Wasa by md1400cs - FINISHED - Corel - 1:75

[md1400cs]

I understand your frustration - I was at the same point in my previous build. I also removed those pin rails on mine. I am only going to move forward on my current build & not back track - if I happen to get something wrong then so be it . If I wanted it perfect then I would do something like hand carve all the figures .At this scale that would be nearly impossible.

 

/Mark

Mark,

 

Good points. I'm now in that camp as well. Done with the "what ifs".....It's now time just for the forward moving building part, research for its own sake (on this ship) , and the growing skills part.

 

PS: Oh and we would have had to also cast several diff, size cannons (:-)  

 

MIchael

[md1400cs]

Michael,

 

When I built mine seemingly eons ago, info was coming out hot and heavy.  For example, the color info came out just after I painted.  What I'm saying is to tell yourself, "ok.. there's new info but enough is enough, I'm building it now."  and get on with it.  With this ship in particular, the info will be changing for many years to come and if you wait, it will never get built.

Mark,

 

Yes I've now just joined that choir (:-)  It's now much more "peaceful" Thanks for posting, much appreciated. You are right this ship will constantly evolve.

 

Michael

[md1400cs]

I've said this before, but I'll say it again... this is one beautiful build!!

Frank

Frank,

 

You are also always SO kind. Thank You so very much for your posts.

 

Michael

[Ferit]

I'm quite agree with Nigel.

And you have already begun semi-scratch building.

I'm sure that you are sure of your abilities to overcome scratch building.

The issue is the time, the patience and the endurance for you.

The scratch wants much more time...

And it's important to be able to enjoy all the journey as well as to reach the destination...

Edited September 20, 2014 by AlphaUrsaeMinoris

[mar3kl]

Your build is beautiful; don't worry about inaccuracies after the fact.  I am in the middle of painting sculptures and I finally had to stop going back over them as I discovered more details.  "Wait, there are subtle gold highlights on the warriors' kilts..."  If the museum eventually releases the perfect kit, with 3D printed sculptures from scans of the real thing, then we can all buy it and start another build.  Meantime, we do the best we can.

[md1400cs]

mar3kl,

 

Thanks. I very much appreciate your support. Yes your points are all well taken and those of us who are building this ship would be more relaxed if we did not 'Fret" so much. Yes a 3D printed sculptures of this ship in a new and correct kit would be SO awesome. Certainly many of us would order and start all over again. It is such an amazing example of a 16th century ship, that to have it resurrected in Stockholm is a wonder to our times. I did have the fortune in the mid 90's to spend a day at the Vasamuseet (:-)

 

Michael

[Salty Sea Dog]

Hi Michael,

My avatar is our dog, Buster, and he is a lovable little guy.

 

I think the consensus is that your artistry trumps any deviations in accuracy. You had me hooked with the scarf jointed planks and 3 sizes of nails back on page 1!

Edited September 21, 2014 by Salty Sea Dog

[Ulises Victoria]

Outsanding job. Every time I come to visit I see something new that inspires me!

Excellent job, my friend!

[md1400cs]

Ulises,

 

Thanks, very nice of you I'm happy that my build is to your liking. Speaking of inspirations, I will certainly go back to your Vasa rigging posts to help me out when I get there.

 

Muchas Gracias

 

Michael

[edmay]

Hello Michael, Concurring other modeler's thoughts,the quality of your work is outstanding and your research helpful to many,thanks.Edwin

[md1400cs]

Edwin,

 

Your kind post is very nice. Thank You for the kind words. Very encouraging indeed. Thanks for taking the time to let me know your thoughts.

 

Regards,

 

Michael

[schiffebastler]

Hi Michael,

 

after beeing back from my long summer holiday it really took a long time to read through lots of pages with wonderful pictures of your Wasa! I must repeat it again, an amazing and fantastic build and step by step I am learning more about the Wasa. I am looking forward to the next update.

 

Regards, Joachim

[NAZGÛL]

Beautiful work Michael!

 

/Matti

[md1400cs]

Hi Mates,

 

Thanks so much for your supportive suggestions, comments, likes and just looking in, all are very much appreciated.

 

Continuing with the braces for the anchors; I focused on the single fish davit beam that was employed to help raise the anchor flutes towards the gunwales.  Only one beam was recovered indicative of the single beam being moved port to starboard as needed.

 

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I used a sanding disk to thin out a piece of wood. Then tapered both upper edges, added grooves on its outer tip and inner ends as well.

 

Added the required ropes and blocks.

 

Drilled four holes in the weather deck to simulate the two rope attaching laces.

 

Knotted two pieces of rope together using a Carrick bend.  This knot was a guess (I’m good at that J)

 

Glued the two ropes and also added glue to the knot ends to simulate a natural relaxed looking resting appearance on the deck

 

The last three pics are for my next area, still repairing previous mistakes, and will be giving my Proxxon milling machine its first real user test for adding the grooves  into the knightheads - Hmmmm Let’s see how that goes.

