NAZGÛL
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Glad if I could help, those ports are my fav. I like how irregular they are positioned, and the realism they give from their everyday use.
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I think you can ask the museum to send them to you. At least i heard someone doing it that way. /Matti
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Thanks Mark, they sure are. I will look at your way of doing them for inspiration. Hi Tony, glad if I could help. Do you have the official plans from the museum? If not they are really helpful when placing details like these. The plans are slightly idealized in some areas, but quite complete. You can use a high resolution pic of the 1:10 model for the portside details and the plans for the starboard side. That way you get a good detailed view all around her. Thank you Coleman, Im glad you like the paintjob! /Matti
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Do you mean that the plan (pic 2) doesnt look like the photo (pic 1)? If so, they look right to me. /Matti
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Very nice! I can feel how frustraded that would make me... Im curious how that will look on the ship.It should look very clean. /Matti
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Thanks for the comment and advice Michael. I will try to be careful, and also try to look at reference pics to see what I can do. So far Id say this is a tricky part of her construction. /Matti
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Thank you for the nice comments fellas, they really gives energy to the build! Ferit, thanks, I agree they are like a signature for her. The red color is funny, as it responds much to the lights. In sharp sunlight its quite bright, while it turns much more muted in normal to low light. That makes a nice vibrant effect when applied in slightly different shades. Nigel, thanks. Yeah the construction has a lot of angles and shapes to get right. The "towers" are tricky to do with the parts that come with the kit. I will try to get them fair looking. The good news is that I managed to snatch a "reserv part" kit of this model (that is a kit that the seller has taken spare parts from and sold to customers) from the local hobby shop for very little money, and these parts are in that. That gives me an extra set and I can experiment all I want without any stress of ruining anything crucial. Cheers Michael, I hope I can get them as good as yours. Like you say,if I pull them off it will feel rewarding afterwards. The messageports are the small ones farthest down and to the stern: /Matti
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Thank you Wackowolf! The galleries feels daunting for me. /Matti
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Done some details, among them the drain holes. They blend in more in normal light. Also started with the galleries. I decided to only add the bigger verticall pieces, like it is on the real Vasa today at the museum. She should have smaller sculptures between them, but I cant do them making them look right. I could have used tiny pieces of wood instead of sculptures, but I decided to do it like this. /Matti
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Im building the galleries now, and Im afraid I cant get the thin white lines there in 1:75 scale. Looking forward to see how yours turn out. /Matti
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Wow, thats looking great! /Matti
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That is very nice and your effort was worth it. It looks perfect! Do you have a oic or link to the jeweller file? /Matti
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Cheers Lawrence, your kind comments are most appreciated! I used different shades of brown washes on the planks on the weatherdeck also. When I mix the washes, I make them very diluted as the wood absorbs it very much. It is easy to make the wood to dark. But its really easy to practice, and if you do it before assembly, you get good control. /Matti
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Thank you Nigel! I agree, the doors are prominent on her. /Matti
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Excellent work Nigel! I really like it. /Matti
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Thats a cool idea. Is it possible to make them thinner for us doing a 1:75? /Matti
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Hey all. Just got info from Fred Hocker and learned some things about Vasa. The small ports are indeed message ports used to handle things between the hip and a boat alongside. It was used to climb in and out the ship also. There is nothing indicating there was a lionshead on the hatch, and there is no evidence there were any canons in them. The colors used on the 1:10 is the right colors for Vasa as far as they know, they would not look like pastels as someone said. The colors however is based on the pigments used, but not when diluted with linseed oil, so there might be some nuance difference because of that. Fred Hocker explained that he thinks its a good idea to mute the colors when making a smaller scale model of Vasa, as he doesnt think it looks right. The big ships colors appear differently due to the larger surface area and absorbtion by the atmosphere. He thinks this is more of a artistic choice however. Cheers /Matti
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Cheers Kevin! I tried to get the colors balanced to eachother, glad you like it. /Matti
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Thanks wolf! Its not perfect, but Im glad you like it. Looking at the construction, its better to wait with the steps as they should sit against the bow wall structure. Looking at the galleries now. /Matti
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Thanks mate! I scribed the doors to make it look like planks. Then added washes to give it a warmer wood look. Finally I painted a few "planks" darker to give it more realism, I used a slightly less wash for that. /Matti
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Cheers for the kind comments Michael! Wasnt the first class toilets up in the galleries? llI be careful. Actually I got scetshes made by Fred Hocker, and Ill try to stay true to them. The steps are rough huh? I thought the area was cleared after the arches were done. Ill go easy. /Matti
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Thanks, Michael, and Im glad if I could help! The paint look is inspired by how Götheborg looked when she was new, the tarred look is very vibrant and full of life and nuances. Its also inspired by Vrooms paintings. As a modeler Im used to try to replicate the paint jobs done by ILM on the Starwars studio models. They are very gritty and dirty, and I often land in that look when painting my models. For me its also emphasises the war machine aspect of Vasa. Here is how the basic structure came out. There are errors for sure, but overall Im happy with the result. The kit is quite true to the real ship. I used balsa wood to make something to glue the arced planks to. Next are the steps and details. /Matti
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Thanks Mark! Im liking your Vasa build. /Matti
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