A Dutch Fluyt in shell first, reconstructing the "Ghost ship" scale 1:36

Maarten said:
The double timbers I mean that the space is filled with two layers of timbers, one between floor up to the wale and the second layer from wale up to the fore castle deck. Single means fill it with one long piece of frame timber.
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Thanks Maarten, for your clarification.
Looking at the picture from the Anna Maria, I see there is an overlap between the lower- and upper timbers around the wale.
You still have to add the upper timbers to your model?
 
RDN1954 said:
Thanks Maarten, for your clarification.
Looking at the picture from the Anna Maria, I see there is an overlap between the lower- and upper timbers around the wale.
You still have to add the upper timbers to your model?
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Hi Ron,

Yes the upper timbers still needs to be added. I will first finish all the lower timbers and their treenailing, then I start adding the shelf clamp of the koebrug followed by the ceiling planks. After that I can set up some "stekers" top timbers to set out the top shape of the hull followed by again cent latten to set out the shape for the remainig top timbers.
 
Hi Maarten, Just getting caught up on your Fluyt. Such a very impressive build, both the uniqueness of the ship and how you've approached it with your research. Something well beyond my skill level and patience level.

This build is such a contrast from your Royal Caroline build, but no less impressive. Incredible work!
 
Hoss6262 said:
Hi Maarten, Just getting caught up on your Fluyt. Such a very impressive build, both the uniqueness of the ship and how you've approached it with your research. Something well beyond my skill level and patience level.

This build is such a contrast from your Royal Caroline build, but no less impressive. Incredible work!
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Many thx, the research is needed as there are no detailed drawing available.
There will be alot of ongoing research ahead for every step in the building process. Actually it is a lot of fun building like this and finding solutions along the way.
 
Thx gents for likes and comments.

During my ski trip already again a week ago I took my small carving workshop with me and continued on the second hoekman.
Starting with the face I decided to give him a slightly older look then his counterpart.
He looks a little like Captain Barbosa now ROTF
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Instead of Stephan who uses rotary tool I do everything with chisels. Easy to travel with and no sound and dust.
Therefore you still see the chisel marks as I haven't been polishing yet.
The face is not finished yet but stil some mg of wood have to be removed from his cheeks and eyes.

Below the hair is also finished, but still some detailing to do.
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Compared to his counterpart he certainly looks older so they represent father and son.
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I expect some more hours for detailing and fine tuning before he is finished.
 
Last week work on the hull continued with added the last oplangen towards the stern. Here the shape of the oplang is slightly changing so I use the aft designed frame and some strakes to set out the shape.
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After that I fill in the missing frames.
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Now repeating the same proces on the PS side.
 
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Nice carving Maarten, the details are great. Indeed the difference to rotary carvings is the chisel marks. But these marks have the charm of a carved sculpture. Don't polish to much.
Also because you have a bigger scale then I'm working with. When I had these markings details would be lost.
 
Maarten said:
Thx gents for likes and comments.

During my ski trip already again a week ago I took my small carving workshop with me and continued on the second hoekman.
Starting with the face I decided to give him a slightly older look then his counterpart.
He looks a little like Captain Barbosa now ROTF
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Instead of Stephan who uses rotary tool I do everything with chisels. Easy to travel with and no sound and dust.
Therefore you still see the chisel marks as I haven't been polishing yet.
The face is not finished yet but stil some mg of wood have to be removed from his cheeks and eyes.

Below the hair is also finished, but still some detailing to do.
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Compared to his counterpart he certainly looks older so they represent father and son.
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I expect some more hours for detailing and fine tuning before he is finished.
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Those men are looking very nice, Maarten.
And about the chisel marks: a friend of mine did a lot of carvings for the restoration of several organs in Dutch churches. And 'sanding after carving' was literally and figuratively 'cursing in church'. ('Vloeken in de Kerk').
Regards, Peter
 
Maarten said:
Last week work on the hull continued with added the last oplangen towards the stern. Here the shape of the oplang is slightly changing so I use the aft designed frame and some strakes to set out the shape.
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After that I fill in the missing frames.
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Now repeating the same proces on the PS side.
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Still looking impressive, Maarten. 'Step by Step' and the aft is also filled ......
Regards, Peter
 
After the SB side now also the PS side is finished in the same way.
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And the result.
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Next step is setting out the shape of the stern by means of two or three guidence battens. The shape towards the lower wale has just a very slight curvature and is nearly a straight line as can be seen below in the 3D scanned model of the Tallinn wreck. The Tallinn wreck is very similar to the ghostship
and this is also what I see in my model if I trace the area between the current floor planks and the "scheerstrook".
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