 

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YES I am sooo irritated at myself for not recessing the gun deck cannon framings. I had thought of it as I was inserting the four bits per opening but the lip seemed too thin AND my skills then were not as good as they are now.. Now its really too late for a retro fix.    Next time….

 

Always my regards,

 

Michael

[NMBROOK]

Your fish davit looks the business Michael I love the accompanying reference pics with your posts

You shouldn't have any issues with milling your knightheads,just keep the cuts small in depth as I assume you will be using the 1mm cutter.Thinking through your dimensions thoroughly enables use of the xy table dials to the full and is much more accurate than working to pencil lines.It is just a case of setting the cutter edge to the edge of the workpiece and let the dials do the rest.The main thing to watch for is allowing for half the cutter diameter where necessary and remember to work centre to centre for the slots I find drawing it out on paper and writing how many millimetres between each cut on the sketch invaluable,i.e. the distance on the dials,doing it whilst milling adds to the confusion and mistakes been there done that

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

Edited September 26, 2014 by NMBROOK

[JPett]

Ahoy Micheal 

 

Nice touch. The level of detail you are adding to this kit is incredible,   

 

How you could do such fine work and still find time to be  "sooo irritated" at yourself amazes me 

 

PS: I am looking forward to see what you do with your mill.

[WackoWolf]

WOW That is some Beautiful detail work you are doing. Thank you for sharing this and Please keep the detail pictures coming, I enjoy watching this build. 

[Salty Sea Dog]

It is a great build. And Happy Birthday Michael!

[md1400cs]

Hey Mates,

 

Nigel thanks for your sage advice. I will read your notes several times as I set up the Proxxon. 

 

JayPett, Joe and Buck you guys always help me along -- big cheers to you as well

 

Thanks for the likes and visits always appreciated.

 

Some of you sent me a PM birthday wish SO kind!!.

 

I know that the super majority of us prefer to post a neutral avatar. Many of us have become very nice helpful and caring internet friends. So given that its my Name Day today I thought that I would go out on a limb and post a face of your mate Michael.

This one was taken a few months ago (:-) That table is a child's size sorta fits my personality or so I've been told. Our son's room is now my hobby room

 

There's a a rumor of some kind of French drink with bubbles in it for tonight. (:-)

 

Cheers everyone..

 

Michael

[Vivian Galad]

Cheers!!!

[JPett]

Ahoy Micheal  

 

Happy belated B-day. Somehow I missed that 

 

Your selfie, for a better word really puts into perspective the "scale" of your work. 

[riverboat]

this build just gets better  and better, "Happy Birthday" Michael, and it was nice to see your smiling face ( much better than a neutral avatar)

Frank

[GuntherMT]

Happy Birthday Michael.

[Ferit]

Hi Michael,

As J.Pett said...

The second ship after Santa Maria...

Apprenticeship. Now journeyman...

I cannot imagine your mastery period...

[WackoWolf]

Happy B-DAY. I like your setup. I notice your a car guy, the case looks real nice, how long you been doing cars.

[schiffebastler]

Hi Michael,

 

happy Birthday 

Thanks a lot showing us some pictures from you and your shipyard! 

 

Bye Joachim

[fmodajr]

Happy birthday Michael!

 

Nice work on the davit! 

The only thing your work room needs now is a bed, since you will be spending all your time in there   

 

Frank

[marktiedens]

Hello Michael

Are you going to carve the heads on the knightheads?I am not far enough along on mine to know if the kit supplies them.BTW - happy birthday!

 

/Mark

[md1400cs]

Hello Michael

Are you going to carve the heads on the knightheads?I am not far enough along on mine to know if the kit supplies them.BTW - happy birthday!

 

/Mark

Mark,

 

No I won't carve the heads. They do come with the Corel kit. Here's a pic. These two knighheads will be removed and rebuilt, missing pulley grooves, but I will repaint and use the heads,

 

Michael

[md1400cs]

Happy B-DAY. I like your setup. I notice your a car guy, the case looks real nice, how long you been doing cars.

Joe,

 

OOOPPPSSSS,

 

You asked about my other obsession. I apologize as this one response is totally OFF within my log, but I could not help myself since you asked J

 

I have enjoyed collecting for about 25 years. And over that time the amount of incorporated details have gone to the point of  “the incredible”. My upstairs case are for all of the extras. Downstairs is my other more formal case. I have about 250 cars.

 

The first three a 71 Mustang is not an important car, but is reflective of details for a 1/24^th scale precision diecast. Note the manual trans gear linkage.

 

The other cars the Maserati, Bugatti, and the Panera are current releases in 1/18^th scale. 

 

Regarding the Maserati if you look carefully just inside the water hose loop you will see that even the chassis number has been included. Yes the door pulls articulate and work, as well as the suspensions in almost all of my collection. These are for-all-intense-and-purposes miniatures of real cars. Some have over 1000 parts.

 

My other collection is of 1/400^th aircraft 97% airliners, with just a few very important military aircraft such as the SR71

 

Cheers, thanks for asking.

 

I’ll stay on topic next time. Hope the pics are not too over the top, I know that I'm way off topic (:-) If the Moderators need to remove this post I understand....

 

Michael