Von_Kossa
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Hello! I am wondering, being, that i have sort of a interest in this subject. Are you planning to make a dent in the veneer so the scroll work patterns follow through with the veneer? See picture and enjoy the extremely beautiful arrows. I have begun working with this also and i cannot make up my mind... If you don´t the veneer looks like just what it is, something glued upon, but if you dent it, maybe it will merge more with the scroll work... hmmm, or maybe not. And your thought about this is?
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Welcome to the club. Any questions just ask.
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Something strange i noticed with your parts is that they are all slightly brighter than mine, that forced me to rebuild entire sections because it looked really odd. I wonder if the staining will even it out, so they look the same as the rest, do you have any knowledge of this?
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I forgot... I also like to thank Jack Panzeca who sent me his deck parts, without you i could not have finished the deck.
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Thank you Vivian and all of you who "liked" my post. Means a lot.
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Update. Finished the deck... For now at least.
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I am glad to see that your progress goes well. Your approach with the veneer is something i also have thought about, the problem with this approach is the increased thickness and the look from the side of it. But like you, i cannot see another solution. I hope it goes as well for me as for you when i try this.
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This is how it looks on the historical museum vs original in norway, notice the shape of the "wings", positive on the model but negative on the original.
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Update on the mast fish reconstruction. I am still trying to replicate the historical museums reconstruction of the mast fish and surrounding areas, i´m beginning to doubt the sanity in this approach. It do look a little bit weird... The "bump" looks too high, it was probably smaller on the original, also the shape of the wings holding the bump deck parts was negative on the original. But on the models in the historical museum and sea historical museum in sweden the wings was positive. I followed this approach because i could not envision it in my head how i would fit the deck parts... I assume the model builders had the same problem... I would appreciate feedback on this.
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Did you use tin foil or something thicker? How did you blacken it?
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Just watch it so you don´t cut away to much of the planks glued to the bulk. I was very scared doing that i can tell you.
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This picture is from a museum in Stockholm showing an interpretation of the Oseberg ship. I have made some very nice looking arrows pointing at two metal pieces holding the thingies (?) on the left and right of the mast fish in place. As you can see on the other picture from Oslo showing the real ship, the metal pieces is also present on the original. I have tried to find some apropriate material to use for this on my own model, i have searched everywhere and i am starting to loose hope for finding anything usable. It has to be some metal which is so thin that you can easily shape it to fit. Is there anyone out there who can tell me what i should be looking for?
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Thank you, nice looking oak plank you have there, will be very interesting to see your future deck.
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Amazing work, and in such a short time! Keep it up! The last two vertical planks was really hard to get into place, i failed miserably with those two, because of the shape of the planks, they bent upward in the middle of my ship. I probably should have modified them before gluing them on.
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17?, Strange, according to my manual there should be 15 pieces. I will send you a private message, thanks again!
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Hi! I would be very grateful if you could help me with this. I have actually been in touch with Billing Boats and their suppliers, apparently the head owner of BB is sick in cancer and has recently been operated and if i understand it correctly it is only two other people working with the company because of this, his son and someone else. Because of this tragic situation the company is not working. The suppliers here in Sweden have not heard from them in three weeks. Therefore like earlier mentioned i would be very happy if you could help me with this. The bundle i need is as you already know: No. 53, Dimensions: 1,8x12x610mm, Material: Obechi, Description: Deckstrips As you know i cut them in smaller pieces so you do not need to send them as 610mm, you can cut them in half.
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First testing with bent deck planks around mast fish. This will be harder than i first thought... I´m also running out of deck planks, will have to contact Billing Boats and see if they can supply me with more.
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The deck planks shaped to fit around the mast fish. I found it very hard to make them fit.
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Well, this will surely be useful. It will be interesting to see how the stain reacts to the glue. Also i wonder if you get different results if you use water based stain or oil based stain. Regarding the color of the original ship, it didnt look like it do in the museum. When it sailed it was most likely alot brighter but because of the age and where it has been it is now almost black, but it sure looks cool.
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I am impressed. What else can i say. Keep it up! I think we will have the same problems, when we will stain the ship. I also applied the stripes glue with a toothpick and also got glue all over the place. You go first with the staining and i follow, what do you say?
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The Oseberg was probably more of a ceremonial ship, or a ship only used in smaller lakes. They used larger longships or deeper going "knarr" ships for longer voyages. But sure, they were still open. Could you upload some closeup pictures from the side of your ship? I would like to compare it with my own. i would find it interesting to see how you tackled some of the stripe laying problems i had. Congratulations by the way, it looks great!
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In the instructions as you have noted they just lay out long strokes of strips across the ship, it´s called cheating. The width of the strips is exactly like mine, 12 mm, i just cut them in smaller parts. I want the ship to be closer the real ship, therefore i built up the inside of it as close as i could to the original. As you will notice Billing Boat have also cheated with the amount of bulk heads, so if you want to lay the deck as i have you will need to construct a large amount of bulkheads from scratch to get the correct length of the deck strips between the bulk heads. Sorry for my bad english. Good luck.
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More work with the mast fish and surrounding areas.
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Nice work, and you are working fast too. You will catch up with me in no time.
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