VOC ship The Prins Willem (scale 1:75) Year 1651

Steef66 said:
@all thanks for the visit, likes, jokes and comments. I love this and helps to go on.
Standing rigging came to an end and finally I can say job done. Sails, spars and running rigging is next. First I have to write an article for the modelbouwer and then we go on with the HZ model. See you back here over a while.
Enjoy the pictures
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A very nice example of standing rigging, Stephan. And now some time management for all the jobs to do.
Regards, Peter
 
Congratulations for reaching this stage - and it is looking extremely good

BRAVO
 
Peter Voogt said:
A very nice example of standing rigging, Stephan. And now some time management for all the jobs to do.
Regards, Peter
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Thanks Peter, a very welcome compliment from a professional builder like you. And I say professional because of those small details you serve us in your buildlogs.
Jimsky said:
Congrats on yet another milestone, mon ami! A very important one! And now I know you are not just a modeler and sausage maker, you are a writer as well! ;) What other abilities are you hiding from us?
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Thanks Jim, I can also make very good hamburgers. There was a time I made them with the hundreds.
RDN1954 said:
Impressed with your work on the standing rigging: Thumbsup
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Uwek said:
Congratulations for reaching this stage - and it is looking extremely good

BRAVO
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Thanks Johan and Uwe.
Maarten said:
Wonderfull work on the rigging Stephan. All the hours start to pay off
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Thanks Maarten, yes I'm glad with the result to. Was a good practise and learning curve.

And thanks all for the likes and visit to my log.
 
Dear Stephan. The standing rigging is a perfect example of how rigging should be done on a Dutch ship. Congratulations on a job well done. I am looking forward to you resuming your work on the HZ.
 
Heinrich said:
Dear Stephan. The standing rigging is a perfect example of how rigging should be done on a Dutch ship. Congratulations on a job well done. I am looking forward to you resuming your work on the HZ.
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Thanks Heinrich for your visit and compliment
 
I was working on my another project the Newport of Mamoli And I find it difficult to use the light box of China (Action). That's a shitty thing of garbage. To small and almost no light. So I make myself on of a tray I found by the garbage on the street. Led strips inside and a piece of acrylic glass on top. Thin glass plate I got from a picture frame, few hinges and double sided tape. And done. Future proof for the big sails of the Prins Willem

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Steef66 said:
I was working on my another project the Newport of Mamoli And I find it difficult to use the light box of China (Action). That's a shitty thing of garbage. To small and almost no light. So I make myself on of a tray I found by the garbage on the street. Led strips inside and a piece of acrylic glass on top. Thin glass plate I got from a picture frame, few hinges and double sided tape. And done. Future proof for the big sails of the Prins Willem

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Great lightbox Stephan.

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Tobias said:
Great light box Stephan.
I also had to build one for my wife for her handicrafts, the end of the story was that I bought one from Amazon and built a table around it .
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seems, that your wife is also building ship models - or is by accident a plan of your ship on top? ;)
It is good to have one in the family.....
 
While waiting for a minor surgical procedure on the fingers of my left hand I am just twisting some ropes for the Newport and this ship. Other little things are too difficult due to stiffness of my left hand. Rope twisting works fine.
I found a reference on the German forum to the Scheets and Tacks. These are thicker at the sail than at the siege point. Yk writes about this and there are also examples in the many drawings of this type of ship where this can be seen.

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So I started to experiment on my ropewalk to achieve this.
I started with 3x28 serafil yarn in the ropewalk and make sure that the rope is secured to every hook of the ropewalk. Then I start thisting the rope eand after the first 20 cm. was done I cut 6 yarns away of every strand. Twist further about 4 cm. And cut away 5 yarns of every strand and did this one more time with 5 yarns.
The result of about 4 hours work.
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For a first test I think I can call this a success. There are some problems in the rope but that's because I was playing with the turn speed and direction. Next time I know the speed and what to do.
 
Steef66 said:
While waiting for a minor surgical procedure on the fingers of my left hand I am just twisting some ropes for the Newport and this ship. Other little things are too difficult due to stiffness of my left hand. Rope twisting works fine.
I found a reference on the German forum to the Scheets and Tacks. These are thicker at the sail than at the siege point. Yk writes about this and there are also examples in the many drawings of this type of ship where this can be seen.

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So I started to experiment on my ropewalk to achieve this.
I started with 3x28 serafil yarn in the ropewalk and make sure that the rope is secured to every hook of the ropewalk. Then I start thisting the rope eand after the first 20 cm. was done I cut 6 yarns away of every strand. Twist further about 4 cm. And cut away 5 yarns of every strand and did this one more time with 5 yarns.
The result of about 4 hours work.
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For a first test I think I can call this a success. There are some problems in the rope but that's because I was playing with the turn speed and direction. Next time I know the speed and what to do.
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Experiments are always fun, especially if the output is positive. And even if you know where the problems lie.
This first example looks very promising, Stephan.
Regards, Peter
 
Peter Voogt said:
Experiments are always fun, especially if the output is positive. And even if you know where the problems lie.
This first example looks very promising, Stephan.
Regards, Peter
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Thanks Peter and you know me, when I fine tuned the proces, I will give a step for step procedure of it.

Herman said:
Hi Stephan. Never seen that before. Well done.
I hope the surgery brings relief and you can build further without physical obstacles.
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Thanks Herman, it's a simple surgery. In and out, 2 days later I will be able to do everything with my left hand.
About the sheets and tacks of the main sails, I was reading Yk and didn't had any idea what he was writing about, till I found that log on the German site. I also got a lot of pictures of drawings where you can see this. It was done in this way till 1750-1800 when the double tacks where installed. When you look to the model VOC De Gerechtigheid 1761 in the Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam (there are pictures of it) you can see it on that model too.
 
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