Edwin Korstanje Detailed Custom Ship Models and Sets

[Edwin Korstanje]

Thanks for the great comments @Grum64 .

It's already busy, but with the new promotion .

The new set i work on is moving littlebit more what you wanted to see in a set, but have a different cargo.

I hope that i can send you by PM soon the first pictures of it .

Edited December 16, 2015 by Edwin Korstanje

[grum64]

Thank you. I very much look forward to seeing the pics.

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

Hey buddy, excellent story and you'll be extremely bussy indeed!!! :thumbup:

[Edwin Korstanje]

After a very nice Christmas i got a nice pressent from Iskes Towage & Salvage and was invited with my doghter by the National Tug Museum in Maassluis(Netherlands) for a private tour around the museum.

This smal but very warm museum tells all about the history off Dutch offshore, harbour and inland tugging, with a lot of tugmodels, working old radioroom, tug simulator and some interactive games.

Here is my doghter sending a message to here sick mom with M.O.R.S.E code. After a half our trying this only word whe make for here .

The reason why whe where invited that there is now a tempotary exhibition about the Amsterdam to IJmuiden region and Iskes and Svitzer are the biggest tug company's there and my LEGO Bernardus stands with proud in there museum.

My Little girl is even more proud that here dad is already stands in a museum and i am not even history yet .

Edited December 29, 2015 by Edwin Korstanje

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

Excellent!!! So nice to have a model in there!

[grum64]

Your daughter looks so proud and why shouldn't she, it's a great honour to have your model in the National Tug Museum. Very well deserved.

I visited the Sleepvaart Museum in 1981 or 1982. It was a really nice little museum with some really interesting exhibits. From your photos it's come a long way since then.

[Edwin Korstanje]

The last couple of weeks, JunkstyleGio and i Designed 3 new sets for new custommers and got their approval on the models and in februari and march are the contract signing in Belgium and Germany for hundred's of sets .

Also the ask for one of a kind big models in the last month absurdly high and only four of them are real serious.

In my lost our's i am started now on the 16e tugboat for Iskes and is build in a different scale for me 1:64 , with a complete open viseble engineroom, brick build trusters and propellers(the basic idea are from Konajra and thanks for that)and give it mine own style , a lot of lights and many new designed details.

Next week i got a trip on the real Triton for taken many picture of all the details and engineroom.

Here is the first start and wip pictures of the Triton.

Greetings Edwin,

Edited January 20, 2016 by Edwin Korstanje

[efferman]

I really like your design. especially the thrust tubes around the propellors. why not a tug with voight schneider propellors?

[Edwin Korstanje]

I really like your design. especially the thrust tubes around the propellors. why not a tug with voight schneider propellors?

Thanks Effe,

Later on this year i must make two tugs with voight schneider propellors for Iskes .

But the owner and CEO wanted that i building first now the Triton and Venus and they are ASD tugs .

Here some detail pictures of the azimuth trusters.

Edited January 17, 2016 by Edwin Korstanje

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

Nice build again buddy, excellently well done... Great idea to have a view of the engine room!!!

[Edwin Korstanje]

Many thanks Igmar, but to make a engine room is this scale give me a lot of headache (more of the half of the hull inside is open and don't wanted loose strength .

Yesterday i got a tour and trip on the real Triton and haved a great day and make a lot of pictures.

Iskes gives me all drawings of the ship, but now seeing the real tug and engine room that i must change a lot the structure(inside and outside).

The trans panels i use are to low by one studd and 6 studs to short in lenght and orderd new parts on BL.

Today i buildt the 4 engines and building them in the scale 1:64 is and is still in a WIP fase, but the base is there .

The two main engines are 8 cylinders in line and made by: ANGLO-BELGIAN-CORP.

For electrich and hydralic are two 6 cylinders engines from Scania.

Also changed a lot on the stern deck and the details are almost done now.

Here some pictures of the real one and the progress on the LEGO Triton.

Greets Edwin,

The main deck in LEGO

The wip fase of the engine room.

Edited January 21, 2016 by Edwin Korstanje

[grum64]

Great work Edwin. She's looking really good so far. Having the engine room visable this way makes this so much more interesting.

I look forward to your next update.

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

So far so good I would say!!!! :thumbup:

[Edwin Korstanje]

Thanks guys for the great compliment.

Yesterday arrived at the webshop hoste of Damen the 100 CSD sets and is for sale at there webshop https://webshop.dame...o-boat-csd.html.

The price they ask for it is not my price what i got for it , but is the same price tag of the line for there small scaled models.

In one day now that it's for sale at there webshop they sold already 11 sets and Damen can ask what they wanted for it, because there is the Damen logo on it and it will sell.

The box art is not what i expect ore seen early before and changed many times and is not my choice, but the most customers for the CSD are from the middle east and asia.

Edited January 21, 2016 by Edwin Korstanje

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

Nice to have this written in your résumé!!! :thumbup:

That price is reasonable I think, custom set after all... Don't you ever consider selling these yourself, and ask that amount of money for it?

[Edwin Korstanje]

I hope that the day comes soon, that i can ask what Damen ask for it Ingmar .

This month was not so fun with bulding and at the end of january my fahter in law is pass away.

After 3 weeks not touch any bricks i found the pleasure back in building my creations.

I broke half the Triton down, because i was not hapy whit the engine room and the main engine's and this crazy difficult scale(for ship building) 1/65 is also not working with me and have jused the buidling stop time to think the problems out.

Because this shiphull is so open and almost half of it complete visible and sold all of the stress problems and is now stil strong as my normal ships.

Also the main engines shrink down whit two plates in high and are more in proportions and make 11 lights in the engine room.

Here some photo's from the update Iskes Triton.

I hope you like it.

Here the real Triton.

Edited February 22, 2016 by Edwin Korstanje

[Kiwi_Builder]

Looking good Edwin I'm going to have to start watching this thread a bit more closely now that I've seen what's inside

[Edwin Korstanje]

Thanks Kiwi Builder

[Lucio Switch]

The transparent hull looks very nice and the lights point out really well the engine bay. I understand that it has given you a headache, but it was worth it!

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

This really is a great way to show the inside of a model...well done buddy!!! :thumbup:

[Edwin Korstanje]

Thanks Lucio and Igmar for the great comments .

The hull is ready now and started on the superstructure and the drums, winches and many more details.

Also added the first deck lights on it and light out the back winches.

Greetings Edwin.

The first picture you can se what the 1/65 scale is compares with a minifig.

[Edwin Korstanje]

Finaly i find some time this week to go on with the Triton.

The superstructure is ready now and build in 30 micro leds and there are already 42 leds until now.

I have only to make the wheelhouse, mast and crane.

Update Trition

[BusterHaus]

The lights are great! They look very well scaled. Although I see you had to modify some bricks to pass the LED wires...

[Victor Imaginator]

Second "night shot" is beautiful. I felt a smell of water just for a second, while i'm far away from any water right now.

[grum64]

What a magnificent build. I love the cutouts and the lighting is very, very effective. The illuminated superstructure, what there is of it so far, reminds me very much of nights spent prowling the decks when I was at sea.

Great work Edwin.

PS

I think the British Antarctic Survey should commission you to build a model of their new research vessel.

Edited March 21, 2016 by grum64