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Siggi52

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    just south of Hamburg, Germany
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    18th century history and reenactment, collecting items from this period.

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  1.    albert reacted to a post in a topic: The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
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  19. Siggi52
    Thank you, Keith
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  21. Siggi52
    I see, the trent goes to macro modelling 😏
  22. Siggi52
    Hello, today I finished the anchor. At the Gokstad ship they found only a rust trace of an anchor from 1,1 m length, and an anchor stock of 2.75 m length. At the Oseberg ship they found an anchor of 1 m length, and two anchor stocks. One of 1,5 m and the other of 2,7 m length. The anchor fits to the smaler stock. May be, they though that the dead in heaven did't need the large anchor. So I build the smaler typ of anchor. Material are pieces brass wire of 0,8 and 1 mm, hammered flat and to form and for the rings 0,4 and 0,5 mm wire.
  23.    Siggi52 reacted to a post in a topic: Sternwheeler From the Susquehanna River's Hard Coal Navy by Keith Black - 1:120 Scale
  24. Siggi52
    Thank you, Johnny and have fun with it
  25. Siggi52
    Hello and thanks for your nice comments a d likes Today I cleared the deck from rope ends, at least from the shrouts. The next thing to build is the sail. I ordered Silkspan, and it should arrive here someone next week.
  26. Siggi52
    Hello, John, today it is to be 27°C here and sunshine, but next week again it is only 22°C and rain. And it's a nice boot you have build. Did you have Viking genes? Today I finished the standing rigg. And I know now exactly, why I don't like rigging. These stuborne and nasty twines, who go always the directin you don't want ☹️ It was realy loud yesterday in the basement! But the result is great, I think. Now the ship looks fuller, more compact. Enjoy the pictures. The strongest rope is the forestay with 0,7 mm Ø, the shrouts and forestay have 6,5 mm Ø
  27. Siggi52
    Hello, and thank you for your likes today I build the gangplank. So that the Vikings could leave and enter the ship in a hurry, to plunder! Also new is the mast, the fifth now and I hope the last one. This one is at least the most correct. It's hard to get there informations, because not all parts of the masts, also from the Oseberg ship, survived. But I found at YouTube an interesting video with both ships: Råseilseminaret 2013 - vikingskipene Saga Oseberg og Gaia, and that answes my questions. And I started with rigging. First the toggle and blocks for the stays and shrouds.
  28. Siggi52
    Hello and thank you for your comments and likes because here is no summer anymore, (last week we had 36°C, now 16-20°C) I'm busy at the shipyard. After I found new pictures of the Gokstad ship, I had to change somethings. That means to tear off again. These rails are also on starboard, and Dammann wrote, there where none! The helmsman got also a backrest. Today I build the suporters for the beitiass. That was a nightmare, but now it's done. I'm ready with the ship so far and the rigging can begin.
  29. Siggi52
    Hello, the oars are on board and the stand is ready.
  30. Siggi52
    Hello, it is done! All 32 oars are ready. Only 6 pairs, the shortest, have the same lengs. From 5,30 m up to 5,85 m have all other pairs a different lengs. The longest pairs are for the stem and stern, there the oaremen sit at the highest places.
  31. Siggi52
    I hope so, John
  32. Siggi52
    Hello, today I started building the oars. First I saw them 4X3 mm and then turned the handle at the lathe. The secnd step is, grinding the rest till nothing is left 😏 , see the one below Then I saw out the outlines and shape the rest with files and sandpaper. Now only 31 are left.
  33. Siggi52
    Hello shipman, I think, you better discus this with the archeologists, scientist and reenactors with 1:1 replicas of viking ships. A tiller that goes down, is not really ergonomic in this case. I'm happy with this strait tiller.
  34. Siggi52
    Hello and thank you for your comments and likes, to show the high of the tiller in relation to the helmsman I made a picture with one of my carpenters. He is 1,70 m large, and the tiller is at 80 cm from the floor. And shipman, even at the original ship they have a strait tiller replica.
  35. Siggi52
    Hello Shipman, I think that the original tiller was centuries ago strait, and not curved as now. Otherwise the helmsman must have worked directly at the floor. It was made from ash. So as it is now at my model, the helmsman could work from his seachest, in a sitting position.

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