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Thanks for the info.I have been studying the few pictures there are of a side view of the galleries as a whole. Maybe it`s the camera angle,but if you look closely at the first picture of your last post the front one does look a little larger. I am going to ask about those towers on the Vasa forum just to be sure.Thanks again! /Mark
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Hello Michael I see my kit comes with 4 small turrets & 2 large ones.The plans show the large ones placed at the front of the lower gallery.Wouldn`t you think they would go at the rear? /Mark
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Michael - thanks for your thoughts.I think that anything I do will be a compromise. I had hoped to get Billing`s better figures to mix & match with Corel`s but they are not available separate from the kit. At this point I will probably be more concerned with construction details than accuracy of the figures.Thinking about it maybe all 3 Vasa kit manufacturers could get together & make one nice kit as a joint project! Not likely. /Mark
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Thanks Mark & Jan I would imagine to update the kits to be more accurate would cost more money than the manufacturers would like to spend.What would be the fun if we didn`t have to fix them?There was mentioned on the Vasa forum a while back about someone wanting to do a 3D scan to possibly design a new kit. /Mark
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Thanks for your observation on the galleries. I am aware of the issue with the turret top on the lower gallery & am going to try and fix it . I was thinking about building the upper galleries first & try to make some adjustments on the lowers. The biggest problem I see is if the lower turret is moved out too far there will be too large of a gap between the turret & the side of the ship . I will have to think about that one for a while. Pictures are always welcome to illustrate an issue. By the way Sergal`s fix for this was to actually mold a notch in the casting where it comes up against the upper gallery . regards,Mark
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Hello Karl Yes I do like this ship but the the main reason I`m continuing on with it is seeing the poor thing sitting there half started as I walk by it every day . I can tell you the differences between the Corel & Sergal kits are quite large. The biggest differences are the figures - Sergal`s are pretty good & Corel`s are somewhat poorer. Sergal`s are brass or bronze so you can tweak them a little if needed.Corel`s are plated pot metal I think - they can`t be bent or they will just snap in two. Some of them are already broken in the package just from shipping . /Mark
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Rigging Tension-how do you do it?
marktiedens replied to capnharv2's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
I agree with all the above plus when I tension shrouds I get them as tight as I dare to without pulling things apart - they always seem to loosen some after tying all the ratline knots. /Mark -
Hello Ulises If I remember right I think I first filed the metal frames down to the level of the bulkheads - then laid the planking on top of the edges of the metal frames. It seemed easier to me to "fair" the metal frames first. regards,Mark
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Thanks Nigel - although I may look like this permanently before I`m done. Michael - I must admit I will be borrowing ideas from other builds. /Mark
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Matti - I really like the look & wonkyness of this ship & will change some things as I go along. With this kit being about half the size of the Sergal kit it will be a challenge. Joe - thanks much for your nice comment. I am currently starting on the second planking & intend to show some of the scarph joints in the planking - not all of them - just too many. After looking at the planking lay out on a sketch from Fred at the museum it`s too difficult to make all of them at this scale. /Mark
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Thanks Brian. This is only the first layer - I only needed filler in one small spot on the bottom. /Mark
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I have decided to continue on with the Corel version of the Vasa which I started about a year and a half ago.I got as far as the first planking done & set it aside while I continued working on the Sergal kit. I have fixed a couple of things so far. I re-sized the upper row of gunports as I cut them too big to start with . Also I the slant to the companionway roofs - the kit had them flat. I also re-did the lower stern to be more square.One more thing I noticed after glueing on the false deck was there were no openings for the knighthead behind the main mast or the ladder behind the fore mast so I had to make them. /Mark
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They might mean tanganyika,which is a light colored wood,but messed up the spelling in translation. /Mark
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I would think that beech would be way too expensive to put in a kit for hull planking - it would take many strips on a ship this size.Try putting a little polyurethane on a small piece - beech will hardly change color but walnut will noticeably darken. /Mark
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Welcome to the Vasa club here on MSW. Looks like you are off to a good start. /Mark
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Hello Ulises I looked at my Royal Louis & I`m afraid I can`t tell for sure what it is. I don`t have my plans or instructions any more but I think it is what THEY call walnut.It looks very similar to the "walnut" that Mantua uses. I think I did have enough to do the planking below the whales - it was the lighter colored wood between the whales that I was short on.I think they called it boxwood.Sorry I can`t be of more help.It seems like in European kits the 'walnut" can range from a honey color to a very dark brown or almost gray - sometimes all on the same plank. /Mark
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I like the G-S glue also except it seems to be a bit "stringy". Very nice cannons by the way. /Mark
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Hello Frank You are correct - it is a message port .It is pictured in the Wasa Dream website - picture #170b. regards,Mark http://www.wasadream.com/Index/indexenglish.html
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Looking good! /Mark
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Your rigging looks very nice - I know how difficult it is to rig those crowfeet. However,I may be wrong but I think those are the ropes to lift the upper yards.You can always ask Fred or Clayton at the Vasa forum mentioned in Ulises previous post - they are very helpful. /Mark
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That`s a very busy looking deck you have there - looking good. By the way I went to the Billing Boats USA site to order the Wasa fitting kit.They must have sent the order on to Ages of Sail - they sent me an e-mail saying they couldn`t get it . Oh well. Billing should remove it from there site if you can`t get it . /Mark
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Thanks again,Roger. /Mark
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Thank you very much Roger! I regret that I can`t restore the lost pictures in my log though. /Mark
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Thanks for the info Michael. /Mark
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Thank you very much Michael. I must say much of the work you have done on yours inspired me numerous times to change & fix things on mine.Keep up the good work! By the way the first planking on my Corel kit is already done - just trying to decide whether to continue on with it or start something else.It might be easier to continue on with it while details & fixes are still fresh in my mind.My main concern is the castings - they are awful compared to Sergal`s - which themselves are not great.Ideally I would like to find the figures from the Billings kit without having to buy the whole kit.From what I have seem on Matti`s model they are pretty good even though they are plastic. I would not even dream of trying to carve them.Oh and I am trying to come up with a better way to do the scalloping on the galleries - they look ok from a distance but I`m not that happy with them.For one thing I found out they should be light yellow - not white. /Mark
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