YQ Bluenose by Johan [COMPLETED BUILD]

Heinrich said:
Beautiful pictures Johan. I have always been very fond of the Botters ever since my dear friend, @pingu57, Peter, built one.
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I forgot to mention that while there, during the "Spakenburgse dagen", I visited a stand of the historical society "Bunscote". One division of that society is an active ships modeling branch, building botters in a variety of scales. One can subscribe to a course of botter building, lasting about two years, or more, when needed, see cursussen/botterbouw.

Translation of the Dutch text:

"Botterbouw
Contents

On this course, a beautifully executed course book is used to build a model of a real botter in the scale 1:15 or in the scale 1:20.
After paying the course fee, new students receive a course folder with drawings. By default, this course folder is in black and white.
At an additional cost, this course folder is also available in a colour version.
The construction of the model takes about 2 years.
Then the sails are measured and one can get started with them.
During the course you will receive a new assignment every month.
This evening is also intended to submit your problems to the supervisor.
To ensure that the student also gets a picture of what he / she has to make, a model is built with the students.

It is possible to switch to a course book in color.

If the model is rigged, the sails can be made."

There's more about cost of the course and about focal points, but you better visit the site, if you're interested.
 
Johan, thank you so much for this. I have heard a lot of the name Orm van der Laan who is apparently a legend when it comes to building Botters - and now I can place everything in context. I think that the course is a wonderful idea and can only imagine what a stunning model a Botter in 1:15 scale will make. Unfortunately, it will be a scratch build and I simply do not have the means for that while still in China. But who knows what the future holds? I have bookmarked it and if the opportunity arises, this may well be what I go for. Thank you once more, for posting this!
 
Heinrich said:
Johan, thank you so much for this. I have heard a lot of the name Orm van der Laan who is apparently a legend when it comes to building Botters - and now I can place everything in context. I think that the course is a wonderful idea and can only imagine what a stunning model a Botter in 1:15 scale will make. Unfortunately, it will be a scratch build and I simply do not have the means for that while still in China. But who knows what the future holds? I have bookmarked it and if the opportunity arises, this may well be what I go for. Thank you once more, for posting this!
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You're more than welcome!
 
The past few days have seen quite a bit of work on my Bluenose, although I have not much to show for.
Adding lights is taking a lot of planning ahead and also the actual installation of the lights is time consuming. That became a real headache for the lights for the aft cabin, since I can't fit these lights permanently, before the roof of the cabin can be installed. So, as with the nav lights, the aft cabin lights are now roaming freely in the aft cabin, until it's time for the roof to be attached. Having said that, I had to come up with a basic design for the aft cabin and I am afraid it will be custom made, since I am not happy with the parts that came with the kit.
The end of today marked the "all lights installed" milestone ánd, they are not only installed, but they do function as advertised. Tonight I am a happy man!

The pictures below are rather grainy, but hey, what can one expect from an iPhone? ROTF

Starboard side view looking slightly aft.
(Stem on the right side of the picture, stern on the left hand side.)
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Top view.
(Stem on the right side of the picture, stern on the left hand side.)
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After yesterday's ”lightshow” it was time to continue adding the remaining aft deck beams. Due to some inaccuracies during frame installation that was not as straightforward as it should be. While initially putting the fault with YQ, the ball is completely in my yard by not being alert enough to catch that the frame pitch at the keel and in the jig in itself is not enough to ensure the frame pitch is constant over the height of the frame. I also used distance blocks to try and ensure consistent frame pitching, but I apparently didn't pay enough attention and today Murphy was back to collect...
That unfortunately resulted in an overflowing swear jar and an honorary, life-long membership of the do-over association. But the end of today showed all deckbeams in place, allowing me to close this part of the build. Next stop the waterways and the decks. I expect to be forced to use some tweaks to get everything to fit and in place. To be continued.

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RDN1954 said:
The past few days have seen quite a bit of work on my Bluenose, although I have not much to show for.
Adding lights is taking a lot of planning ahead and also the actual installation of the lights is time consuming. That became a real headache for the lights for the aft cabin, since I can't fit these lights permanently, before the roof of the cabin can be installed. So, as with the nav lights, the aft cabin lights are now roaming freely in the aft cabin, until it's time for the roof to be attached. Having said that, I had to come up with a basic design for the aft cabin and I am afraid it will be custom made, since I am not happy with the parts that came with the kit.
The end of today marked the "all lights installed" milestone ánd, they are not only installed, but they do function as advertised. Tonight I am a happy man!

The pictures below are rather grainy, but hey, what can one expect from an iPhone? ROTF

Starboard side view looking slightly aft.
(Stem on the right side of the picture, stern on the left hand side.)
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Top view.
(Stem on the right side of the picture, stern on the left hand side.)
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Light fantastic! Of course, this means you can work on your BN in the dark as well now Johan ROTF
Seriously though, great job. I hope I can one day be as adventurous to add features such as lighting to my model. My current knowledge of volts and amperes would probably burn my ship to the ground :confused:
 
Heinrich said:
Thode deck beams look wonderful and once more, I really like that warmth in color.
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Thanks Heinrich, with all the below deck's customization it all took a while, but at least now I've something to show for.
Outdoors the color really comes to life, I'll post some pictures, as soon as I've taken some.
 
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