"I am Pieter. I have started 10 projects this year and finished only 2."
"Hi Pieter."
This a model of a small liner which I started after finishing a model of her rival Vondel some 5 years ago.
http://shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewto ... 0&t=163755Ships of the Nederland line and the Rotterdam Lloyd were built to the same specifications as they were subsidized by the dutch government to carry mail, passengers and soldiers to the Indies. Their looks could not be more different though and the Rotterdam based Lloyd ships were usually the more innovative and interesting looking designs. Goentoer and sister Sindoro were a case in point as they were the first dutch tropical liners to have their 1st class passengers amidships, Vondel followed some 6 years later.
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Like my Vondel built it was a semi-scratchbuild in styrene with a balsa core with a number of parts from a Titanic kit. No welin quadrant davits this time though which saved me a lot of work. Also also like Vondel I was going to take her to ESM in Houten but it was cancelled this year. This did give me some more time so I could design and print my own company flag decal.
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The build itself was quite straightforward but unlike Vondel I did not have access to good plans. The build only took off when I found a small book on the RL in a second hand shop. It was the company history of its first 25 years and it contained some reasonable GA plans.
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These became the basis for a carved balsa hull. As luck would have it I found the official lines plan for Sindoro online last week....
This picture shows the GA plans from the book.
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The build took quite some time as I was being distracted by other projects but once I had cleared the workbench for the ESM deadline she really started to grow on me. This local design (I grew up some 20km away from her place of birth and she was designed by the shipyard) had that really elegant and balanced look which is typical for many liners of the first decade of the 20th century. She had a good sized funnel and mast at a small angle to the vertical, a logical and proportionally 'right' superstructure and a subtle and elegant sheer. The RL seemed to agree as they ordered 8 ships of this design from the Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde between 1900 and 1910 though there were small differences in size, machinery and cargo handing equipment.
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