AKERBOOM 1681 after Ab Hoving nominally 1/66 but drawings in 1/64

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Hello friends,

today only a short notice from the Berlin Card Yard to you:

I avoided to cut the galleon of the Portside and do look for my frostpaperdrawing I made in hospital last year.

I did cut cut the bulkhead "C" but I am not shure to produce her with "horns" for the bulkwalk or without? Any suggestions?

I also dealt with the cut out for the "cabin's dollhouse drawer*"

(firstly I planted her in the gun deck) but than I recognized my error - what a silly misunderstanding!!!


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*I do call it "drawer" as I want to slide it in as a seperated structure of the cabin with the officer toilets to bothsides.

Did the officers also had their own "Allemannseener"?

 

[Ab Hoving]

I did cut cut the bulkhead "C" but I am not shure to produce her with "horns" for the bulkwalk or without? Any suggestions?

I would surely cut them, but it seems best to make them a bit wider on the inside, because they seem very vulnerable to me. The surplus can be removed later.

 

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I would surely cut them, but it seems best to make them a bit wider on the inside, because they seem very vulnerable to me. The surplus can be removed later.

Thanks a lot, Ab! I will deal with this problem in the very next days.

 

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These are the enlargements (156%) up to 1/64 from the Heinrich Winter book "Der holländische Zweidecker 1660/70" scaled in 1:100 in five drawings on three folded sheets.



The sides I mirrowed to be able to positionate the drawing starboard and portside:


Here the laterns in pretty detail scaled to 1/64, too, as there is only one fixing point for a lamp drawn by vdV.




So let's look onto the Ab's drawings and get them compared: As the Winter's ship is a bit bigger as she took 70-guns instead of 60 and so the 156% enlargement into a scale of 1/64 gives a bit of an "oversized" model - but the ergonomicy for the stairs and the size of the guns measurements do look quite right.

But let's go from stem to stern - here we do see the maindeck behind the breakheadbulkhead is not enclosed towards admidships withna visible capstain:


Then mainbulkhead part also no bulkhead giving a deep and free view into the after part of the battery enlighted down through the stairway:

The after part shows us the captain's quartier and the helmsman's stand behind this bulkhead


and I have to admit I lifted it too high. Light for the officers quartiers over the captain's accomodations came through the small windows shown in the side view:


Alltogeather with the laterns, sixsided and on a quite delicate stanchion.

And here we do have got the decks' plan with the grills admid. This does given us a chance to figure out a reasonable spacing to the beams and gives to us rough Idea of the captain's accomodation, too.

 

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And there may be errors and are open questions by this drawings of Heinrich Winter:



a)
The galley's oven's chimney did end below the WOODEN deck grill. Can this be right due to heat and sparks in a wooden ship? Do I have to prolong the chimney and cutting a passing into the grill for it?

b)
The officers cabin's do have a wooden lid. Isn't behind this a glased window to keep rain out while letting daylight in?

ca)
How did anybody enter the backdeck without a set of stairs!?

cb)
...some question at the quaterdeck and above!

d)
How to move the massive mainsail and it's tremendous yard up and down? Wouldn't there beva second part of the capstain below the shown one?

e)
What were the scubbers like - still a solid drilled woodblock or a more modern lead Pipe rumming into a canvas hose to keep the wales dry?

f)
I do miss some decks' furniture - was there any or is this purely a French luxourious idea to add a sitting bank to the deck? Or a cupboardlike structure for the signalling flags?

g)
...or a binnacle?

f)
...and by the way! Where is the ship's bell?

 

[Ab Hoving]

How one man can ask so many questions!

a) It was how it was done on the original model and who are we to question that? I never saw a chimney protrude above a grating.
b) Not as far as I know.
ca) I don't know. There must have been a part of the grating that could be lifted, but the stairs are missing.
cb) There was a big ornamental staircase to the quarterdeck. In the deck behind it there were oval shaped apertures on both sides behind the railing with stairs. Perhaps something similar was the case in the forecastle deck. They are missing on the model.
d) Obviously not. Those yards were not daily lowered or hoisted.
e) Yes, wooden blocks with drilled holes in them. Only the one for the pumps was made of lead.
f) There is a bench visible behind the stairs to the gun deck and probably on both sides next to the door of the upper cabin.
g) A nighthouse (a box with three sliding doors and a lantern combined with several compasses) was placed inside the steering compartment.
h) Ship's bells were only introduced on Dutch ships in the 18th century.

I'm sure there are more questions, but in my experience most of them will be solved during work.

 

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The one who asks leads.


Thanks a lot Ab, these answers were very very helpfull for me...

So today I made an advertising for my hobby group, by colouring one of the Heinrich Winter drawings, and adding a bit of text for marketing*:

So hopefully I can find some interested chaps being new to the hobby. I would take some simpler model for an easy start and a moderate learning curves to begin with.
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* I know the data are "wrong" but KISS (k_eep i_t s_hort & s_imple) to find interested men and women for the group in the social club.

 

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Starting with the next bulkheads...

 

[Ab Hoving]

So hopefully I can find some interested chaps being new to the hobby

Nice initiative. Start with a smalship first, like in my recent book.

 

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Hello friends and happy easter Sunday!

Today I did work on the centerboard and glued the two after parts togeather, so the Slots do fit:


Then I added the 1/64 enlarged stem to the centerboard for testfit - amaising discovery:


It doesn't fit! So I will have to go to the copy shop and reduce the copy to some 95 or 90%
so it is in the right size.



Here wo do have the Same Point of Problem as with the French 90-gun ship SAINT PHILLIPE 1693 - the galion is too deep and to wet die to the CWL.




So I do have to figure out the right size and curveature as it is a tremendus important part of the ship's appearence.

But now back to cutting out the last bulkheads...

 

[Ab Hoving]

the galion is too deep and to wet die to the CWL.

It seems better to find the real waterline. At the stern the lower corner of the tuck is just below the waterline, in the midships the waterline is at half of the lower wale. I'm sure you can find out where the real waterline iat the bow s now.

 

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Due to transport issiues I decided to try a fixed stand integrated in the hull so the model isn't dancing arround.


The centerboard is glued togeather:

This thread-cutter in the right is a very helpfull tool for small curves - it is very to cowork in a tailor shop...

 

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Not too happy with my first test fit - I lost four bulkheads:


There is a plenty to be done to get a good rectangular fit.

 

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GIDEON 1664
Today I dryfitted the bulkheads to check what my "cleverly" doublelayered centerboard made from it .
Let's say:
Some fit is right and a plenty of adjustments are to be done this weekend...

 

[Ab Hoving]

Why did you remove the drawing? It it necessary to line up the bulkheads.

 

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Why did you remove the drawing? It it necessary to line up the bulkheads.

Thanks you very much Ab, don't worry! I know it is not very visiable in this picture ,but most of the lines are (or will be over this weekend) scratched into the surface.