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  1. Short answer: Yes, but probably different on the original, this is very unclear to me how the bump were on the original and despite heavy research i have failed to get a definitive answer. Long answer: I have seen two models in museums in Sweden, one from pictures in Munich, Germany and one from a museum in Bergen, Norway. Plus i have seen videos from a Oseberg replica. They have all the positive formed bump like my ship, only difference is the size of the bump. Picture from Bergen. Picture from Munich. And now to the problem, the original resting in Oslo also have the bump skeleton construction seen here. But notice that the bump is negative and not positive. It "falls" from the beginning. The thing i don´t understand is why do all the competent model makers in different museums around the world always construct the bump positive. Notice that it doesn´t fall from the beginning like on the original. So why didn´t i do like on the original? I failed to envision in my head how i should have laid out the planks against the negative bend. So i fell for the group pressure... Excuse me for my bad english, i hope you can understand me.
  2. I will now focus on attaching the nails and put some thought into what can be done with the bad areas after the staining, this troubles me a lot.
  3. Thank you Nils, but not nearly as beautiful as your work. I am just a happy amateur working on the world record in longest time for building a modelship.
  4. I have also marked, drilled, repaired, sanded, redrilled (don´t ask) with a larger drill, sanded again, repaired again for the 2500 holes. I have only one totally uninteresting picture of this. The distance between the holes is 0,9 mm.
  5. And what is this? If you look carefully you will see small drilled holes for the ropes holding the sail in the future. And now you think... Is the man so mad that he shows pictures of some drilled holes? And the answer to this is, well, yes. Because it took an ETERNITY to drill these holes because they weren´t drilled before the assembly of the ship. It took hours just to drill one hole with the weird thing i constructed to even be able to drill the holes. I had to turn the drill with a small nipper one quarter of a turn at a time. So this is a warning to anyone building this ship in the future, drill the holes before its to late.
  6. And this is the final result (also the third generation) of the now attached oar holders. Some pictures will make you sea sick because i forgot to rotate them, sorry about that but sea sickness sort of comes with the territory.
  7. Three generations of the same part, i have a bad habbit of reworking my parts... The one in the middle is the one that ended up on the boat but i made it smaller after the photo was taken, was way to fat on this picture. The attached end result.
  8. In the coming posts i will try to show what i have been doing since autumn last year, slow progress but at least it is progress. The sign of things to come... The sign says "The Oseberg ship", 9th century. I have masked out my name. The sign is ordered and not made by me.
  9. Thanks.The work with the 2500 drilling holes and the manufacturing of the same amount of nails took some time...
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