position of the stansions so I know how much I have to make.

 

28 It has to be.


Brass strip 2x1 mm.

 

This how they have to be when they are ready. If my Autocad-teacher would see this drawing he would not stop crying.


Cut the stansions


And then the drilling. Drill-thing a mould and enough drill-bits (I tought)



 

Ohh no there goes a drillbitt.... again... They are supersharp and I like the universal diameter of 3.2mm but when you look at them, they break. Or I am just a clumsy man? It was my last 0.55mm bit so I had to use a conventional drill.


Ready

 

Marking where the stansions end and where the pin starts

 

In the lathe. It's not really the right way to use this machine but hey! Who knows?!

 

 

Movie-clip

  Edited November 10, 2015 by kees de mol

[kees de mol]

Part two:

 

Tadaahh. If it does not work like it has to be, then it has to be like it works (I have no idea if this makes any sence but I tried to translate a Dutch saying)

 

Drilling holes in the deck. With a handdrill. Very handy tool!


Parts


First I start with the midlle stansion


And before you know it half of it is ready






Yes, this is how it has to be




And the old and trusted guilder/florin to show the proportions

 

Kind regards, Kees de Mol

 

PS. Thank you for all the likes and replys. Very pleased with that!

Edited November 10, 2015 by kees de mol

[mtaylor]

What the others have said about doing it the way you want it..... you're doing a beautiful job.

[kees de mol]

Makes me wonder why the shipyard did not install a forward portside gallow in the first place.. was the extra line to give the trawl a wider spread, or maybe for a more easy retrieval of the trawl?

 

This portside gallow was not neccesary for driftnetting (vleet vissen in Dutch) The net went in to the sea on starboard and was hauled in on starboard. The portside gallow was added later when the ship was transformed in a beamfisher. The front starboard gallow lead the fishingline to the starboardbeam and the portside gallow did this for the portside beam.

The aft starboardgallow stayed on the ship so the could also go driftnetting again.

 On wikipedia there is some info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_netting

 

A movie-clip http://www.haagsefilmbank.nl/archieven/843 Only the ship has no gallows yet.

 

Search for Vleetvisserij to find more info

 

Regards, Kees

Edited April 1, 2015 by kees de mol