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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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.
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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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
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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
You are right, Keith. The wood would darken over the time from alone. And it's more naturly. -
The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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.
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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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.
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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50
Siggi52 replied to Siggi52's topic in - Subjects built Up to and including 1500 AD
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.
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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 😳
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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.
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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.
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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
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Keith, the end is in sight, but I think it takes a lot of time to get there. There are at least a lot of things to do left. Ian, no with these sticks and ropes I would't play. Today the Tiger came up from the basement to see some daylight. And both Tigers now are looking how it rains outside.
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Hello, when I look at the last likes, some like the picture of Victory's wheels more then that what I have build! It would be interesting why? I had asked before I built it so. But I say thank you to all, for the likes you gave my work. The carpenters have installed the last two deck beams and also the knees for them. The inspector from the navy board was pleased. So I think, we could go all into the summer vacations. Except the shipwright. He must look how to build in the taffrail, before the deck could be planked. And may be the carvers, who could start carving the quarter pieces. Steady and slowly we come to the end of this build.
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Hello, I know, it's the Sliding Foot Assembly. But I don't think that that was also used in 1745. Goodwin described it too. If you find it at a model from this period, send me a picture.
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Hello, the wheels are now installed and rigged. And that is what you later will see of it. But the shipwright is pleased and spend a beer for the crew
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Moin Matthias, I would paint the great cabin turquoise, in a blue or green tone. That is for the rococo period a good choice. The officers cabins white and all rooms for the ordinary seamen red. Natural wood only when ist was walnut or something like this.
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Hello, the wheels are mostly ready. The paint would't dry, so it took a lot longer then normal. I don't know why 🤔 and that is what you will see when the mast is installed. When there also the binnacle stand in front of the mast, you will see nearly nothing of the wheels So, here they are in there full beauty But there is also a last problem. The rope to the tiller. In the drawing for the 1745 establishment they draw there something what I interpret as coamings with a lid. Most models have there nothing, or just two wholes in the deck, where the rope disappeared. I would at least build it so, but not so large and with two slits for the rope. But not with these sliding foots. I think, that they where a later innovation. But may be, someone of you know there more.
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Hello, it is done. At least the wheels are ready build. Next to build are the two supporters for the wheels.
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