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  1.    bigpetr reacted to a post in a topic: Wütender Hund by ccoyle - FINISHED - Shipyard - 1/72
  2.    Boxbuilds reacted to a post in a topic: Gokstad viking ship by bigpetr - 1:48 - CARD - cca 900 AD
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  12. bigpetr
    I made a tool from a needles to simulate carved grooves on the ship. Works great. Here it is applied to the stem edges: Then I could prepare the ribs and false deck (with 1:48 helmsman figure to be): Ribs attached and made square with the help of false deck: Next I will make proper jig to help with the planking.
  13.    bigpetr reacted to a post in a topic: Oseberg Ship by KrisWood - 1:25 - Wood - Vibeke Bischoff Plans
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  15.    bigpetr reacted to a post in a topic: A small cog by silverman834 - scale 1:20 - c. 1410
  16.    Louie da fly reacted to a post in a topic: Viking longship by Cathead - Dusek - 1:35
  17. bigpetr
    Thank you for posting your findings Cathead, it will be invaluable for future builders. Do not worry about differnt height of the strakes at the ends. It is perfectly normal to be so. This is how gokstad ship strakes ends, pretty irregular:
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  20.    bigpetr reacted to a post in a topic: Viking Longship by Binho - Dusek - Scale 1:72 - Model based on the 11th Century Skuldelev 2 wreck
  21. bigpetr
    Thank you for the reply stefan. Good points. Was it possible on wiking ships to somehow fix the rudder in position without holding it?
  22.    bigpetr reacted to a post in a topic: Egyptian Seagoing Ship “Byblos” by Hellmuht Schrader - 1:32
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  24. bigpetr
    She is lovely. Great workmanship.
  25. bigpetr
    It is all realy wierd. I did not build this particular model, but Dusek makes good kits. Did you try to contact them? They are realy nice and helpful. They will send bad parts for free if it is their fault (speak from my own experience)
  26. bigpetr
    I assumed that helmsman on gokstad ship was standing while steering, but was it so? I did some test with 3d model to see how it looks. It makes good use of backrest. What do you think?
  27. bigpetr
    I would glue spacers between bulkheads and then glue few bulkheads (three or four) to the keel. It should not be hard to cut them off later. Just a thought, I did not try it😀
  28. bigpetr
    Paper shields are good option. 80gsm paper (common office paper) is cca 0.1mm thick. Or you can layer tissue paper to desired thickness like Louie wrote. To prevent possible warping you can soak it with CA glue or varnish.
  29. bigpetr
    Congratulations on the oarsmens. Huge task it was. You will have the ship under the sails and with rowers rowing simultaneously? I thought it was one or the other. Can it be done simultaneously?
  30. bigpetr
    I think that there needs to be bevel on bottom and top plank at the end so that they still forms clinker. On a real ship there was no clinker to carvel transition at the ends. Plank ends were not perfectly lined up but there were small steps. On skuldelev 2 (the source for this ship) ends were carved to the stems to solve this problem
  31. bigpetr
    The one you posted could be chieftains chest In this museum visualisation they used it for the whole ship :
  32. bigpetr
    Louie I can manipulate background image for you, If you want or need.
  33. bigpetr
    Thank you Kris, I know this chest but do not have this detailed plans. I use this Oseberg chest form my rowing 3d experiments:
  34. bigpetr
    I liike all the the variants with one white and one yellow. Museum replica of Gokstad steering oar tiller based on Nicolaysen drawings has yellow, red, black and brown colour. And although there are no traces of paint found on it, there are some interpretation that triangular shapes lightly carved on top strake was painted, somethig like that (colours used are just modelers preference):
  35. bigpetr
    The cure is to do the model fast , while the initial spark still last🙂. Human needs to see outcome of his work quite fast, so when it lasts too long and building problems to solve acumulates he jumps to another subject unconsciously thinking it will go fast and easy🙂

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