Stop snickering. It's Kok. That's 'cook' in Dutch.
This model was made as a present for a friend. A nice deviation from the regular spaceflight-orientated builds I do.
In his younger years, this friend of mine was sailing on board a small paddle steamer in the Amsterdam area.
Built in the early years of the 20th century and looking quite pretty, it started its life as a cargo ship called No.6 and later it became a ferry named after the last captain it had when it was a cargo vessel, Captain Kok. In modern days it got used as a luxury party boat and nearly was scrapped because of neglect and lack of maintenance, it was nearly a wreck. An enthusiast bought the ship in 2013 year and after a thorough restoration it was renamed Kapitein Anna, after his own mother who actually captained a ship.
In conversations with my friend this ship and all the adventures he had sailing on it often were mentioned and when I saw that Zeist Bouwplaten offered a model of this very ship I decided it would be a nice idea to surprise him with a model of his beloved ship on his birthday.
The model arrived in the mail and at first I was a little disappointed. The quality of the model itself was reasonable, albeit drawn instead of CAD- based. The air shafts were two dimensional (read: flat) but that too would be easy to correct. What I really found disturbing was that the sheet that had the deck printed on was folded in the middle. How silly and how stupid. But since I was planning to downscale the model anyway this too was a lesser problem. I only had to touch up the scans somewhat afterwards.
I printed the A3 model in A4, so a 50 percent reduction. Everything still seemed very doable. Great.
There were only very rudimentary instructions coming with the model but that too was not of any importance. The photo on the cover and pure logic led me through it all very easily.
The hull came together in a whiffy. I used a lot of self made parts, thinner or otherwise deviant of the original parts. I also used pictures of the Kapitein Kok I found online.
This model was made as a present for a friend. A nice deviation from the regular spaceflight-orientated builds I do.
In his younger years, this friend of mine was sailing on board a small paddle steamer in the Amsterdam area.
Built in the early years of the 20th century and looking quite pretty, it started its life as a cargo ship called No.6 and later it became a ferry named after the last captain it had when it was a cargo vessel, Captain Kok. In modern days it got used as a luxury party boat and nearly was scrapped because of neglect and lack of maintenance, it was nearly a wreck. An enthusiast bought the ship in 2013 year and after a thorough restoration it was renamed Kapitein Anna, after his own mother who actually captained a ship.
In conversations with my friend this ship and all the adventures he had sailing on it often were mentioned and when I saw that Zeist Bouwplaten offered a model of this very ship I decided it would be a nice idea to surprise him with a model of his beloved ship on his birthday.
The model arrived in the mail and at first I was a little disappointed. The quality of the model itself was reasonable, albeit drawn instead of CAD- based. The air shafts were two dimensional (read: flat) but that too would be easy to correct. What I really found disturbing was that the sheet that had the deck printed on was folded in the middle. How silly and how stupid. But since I was planning to downscale the model anyway this too was a lesser problem. I only had to touch up the scans somewhat afterwards.
I printed the A3 model in A4, so a 50 percent reduction. Everything still seemed very doable. Great.
There were only very rudimentary instructions coming with the model but that too was not of any importance. The photo on the cover and pure logic led me through it all very easily.
The hull came together in a whiffy. I used a lot of self made parts, thinner or otherwise deviant of the original parts. I also used pictures of the Kapitein Kok I found online.
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