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For ages I already want to build a model of the Sovereign of the Seas and yes I know this is the ship you can all do it wrong. But when John mcKay came with his book I though maybe this is the time to start thinking about it. Unfortunately there are a lot of things I would do differently than he...

Last week I was fortunate to make a sailing trip on the Stad Amsterdam from Rotterdam to Hamburg. The Stad Amsterdam is a Dutch build clipper ship from 2000 owned by Randstad and the city of Amsterdam. She is used for sea voyages and promotional activities for the joined owners. You can book...

When I was briefly in Husum Northern Germany for bussiness last week I spend some additional time in the North Frisian Schiffahrts Museum. It is a small 4 story museum and what I like about these is they show a lot of models. The large museum now adays all want to become an experience with large...

Today visited the maritime museum in Genua. Genua has a very rich maritime background of which Christopher Columbus is most probably the most famous. In the museum the cover the Columbus story with original documents and the columbus fleet with three fantastic models of Nina, Pinta and Sancta...

Currently visiting Genua for a quick bussiness trip. Here in the old harbour the neptune is docked which was build for Roman Polanski movie Pirates of 1986. The ship has a steel core and masts and plated with wood. All outside carvings are fiberglass. For a decor piece not to bad, as historic...

For a long time I already want to build a Dutch fluyt and had been looking for the best possible candidate. The shape of the fluyt is extraordenary and directly recognizable with its bollow stern, the Jelo of ships. It was the workhorse of the 17th century when the Dutch dominated shipping in...

Untill the end of March in Amsterdam you can visit the Van de Velde exhibition. After March it will move to NMM in London. I visited the exhibition last Tuesday and I can really recommend to go and see it. Willem van de Velde de oude and Willem van de Velde de jonge, father and son are the...

Yeah my kit came in after exactly 30 days shipping and customs. I had to pay €46,- for VAT and customs clearing but it is well worth it for a box full of goodies. I will build it next to my RC and already have some ideas of what I will do with it. It won't be a straight out of the box build but...

Being one of the first Russian ships of the line, the original build in 1698 and this replica in 2014. It is a museum in Russia in a place called Voronezh. You see there are still some hidden gems out there like this replica I had never heared about before.

For my future project I am collecting timber. Recently I was already able to buy some pear, boxwood and also old ebony piano keys, all via internet. Last weekend I got in contact with somebody who harvested a part of his pear orchard where he removed 200 trees and he sold the logs of 220 cm x 15...

I stumbled across this very simple and effective methode to create a very nice aplicator for CA.

One of the difficulties is to rig your ship wth proper sails which is not too thick and giving the right feel. I got a tip from Ab Hoving that he used a Voile Cotton for his model of a Ducth warship in scale 1:77, this is giving a perfect look, see his beautiful model below...

See below a link to a brief documentary about Philip Reed master model maker. His work is sublime.

Yesterday I fulfilled a long lasting wish. We visited maritime artist Jan de Quelery for buying an oil painting of a 17th century ship. Jan is de Willem van de Velde of the 21st century. He is painting mainly 19th and 17th century ships in oil paint and aquarel. He is famous for his 17th...

Here just some pictures of my Friesland originated from the mamoli kit. I started with her some 25 years ago but three houses diy rebuilds in between she now only lags masts and rigging. Thats for later. I modified her based on data from Winters book the dutch two decker and g.c. Diks Zeven...

When I was 14 years old my favorite book from our local library was this one. De Prins Willem of Herman Ketting. Herman Ketting was responsible for the shipmodel collection in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and in their collection they have a contemporary model of this probably largest 17th...

Does anybody knows what is the status of seawatch books. Ordered a book last july 25th with a credit card payment. Send them an email last week but don't hear anything. Are they out of business?

Last weekend during a nice weekend trip to the beach I visited also the Dutch Navy museum in Den Helder. On the old navy yard there is a 17th century shipwreck of a Pinas/jacht which was in this case a 26 mtr merchant trader. As a reference this is approximately what you are looking at or at...

As I am working on alteration of the carvings of my Royal Caroline I am searching the internet for nice carving tutorials. Everything I find handy, from basic to more complicated I will post here. Today to begin with a video from Stumpy Nubs Woodworking Journal about carving basics.

In the blog of Rolands Vlahovic s HMS alert I came across cold casting and looked more in detail into it. It is a fantastic way of casting metall powders in combination with resin to create an actual metall part. Fantastic for casting bronze or iron gun barrels. See below a video explaining...