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Here my first wooden model I made maybe 25 years ago.
Same sort of ship.

Hey, this is neat! Looks like mahogany, is that what it is made
of? If not, it does look like an open-grained wood, though.
Another keeper!

Its not mahogany, I don't even know what kind of wood it's made
of. But painting it with Boatlacquer ( I hope you understand what
I mean) the ship gets this darkbrown color.

I know what "boats" are and I know what "lacquer" is but I didn't
know that the latter was used on the former. I always thought that
wooden boats were protected by oil-based paint or marine spar
varnish or a rot- resistant wood like Teak was/is used for things
like decks that cannot be painted or varnished because they would
be too slippery, so please expand on the use of boat lacquer. Your
last seems to also suggest that what's on your very nifty model
also contains what is called a "varnish stain" in the United
States. And, the very same processes are used on the "woody" or
"woodie" station wagons of the 1930s/40s/50s, such as Chrysler's
Town & Country which had Mahogany veneers overlaid with White Ash
or White Oak timber-line framing. These things had to be stripped,
bleached, restained and revarnished with spar varnish at least once
a year, sometime twice if it was a very raining season. Here is
where my knowledge runs out so I'd appreciate a boat and ship
finishing mini tut, please.

It was a litteral translation from Dutch, so I think you're very
close with "marine spar varnish"

Hey, numbnuts, lacquer and varnish aren't even the same thing! Varnish
uses turpentine as its solvent while lacquer uses originally alcohol
and other very volitle and toxic substances but today more often
acrylics and water. If you're gonna lecture me on wood finishes, best
get it right, asshole! And, it is "literal", not "litteral".

Literal translations are most of the time misunderstood or have a
complete other meaning.

One needs to make correct translations in the same way one must be
aware of technical, engineering, physics, and chemical issues when
telling educated and experienced people they're full of ****.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"You've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a ****!"