MEERMIN Dutch wijdschip 1/44

[Ab Hoving]

Ah, clear.
In my scale (1/77) it hardly mattered where to perforate, but in your case I would choose the lower line to put my knife. Remnants of the torn off top will sufficiently fill the gap. The dek will camouflage all the gaps in the end.

 

[Iterum]

Ah, clear.
In my scale (1/77) it hardly mattered where to perforate, but in your case I would choose the lower line to put my knife. Remnants of the torn off top will sufficiently fill the gap. The dek will camouflage all the gaps in the end.

Thank you very much - I was able to lay my Hand on the last two sheets of beige/tan 160g paper in my Copyshop

 

[Iterum]

When unable to build due to destoying more than progressing - I try to do a bit of research.

On the VdV- picture (ink on paper) of the Wijdschip we can clearly notify a small boat in the deck - we are lucky to get presented a top view:

It looks a bit bend like a "banana-keel" ;-)

So I tryed to figure out where I have seen such a boat - and in the second row of books with plans I digged out "The Ships of Abel Tasman" Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum) with a Set of printed plans in 1/75 scale:

and in there for the JACHT HEERMSKERCK Info und the boats/launches in a seperate sheet in 1/75 in two types:

figuring out the smallest boat is a 10 oar lanch - much too big for the small coaster!


The other book is by Werner Jäger
"Die niederländische Jacht im 17.Jahrhundets" Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld, 2001
I found this redrawing of another well known VdV- drawing:



Here I found an other very nice pice of art - a complete Jacht, also very nice but with a much too big breadth again.

Can I resized the Abel Tasman boat by a bit more than 50% so it is becoming a reasonable
a)
two thweat/men

b)
four oar boat

of realistic size (without a banana-keel)?

Asks Chris

 

[Iterum]

Everything prepared by the night-shift:

Bulkhead N° 9 and bulkhead N°13 were taken away by the carpet-monster - so I had to find the copies and restarted...


So this will be bond untill after breakfast, hopefully...

 

[11320 Titanic]

How often do you change the blade

 

[Iterum]

How often do you change the blade

Hello Titanic,

really a funny question you ask - as I bought my blages at Temu when I got aware of how many I do change during a build. Let's say: "Very often!"

I usulay do only my fine cutting with the scalpell blade N°11 only - after this I use a cutterknife following the given slot...
...hopefully. The cutter's knifes "muzzels" do very often have a nasty tollerance. So I do use metall ones pressing the muzzels in my metallic vice gently untill it holds the blade sliding.
One scalpell N°11 blade is dull after two to three bulkheads fine cuts in my MEERMIN. I do collect them, bent off the dull tip and have by this got again a sharp blade again - this makes the computing difficult (and ist my reasonable point for the laughing Smily above).

But the cutter's blade is also used as a "falling blade" on the straight parts in it's hole length by setting it in the prescratched groove and using a hammer to cut the slots very percise. Most use is made for the bulkheads' slots in spine and for the spine's slot into the bulkheads. So the cutter blade isn't only in use at it's tip but I would say one is good for three or four bulkheads at maximum.

Hopefully this gives you an idea of my polution of earth by dulling blades.