Wasan 1628 by Nazgul - FINISHED - Billing Boats Vasa 1:75

[NAZGÛL]

Cheers mate! You're partly to blame for that.

 

/Matti

[NAZGÛL]

Hey all! I've made the capstan. It was nice to do a more quick moment after the carvings.

 

First a picture I took at the museum:

 

 

And here is mine:

 

 

I tried to make it slightly smaller compaired to what the instructions say. I also reshaped the vertical parts. It's made of 20 parts and I weathered it prior to assembling to shade the wood the way I wanted. The glue would make the weathering difficult.

 

 

/Matti

Edited April 4, 2014 by NAZGÛL

[newbuilder101]

The capstan looks wonderful Matti! Great job on the weathering too!

[Jase]

Just been catching up on this build.  Looks great, hat off to you on the carving front top class finish.

 

Jase

[mobbsie]

Love the carving Matti, it proves the point that practice does make perfect, wonderful job mate.

 

The capstan is really good and not easy to make with so many small parts, that's a good job well done.

 

Be Good

 

mobbsie

[NAZGÛL]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone!

 

Lawrence, yeah spring is here and that means I have to do some chainsawing and other things now so I have less time to work on the model atm.

 

Mobbsie I had to redo the big main part a couple of times to get it the way I wanted. Making the thin hadles was also a bit tricky as they wanted to break when shaping them.

 

 

Thanks again!

 

 

 

/Matti

[popeye the sailor]

nice work on the capstan........I've had the privilege of making a Billing's capstan as well......many parts.   I wasn't pleased with the dowel that made up the bars.   I had some smaller sized dowel that worked out much better.......not as much sanding     all 'n all Matti,  the capstan looks great.......you've done a sweet job with the weathering.  looks super! 

[NMBROOK]

Wonderful work on the capstan mate!!As Lawrence says,you are really motoring along now.Probably because sanding bending and painting all those ornaments is now behind you  

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

[NAZGÛL]

Cheers guys!

 

Popeye, you mean the capstan is a BB standard version? It's pretty close to the real Vasa capstan so I would have guessed it was designed after the original one as seen below on the 1:10 model in the museum. I also scratched the bars from suitable sticks I have.

 

 

Nigel, ha I thought I slowed down when starting carving stuff, but you're right, painting the ornaments takes some time to do, still it's the part I enjoy most.

 

 

/Matti

Edited April 4, 2014 by NAZGÛL

[mtaylor]

Sweet looking capstan, Matti.  I didn't do the bars on my Vasa, but you've gone that extra step and it looks great.

[Karleop]

Very nice capstan Matti,

 

Saludos

[popeye the sailor]

believe it or not Matti.....the Half Moon had the same design capstan.   the problem with mine,  was that parts were missing in the kit,  so I ended up doing scratch anyway.......we can compare diagrams     naw......what's the sense......your would look better that the kit version anyway.......hands down!   I like that picture you've shown there......that guy in the foreground......is that David Crosby {Crosby,  Stills, Nash & Young}....one of my faves 

[themadchemist]

Nice job Matti.

 

So on the Wasan, the capstan went down with the ship, huh...hum...um 

[NAZGÛL]

Thanks all for the nice comments and likes everyone!

 

Mark, I was considering that, but it I really like the look with the bars on. I did consider the setup with only 2 (4) bars like on the real Vasa today but ended up with 3 (6).

 

Karl, you may consider making yours slightly shorter like I did; to my eye the BB instructions numbers would make it to big. Thats only my gut feeling though.

 

Popeye, thats funny, I wonder if they did theirs based on Vasa's and then used it for others? 

 

Keith, cheers.

 

 

/Matti

[kirill4]

Hi Matti,

I like very much Your style ! and I like galleon as well ,and allways with great interest watch how people work with wood  ...

Regarding capstan You made - nice job!

But I have question...those bars ...the side goes to the capstan head...they need to be rectangular and round all the rest...difficult to see on foto...

Did You make them rectangular or left rounded?

Thanks

Kirill

[NAZGÛL]

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah I made them slightly squared where they connect. I didn't get them perfect though. After cutting them in the right length, I shaped them with sandpaper and a drilling machine, don't know the English word for it, the small one for screwing screws. The thicker end is not sanded and when the overall shape is nice, just shape and square the thick end with a knife. I don't think it should be too prominent at this small scale.

