The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50

[Baker]

I repeat myself (again).

Beautiful very beautiful work 

[Siggi52]

Hello,

the last two day I was pretty busy at the shipyard. UPs, and where is the ship?    😄

All the frames are installed.

The next days I think, I must concentrate my work more onto my house and garden. During that time, the ship could settle before I install the bitis (deck beams)

[Jim Lad]

Coming along very nicely indeed.

 

John

[Richard Braithwaite]

Your ship is looking fantastic. I built the hull of my "Olympias" model is a similar way (planking first and then frames made to fit). My log starts after I had done this, but I think ive included some description somewhere...

 

Interested to know if you made those frames to fit your planking or made them from patterns and then pulled the planking to fit them?

 

I remember working on an old steel ship, which we were rebuilding to make a different sort of ship...

 

I had designed a substantial, cambered frame to fit under a thin, lightly stiffened deck. Our shipwrights tried to fit it on a hot day. They made the frame with some extra material ("green"), craned it into place, marked it off to fit the undulations of the (old battered) deck and then took it back to the dockside to cut it to their marked shape. When they craned it back on board they found that the deck had changed shape (the sun was now shining on it from a different direction...). So they marked it off again and repeated the process.

 

After repeating this a few times they had cut off all the "green" and then some. They called me to come down to the ship and asked it I minded that the frame was now quite a bit smaller than I had intended...

 

The next day we tried again. We cut a new frame to the design shape (no "green") and pulled the deck down to fit it.

 

Your hull planking is very light, have you had any difficulties with distortion as you fit your frames?

Edited April 1 by Richard Braithwaite

[Siggi52]

Hello John and Richard, thank you.

 

Richard, because I could't build the ship like the Vikings, I build the planks over a plug and take the frames also from that plug, as seen in one picture. And yes, I had to fit the planks to the frames because they sorted themself into a comfortable way and did't stay in the way they where build at the plug. But it was not soo much I had to correct.

[Siggi52]

Hello,

today I found some time to work at the shipyard and build the mast step. There are some knees left to build, but tomorrow is also a day.

And here he is fitted in. There is a little gab to the left, but the knees will cover it later.

Only the outer deck beams are fast at the moment. I needed a high fore the mast fish, who will follow next. With the beams I made a short cut with there ends. You would't see that later.

[Jim Lad]

Up to your usual standard, Siggi!

 

John

[Siggi52]

Hello,

thank you John and all others for your likes.

The mast step is ready and installed. Now my fingertips have to regenerate for some time 😉

And here with the deck beams installed. As the next thing to do, I think to instal the other deck beams.

[Keith Black]

 Amazing detail, Siggi. 

[Siggi52]

Thank you Keith

[Ian_Grant]

Fantastic - immaculate - not a single glue mark!!!!

[Chuck Seiler]

Siggi,

    Amazing work!  What are you using for nails/rivets?

[Siggi52]

Thank you Ian and Chuck. Chuck, the nails/rivets are pencil marks 😇

[Siggi52]

Hello,

I set in all the deck beams and most of the stantions. At the second picture you see, that the underwater ship has it's broadest pard one or two meters infront of the mast. The beams are at least 97-100 cm apart from each other.

Greatings also from the ships cat. He is getting old now (18) and enjoys the warm weather we have here the last days.

 

[albert]

Hi Siggi your work is fantastic.

[Siggi52]

Thank you Albert

[Siggi52]

Hello,

there was not much action at the shipyard the last time, but at least I made the mast and yard for the ship. Next on my list are the inverted knees 😐

[Chuck]

Lovely model.

[Jim Lad]

Progress is progress, Siggi! 😀

 

John

[Siggi52]

Thank you, Chuck and John

[Siggi52]

Hello and many thanks for your comments and likes,

today I finished the first 10 knees. Only 24 left 😟 That was't an easy task, but as I had established a routine, it worked well.

[Jim Lad]

The knees work well and fit beautifully, Siggi!

 

John

[Siggi52]

Hello,

today I build in another 8 knees and only 8 are left 😃

Only to show you the dimentions of the knees. When all went right, I takes half an hour for such a knee. But that happend rarely

The planks I build in between those points are in reality parts of the beams, means it is one pice of wood.

[Siggi52]

Hello, and many thanks for your likes

today I set in the last knees and the first side frames, as W. Dammann they named, up to the gun wales. 

[Hubac's Historian]

Just incredible!

[Siggi52]

Thank you, Marc

[Baker]

Amazing 👍

[Siggi52]

Thank you, Patrick

[Jim Lad]

The only problem I have with this model is that it's on the other side of the world and i can't see it in person! Thank goodness we have the forum so that we can still enjoy other members models!

 

John