Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship) FINISHED
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crackerjazz
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Re: Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship)
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.
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.
NAZGÛL
Sr Member
Re: Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship)
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.
/Matti
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.
/Matti
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yuumi2891103
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Re: Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship)
It must be very challenging work to get the ship look like that.
When it's done, it would be beautiful. Great work so far!
It must be very challenging work to get the ship look like that.
When it's done, it would be beautiful. Great work so far!
NAZGÛL
Sr Member
Re: Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship)
Its wiring for lightning the admiral cabin. I almost forgot to add them but remembered in the last minute.
Its wiring for lightning the admiral cabin. I almost forgot to add them but remembered in the last minute.
yuumi2891103
Master Member
Re: Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship)
Paint job is very classy. Good progress!
Katsu
Paint job is very classy. Good progress!
Katsu
TazMan2000
Master Member
Re: Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship)
That's really going to be a showpiece.
TazMan2000
That's really going to be a showpiece.
TazMan2000
NAZGÛL
Sr Member
Re: Wasan 1628 (Billing Boats Vasa ship)
Cheers Mike, Katsu and Taz!
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:
Thanks
/Matti
Cheers Mike, Katsu and Taz!
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:
Thanks
/Matti
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