NAZGÛL

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Hey mate, sorry for missing your reply! Have a lot to do atm so the model is sitting on my shelf waiting for the next step.
 
 
 
/Matti

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

How are things shaping up? You had some tricky things to work out.

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Looks like a good start - you are braver than me to build this with no plans.
 
/Mark

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Looks good, Matti - I like the design you came up with.  Mind if I lurk in the back here and enjoy the build?

Hey all! I've been trying to work out the lines. To be able to continue with the other decks, I needed to plank the first one. As I'm building it by eye, I need to see the other decks in place before preparing for a mast and gratings. A bit backward.
 
Also started on the stern shape. 
 

 

 

 
 
 
/Matti

Hi everyone!
 
I have an interest in King Karl IX, Gustav II Adolfs father. Before reaching the crown he was a duke and was successful in developing his duches and he created his own fleet. And when he later went to war with Sigismund his fleet became an important part. When he later became king his fleet became part of the swedish fleet. As many men of power at that time in history, Karls seems to have been quite cruel but he did manage to reach remarkable goals in his life and laid the base of what Gustav II Adolf managed to achieve later on. For a while I'v been wanting to make a model of one of Karls ships. When going through the ship lists available I decided to go for the small ship called Gripen (griffin). Gripen was Karls symbol and is to be seen on Vasa stern as well when two griffins puts the crown on Gustav II Adolfs head. Making a model of Gripen will mean a lot of guesses on my behalf as very little is known. 
 
I like to build by eye and even if I made some basic plans and drawings, I will try to relax and do what feels right as I move the build along.
 
The design is inspired by the beautyful replica of Duyfken and by paintings by Vroom and other dutch artists. I would like to thank all who helped me with advices and opinions in this thread: 
 
http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/9996-ships-of-the-late-16th-century/
 
In that thread you can also follow the steps I did when designing the model.
 
When I finished the Vasa build I had a pile of spareparts left. When looking at the parts I felt I'd like to try and reshape them into something else. I feel this gives me lots of freedom when building it as I can do whatever I feel like and that helps creativity. Worst thing that can happen is that I mess upp and then I can just through it in the bin. 
 
Step 1 was to design the model. As said that step is covered in the thread mentioned above.
 

 

 
 
Step 2 was to decide what size it would be in. I printed the drawings in different sizes and then decided. The scale is close to 1:70.
 
Step 3 was to make a more detailed plan just to get the basic set up of the frames and how to reshape them to the lines of my drawings.
 

 
Step 4  Was to do the actual reshaping. First before assembly, then reshaping again. The supporting parts are ugly but I liked the idea to just use the left over parts after sawing the frames. Ugly but easy to do and they will be covered later on. I needed the supporting bits to be stronger compaired to say how BB designed theis Vasa kit, as I had to reshape them in place.
 

 

 
Next step will be to make the stern, bow and decks.
 
 
/Matti

In the journaal van de eerste schipvaart there is a small drawing of the Duyfken:
 

 
As you can see the stern of these ships was quite small.
 
I think the image is in the following book:
 
De eerste schipvaart der Nederlanders naar Oost-Indië onder Cornelis de Houtman, 1595-1597; journalen, documenten en andere bescheiden, uitg. en toegelicht door G.P. Rouffaer en J.W. Ijzerman

Started on the hatch coamings before finally calling it a day
 
 

Ah spring time.  The air is full of fumes from glue, paint, and mineral spirits.... not to mention the neighbor's lovely smelling fertilizer.
 
Today I continued on the hatch coamings; trimming, fitting, and building the battery hatch cover.  Everything, and the hull got some paint to spiff things up a bit.  I really need to figure out making hatch gratings with what I have.
 
   

Thank you, Matti.
 
About your question - I still want to build a model as a new ship, I never though about weathering , it doesn´t make me a sense, to make weathered model - but each man has another taste    . It is possible to do - but just by painting. As you know, I´m usin foils for surfacing, and this material is uncomparable to wood. I´m just patinating it by water colours ( see pictures at 1 st page ).
 
Back to the ship: sails are convexed  and hung on the ship. Now I can continue with the second part of the running rigging.
 
Jan

As a fan of your work, it's been a pleasure to read through this thread. Gorgeous work Jan!
 
Would it be hard to weather a model built like this? My experience is thats its easier to weather a wooden ship model compaired to say a model in plastic. For me it comes down to do light sanding to make the coats of paints blend and also let the wood show here and there. I guess that would not work well on your material?
 
 
/Matti

The model looks wonderful Mark! I would have serious problem adding planks as it looks so good as it is. A true work of art!
 
 
/Matti

thanks again for your kind comments and likes.   yepper!   quite a lot done yesterday....but still more to go. 
 
 
thanks George......nope!  jes'  me..........and of course Chester and his small band of saw-bones
 
     {jes'  thought I'd make you laugh} 
 
 
hey Matti.........nice of you to look in       many reasons why I chose to do this one......the construction for one thing    I've had this one on my mind though for quite a while.........feels good to finally have her on the table.   I do have a few sailing ships on the roster......perhaps I'll see you there      thanks for looking in my friend 

Very nice progress pops! I normally don't think of boats like these, but I really like to look at your build and can definately see why you decided to do it!
 
 
/Matti 

The model looks wonderful Mark! I would have serious problem adding planks as it looks so good as it is. A true work of art!
 
 
/Matti

Very nice progress pops! I normally don't think of boats like these, but I really like to look at your build and can definately see why you decided to do it!
 
 
/Matti 

The model looks wonderful Mark! I would have serious problem adding planks as it looks so good as it is. A true work of art!
 
 
/Matti