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Abel Tasman's Jacht Heemskerck 1638


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Gorg

Wed Jun 16 2010, 03:21AM

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Hello friends,

lots of people know the well done reconstruction of the VOC-Jacht Heemskerck and the fleute Zeehaenpublished in 2000 in the book "The ships of Abel Tasman"by Ab Hoving and Cor Emke *. The reconstruction of the Jacht based on a "certer"**- a building/construction note of the shipbuilders, the fixed the key points of the to be build ship - we could call it melodious "construction contract".

Style: Realistic - i.e. deck planks not as a saudiarabian luxury yacht more like found at the rased Wasa

The authors took the certer of a smaller Jacht called de Brack and enlaged it with 16,5% to got the measurements of Heemskerck.

At the moment I fall ill (old man's affairs - backbone), and so I'm still cought in the "late paper phase of scratch modeling" - as the pictures below may show to you.

We'll see what will happen in the next weeks, when I'm able to use my scroll saw and the dremel mini driller again.

Mesaments 1/160
Hull:
LKeel:
139,5mm
Lpp:
175,5
Lbatterydeck:
178mm
B:
43mm
Dmin:
13,75 mm
Dmax:
16,75mm

Ship:
Loa
269,2
L Keel-Truck
210,5mm
L sternlight to figurehead
241,2mm
L Mainyard
110,25mm

Glass cabinet L/W/H:
500 x 250 x 250mm

Setting:
- in european water (staned glass) at anchor
- close reefed sails/drying sails
- gunports closed
- boat/lighter beside with freshwater casks
- perchange with figures

P.S.:
Modelstand:
- diagonally positioning
- < 1mm perpendicular steel pintle in female connector
- wood & gritty sea bed imitation with 2 ancors at bow & stern
- storm force: light breeze (for flags and to make the water surface belivable)

Greetings from Germany,
yours Gorg
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Edit:
by this method I may later beable to build a navyboard Model:
http://www.gk-modellbau.de/usa/index.htm

* to give you a short idea of the quality of the book: http://books.google.de/books?id=iedDTFBr8GwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+ships+of+abel+tasman&hl=de&ei=Q5oYTJiQLIia_QakuOyFDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

** couldn't find a wikipedia thread or leo.org definition