Vasa by Karleop - FINISHED – Billing Boats – reviving a poorly built model

[Karleop]

Hi everyone!!

 

After some days off I made a little progress with the shrouds and stays.   For that I use the pictures of the 1:10 model, Clayton´s page and some imagination or common sense.  Here some pictures:

 

 

Main mast

 

 

Foremast with some details (not all finished)

 

 

Saludos and thank for watching, Karl

[dgbot]

Nice start on a long process.

David B

[Ulises Victoria]

Seems like you are approaching the end. Good job. "Me cae que" (Spanish slang ) you are doing a terrific job with this restoration. 

 

Any idea what will be next?

 

Saludos

 

Ulises

[Karleop]

Seems like you are approaching the end. Good job. "Me cae que" (Spanish slang ) you are doing a terrific job with this restoration. 

 

Any idea what will be next?

 

Saludos

 

Ulises

 

Hola Ulises

 

I think there are more months to go with the rigging and doing sails, but then the plan is to do the Pride of Baltimore (MS) the one I bought last year, which by the way, has plenty of instructions and plans, exactly the opposite  of BB Vasa.

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

That rigging line looks great. Did you make it yourself on a ropewalk ?

 Hola Brian

 

Thanks for your comments.  For the rigging I used mainly the material that comes with the Kit, but for the thinnest one (that comes in white color) and others I prefer to use the leftovers of others kits I already made.  Additionally I find in fabric store a cotton thread that is used for "crochet" and comes in three sizes, different colors and in general have better quality than the ones included in the Kit.

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hi there

 

After a week of working in some remodeling of my house I've barely had time to continue with my Vasa but here you can see that I had already put the bowsprit and some other details.

 

 

Thanks for all the likes,  Saludos, Karl

[md1400cs]

Karl,

 

Nice update. rigging looks very good.

 

Michael

[HIPEXEC]

Beautiful work!

[Karleop]

Hola a todos!!

 

After a very occupied weeks I had only made small advances on my Vasa (besides and as you know,  the rigging process represents much more work than it seems at first sight).  Here a small update:

 

 

Additionally, and thanks to Frank who sends me a sketch of the anchor, I modified the plastic one that comes with the Kit

 

 

 

Thanks for watching and the likes,

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hi guys:

 

Continuing with the rigging I encountered new difficulties and/or inconsistencies. Till now I already made the posterior stays of the foremast and for the mainmast.

 

 

In the next pictures you can see details for the posterior stays for mainmast and foremast (according to the planes of BB). Maybe instead of stays there must be the ropes that supports the upper yards as described in Corel Kit.

 

 

 

Unfortunately in the pictures of the 1:10 model in the Vasa museum or in Clayton´s is not possible to discern who is right. Any comments?

 

Saludos, Karl

[schnu]

Nice progress, unfortuneatly I have no pictures of the 1:10 model, but the again, I don't think that they found the Vasa fully rigged, so there must be a marge between correct and wrong, unless I am missing some other sources

[Ulises Victoria]

Good work, Karl!

 

Have you tried to ask Clayton or Fred Hocker directly in this forum?

 

http://warshipvasa.freeforums.net/

Edited August 20, 2014 by Ulises Victoria

[md1400cs]

Karl,

 

Most of us are waiting for the upcoming Vasa rigging bible Vasa II. Fred is hoping - by the end of this year, we shall see (:-)

 

In any case this will be the "last word" regarding all of our rigging questions. Ulises is right check the link. Fred Hocker has listed all of the chapters that will be in the Vasa II book. Your work looks excellent by-the-way. 

 

Michael

[Karleop]

Ulises, Michael and Schnu: Thanks for your suggestions.

 

Saludos, Karl

[marktiedens]

Your rigging looks very nice - I know how difficult it is to rig those crowfeet. However,I may be wrong but I think those are the ropes to lift the upper yards.You can always ask Fred or Clayton at the Vasa forum mentioned in Ulises previous post - they are very helpful.

 

/Mark

[HIPEXEC]

Beautiful work! You can be proud of her.

[NAZGÛL]

NIce work Karl!

 

 

/Matti

[Karleop]

Hey friends:

 

I had several days without showing progress in my Vasa, which does not mean I was not very busy working on the rigging.  

 

So, at last I finished the more than 1,000 knots that were needed to fixed the ratlines to the shrouds !!

 

Probably this ratlines could be a little thinner and darker but I used the material that came with the kit.

 

 

Now I will begin with another challenge: doing and sewing the sails in order to fix them to the corresponding yards.

 

Saludos, Karl

 

 

 

[NAZGÛL]

Nice progress Karl! You're moving fast yet get a great result. I find myself moving on slow...

 

 

/Matti

[Karleop]

Hola Matti:

 

Considering the details you are doing with your Vasa probably your construction is going faster than mine.  Till now I dedicated one year building the VASA and seeing the things left I will need at least 2 or 3 months to finish it. 

 

Saludos, Karl

[Bindy]

Hi Karl,

 

Your rigging looks fantastic!  Congratulations on all 1000 knots !!

[GuntherMT]

That's.. a lot of knots!  Looks great.

[mar3kl]

Beautiful rigging.  I'm trying not to think about that part of my project.  Sincerely hoping Vasa II comes out before I start.

 

mark

[schnu]

That sure is a lot of knots, can`t wait to see her with sails

[Karleop]

Hola:

 

Before going into the sailing process I decided to finish the anchor fittings.  Here some pictures:

 

For the first step it was necessary to do the blocks due that the ones included in the kit seems not the appropriate.  To accomplish this I used a little piece of redwood, brass wire obscured with Black Patina (the one used to the lead in staining glass) and the metal strap for the pulley was made with a paper strip painted black.

 

The second step was to fix the anchor ropes. Here you can see the little pieces of wire in the opposite side of the anchor that were used to fix them inside the anchor ports

 

And finally, installing the anchors in its place. This was done according to the BB instruction manual, except I added little wood caps in the extremes of the anchor davits.  I made this because the ropes tended to slip off the pulleys due to the low weight of the kit anchors (in the original this did not happen due the great weight of the anchors)

 

Thanks for your comments and likes.

 

Saludos, Karl

 

 

[wernerkalk]

Dear friends and Wasa builders

 

I have followed nearly all Wasa buildes on Model Ship World mostly yours and I'm very impressed.

After I did start with my Wasa in January I found out that the manual from Billing Boat was very uncomplete and it was nearly impossible to work after that, even when I have some experiences by Building "Santa Maria",  "Danmark" and "Jylland".

Thanks your very extremely good explanations and fotographs my ship becomes more and more nice.

 

Gegards

 

Werner Kalk

[Karleop]

Hi Friends:

 

Thank you very much for your likes and nice comments, they are very encouraging.

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hola Werner:

Thanks for your comments.  So we are 4 instead of 3 BB Vasa builders in the forum, that is good!!.   By the way, your ship looks very nice.

 

Saludos, Karl

Edited September 20, 2014 by Karleop

[md1400cs]

Karl,

 

Nice update looking very good

 

PS: Love your backyard looks super peaceful. 

 

Michael

[NAZGÛL]

Karl, very nice work on the anchors and blocks! How did you get the vertical ropes holding the bowsprit so nice? I have problems getting mine correct due to the construction of the kit.

 

 

/Matti