nog even terugkomend op het schilderen van het onderwater van de romp, heb het volgend antwoord ontvangen van het museum
Ah, the old bottom paint question! I think I am going to have to start an analysis project to get a definitive answer. Until then, here is what we know:
1. The only bottom coating which is still visible to the naked eye on the ship is tar, but that does not mean that there was not other stuff. We would need to do some pretty fancy chemical analysis to check for traces of other stuff, and it might survive on the caulking if not on the wood.
2. One of the few color images of Swedish warships of this period, a watercolor from about 1626 showing Swedish ships in the harbour oat Pillau (now Baltijsk, near Kaliningrad), shows all of the Swedish warships with white bottoms. If this is accurate, it suggests that the bottoms were payed with the typical bottom coating of the time, which used tallow and a number of other ingredients.
3. The shipyard did buy large amounts of tallow and the other ingredients often used in this type of bottom coating, according to its account books.
In the past I have always answered this question by saying that the only thing we have evidence of from the ship is tar, but I am beginning to wonder about a whitish bottom coating on the basis of the account books (which I only started cataloguing last year) and the Pillau watercolor. Stayed tuned to this channel!
In the meantime, you could paint the bottom of your model either a dirty white or dirty brown.
dat wordt binnenkort een keer naar een modelbouwwinkel en eens zoeken naar goede verf hiervoor.
iemand een tip welke kleur van bv Valejo hiervoor het geschiktst zou zijn?