JanV

The rigging is now complete. Now still to do :   flags  The flags that come with the kit are a 30 year old and are a disaster... Finishing the rudder with rope or chain I should have done this at an earlier stage. I have now discovered anchors   Lantern?? Had the Wasa a lantern or not???  
Creating a base for the model

Hello everyone.
 
I have attached the sails and part of rigging.
It begins to look like a sailing ship.

started with the small boat
 

 

 

 
next step will be fixing these frames
after that start with planking and hopefully remove these temporary frames and replace them with "original" clamps.
 
Due to private reasons the builds is still very slow although I have  now a holiday break

started with the small boat
 

 

 

 
next step will be fixing these frames
after that start with planking and hopefully remove these temporary frames and replace them with "original" clamps.
 
Due to private reasons the builds is still very slow although I have  now a holiday break

did you use glue which is water-soluble. if so use a injection neadle and spray some water at the point with the failure.
hopefully this part will then release and then you can carefully re-glue this again.
 
good luck

Mates, thanks for all likes and/or just dropping by for a look.
 
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Joe, As usual a big thanks for following along and posting such encouraging comments.
 
-E.J.  Thanks as well. Also really enjoying following your build log –cheers
 
Frank, (Riverboat) Plan B was a “winner” indeed. OH you have started a new boat. I will look for your build log (Chinese Junks always had a place of admiration for me) Do you plan on “aging” it as you did with your awesome Alert?
 
Martyn (BV.) thanks as well. Happy to have been of help with your PM regarding the cannons J
 
Patrick  - Thanks your Google English is great - ha ha
 
Dave, happy that you are feeling at home with my “clamp” funny , but it did not work grrrr (J
 
Frank, thanks as well. Yes summer is going well indeed. Enjoy your fishing season over there on the East Coast.
 
Off to Michael’s looking for some decorative bits, need to add some work to the galleries as I had mentioned above.

Hi Mates,
 
Finished installing the upper railings. As I mentioned in a previous post I had my “issues” installing the horizontal rails on each side of the foremast after installing the shrouds. So that done, as well as some tidying up of the carriage ropes I can move forward and attach the mainmast, and its lower shrouds.
 

 
Now needed to make the bent 90º planks to link the horizontal bits.
 
Well that had its issues as well. Hmmm.
I must have tried to bend 50 pieces (needed 10) All but one plank allowed itself to be bent 90º. Even tried soft wood to no avail. I believe it was my lack of skills, and the extreme bend that was needed?
 

 
So plan B. 
 

 
Last pic I will be pulling out those badly made pulley/blocks now that I have, and know how to (more or less) use my Proxxon MF70 J
Before “moving forward” I plan to revisit the galleries and add some details. This is certainly one of the most difficult areas of this ship to articulate correctly especially with the Corel kit as a base. Not complaining – this has been widely discussed here at MSW with those of us building this ship. I had some left over bits from the upper railings that will work very well.
 
Cheers
 

 

in the meantime busy with preparations of the yards, as soon as something new to show I will post some pictures
 
I have packed the Vasa in plastic to prevent against dust. due to private reasons I cannot work on the rigging and have to wait till summer holiday period.
 

One week to go before the holidays.
I have re-scaled the frames for the small boat and glued this on some wood.
I am trying to use this as a guidance for the planking.
 


 
maybe also some rigging?

The last weeks I have finished a ship in a bottle.
 

 

just a quick picture before the Vasa is being packed in plastic for the coming months
 

 
in the next period I will continue with the yards and maybe the sails.

finally started with the rigging. first the standing rig. 
I am not so familiar with the English terms for the rigging, so I will show mostly pictures with small comments
 

I have just read your build and I am sure this kit will be on my wish list.
I watched some time ago already this kit in my Modelshop, but at that time I did not buy this, but reading your build triggered this again.
 
thanks for giving me the last hint to start with this kit also

I have just read your build and I am sure this kit will be on my wish list.
I watched some time ago already this kit in my Modelshop, but at that time I did not buy this, but reading your build triggered this again.
 
thanks for giving me the last hint to start with this kit also

I have just read your build and I am sure this kit will be on my wish list.
I watched some time ago already this kit in my Modelshop, but at that time I did not buy this, but reading your build triggered this again.
 
thanks for giving me the last hint to start with this kit also

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Looking good Sjors. Seems like she'll be catching up to Aggie in no time.  
 
Bob

Thanks for the praise Patrick but helping people is part of my beliefs and I really enjoy doing it. 
 
