Now that I started bringing old threads to life (see
A 160-feet VOC-vessel, or…) I might just as well post my latest pinas here. This ship accompanied me most years of my life: I started working on the drawings in the early 80s and built a 1/50 model for the Northers Shipping Museum in Groningen. A second one was produced for 'home-use', but was sold a few years later to a private person. The third was my first paper build, back in 2016, described in this thread and recently donated to the Archaeological Museum 'Huis van Hilde' in Castricum, Holland. The fourth was a 3D reconstruction, with help from my Belgium partner-in-crime Rene Hendrickx, and can be seen here:
Witsen Scheepsbouw. The fifth was recently built in two months time (August and September) due to the lousy summer we experienced here. My son made pictures which I show you here.
I built this model again because I missed it in my house, but I will probably lose this one too, because another museum has shown interest, to be used together with another three of my models.
I hope you enjoy these pictures:
