[N] VOC Duyfken 1606 - 1/2019 Wydawnictwo "Seahorse"

[Seahorse]

Welcome,

"Seahorse" - new publisher of cardboard models.

All information about the publisher you can find at Seahorse.

As the first issue we have for you the model of the sailing ship "Duyfken" on which Willem Janszoon was the first to reach the coast of Australia in 1606.

scale: 1: 100
designer: T. Weremko

The process of gluing the test model here on the forum: Duyfken 1606 (1:100 from scratch)



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[rickstef]

Congratulations, it looks great, much success

[abhovi]

Great!
Ordered my copy.
Ab

[Wyvern]

Fantastic model! And great to see the launch of a new publisher!

Wyvern

[abhovi]

I like kits, but I am basically a scratch builder. I especially distrust kits of Dutch old ships. This is caused by the fact that the Dutch never made as much good material available to model builders, like for instance the English did, mostly because the Dutch never made plans of their vessels. This results in kitmakers producing fundamentally wrong models.
Making a kit of a replica of an old Dutch ship is a smart solution. The research for the Duyfken was mostly done in the end of the 90s by Nick Birmingham in Fremantle, Western Australia, where the replica was built. I had the honor to be invited to visit the project as an advisor. I spent a wonderful week there.

Eight days after my order the package with the kit was delivered from Poland, which is remarkably shorter than some years ago :-). It consisted of a 14 page booklet with 8 pages of parts and 6 of explanations, both in text (Polish and English) and very clear diagrams.
Apart from the basic kit you can also order blocks, gun barrels and lasercut sheets (3).



The whole package is very well produced with good printing and fine colors. I was especially interested in the inventive way Tomek Weremko, the driving force behind Seahorse, does his planking. Paper kits usually have problems with producing fair lines, often caused by the ribs showing through the planking. We know from his postings here that Tomek has a method of making beautifully fair hulls without any use of filler. He is demonstrating this technique in this kit, which will be an eye-opener for many of us.
The scale is 1/100, which is very small and the builder ends up with a 31 centimeters long model, although the hull is only 25 centimeter. A real challenge for the miniature lovers to build this humble ship, which was the first vessel ever to map parts of North Western Australia early in the 17th century.
I can strongly recommend it!
Ab

[sharunas]

Interesting and informative review Ab. Thanks

[JohnMGD]

Originally Posted by abhovi

Great!
Ordered my copy.
Ab

Tried to order a copy but the site gave me a 404 error when I tried to pay ! so no copy for me :(

[Seahorse]

Originally Posted by JohnMGD

Tried to order a copy but the site gave me a 404 error when I tried to pay ! so no copy for me :(

Hi John,

Thank you for your interest in the model and at the same time I am sorry that something did not work in the store and you could not make a purchase. The store works all the time, so I have no idea why you received 404 error. Some countries of South America, Asia and Africa are not supported, but then information appears about the impossibility of delivery to the country. When exactly did you try to buy? I would like an IT specialist to check this event in server entries.

Tomek

PS.This week, "fast payments" and maybe PayPal will be installed, so errors may occasionally appear.

[JohnMGD]

I will try to purchase the model later this week !

[abhovi]

What I was mostly interested in and why I bought this very cheap kit, was the way Seahorse seemed to produce a hull without having to plaster it, to get rid of the 'ribs'.
I tried his system out and it worked. Perhaps I can use this technique in my own builds :-).

Frames and deck as made from lasercut parts.

Closed with vertical strips.

covered with first planking. Glue applied only on the 'ribs', not in between. Much to my surprise the shape is perfectly smooth. Planks needs some sanding as stated in the accompanying text.

Superstructure added.

Second layer of planking done.
The white gaps are my mistake, I should have done the planking of the last three strakes from the top down, so the planking from below could have been adjusted underneath the wales (I'm no kit maker :-)).
No mistakes in Seahorse's design.

A very nice technique. It really works.