Weather has been rather warm the last week or so with a tropical storm thrown in.  Temps are now near 95 F or 35 C, in the shade    You can imagine how hot my shipyard, aka garage, is.   I love the heat but sitting there at the bench dripping in sweat is not particularly enjoyable.  However, even with all that I did manage to do a little more on the bow lion carving.
 
That basswood is really giving me a fit.  I don't like working with it and am almost to the point to start with the boxwood.  But I'll continue stumbling along with it for the simple reason to see how it's going to look on the ship.  
 
 As noted in my previous post I had to remove some wood from the sides of the cut-water, which necessitated closing the large groove in the underside of the lion.  Next was to make a chisel to carve the new groove.  I used a #17 Excel chisel and ground the sides down till I had a 3.5 mm chisel.  This had to be sharpened and honed on 1000 grit and 3000 grit stones.
 
Re-cutting the groove was easy and quick and I could now concentrate on shaping the lion.  I removed quite a bit of wood from the sides making it much leaner.  I even started to shape the muscles in the lion's legs, which are beginning to look a little better.  Next I moved up and started work on the head, much more difficult with this crappy wood and will most likely have to use some wood filler.
 
Well, that's about as far as I got yesterday when I threw in the towel and called it quits.  Showered and changed into some dry comfy duds, just a pair of shorts.  Had a cup of Rooibos tea and two gingersnap cookies, yummo
 
Here are a few pics of my efforts.
 

This shows my narrower chisel I made from a #17 Excel blade.  Held between a pair of Vicegrips and slowly grinding the sides down with intermediate dunking it it cold water to prevent loosing the temper.  Here it's not yet sharpened.
 

This shown the new 4 mm groove in the underside of the lion.  Everything is still in a rough state.
 

A 3/4 side view of the lion.
 

This shows the bow lion temporarily stuck on the cut water.
 
Cheers,    

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Hi Mates,
 
After drilling the needed holes and squaring them along the lower railings got close to attaching the main mast, and the shrouds, then – for some reason – as I was squaring the last of the railing holes, I decided to attach the needed horizontal rail at the foremast (where the squared holes had already been completed; to be sure that the vertical beams would all align properly when it was time to glue those long horizontal rails on each side.
 
Then realized that having pre-attached the foremast shrouds, before fixing in place the upper rail trim bits was a big mistake.
 
Now trying to align the squaring of the pre-drilled holes, adjusting the heights of the vertical braces is a real pain. Hmmm So before I attach the lower main, mizzen, and their shrouds, I will build all the rest of the upper rails first.
 
PS: Mark I should have gone back to your log (Marktiedens #103) and taken your sequence into consideration. Frank and I had also discussed this issue J we were both concerned about installing the upper railings before all the rigging work in case of breakage later on - (being all thumbs and all) Oh well, still an adjustment work in progress.
 
 
Here are a couple updated photos.
 
Regards,
 

 
 

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Kevin, So nice of you to spend your lunch break here. I'm very appreciative. Thank You indeed.
 
Thanks Backer, LevDavidovic, and Woodo in choosing to follow along as well. I appreciate the courtesy on your parts. Welcome to the shipyard. Though you may turn "grey" before its launched for its sinking (:-)
 
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Not to "beat a dead horse", but (:-) after my last post regarding the knightshead railings without pin holes, I got curious about why I decided to do them that way. Well going over some photos gave me the answer. 
 
I assumed that the photo below were actual salvaged original parts (they certainly look it). They had no indications of pin holes.
 
I also used this photo for help in adding a single anchor cathead that I mounted on the port side. Its port anchor will be attached later on.
 

Are you sure you are building the same scale model from Corel or is this in 1:35 instead of the original 1:75.
I see details on your model I cannot dream of, so perfect looking to the same on my Corel in 1:75.

Joe, thanks very nice of you - as always : cheers to you
 
Frank, Yes the Vasa is always coming up with changes as they "discover" more errors at the museum. Including the 1/10th photos below.
 
The knigntshead rails (just behind the mainmast has two versions); one with pins, and one without. I built mine without, so the railing is too thick to NOW drill holes for pins. It appears in one of those photos that the ropes are just wrapped around the railing. Its hard to really see details however.
 
Though the Corel sheets do indicate pin holes for both fore and main mast railings. Hmmm ??
 
JanV, So nice- thanks so much you are way too nice. So appreciated indeed.
 
Also thanks mates for dropping and taking a look - always appreciated.