Nautical Research Journal 71


3. T e replica of Batavia (1626.)


all price ranges will fi t the bill. If one wants to build a historically accurate model, and one’s skill set allows it, the modeler can improve the model by considering the following:


 Purchase additional detailed items to improve


the model, such as fi gurines, scale cannon, etcetera. 


Kit-bashing: the modeller will have to do


some research on the specifi c ship and then modify the kit to be a better representative of the ship.


 Modifying the kit. Some classes of ship diff er in little detail but are largely the same. T e modeler then decides how the kit needs to modifi ed to represent the other ship in the class. It diff ers from kit-bashing in the type of modifi cations necessary; the one is to create a model that is more like the original ship and the other is to build a completely diff erent ship model from the one on the box.


3. Scratch-building in wood


T e ultimate scratch-build, as far as I am concerned, is a model of the full-size ship that does not have any historical published drawings of the original. One that comes to mind is Batavia. T e original ship sank off the east coast of Australia in 1628. Willem Vos has designed and built the replica using the information that was given in the original contract that was issued by the Dutch East India Company as kept in the Amsterdam archives. Together with a lot of research Mr. Vos has built the replica ship that is moored in Lelystad, T e Netherlands. (Figure 3)


With a scratch-build project, you start with an empty workbench. Apart from the subject you want to build, a few decisions need to be made. And yes, this is also fun and part of our hobby.


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