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Flying Dutchman by Tommy S

Tommy, thanks for posting the pictures. The ship is looking good. A lot of detail stuff is making the ship look great the detailed stuff that makes the ship stand out and you’re doing an excellent job on the detail work on this ship. I’m impressed on how everything is looking so far. The bow is looking great as well so again you’re doing incredible job I’m putting the ship together. Well done look forward to more pictures.
 
The instructions call for twenty “axles”@ 20 mm and 20 @ 16 mm. 1.5 mm brass wire. I cut them a little long because the nippers create a little angle in the brass.

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Tommy, thanks for the pictures.it’s a lot of work to go through. You got more patience than I have. i’m not sure what the brass rods are for, but I’m sure I’m gonna see future updates what they will do or I should say what their function is. i’m pleased to see the side of the ship and all those ports they look incredible. Well done.
 
Hi,
I’m Mark from Antwerp (Belgium-Flanders).I came accidently by on your build log and am also building the Flying Dutchman from OCCRE. I also have a build log of my building, you can find it on www.modelbouwforum.nl, but it is in dutch… I’ m trying to give my Flying dutchman a weathered look, given the fact that it is sailing during centuries over the seas… :)
If anyone would be interested, I’ m willing to try to rewrite my build log in English on this forum ( my english isn’t perfect …) Just let me know it.
Best greetings.
PS : you are doing a great job on your Dutchman !
 
MarkGr said:
Hi,
I’m Mark from Antwerp (Belgium-Flanders).I came accidently by on your build log and am also building the Flying Dutchman from OCCRE. I also have a build log of my building, you can find it on www.modelbouwforum.nl, but it is in dutch… I’ m trying to give my Flying dutchman a weathered look, given the fact that it is sailing during centuries over the seas… :)
If anyone would be interested, I’ m willing to try to rewrite my build log in English on this forum ( my english isn’t perfect …) Just let me know it.
Best greetings.
PS : you are doing a great job on your Dutchman !
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I have tried to find your build log. I’m not finding it?
 
This is the link :

De Vliegende Hollander Occre 1/50

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www.modelbouwforum.nl
 
Tommy, thanks for posting the pictures.
If I counted right, you got 20 cannons. They look great. I do like the black that you painted on that ship. It’s coming along nicely. Well done.
 
I decided to use 5/32 copper tubing for the lanterns. The instructions are showing brass wire to support the lantern and then they wrap the wires for the leds around that wire? It just doesn't look right to me. I couldn't get brass tubing to bend without kinking. Copper worked a little better but it still wants to kink. I had to go really slow using a tubing bender I bought on Amazon. A little black paint and it should look about right. no exposed wiring.
 
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It still tried to kink but, I did get a 90 degree bend and got the wires to thread through. Supposedly this bender works down to 1/8”/3 mm. IMG_1071.jpeg
 
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