This beautiful!
A 143 feet long Dutch warship from 1681. Cardstock [COMPLETED BUILD]
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Beautiful ships, beautiful scienery, beautiful picture!
I do also ‘some little thing’ in Photoshop, but dis is far above my skills.
Regards, Peter
I do also ‘some little thing’ in Photoshop, but dis is far above my skills.
Regards, Peter
I just finished a fluit with Navara Fine Lawn. It looks very good. It can be 'sculpted' (draped?) like the voile, but is less transparant. I will show the fluit soon, as soon as I have decent pictures.
Here are the first (bad) pictures of the fluit with the sails made of Navara Fine Lawn. As you can see the material allows you to make sails bellowing as required and the transparancy is less than with voile.
Rather expensive though: 40 euros per meter.
Rather expensive though: 40 euros per meter.
The sails looks nice on the model.
And about the costs: how many ships can you do with 1 meter or how many meters do you need for 1 ship? Its naturally depending on the width of the fabric or the amount of sails
And a hobby may cost something. Especially by such a beautiful ship.
Tegards, Peter
And about the costs: how many ships can you do with 1 meter or how many meters do you need for 1 ship? Its naturally depending on the width of the fabric or the amount of sails
And a hobby may cost something. Especially by such a beautiful ship.
Tegards, Peter
The width of the cloth is 1.5 meters. Indeed you can do a lot of sails with that
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I've got better pictures of the fluit now, showing the bellowing sails. Hope you like them.
.I've got better pictures of the fluit now, showing the bellowing sails. Hope you like them.
They look very fine. Do they stay round by themselve or have you sprayed them?
Regards, Peter
Regards, Peter
I spray them with starch, just like mum when she was doing the ironing...
Hi Ab, they do look great. I think the lower transparency in combination with the light and scale like appearence is certainly worth the difference in price. Did you use less thee to colour these or is the fabric lighter in colour?
I have been googling on it and in Dutch it seems to be the cloth batist. I found a similar weight cotton batist of 70 g/m.
I ordered some for a comparence with the voile cotton.
See the link below to this batist.
www.stoffen.net
I have been googling on it and in Dutch it seems to be the cloth batist. I found a similar weight cotton batist of 70 g/m.
I ordered some for a comparence with the voile cotton.
See the link below to this batist.
Katoenen batist effen – ecru - Perfect voor Tunieken
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www.stoffen.net
Hi Maarten,
Thanx for the compliment.
I only dyed the cloth in tea once, but could have done it more often, which would undoubtedly have darkened the color. The material seems to take coloring quite easily.
If you want I can send you a sample for comparison. It is of course all about the structure of the cloth: how tightly it was woven. Might be interesting to compare.
Thanx for the compliment.
I only dyed the cloth in tea once, but could have done it more often, which would undoubtedly have darkened the color. The material seems to take coloring quite easily.
If you want I can send you a sample for comparison. It is of course all about the structure of the cloth: how tightly it was woven. Might be interesting to compare.
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May I jump in the talk and would like to suggest, after Maarten received the sample from Ab (I hope so), that you really make a comparison of the cloths.
The best is here really to have both types close to each other and photograph with the same light and distance etc.
I am also close to order some good material for sails, so it would be very interesting ..... Many Thanks to both of you in advance
The best is here really to have both types close to each other and photograph with the same light and distance etc.
I am also close to order some good material for sails, so it would be very interesting ..... Many Thanks to both of you in advance
I fully agree with Uwe. Special when I gonna make the sails for the Bluenose ..........May I jump in the talk and would like to suggest, after Maarten received the sample from Ab (I hope so), that you really make a comparison of the cloths.
The best is here really to have both types close to each other and photograph with the same light and distance etc.
I am also close to order some good material for sails, so it would be very interesting ..... Many Thanks to both of you in advance
Regards, Peter
The sample is already in the mail.
Hi Ab,
That would be great, you know the address. I expect the cloth I ordered in 5-7 days.
I will make a test and comparence and post it here. Hopefully during the coming two weeks I will have some more time for my hobby.
You are faster then my typing.The sample is already in the mail.
Just like Lucky Luke, faster than my shadow....
Thank you Demetri.
I can send you any (mostly 3D) plans to build your own model, a fluit or any other of my models. But I am not a kit maker. You will have to do a lot after your own explorations and research. Perhaps the best explained is the one of the pinas, you can find the plans here: https://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/AbHoving.htm
But of course the draughts in Delftship are always there to be used.
I can send you any (mostly 3D) plans to build your own model, a fluit or any other of my models. But I am not a kit maker. You will have to do a lot after your own explorations and research. Perhaps the best explained is the one of the pinas, you can find the plans here: https://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/AbHoving.htm
But of course the draughts in Delftship are always there to be used.
I understand you.
I was not referring to a kit plan exactly. To be precise my problems are with the rigging. I have no idea where each cable / maneuver starts and where it ends.
Thank you.