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Lawrence, Thank you for your very nice thoughts, I cherish the compliment. I'm not super comfortable with my decision, in retrospect, of having purchased the Corel, the Billings is a much superior. That being said, when it comes to the masts and riggings I can hopefully get much more accuracy as I move forward. PS: You Victory guys are so above my league. That is probably the most difficult ship to build, with the SOS somewhere just behind. The painting alone on the V. is scary. -
Thanks Joe, much appreciated. MIchael
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NIgel, YES, sawing those metal figures was a bit of a chore. Some didn't end well, but since I sort of doubled my inventory I ended up with enough acceptable halves to paint and install. These figures are an other area were Corel did not go its proper research. This kit needs an upgrade. Its been around for decades and has certainly paid for itself in spades by now. Coupled with the huge success of the museum I would imagine that this is still an excellent SKU for Corel. Perfect opportunity to upgraded both the kit's accuracy as well as, of course, its price. Regards, MIchael
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Andy, Thanks as always. Take care of yourself right now (:-) MIchael
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Matti, Super nice. After following the Vasa Builds here, I agree with you, the Billings, in retrospect should have been my purchase choice as well. The Corel, for all of its nice features is not very accurate. It needs a lot of customizing. Your Billings right-out-of-the-box is very well designed. The only deficit for a kit of this cost are the decorative pieces. They would have been much nicer in metal, in my opinion. However since they all needed to be painted I suppose that it is a small fault. The pieces are certainly very accurate to the original, Corel's are not. You chose well. Your build is excellent. Regards, Michael
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Andy, I'm also just catching up. So sorry for your loss. These events are never easy. Please take care care. Sincerely. Michael
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Hi everyone, So finally an update that actually has moved forward, working on adding the outer rail decorative figures. One side is complete. Turns out that the 1:10th has theses figures carved in two dimensions (same as the 1:1). Corel supplies their kits with complete three-dimensional figures. So, I sawed them in half. Corel also supplies only one form of these figures, whereas the Vasa actually had several different looking figures, mounted in various forms of clothing and colors. So, I painted them all the same to reflect the example in the photo below of the 1/10th (the one next to the cannon.) But allowing myself a bit of artistic license I kept a gold tinge in the hair. Them being Nordic and all (:-). I also finished the railing white trim on both sides. As usual thanks for dropping in. Regards, Michael
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Matti, Nice update. looking very excellent. Be sure to put the "first class" toilets in the right place (:-) Regards, Michael
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Mark, Very nice work. Sergal sure got things right with this kit. Love the cannons. Regards, Michael
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Andre, Nice update. Your railings look excellent. Nice work. Regards, Michael
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Bob, Nice update. Your skill set is tops. Super nice.... Regards, Michael
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JPett Joachim, John, Nigel, JanV, Mark Guys thanks so much for your latest encouraging words. I have, as you might know, been bothered with past mistakes (ship-of course (:-) the other parts of my life have been perfect Hmmmmm.. I went back and looked at an error that would be too hard to fix now. Corel, as opposed to Billings, did not properly indicate how the upper deck entry framings should look, nor how high they should be above the deck. So, if this might be of help for Corel Wasa kits under your tables, it could have been an easy adjustment (had I known) I could have installed that middle portion of the weather deck template a bit lower, and added a rearward slope to the housings themselves, then added the cover planks. Moving forward; looking forward to my next steps. Again thanks to all of you who post, click Like or just look in Big Thanks. Regards, Michael
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Mark, Your paint work is First Class, yes it does get tiring (:-) But your quality of work sure shines. nice update Regards, Michael
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Hello everyone, Joachim, Matti, thanks for your comments. Buck I will check this out. I do remember something like that in JPett's log. Thanks Here is the third, and last update regarding this "fix". It is hard to believe that I'm almost totally done with fixes. The first photo was the original look of that part of the ship; before rebuilding the ladders, the gratings, the transom railings, the poop deck, as well as adding those two benches on each side of those doors, and adding white trim all along the outer edges of the railings. The second pic is the same view after all of the repairs. Oh, as you can also see on that second pic, those "rope pulley things" (knightheads?) have been removed. They will also get re-invented to look correct. Those railings that Corel indicated should be added have also been removed. In second photo you can really see the error built into the Corel kit regarding those "center" entry door framings. The housings are much too high. Just the upper rounded tops should rise above the weather deck. AND my lack of shaping them with a rearward slope (MY error) added to the problem. grrrrr (:-) That section of the deck should be just a bit lower. I could have done that as I was installing that first deck layer, but I was ignorant of that issue at that time. I've become a bit more critical since. The rest of the pics are just a look around sort-of speak. I'm comfortable with this repair work and can now move forward. 1) Drill all hull cannon door and draw rope holes. 2) Build and install ratline frames 3) Figure out what to do regarding those square hole dilemmas for the railings 4) Cut in half, and paint the remaining gilded figures for the deck railings decorative bits. Thanks for stopping by, always very much appreciated. Regards, Michael