 

The bars were easy to do, the squared holes were much trickier imo.

 

 

/Matti

Edited April 5, 2014 by NAZGÛL

[kirill4]

Hi Matti,

Clear, thanks,

making my "galleon rigging report"  I was thinking in parallel how to make this "the squared holes" ...I mean ,how would I do that...take some steel rectangular cone end rod , heat it up till yellow color and to burn preliminary drilled hole inserting this rod and than sand paper...but this is just my fantasy 

How You did it in reality?

[NAZGÛL]

I drilled a little hole first and then made it larger and finally squared with a exacto knife. I needed to make the top end harder so it wouldn't break when making the top holes. I used superglue for that. If you want to weather it, do it before adding the glue. When you're done you need to add a coat of flat varnish as the glue will be glossy.

 

/Matti

[NAZGÛL]

Made the last steps of the capstan work:

 

 

And how it turned out mounted to the ship:

 

 

 

The lighting outside was great for captuaring the paintjob so I snapped a few more.

 

 

 

 

/Matti

 

 

 

[riverboat]

Beautiful!! Matti....... Great looking build you've got going on.

Frank

[NMBROOK]

Tremendous work    She is shaping up to be a stunning model and a benchmark for other Wasa builders mate!

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

[kirill4]

Hi, Matti

I liked this fotoes You made -where model placed in front of trees...and color schema used for painting...really perfect ! artistic!!!

 qstn abt guns - looks strange for me arrangements of breeching(too thin and short) and coil ?...or they are  installed temporary? or there is some specific for this vessel?

All the best!

Kirill

[Karleop]

Hola Matti,

 

thanks for your sugestion about making a little shorter the capstan but I had already done, however I like the idea of ​​putting the bars. You can see pictures in my thread.

 

Saludos

[NAZGÛL]

Frank and NIgel your work is a big inspiration for me so thanks!

 

Kirill, yeah they are simplified. It's my first go at ship building and rigging them like the original is well above my skill limit.

 

Karl, it turned out great!

 

 

 

/Matti

[NAZGÛL]

Cheers Lawrence!

 

 

/Matti

[firdajan]

Hi Matti,

 

I can still repeat the same - perfect job ! Your Wasa looks like really wooden cathedral now ! Thanks for pics !

 

Jan

[Lin Feng]

Hi Matti,

 

fantastic job, I also admire your scratch build cannon barrels. My Sergal kit contains only one size of 43 mm long barrels for the upper decks. I want to try if I can also build the longer and thinner barrels, as you made it. Do you have any measurements of this barrel in relation to the other cannons on the upper decks.

 

Cheers Lin Feng

Edited April 6, 2014 by Lin Feng

[kirill4]

Frank and NIgel your work is a big inspiration for me so thanks!

 

Kirill, yeah they are simplified. It's my first go at ship building and rigging them like the original is well above my skill limit.

 

Karl, it turned out great!

 

 

 

/Matti

Hi Matti,

When I first time saw Your model ,I never could say that it is Your first "try"...looks very proffessional! 

but if You did so perfect and most complicated job, all those small minority need to be done at the same level, as seems to me

It is not ness-ry to make full guns rigging, may be it will be sufficient to install breeching only and to install all ness-ry ring-bolts without tackles,as You did?

But the question about too thin and short breeching remains...but of couse it is not critical point  

All The best! 

[NAZGÛL]

Thanks Jan and Ling! Ling I dont think there could be known measurements as they were salvaged but if you check out Claytons cannons he made for the 1:10 you get a sense how big they should be.

 

kirill,  I'm not sure I understand why you want them thicker and longer.

 

 

But no, no question remain. They are not perfect but I did them to the best of my ability. And I said the rigging is simplyfied earlier in this thread (post 881 and others). This is just a model built for me, and I know my limitations. Perhaps I get to your level in later builds.

 

 

 

/Matti

 

 

 

 

[Ulises Victoria]

Matti.Your weathering techniques on the woodwork is beyond reproach. Have you given any thought on what it would take to duplicate the same effect on the painted surfaces, figures etc ? Your work of course is way above mine but seeing how I am talking to a master your comments do go into my handwritten log.

 

Chris

Just a reminder... Vasa had no time to "weather" or to wear out. So don't go overboard there.