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  1. Siggi52
    Hello, and thank you for all the likes, and yes I'm guilty. I was't at the shipyard last week. We had here the finest spring weather, with sunshine and temperatures up to 24°C in the sun! 😊 But yesterday the weather changed, and I finished planking with the last two strakes. They are at least only 0,4 mm thick! So as next I will install the gun-wale. I started with this project last November and planking mid January. At the next picture you see the rocked keel. I reality the keel was in the middle 30 cm lower then at his outer ends.
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    Hello, thank you for all the likes and comments. For today only a short update. I finished the collecting planks for the starbord side. This pice, with the rudder support, was a little tricky. So I build it twice and nead now a medical plaster for my left index finger! But it is't soo bad. And here it is installed
  3. Siggi52
    Hello and many thanks for your likes and comments the next two strakes are ready. Now there are only two others left. The uper plank here is the rodrarhufr plank. In this plank later come the holes for the oars. She is a little thicker, 0,65mm. And here you see also the thick fingers, who build this all 😁
  4. Siggi52
    Hello, last week we had here a lot of sunshine, so I was't realy often at the shipyard. But at least I managed to finished two other strakes. Only 4 left Now it starts to look more like a ship then a raft.
  5. Siggi52
    Hello, and many, many thanks for your comments and likes Today I finished the Meginhufr. All other planks for now are 0,5mm thick ( 25mm ),the meginhufr is 0,8mm thick (40mm in real) And for cure over night, a corset. That is a bicycle tires and a sandbag
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    Hello, and many thanks for your comments and likes Life was against working at the shipyard most of the week, but now I have all collecting planks ready. I started also with planking the meginhufr. I hope to finish the strake tomorrow. Here are some of the parts, who did't it ☹️
  7. Siggi52
    Hello, and thank you for all the likes and nice comments today I finshed the first of 4 collecting planks. I don't know how they where corectly named.
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    Thank you
  9. Siggi52
    Hello, thank you Keith, and all others thank you for your likes. Yesterday I finised the planking of the "floor". The next plank is the Meginhufr, a strong plank like the wales. When the most planks have a thickness of 0,5mm, this one is 0,8mm thick. From now on, it goes upwarts. In this case downwards! The next four planks have a collecting piece (?) to the stems. That would be the next challenge. But now the pictures from the last two strakes.
  10. Siggi52
    Hello, two more strakes are ready. Now I have 7 ready, two more and I can start working upwards. First I cleaned the inside this morning. But after that, the ship went back at the plug
  11. Siggi52
    You are right, Keith. The wood would darken over the time from alone. And it's more naturly.
  12. Siggi52
    Good morning, many thanks for the likes and nice comments. Håkan, that is only one scraper, and he is a little too wide. Half an millimeter would be better, but this is the smallest one I could build. But it dominate the planking a lot as I saw at the last pictures. In nature it's not so much. Christensen measured these profiles, and it were 1600 m at all. Lukily they used at the Gokstad ship only one form. These were at least a little more complicated then the one I build. At the Oseberg ship they used 7 different molds! At the picture you see also my test planking, now oiled. I don't know if I shoulld stain the oil a little.
  13. Siggi52
    Hello, and thank you for all the likes and comments. And before my green kale gets ready, a small update. Yesterday I finished the 5th strake. This morning I took the ship from the plug, to eliminate the glue remains from the inside. It was't so bad as I first exspected.
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    Hello, the fourth strake is ready. That is at least more work then I had expected. To show you the dimentions, a picture with a ruler.
  15. Siggi52
    Hello, today I finished the 3. plank. The two parts up the stems are the most complicated parts. That part in the middle is ,at the moment, not so complicated. But this time I tried to bend the plankt before, and it's working. I just wetted the plank a little, fixed it, and then grilled it with my heating pistol. 😉 But also this part I glued on in two parts. And these are the new planks, only 13 left per side. So, if you hear the next time not so much from me, I'm bussy planking.
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    I hope so, Keith
  17. Siggi52
    Hello and many thanks for all the likes Today only a small update, I started with the 3. plank on both sides. The visible part of the 2. Plank is here ca 2 mm.
  18. Siggi52
    Hello, yesterday I started a new blog about the Gokstad ship. Build around 850 and used as burrial ship ca. 900 AD. https://modelshipworld.com/topic/37871-the-gokstad-ship-900-ad-by-siggi52-150/ After finishing that model I will will further work on my Tiger, promised
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    Hello, because I started with my Tiger in Dec 2017, and I should carve there the quarter pices now, to which I'm at the moment not in the mood. And at least I would like to build a ship or model readdy. During the summer I bought the book from Werner Dammann about the Gokstad Ship, because these Viking ships interested me since my youth. To my birthday the book by Vibeke Bishoff about the Oseberg ship came along to that. I started some time befor with the keel and then the plug for planking. Now the first two rows of planks are laid. I build in castello, the planks are 0,5 mm thick.
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    Thank you scrubby, and the same to you. Yes I think that will happen. But at the moment I'm working on a new project, to fill the time, and will start it soon. Look for something around 900 😳
  21. Siggi52
    Thank you Marc, and also for you, merry Christmas
  22. Siggi52
    Thank you Keith, and also the same wishes for you and your family. At least, I'm started not again with the Tiger. There I had to carve now the quarter pices and I'm not in the mood for that. The weather here is rainy and cloudy since october. In november they told us, that whe have had 5 houers sunshine here! I thought it where less than that. And also now outside it is fogy and 7°C. So both Tigers, and I'm, are looking out of the window and waitig for sunshine.
  23. Siggi52
    Hello Marc, here the way I do it. This is a 3 mm block and a 0,3 mm rope Then with a cannula I go through the rope once, and a second time from below. Then I glue it with clear nail polish. I wisk you good luck and nerves like wire ropes with your rigging.
  24. Siggi52
    Moin Matthias, that looks very good. But don't make the color sooo dark. More so in the direction of your last pictures. These light colors are not so good to determine, is it light green or blue. That is what I mean with turquoise. Mostly you may see how the cabins where painted at the sides of the portholes. Here the Victory SLR0512
  25. Siggi52
    Hello, and thank you for the nice comments and like.

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