Commodore’s Log

09-24-2025 Credit for the 1st Rate I am now back on Facebook sharing my illustrations. Initially, I am showing the drawings on my personal account, ‘KreuderHorst’. However, I am also a member of several groups. In ‘Historische Segelschiffe Modellbau’ (Historical … Read More

09-18-2025 First illustration project completed The first series of new illustrations for Nautical Fiction has been completed. Today, the drawing of the first-rate ship of the line has been added to the gallery. But that was only the first step. … Read More

09-16-2025 2nd Rate added to gallery Progress is ongoing. I have just started the final drawing, which I intend to use to illustrate my planned posts on the rating system for Royal Navy ships. In the British Navy, ships were … Read More

09-09-2025 The 3rd Rate Finally, I get the time to put the picture of the 3rd rate in the gallery. Last week, I was quite busy finally preparing comics for sale on eBay again. That didn’t leave much time for … Read More

08-22-2025 The 50-gun fourth-rate ship arrives in the gallery. Another illustration for the rating of a Royal Navy warship has been completed. It is available in the gallery as of today. Enjoy!

08-17-2025 New gallery image in rates of the Royal Navy ships The gallery proceeds with my illustrations of Royal Navy warship rates. The picture with a fifth-rate is now finished and online. Enjoy!

08-13-2025 New gallery online My new illustration project on the Royal Navy’s rates has started well. In addition to the 4th rate, the 6th rate is now also complete and I have started on the 5th rate. However, it may … Read More

03-14-2025 Fantasy-comic ready for publication My fantasy comic ‘Der Seeteufel’/*The devil of the Sevy-Sey’ is now in the final phase. I’m currently working on the digital lettering. . I’m investing a bit more time in choosing a font, as the … Read More

02.17.2024 Once again unexpectedly The unexpected discovery of the almost finished portrait of Commander Johnson was the first welcome surprise. In the meantime, I started to restructure my Motti project. And I had also made more progress than I thought … Read More

01.24.2024 Here things are running too Today, a quick and overdue look at Murmeli/Motti’s “hit” list. Since the last report, at the end of November 23, the English version has cracked another 2 thousand markers and now has 8147 hits … Read More

01.26.2024 Nevertheless things are running again The first rays of hope after all the technical failures. With the new device, LAN is up and running again and all devices in the office are working again. The replacement for the malfunctioning … Read More

01.24.2024 This year can only get better – This January felt like it slipped right through my fingers. At least for the projects that are most important to me. On my first weekend back from holiday, I had to do … Read More