prins willem

I started the build a week ago. And I want to share the advances with you. It is my intention to build is to the plans of Corel in combination with the book of Herman Ketting. This is how I start the build. It is still dryfit and it isn't sanded yet. After that I glued everything in place...

Hi Every one. :) My name is Stephan I'm 54 years old. Excuse me for my bad English sometimes, I'll try to write it, please correct me when I make mistakes. It will be a good lesson to me. This will my first log here on SOS. 2 years ago, before this ship I started with model building. My first...

The Prins Willem is probably the largest spiegelretourship (a merchant vessel for the East-India trade), that was build in the 17th century by the VOC (United East-India trade companies). In 1650 the ship was launched in Middelburg. In 1651 the ship sailed the first time to Batatvia...

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...