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BY ALL MEANS PUBLISH THIS BRILLIANT WORKS OF ART. GOD BLESS STAY SAFE ALL
Thank you all for your overwhelming reactions. It's just paper scratch.
3rdJerseyman and donfarr: Thank you for your generous advice. However, we never planned this book to be printed and published. As a matter of facts we did order a few dozens of hard copies of the booklet, just to serve as presents for family and friends. People order such one time books at companies to see their holiday pictures in print.
Does that mean we will put it on the market after all? No, the printing costs are relatively high and will at least be doubled by postage and packing. Even if there is a small fee in it for the makers, it still is too expensive for an occasional purchase and it will bring a lot of work for us. We can spend our time in a more useful way.
So we just publish it online and hope people to enjoy it.
We even go further than that. We have sent people the digital file of the picture of their choice and many have printed them on perspex to hang on their walls. Here is one in my own house:
Thank you all for your positive feedback!
3rdJerseyman and donfarr: Thank you for your generous advice. However, we never planned this book to be printed and published. As a matter of facts we did order a few dozens of hard copies of the booklet, just to serve as presents for family and friends. People order such one time books at companies to see their holiday pictures in print.
Does that mean we will put it on the market after all? No, the printing costs are relatively high and will at least be doubled by postage and packing. Even if there is a small fee in it for the makers, it still is too expensive for an occasional purchase and it will bring a lot of work for us. We can spend our time in a more useful way.
So we just publish it online and hope people to enjoy it.
We even go further than that. We have sent people the digital file of the picture of their choice and many have printed them on perspex to hang on their walls. Here is one in my own house:
Thank you all for your positive feedback!
Thank you very much for the generous "donation" to the "master builder's guild".
Oh my Ab, that is just wonderful. Thank you for sharing, this is just stunning.
Many thanks for sharing this wonderful prepared workpiece with us Ab
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Good morning Ab Hoving, Congratulations on your Art, Thank you for everything you do for ship modeling and a thank you from me
Ab, Many Many thanks for publishing the book in our forum - a pleassure to read and see your and your sons work
Thanks Steef, it was a pleasure to make the book.
Ab
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This is a beautiful painting with one of the Netherlands oldest cities, Dordrecht, in the background:"View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil", 1644. Creator: Jan van Goyen
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Hi Ab,
I'm writing to you as an expert in Dutch shipbuilding from the first half of the 17th century.
I'm analyzing Polish and Swedish imagery related to the Battle of Oliwa.
I'm curious about the difference between a medium galleon and a pinnace from around 1627.
v/r
Bogdan
Hi Bogdan,
To answer your question I'm afraid you will have to explain what you mean by 'a medium galleon'. I ask this because the names of ship types in the early 17th century are very mixed up. I am not sure if any of the ships that were depicted by for instance the painters Hendrik Vroom, Andries van Eertvelt, Jacobus Verbeek en Klaas van Wieringen were called 'galleons'. I think they were a late generation caravels.
As to the term 'pinnace' I wonder if this word is a translation of what we know here as a 'pinas', or that you mean the English pinnaces which were small vessels.
It might be of interest for you that a pinas actually is an armed merchantman with a flat tuck and three masts. Its origin lies in cargo related shipping.
I guess that your medium galleon is basically a war ship.
Sorry if I cannot be much clearer, this period knows a lot of uncertainties.
Maybe you can show me the pictures that raised your question.
Best,
Ab
To answer your question I'm afraid you will have to explain what you mean by 'a medium galleon'. I ask this because the names of ship types in the early 17th century are very mixed up. I am not sure if any of the ships that were depicted by for instance the painters Hendrik Vroom, Andries van Eertvelt, Jacobus Verbeek en Klaas van Wieringen were called 'galleons'. I think they were a late generation caravels.
As to the term 'pinnace' I wonder if this word is a translation of what we know here as a 'pinas', or that you mean the English pinnaces which were small vessels.
It might be of interest for you that a pinas actually is an armed merchantman with a flat tuck and three masts. Its origin lies in cargo related shipping.
I guess that your medium galleon is basically a war ship.
Sorry if I cannot be much clearer, this period knows a lot of uncertainties.
Maybe you can show me the pictures that raised your question.
Best,
Ab