Prins Willem 1650 by Michiel - 1:50 - POB Zeeland ship from own plans

[Michiel]

thanks,

nice profile picture :-)

I'm not printing them myself. I order them at materialize, a company here in Leuven, Belgium that prints over twenty materials. You just upload you model, they print and send it. Actually I pick it up my self.

I cloud share the models it you like.

 

Cheers,

Michiel

[WBlakeny]

Nice work on your Prins Willem.  That youtube movie really shows the beauty of her.

[Michiel]

Building of the gallery, trailer

 

 

[Michiel]

Far from finished carvings but it's a start in working a bit on the ship again. New house, new job, children.... 

 

[Michiel]

This one is now getting close. It lost one eye unfortunately but that can be fixed. 

[Michiel]

Some more finishing on the planking. Probably easier to do this before the decorations of the galley. Those two parts with no nails are to be ports. But I'll wait with cutting them until the deck behind is in place to have them properly aligned.

 

[Michiel]

As you can see the density of nails is about three timed higher in the upper parts as below. I decided the density in the upper part is what it should actually be so at the moment I am about to add hundreds more.... any opinions?

[Michiel]

Here's the full process. Hope you'll find is instructive. The final step involves line seed oil. It cleans the fine dust and brings the detail out. 

 

Enjoy the evening