Excellent, Nazgul! There's really something about real wood , right? Now I want to build a ship.I just realized something. It doesn't matter what I'm building. I always wish I was building something else.
Planked the lover stern area. A little work to get the planks to fit around the custom gun ports. Im trying to get a rough look on her. Also painted it to give the project a boost. First I stained in 2 oak mixes. Then acrylics for some nuances and shading. Then pastels in 3 browns and red. Finally a coat of flat varnish bounding the pastels and giving it a good surface.
I got questions on another board about the gun port positions. I tried to look at the official plans and the gun port plans made by Mr Fred Hocker at the museum when making them. The gun ports are quite random and not symmetrical in their position, and they are not the same on both sides. The dutch ships of this era seem to have been built pretty much by the eye, they didnt even have plans and on Vasa they found measure rods with several different systems, as the builders were from different countries. I just love the soul it gives them. I did my best but hope I didnt overdo their wonkyness.
To me the gun ports on the 1:10 model at the museum looks right: