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It's not model building, it's an art. Every step so clean and crisp. There I have a lot to learn

Really nice old boat. Well done

This looks really interesting. I've the same kit in my stock and like to change the timber.

I'll follow with great interest.

Wonderful pictures and descriptions. I need also a clnker build boat for my sloop. So there is a lot to learn.

Congrats for a really beautyful model. And thank you very much for your build log. I -and I am sure a lot of other MSW users also- got a lot of information which is very helpful for my own projects.

I hope that your will start another project in the near future.

Congrats, Siggi. I love the coloring of your model. It's exactly what I like to do on my sloop.

I hope you show us a lot of pictures of the finished model in her case.

Nice progress, Jack

Grant, Ed, Tom,

thank you very much.

Druxey,

found your build log this morning. I'll follow your work with great interest and I am sure that I can learn a lot from your log. Thanks for sharing

Thank you very much for the Likes and the nice words.

Continuing the assembly of the stem..
 

I used temporarily spacers to fit the Knee of the Head, which is only 10'' thick, to the stem.

Next I shaped the Knee of the Head using the info David Antscherl gives in his books. After this I glued the completed assembly to the stem. Therfore I used brass pins and the earlier descriped spacer. At last I shaped the competed stem to the hopefully right thickness.

In the moment I work on the lower apron and the rising wood.

Really wonderfull. The old river steamers have an own fascination

Sorry, for the late reply, Jack.

I add a picture from a reconstruction drawing of Werner Dammann. It shows a possible viking style figure head for the Gokstad ship.

If you have a look at the original in the Oslo museum, you see that stem is also a little smaller than in your model.

Werner Damman shows in his wonderful book about the ship also another solution that as far as I know is the most common interpretation

Congrats for finishing this beautyful Swan Class Sloop. She's looking very nice

Really nice progress and very clean work.

The only thing I don't like are the very old styled sterns, which are part of the kit.

Welcome to the Triton Shipyards and a lot of fun and success with the build.

It's looking really nice. Well done

Welcome to the Triton shipyards and a lot of fun with your build

I think Chuck's idea to sell parts for a ahip model as he does with his cutter Cheerful is an excellent idea.

You can buy the drawings and perhaps the bulkheads, choose the timber for the planking job and buy then the smaller parts if you like. I hope that other manufacturers will copy his idea (if he don't has the Copyright for this )

There are a lot of talent modelers who don't have an own workroom or the money to buy the machines. For these kits especially on Chucks way are the only possibility to take up the hobby.

Erik, I'll follow your log with great interest. If I see you longboat, I am qiute sure that you'l build an excellent model. Chucks drawings compared with the originals from the NMM are outstanding

I found your build log today. Really nice build and a beautyful model. Very well done

Hendirk,

it's allways nice to see the pictures of your build. Very good work.

Your boats will become better and better, it's absolut amazing

Thanks, Dirk and Martin.

@Martin

Yes. I also mad treenails from pear veneer also in the smaller scale. But it's a lot more difficult, because the treenails broke very fast.. They are around 0.7mm; the new ones are around 0.95mm. In this scale I have much less waste.

Thanks a lot for the Likes and Your interest.