BLACK VIKING
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Wow that's a nice unit OC I think I need one of those for my collection. Looking forward to seeing you back on your lovely build. Martyn -
Hi Mogan very nicely done on the planking. One tip for next time is don't put the nails in all the way so after the glue has dried you can pull them out . Looking forward to the next update. Martyn
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Hi Candice for first time planking you are doing a cracking job of it , well done Martyn
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Thanks Michael for the brilliant comments A bit more done on the Vasa . All the guns have been rigged and rope coils made. The masts I have been making over the last few months have been installed and the rigging started. First up the stays and now we have had some nice weather I decided to do some outside for a change. I have changed the stays from the instructions as the upper ones where wrong as they were just tied up to upper masts without blocks. Once these were completed I started on the shrouds, the instructions were also wrong as they show the shrouds tied singularly and not in pairs as they should be so I have done mine in pairs. More to follow and thanks for following. Martyn
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Hi Tom it's nice to see another Vasa being built. Looking at some of the pictures I have noticed some of the carvings are in the wrong place on the stern and galleries so it might be worth looking at the instructions again. Hope this helps Martyn
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Hi Eddie looking good my friend. Just a bit of a heads up just make sure the back of the galleries are as flat as possible and I was a bit worried that there wasn't enough of an edge to glue the galleries to the hull so I added two blocks of balsa glued to the inside of the galleries so I could use PVA and ca to fix them securely. Hope this helps Martyn
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Sorry for not posting for a while but life gets in the way. Any way on with the build . Lots of painting and fitting of the decorations on the side galleries and Stern and boy some of them are small . The stem was painted and the PE fitted . I have started rigging the guns with one pulled back so I can show how the Outhaul tackle was used to pull the gun inboard. Next job finishing the guns then on with more painting. Thanks for following Martyn
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Stunning pictures and I echo your statement,THANK YOU Martyn
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Wow definitely want this one Chris can't wait for it to be released. Martyn
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Nice job Snoepert the carvings are right fiddley blighters to paint . Martyn
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Lovely work Ej she will complement the SR . Pulling up a chair for this one mate . Martyn
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Well saved with the tyre m8 it must have been a really scary . The Sol is looking stunning. Martyn
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I wouldn't worry about the different hight of the dead eyes as I have been on real ships where the dead eyes have been different heights it all depends on how tight the shrouds are . Martyn
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I live about 30 minutes from Felixstowe and hadn't even looked at that one 🤔 Definitely will now Martyn
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The Camel f-1 and the Fokker v.ii . The next one I want is one of the seaplanes not sure which one yet? Martyn
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Looking forward to seeing this build as I have built several of the wing nut models and the quality is superb and love aircraft of this era Martyn
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Cheers for all the likes guys. A bit more work done on the Vasa The stem has now been built and painted and the messenger port cut into the side of the hull as Deag seems to have missed this out?. I have also fitted the rudder as the instructions tell you to fit it later in the build when all the galleries are glued on and I didn't like the thought of leaning the ship over while trying to fit it . A bit of a heads up the rudder pintails are very hard and snap easy unless you soften the metal first by heating them up over some heat and letting them cool slowly, hope this helps. Back to painting lots more carvings. Martyn
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Thanks for the comments and likes guys. The decorations have now been fitted to the stem . I went with EJL idea with using epoxy to give me a lot more wriggle time to get them in the right position. More to follow Martyn
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Having built this kit you get quite a lot of line to finish the rigging as long as you don't go to mad with rigging the blocks. Martyn
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Hi all and thanks for the comments and likes. The Deag Vasa is a super kit to build but is still missing a few details ie the small ports for messages down on the lower hull and the masts are wrong but apart from that it's a cracking ship . I have done some more painting. The carvings that go under the beak are PE and take a lot of patience to get right. To make sure the paint didn't come off it was cleaned with IPA and primed with etch primer then all the details painted on . It will be left for a couple of days to harden up then glued to the beak . Not sure what glue to use as it needs a bit of wriggle room to line up with the backing so CA seems to be out so any help would be much appreciated . Thanks again for looking. Martyn
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Totally agree I was very disappointed with the way it was produced and I think they could have done a lot more with facial reconstruction instead of trying to find the relatives. And as for telling us that there where foreign people in Tudor Britain well what a surprise as Britain had been trading with the world for hundreds of years, you don't need to be a history professor to know that. Martyn
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