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Matti, Yes to all of the above. I really like your perspective on this ship. Beautiful.... R/ Michael
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John, Again a big thanks for your kindness. Michael
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Nigel and Mark, Thanks to both of you for your advice. Both ideas are clever. My fear is that the railings are much too fragile for some 80 squared holes. I'm still debating how to achieve this. it would have been, of course, a simpler project doing the holes before installing the railings. I'm thinking of this approach (see pic), labor intensive but it might also work. I will only need to drill round holes. The square vertical pieces, once the tips are rounded, will hide the round railing hole, and the piece will seem to continue uninterrupted just bellow the rail. This will allow the accuracy of the 1:1 to stay seemingly intact. In any case I will drill all of the holes before installing the ratlines. The nature of these very thin square "pegs" will be super fragile and will be the very last bit of the build waaaaaay down the road (:-) Again thanks for your advice. Regards, Michael
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Lawrence, Thanks much appreciated. Michael
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Nigel, Thanks your suggestions will be very helpful, though my issue is how to square the holes per the 1:1 example for the very upper railing verticals. Note pic. I may just drill all of the holes and then insert dowels instead of trying to square the holes after drilling them. In any case this will be well down the road. Regards, Michael
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AWESOME !!!!! Theo you are a Master. Michael
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Very surprising indeed. A country with such a history to become "American" and cast aside some of its glorious past is, well, shocking. We in the USA are PHD's in destroying our past history by mostly tearing down the old and building something new above the removed rubble. Unless one travels to Boston or Philadelphia we would never know where we started from some 350 years ago. That mobile phone bit is so sad, not for folks our age but for today's children. Such a disconnect. Regarding museums, much is the same here with interactive displays, but there must be places where one just goes just to look in wonder, don't you think? (that was a rhetorical question). Michael
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Buck, Sorry to read your sad and inevitable post. Hmmm loosing parents is one of the very difficult truths in all of our lives. You, and your dad are lucky that you could share each other's love until he turned 93. A real gift many of us did not have. Good for you. (:-) I hope that you settle back to a routine soon enough. Many of us do miss your posts and kind words. Take care, hope that you can get back to your hobby in the near future. Regards, as always MIchael
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Hi everyone, Here is part 2 of my poop deck railing fixes. Due to errors in the Corel framing, the new cannon openings will "sit" too high. But I wanted to add the stern most cannon port decorative pieces. So you and I will know of this error but it will escape everyone else's attention. Ironically enough even if I had understood this before installing the weather deck, and made height adjustments, it would have thrown off the entire stern and galleries. As it is, the upper galleries sit too high along the hull. But had I incorporated the adjustments then the stern windows as well as the window stranding soldiers would have not had the proper space in which to stand. Corel hello??? Moving on.... I also needed to add filler pieces to the upper weather deck stern decorative piece (piece where the flag pole will mount) in order to have it properly align with the deck edges after removing those hull trim pieces from my previous post. These fillers will visually mostly disappear as I add more details during the third and final update of this repair. I also decided to remove all of the wood trim along the entire upper hull railings, and replace them with stained white trim. It will look much more detailed as well as adding a sense of "paint" that the Vasa wore so well for an hour or so. The upper rails will also have this white trim added when the poop deck work is completed as well as the very last third railings. These wont be installed until the very end of this build. Though in the interim I need to drill all of the holes for the vertical uprights. These holes need to be square (no idea how to do this without damaging the already fragile rails). Thanks, as usual, for stopping by. Regards, Michael
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Mike, Hmmm, no I have not heard of this tool. But you spiked my interest as well. This may be informational for you Possibly other members could address how this tool works with much much smaller wood pieces for adding trim detail to planks? R/ Michael
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Nigel, Hmmmmm very unfortunate update regarding the Maritime Museum. I remember admiring soooo many beautiful model ships, many of which, of course, were period builds. Whomever are responsible for those decisions should walk the plank. I will then just remember the wonderful memories of that visit. I imagine that these silly things still take up museum space, see pic (:-) Regards, Michael
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