The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50

[Siggi52]

Hello,

because I started with my Tiger in Dec 2017, and I should carve there the quarter pices now, to which I'm at the moment not in the mood. And at least I would like to build a ship or model readdy.

 

During the summer I bought the book from Werner Dammann about the Gokstad Ship, because these Viking ships interested me since my youth. To my birthday the book by Vibeke Bishoff about the Oseberg ship came along to that.

 

I started some time befor with the keel and then the plug for planking. Now the first two rows of planks are laid. I build in castello, the planks are 0,5 mm thick.

 

Edited January 18 by Siggi52
corrected log title

[albert]

Great start Siggi.

[Siggi52]

Hello

and many thanks for all the likes

Today only a small update, I started with the 3. plank on both sides. The visible part of the 2. Plank is here ca 2 mm.

[Keith Black]

 This is going to be beautiful, Siggi. 

[Siggi52]

I hope so, Keith

[Siggi52]

Hello,

today I finished the 3. plank. The two parts up the stems are the most complicated parts. That part in the middle is ,at the moment, not so complicated. But this time I tried to bend the plankt before, and it's working. I just wetted the plank a little, fixed it, and then grilled it with my heating pistol. 😉

But also this part I glued on in two parts.

And these are the new planks, only 13 left per side. So, if you hear the next time not so much from me, I'm bussy planking.

[Wintergreen]

That is not a very large model, to say the least.

13 plansk may not sound like much, but seeing the amount of detail you put into each plank I can see that it will take a while to do.

Very nice Siggi!

[Siggi52]

Hello,

the fourth strake is ready. That is at least more work then I had expected. To show you the dimentions, a picture with a ruler.

[albert]

Great beautiful work Siggi.

[Jim Lad]

I somehow missed your log, Siggi.

 

That looks a beautiful model.

 

John

[Siggi52]

Hello,

and thank you for all the likes and comments.

And before my green kale gets ready, a small update. Yesterday I finished the 5th strake. This morning I took the ship from the plug, to eliminate the glue remains from the inside. It was't so bad as I first exspected.

[Wintergreen]

9 hours ago, Siggi52 said:

This morning I took the ship from the plug, to eliminate the glue remains from the inside. It was't so bad as I first exspected.

That is a relief really. It would be very stressing having to clean up glue residue on that delicate structure.

 

I do wonder though how you did those fine lines on the stems? Did you use scrapers?

 

[Ian_Grant]

10 hours ago, Siggi52 said:

Hello,

and thank you for all the likes and comments.

And before my green kale gets ready, a small update. Yesterday I finished the 5th strake. This morning I took the ship from the plug, to eliminate the glue remains from the inside. It wasn't so bad as I first expected.

I built a 16ft cedar strip canoe years ago, on plywood bulkheads mounted on a T-bar of two 2"x10" boards. After fiberglassing the outside, it was time to lift the hull off to sand the inside. Don't recall the glue I used, but the glue runs on the inside WERE as bad, and as concrete-like,  as I expected. There's no joy like sanding a large concave cedar wood surface......🙄

 

And Siggi, your ship looks outstanding!

[Hubac's Historian]

Gorgeous work, Siggi!

[Siggi52]

Good morning,

many thanks for the likes and nice comments.

 

Håkan, that is only one scraper, and he is a little too wide. Half an millimeter would be better, but this is the smallest one I could build. But it dominate the planking a lot as I saw at the last pictures. In nature it's not so much. Christensen measured these profiles, and it were 1600 m at all. Lukily they used at the Gokstad ship only one form. These were at least a little more complicated then the one I build. At the Oseberg ship they used 7 different molds!

 

At the picture you see also my test planking, now oiled. I don't know if I shoulld stain the oil a little.

[Keith Black]

 Siggi, I think the wood is beautiful and very pleasing as is. 

[Siggi52]

You are right, Keith. The wood would darken over the time from alone. And it's more naturly.