By the way: The ship on the screen of my PC is the Hendrika Bartelds, a three-masted ship on which I sail for a week each year on the Baltic Sea or the North Sea. Such a sailing trip is fantastically beautiful! 
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Yes know that one she is a Dutch schooner. Beautiful ship, must be great to sail it for a week. Jealous.By the way: The ship on the screen of my PC is the Hendrika Bartelds, a three-masted ship on which I sail for a week each year on the Baltic Sea or the North Sea. Such a sailing trip is fantastically beautiful!
Attention! Do not frighten now - the next pictures are cruel!
What happened? I was not satisfied with my homemade ropes. So I perfected my technique, made new ropes and made all shrouds new. And later I made the tekkle roops again. The first ones were too light for me - that's historically incorrect.
And looking at the spreeder and the cleanly wrapped ropes tells me it was right to let this machine come from the US.
What happened? I was not satisfied with my homemade ropes. So I perfected my technique, made new ropes and made all shrouds new. And later I made the tekkle roops again. The first ones were too light for me - that's historically incorrect.
And looking at the spreeder and the cleanly wrapped ropes tells me it was right to let this machine come from the US.
Look on my Homepage - there are the travel reports from the last four years.
Click on "Segeln tut Not". 
I had painted a lot of figures by now. Therefore today: a first casting. 
How do we make a pair of shrout:
Below: very bad!
Above: That's what it must look like!
Well, dear people, now we arrived in real time.
That was not too much food for the eyes right now, was it? From now on it will be much slower with more recent pictures.
I hope that what I have shown you here has pleased you a little ...
I hope that what I have shown you here has pleased you a little ...
Bonden,
wow...........wow
you are showing here a real good and very professional work, Your standing rigging is extremely good, especially if we take into account in which small scale you are working - on your model we can realize what is possible.
And we can also recognize that you are still getting better with more experience - btw: a good step that you change already done elements in order to make it better.
I am looking forward to see your further work
wow...........wow
you are showing here a real good and very professional work, Your standing rigging is extremely good, especially if we take into account in which small scale you are working - on your model we can realize what is possible.
And we can also recognize that you are still getting better with more experience - btw: a good step that you change already done elements in order to make it better.
I am looking forward to see your further work
A very fine work, and attention to the details, Bonden. I guess a glass of vine and modelling can go alone! I like the cru on that vine corkie... Did you make them your own? With your skills, I wouldn't surprise. 
Thank you! I am not sure if google translator has translated your question correctly, sorry. But if you would like to know if I have drunk the bottles to which the corks belonged: Of course!
Thanks to all for the likes! That's an incentive for me.
Hi Bonden,
Google translator is fine...It is my English (it is not my native language). Sailors on the ship, you made them yourself?
Google translator is fine...It is my English (it is not my native language). Sailors on the ship, you made them yourself?