This is my first online build log.
I will try to post regular new updates about the process. First of all I got the kit from Mantua in octobre this year. It looks fine but the instruction manual is not what i expected, very simple and with faults. The included planking has different wides for example.
So I started to do some Research on the ship itself, I noticed that there are different types of this ship. Because there were build by at least 5 different shipyards in the first half of the 19th century. And had different designs, for instance the armament and the design from the upper deck.
- old big model
- Danish model
- small model
- new big model
The Mantua Kit is the new big model and therefore can’t be the ship from Van Speyk.
The gunboat number 2 was in fact a ‘old big model’ and build between 1821 and 1823, out of a total of 13 ships (the ship numbers 1 to 13).
While I keep searching the archives for more details, I started with the hull. Because there is almost no difference between the two big models.
In the follow up post, I will share some technical drawings from different Dutch gunboats that i found in the archives.
One interesting drawing that I found in the archives (Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam) is dated 1831 (year of explosion) and made by
Pieter Le Comte. Its depicting the upper deck and the captains quarters of Gunboat nr.2 from Van Speijk.
More to come….
I will try to post regular new updates about the process. First of all I got the kit from Mantua in octobre this year. It looks fine but the instruction manual is not what i expected, very simple and with faults. The included planking has different wides for example.
So I started to do some Research on the ship itself, I noticed that there are different types of this ship. Because there were build by at least 5 different shipyards in the first half of the 19th century. And had different designs, for instance the armament and the design from the upper deck.
- old big model
- Danish model
- small model
- new big model
The Mantua Kit is the new big model and therefore can’t be the ship from Van Speyk.
The gunboat number 2 was in fact a ‘old big model’ and build between 1821 and 1823, out of a total of 13 ships (the ship numbers 1 to 13).
While I keep searching the archives for more details, I started with the hull. Because there is almost no difference between the two big models.
In the follow up post, I will share some technical drawings from different Dutch gunboats that i found in the archives.
One interesting drawing that I found in the archives (Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam) is dated 1831 (year of explosion) and made by
Pieter Le Comte. Its depicting the upper deck and the captains quarters of Gunboat nr.2 from Van Speijk.
More to come….