Duyfken, the first European ship in Australia

Having seen and fallen in love with it - that was it. Duyfken is part of the Australian history as Santa Maria is the USA's. Came to Australia as part of the Dutch East India Company in 1606, mapped some regions on the York Peninsula and sent a report back that there is no possibility to do business - read spice - here. So they've duly forgotten about Australia (except the Batavia-disaster same 20 years later).
The model had been built to a 1:40 scale on the basis of the replica plans with some friendly help from the Replica's designer, Nick Burningham. Scratch - that is no kit - and already had been refurbished just lately. She got new blocks (most self made, some bought in), new rigging (self made) and some new carvings. The latest lion (the gallion-figure) is still in the making and will be added in a few days.
Some deck planking had been deliberately omitted to provide some view to the inside.

Janos

Grosse Jacht, Friedrich Wilhelm's luxury Yacht from 1776

Just a few pictures about my first historic ship. Originally built in 1976 and had been refurbished a few times since. The latest changes are new carvings (scrolls and rounds), new blocks (partially bought in, partially self made) and new rigging (self made on my vertical rope climb) - so here it goes:

Scale is 1:50 - say the window on the last photo is about 2cm high.