KOLDERSTOK BATAVIA / HAARLEM

Dat word heel mooi!!

 

@Ronk Baie dankie, Ronk!

 

Heinrich, ik lees weer mee.
Mooi spul.
Als je wellicht gelezen had ben ik een poosje afwezig geweest vanwege werk.

 

@Jinny Hello Jinny en welkom terug! Baie dankie vir die mooi woorde - ek is ook weer terug by die werk en modelbouwtijd is maar min!

 

Hoi Heinrich,

Ik zit al ff mee te lezen en geniet van je werk.
Ik zit ergens achterin om je werk te bewonderen.

Sjors

 

@Sjors Blomberg Hello Sjors. Baie welkom by die bouw en baie dankie vir die vriendelijke woorde.

 

Hello Dear Friends

It has been almost exactly two weeks since my last update - being back at work, and with students eager to book as many classes as they possibly can, leaves me with very limited time. In my last post I mentioned that I was going to continue with the lower beplanking, but as I still need to make a new bouwhelling for that, I continued work on the upper deck area and surroundings.



Beplanking van die Luizenplecht dek.



Now came a tricky part. As the planks that go above the luizenplecht dek, still need to curve around the bow, I made a template out of Balsa around which I could bend the planks into their correct shape and fix them temporarily until the glue dried.

After three planks were attached to the hull in this manner, it was time for the first coloured planks to go on, two x 2.5mm planks painted in yellow and glued on top of each other, and then a 6mm wide plank in red. The yellow was no problem, but I couldn't use the red that Kolderstok supplies with the Batavia. For the Batavia, the colour is perfect, but not for the Haarlem. I had to duplicate the "maroon" red as it appears on the City of Haarlem's Coat of Arms (see below).


I obtained the exact colour code as per the Coat of Arms and the special red was mixed by a Chinese paint company called, "Botny". I did not want a water-based paint for painting the exterior wooden surfaces of the ship, so that was the second change that they had to make for me. While we were busy, I also had to look at the green colour which is used on the Batavia replica. As the Haarlem would have used the same green, it was important to get this shade right. Courtesy of Danny Mulders's build log, I knew the exact code of green as used on the replica of the Batavia and Botny also mixed the green for me to specs.

So this is what it looks like on the ship.







To me the maroon looks like a fraction too dark, but it is MUCH MUCH closer to what it should be than if I had simply used the red. The red line on the above picture, indicates how the planks will be trimmed once the front schot at the luizenplecht is in place.

The luizenplecht schot would give me the opportunity to see how the green looks on the ship as it is mainly green while the two doors are painted in red. Then there are two "ladders" or "trapjes" that are painted black. These two ladders had to be scratch-built - as Hans jokingly said" "it will practice your fine cutting and carving skills"!

Yes, Hans - it did! Ten times to be exact!!! Each time I threw a pair away I just thought of @Hoosterw who redid his gratings many times until he was happy! Thank you Hans - you were a great example!



Finally I had two samples that I thought worthy of not throwing away. All in all, I must say that I am very happy with the green colour. The light in my apartment is really not good, but based on the official press photographs of the Batavia replica and the real-life appearance of the green, we are very close.



Voorste schot en deure geplaas. I will worry later about the hinges and handles.



After laying 13 planks above the first berghout, I was very happy to see that the two uppermost berghouten match exactly the lines on Spant #18!!

Thank you so much for looking, reading and following. As always, your comments (and criticisms) are most appreciated. Until next time stay safe and healthy.

Vriendelijk groet - Heinrich

 

Hij word weer mooi, Heinrich!

 

@Ronk Baie dankie, Ronk! Dit gaan stadig, maar seker

 

Knap werk weer. Ik vind de kleuren geel en maroon rood heel mooi werken samen.

 

@Rudi 070 Baie dankie, Rudi. Ek is baie bly dat jy hou van die geel maroon - dit laat my sommer baie beter voel. When you change something like the colour, you always doubt whether you have done the right thing ... but I must say ...l Iike it too.

 

Knap hoor Heinrich voorlopig gaat het allemaal wel vooruit toch

 

Baie dankie, Koos. Met jou schitterende Batavia, moet ek ook probeer iets moois van myne maak.

 

Ik heb er alle vertrouwen in hoor Heinrich, anders kom ik je gewoon even een avondje helpen...

 

Koos dit klink na n uitstekende plan!

 

netjes hoor ga je nu eerst het schip omdraaien en de onderkant dicht maken ?

 

vreselijk mooi en netjes werk Heinrich, jij bent hier ook een plaatje aan het maken.
ps, als je het rood iets te donker vind, kun je heel voorzichtig een druppeltje wit door je verf roeren. maar wel heel voorzichtig, druppeltjes per keer.

 

Heinrich, Het wordt erg mooi jij bent wel heel goed bezig
groet Cees

 

wordt heel mooi heinrich

 

Ziet er weer goed Heinrich, ik zou nu toch eerst de romp verder dicht gaan maken