A 17th century Dutch man-of-war (around 1660) - Page 2

**Vermin_King** · #11 01-18-2018, 08:45 AM

Sometimes, fictional subjects are easier to do. But sometimes, because you have more choices in how you want to handle it, it be more difficult to choose what to do.

Outstanding work. It really is huge. I hope you have an appropriate place to show off this beautiful model when it is done

**Seahorse** · #12 01-18-2018, 08:49 AM

Bravo!
She is beautiful.

Tomek

**Seascape** · #13 01-18-2018, 10:01 AM

What a beauty! Great work!

Fred

**amateur** · #14 01-18-2018, 10:15 AM

Hi Ab,

She (or is it he 'he') is a beauty!
Before long you'll be tempted to put your shipmodels is a diarama like setting

Are you working from drawings, or is it 'only' the eye of the shipbuilder?

Jan

**abhovi** · #15 01-20-2018, 06:13 AM

Thank you all for your positive respons. Unfortunately I have some people around me who are much sharper in guarding the quality of my work. My wife said she hated the white color on the stern and I could only agree with her. So, here is the new stern, which is much more to her (and my) my liking. Good to have some critics sometimes.

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Amateur: I think we met on a Belgium forum too

. The drawings I used here were my own, taken from the VOC resolutions from April 1697. (See my thread on a 160-feet VOC ship) I changed the hight of the stern and the length of the beakhead to produce an earlier type. All the rest is improvisation too.

The model is not without mistakes. Looking at it, I think men-of-war of those days were a bit sharper below the waterline and had more ordnance. I'm sure a 160-feet warship carried at least 72-80 guns, this one one;y held 64. But what I had in mind was comparing the sizes of a man-of-war with other ship types of those days and that worked.

What I have to do with it once this model is finished, I don't know. I surely don't have the space to exhibit such a monster in my house, so probably I will set fire to it and watch it burn once it is finished. That might bring us some wonderful pictures too.

**rifleman** · #16 01-20-2018, 08:42 AM

wow work of art well done sir

**Michael Mash** · #17 01-20-2018, 09:38 AM

I liked the white stern, but the appearance is excellent either way.
Fine fine work.
Mike

**frigate 264** · #18 01-20-2018, 11:40 AM

Improvisation or not, it looks very well...and no fire.

**Seahorse** · #19 01-20-2018, 11:47 AM

I believe that setting fire is only a gruesome joke?

**abhovi** · #20 01-20-2018, 03:36 PM

As a matter of facts I did that once. The model was simply wrong and I didn't want it to exist any longer so that people could point at me and say: he built that ugly ship. So I set fire to in in the garden and was surprised to see how quickly the rigging was gone and after that how the gun ports served as smoke pipes and the fire was so intense that really nothing remained but the lion on the beakhead. i kept it for years as a reminder and a warning never to finish a model I wasn't content with.