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Thanks Jesse and Nigel! Happy New year!

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Thanks Steve! It's the broom used for cleaning the anchors and toilets.

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Hey all! Here are some progress pics:

I've put the ropes on the anchors. I based them on the description in Landströms book.

I want to have a svabel so I scratched one.

And here I have rigged one of the anchors, the svabel. I also made and positioned the penterbalk but it's not showing on the pics.

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Cheers mate!

Happy new year to everyone!

Matti

Cheers pops! I'm trying to fix the other stuff holding the anchors now. Nice work to do.

Thanks for the likes everyone!

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Thanks pops! Here is the original part compaired to the one I scratched. I think it's a generic part used in more kits.

Yeah the ones in the kit was the same size, but I shaped one down.

Here are reference pictures:

Landström also have great drawings on it.

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Hey all! I did the anchors yesterday. I planned to scratch them as the kit version was to round in shape and they where the same size. When looking closer I realized they could be reshaped to a better shape and that one could be resized quite easily so that's what I ended up doing. The plastic was easy to work with.

I made the wooden parts out of wood instead of the plastic ones that came with the kit.

The rings are rope with CA to make it hard, with smaller thread looped around it.

When I was working o the rigging the other evening I used a lamp to see the details. When we looked up on the ceiling it gave a pretty cool shadow effect.

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Nice work Frank! I love your style.

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Thanks Law! We just got snow and the real winter is probably here soon. I long for lots of snow so my hopes are up-

Hope you have a great holiday!

Matti

Thank you pops!

And Merry Christmas everyone!

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Hey nice working space! Good to see a guitar ready wheneveyou needs it.

Love the bucket mate! I renovated one I found in our old cabin and yours looks just perfect.

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Thanks man!

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Wow thanks for the kind comments Steve and Ulyses!

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That high level of quality is impressive!

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Thanks guys for the kind words, and thanks for the likes everyone!

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Thanks Frank and the same to you!

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Cheers Karl, and the same to you mate!

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Many thanks fellas! Yeah, the meds seems to be working well, and after all the tests I know everything else is in order. 

I haven't decided fully about the figures. One idea is to have one for scale. My thoughts about figures is that they tend to make the model feel like a photo, not like it would be "live". This doesn't mean I don't love to look at models with figures as I definately do so.

Nigel, I haven't seen any examples either. Landström has one fantastic painting of a ship after a storm and the masts stroked (thats the words I hope). It looks very cool. I also think this gives me a chance to make the models proportions interesting, for me it makes her look like a 17th century dutch yacht. Finally it's a nod to the ship at the museum, as she has the winter set up.

Merry Christman to you too Framk!

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Hey all! I´ve got ill since posting last time, a small inflammation in the heart. I now eat medicine that will cure the inflammation and after that I should be fine again.

Anyway I made some small progress on the model last days. I have decided what setup I want and I will make her when she got her masts in place, perhaps during the early summer of 1628. I think the unfinished look is interesting and dynamic.

So I have made the second step of the main mast and the rigging for how to raise it after info from Fred Hocker. When it was in place I could glue the tops and then continue with the ropes that connect the shrouds to the tops.

I have also prepaired the railing. Fragile stuff so fingers crossed I will be able to add them later on.

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Hey, thanks for the nice comment and the heads up for that site mate!

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Thank you for the kind words and likes everyone!

Dragzz, there are much info to be found just by searching the web, but it may also be a challenge to find what you need because it's so much. There is a new Vasa book (Vasa II) coming out in a while, and it will focus on the rigging That will be a good read for any Vasa builder. I think Fred Hockers "Vasa a swedish warship" is a big help and inspiration. I really like Landströms Vasa book also, it builds on old facts so some stuff is wrong, but it´s great for understanding the ships and shipbuilding in the time she was built in.

Since we are building the same model and version, I'd be happy to give pointers if you need any.

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Cheers mate! Things like understanding how the tackle ropes runs are difficult to get for me. But it's also part of the fun.

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Thanks pops! It feels good to have those tackles in place.

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Hi everyone! There's a lot on my plate at the moment, so I haven't had time to be as active as I'd like lately.

I have finished the skankläder (war cloth?) for the tops. I then started with the tackles. I was surprised how much work they where. First I reshaped all the block to make them more like the real ones. Then I drilled the holes slightly bigger to fit the ropes I wanted. After that I made the hooks connecting them to the channels before putting the tackles in place.

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Nice to see you start this, looking forward to follow this.

I used the slip when I did mine.

//Matti