Welcome
Hi everyone, Welcome to my brand-new blog. I am a 38 year old creative director from Amsterdam.Besides a busy life I have an odd hobby; recreating the maritime history of my country through Computer...
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Tasmans Voyage
The scene depicts the voyage of Abel Tasman in 1642, when he discovers New Zealand. Before this expedition the world map had a giant blank spot on the place where it now shows Australia and the south...
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Work in progress: the Brederode
Currently, I am working on the model of the Dutch flagship 'Brederode' which sailed from 1644 to 1658.I was building it as a background piece for a scene IÂ have in mind about fluyt design and the...
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Brederode reference
Here are the images that I could find as a reference for the Brederode model.Fortunately, there are quite a few of them, and the quality is pretty good.Van de Velde the Elder made 3 studies of the...
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The finished Brederode
After months of work, i finally finished the model of the flagship Brederode.She was launched in 1644 and served as a flagship in the first Anglo-Dutch war. Since this war didn't go very well for the...
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Brederode put to sea
But it looks way better when when she's put to the sea.... Time to move on to the next part of this project!
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Article 5
So this blog is called Bloodflag. It was just a name that fell into mind when I had to chose a name for it....Why? Because I have been intrigued by this flag that I put on the stern on the Brederode....
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Sound dues
No ships were more typical for the seventeenth century then the Dutch fluyt. They were a substantial contributor to the Dutch economic success in that age. Fluyts were fast, cheap to operate and could...
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Article 3
After doing a number of Dutch schips, I am now modelling a Brittish one. I choose the HMS Royal Charles, the giant Brittish flagship built in 1655. Since the ship was lavishly decorated, so it is quite...
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Article 2
So here is the first version of the untextured model of the HMS Royal Charles.It still needs some final touches, but soon I can begin with the rigging and texturing.I never put this much detail into a...
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Article 1
Here is the hull of the Royal Charles with improved textures and materials.... Time to do the rigging now....
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Royal Charles finished
So finally, after more then half a year's work, I completed the 3D model of the Royal Charles. I am pretty glad with the result, but never satisfied... Because what's a flagship without a fleet eh?
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British 3rd rate ship of the line (1665)
After modelling the Royal Charles I needed a ship to serve as a typical British ship of the line from around 1665. The most regular type of ship in the British fleet would be a 3rd rate. The ship I...
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Michiel de Ruyter's flagship ''Zeven Provincien'' is without question the most famous Dutch warship in history.I already made a version of the ship when I started modeling ships two years ago, but now...
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Since the Zeven Provincien is one of the best documented 17th century ships, it was a good starting point for me as a modelling subjest. I made a version of it two years ago, but is wasn't good enough....
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Duel of the Titans
Hi everyone,Quite some work into this one...It is a scene from the st James Day battle of the the Second Anglo-Dutch war and a depiction of the olympic struggle between the flagships of both fleets;...
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It's been a while since the last post. I have been working on another model. It it the predecessor of The Zeven Provincien, the flagship 'Eendracht', that sailed from 1655 tot 1665,. The saw fierce...
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The raid
1667. After several fierce sea battles in the second Anglo-Dutch war, Brittish war funds were exhausted. They were forced to keep a big part of their ships laid up at the ports.With the English fleet...
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Hi everyone,Its been quite a while since my last post here... After the birth of my daughter I've been pretty occupied.Still I noticed that my blog still attracted attention from several people...
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Hi everyone! Attraction park Madurodam found out about my ship building hobby and asked to use my 3D models for their latest attraction New Amsterdam ... I was happy to sell them to them.Now the...
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