Viking Drakkar by Knocklouder - FINISHED - Amati - 1/50

[Keith Black]

 That looks great, Bob. I'm impressed with your water especially considering it's your first attempt. 

[Glen McGuire]

Ditto what Keith said.  Fantastic job!  A well deserved keg of Kraken rum for you, the first mate, and the twins!!

[Keith Black]

2 hours ago, Glen McGuire said:

A well deserved keg of Kraken rum for you, the first mate, and the twins!!

 There ain't no backtrackin' when you start drinkin' kraken.  

 

Edited May 23, 2024 by Keith Black

[Knocklouder]

This journey is almost over,  just a few things left to do,  but not sure of which way I like to display it.  With oars stoed or in the water.  So most likely just going to let it sit for awhile  then come back and add some extra stuff.

 I may just paint the background  , some sky, birds, fish jumping 😀 penguins maybe.

 

I have to wait a bit  to completely finish,  but it only touch ups and a bit of paint, so almost finished.  Finished enough for me to cleanup the shipyard and start another  model.

Thanks for looking.  Hope it was fun, I had a blast. Looking forward to The King of the Mississippi River Boat,  looks like a lot of tinkering, neanderthals love to tinker lol

Bob M.   

 

 

 

[Louie da fly]

To me it looks better sailing, without the oars in the water. Nice work.

 

Steven

[GrandpaPhil]

Looks really good!

[John Ruy]

Fantastic work Bob. Maybe you can find some Viking Oarsmen? Just a thought…

 

John

[Knocklouder]

Last night the First Mate and I discusse weather to display it  with the oars stoed or on the water. We decided that if I don't have any crew rowing the boat, we should stoe them,it looks better. A few members agreed that they would look better with oarsmen.  So I will look into getting them later. So I am going to mark this finished,  but with the option to revisit later to tinker with it. 

This is were she will sit for most part, I may move it around a bit.

 Thank you all for your thoughts and advice on what  I should do. 

Thank you MSW/NRG, helping me learn how to build ships. 

Thank you for all members  who followed along and encouraged me along the way.

Thank you  everyone.  I just love modeling,

time to start another model today.  lol

See you on the next build. Your very great full  shipmate  Knocklouder. 

Bob M.

 

[Thukydides]

Great job Bob, a lovely build.

[Keith Black]

 Congratulations on another fine build, Bob. Another peach on an ever growing tree. 

[Scottish Guy]

An amazing job Bob and I love the diorama... well done...

 

Micha

[mtaylor]

Wow.. Looks great, Bob. Congrats on a very well done model and display.

[Bryan Woods]

Yeah Bob! Wow.. I like it:-) I can feel the wind on my face just looking at it! 

[Moonbug]

Nice work!

[Knocklouder]

Last week @Gabek, gave me a hand full of Viking crew members and 3 Vikings builders. Gabe told me to look for free files to print from Thingsuniverse , thanks for posting these. This is what we came up with.

The figures  were black   I primed them all white   

And began to paint them 

This is Kurt, he is a builder,

This is his twin brother, Keith ,he is a lawyer and comes in two scales.

The twins are taking the Bone-Hed brothers back to stand trail for crimes. You can see them tied back to back on deck, lol. We forgot about the foot lockers, so I will be making them up today.

lol once painted they will be fine.

Today is going to be a fun day, its a play day in the ship yard. I plan to finish  this and put a case over it. First I have to make the case lol. ,it should  be easy ,it only 20x11 by 11 high. Measurements in inches. Time to play,  

This bunch of crew is starting to fight over seating arrangements  lol. Time to glue them on. But first  the foot lockers. 

Bob M.

 

 

 

Edited July 17 by Knocklouder

[Knocklouder]

Foot lockers needed more sanding then I liked  but once a Viking is sitting down they look cool. I have to check to see if I am really 70 lol. This is way to much fun.

One is from  the kit  lol

Time the chain  up the brothers.

Kurt and LK are off to seek employment on the Astrolabe. 

So with the chains on and the course is set, time to put her in the case, and bring out this little  boat to finish rigging,  lol.

Thanks for indulging me on my play day, I will post one more time for the stern,  I need a figure about so high, lol. I will Have to Wait, he is busy,  no names ,no names lol. busy till Tuesday, I think we are going for coffee  soon, I put the bug in his ear lol.

 Thanks MSW/NRG,  and all who help me along the way. Ok back to rigging the Astrolabe  1812  🐧  🐧

Knocklouder     😁 

FFBI 🛟 

 

 

I just noticed,  if I clear out the bottom shelf,  I bet I could get 3 more models in there .lol.   😅 🤪 🙃 

Edited July 17 by Knocklouder
Guessing typos lol