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

[Karleop]

Hola Matti:

 

In order to make the ropes vertical it was necessary first to locate the correct location of the lugs corresponding to the holes of the bowsprit deck using a thread as a guide.  

 

 

In the pictures of Clayton´s and in the 1:10 model there are a couple of slots or grooves to pass the rope in the lower part but due that in the BB model there are not enough space to have both slots I made only one.

 

 

Hope this help, saludos, Karl

[NAZGÛL]

Thanks for the explanation, Karl!

 

Cheers

 

 

/Matti

[Karleop]

Hi guys:

 

Finally I finished the standing rigging placing the upper stay of the mizen mast.

 

At first I was going to do it according to the BB plans (only one rope) but I change my mind and prefer making it as shown in the 1:10 Vasa model and Clayton´s, with double rope and fixing them to the main mast shroud.

 

It is important to mention that if using this form it is necessary to make additional holes to the pinracks located near the mainmast.  Do it before making the shrouds!!

 

 

Saludos, Karl

[fmodajr]

Great Job Karl!

 

You are moving fast! Keep the photos coming since a lot of us are a little bit behind you in our progress.

 

Frank

[Karleop]

Hola amigos:

 

Well, now I'm in the process of making the sails. First I had to learn how to use sewing machine from my wife, as well as learning to sew by hand to place the bolt rope that go around the sails.  

 

The BB kit has all the sails printed in one sheet of fabric, so the first step was to cut the different pieces, then to sew the hem around the borders and sew several lines along the sails to simulate the the different pieces that form it.  At last I sew the bolt ropes that go around the sails.

 

I must to point out that to make the bolt lines it was necessary to search for a suitable thread in fabric stores: size (1.2 - 1.5 mm diameter), material (cotton or polyester) and color (beige or light brown), not an easy task.   Finally I only find a white nylon thread with the correct size.  After doing several tries I accomplished an acceptable finish using a mix of white glue, water and the same acrylic paint I used to paint the plastic figures in the ship. In the pictures you can see some sails with the bolt ropes already sewn and some without them.

 

 

Saludos, Karl

 

PD: Thanks for all the likes

 

 

[fmodajr]

Hi Karl!

 

Great looking sails!

Do you know of where I could by the sail plans that comes with the BB kit? I am making my ship from Corel and they do not include sail drawings. Is the BB kit the same scale as Corel 1:75?

 

Frank

[mar3kl]

Lovely work.  I've been debating whether to hang sails or not, and yours look quite realistic.

 

mark

[Karleop]

Hi Karl!

 

Great looking sails!

Do you know of where I could by the sail plans that comes with the BB kit? I am making my ship from Corel and they do not include sail drawings. Is the BB kit the same scale as Corel 1:75?

 

Frank

Hola Frank:

I don´t think you can get the sails from BB, but if you want I can send you pictures of the different sails and they measures.  And yes, the BB kit is also 1:75 scale.

 

Saludos, Karl

Edited October 2, 2014 by Karleop

[fmodajr]

 

Hola Frank:

I don´t think you can get the sails from BB, but if you want I can send you pictures of the different sails and they measures.  And yes, the BB kit is also 1:75 scale.

 

Saludos, Karl

Hi Karl,

Thanks! That would be great! I can make my own sails if I have some pictures and measurements.

Thanks for the help and also no rush!

 

Frank

[Karleop]

Hola Frank:

 

As I promised you here are the pictures and dimensions of the sails.  Take in account that the measures do NOT considered the hem, so you need to add around 0.5 cm by each side.

 

 

Saludos, Karl

[schnu]

You could have been a tailor

[fmodajr]

Hi Karl,

 

Perfect! Thank you very much!

This will save me a lot of time when I start the sails!

Great Job

 

Thanks again,

Frank

[md1400cs]

Karl,

 

Buena onda.. Thanks I will also use your pics for sail measurements, if I decide....

 

Nice of you,

 

PS: Your rigging looks great!

 

Michael

[Karleop]

Que tal Frank and Michael:

 

Nice to hear that the information could be useful to you.

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hi Schnu:

 

Well, as you know, part of the hobby has to do with: carpentry, painting, tailoring, soldering ....... and everything is fun!!

 

Saludos, Karl

[JanV]

Thanks for these pictures, I will save this information when I decide to mae the sails also.

[Karleop]

Hi friends:

 

These two last weeks I was a little lazy with my sails, in part of doing other things as:  dealing with termites in my house!! , and in part because fixing the sails to their spars is not as fun as with other parts of the construction.  Anyway this are some of my advances with the bowsprit and foremast sails:

 

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hi guys:

 

These past two weeks I finished fixing the sails to the spars corresponding to the main and mizzen masts.  Also adding more details to the sails and spars:

 

 

Thanks for your likes.

 

Saludos, Karl

[fmodajr]

Karl,

Your sails are coming out very nicely. Nice work on the sewing and bolt rope loops!

 

Great job,

 

Frank

[schnu]

Nice progress, your sails look really good. The stitching looks perfectly parallel, must have been time consuming to do that. But I guess one gets used the time consuming work with such a big ship.

[NAZGÛL]

Great job on the sails Karl!

 

 

/Matti

[Karleop]

Hola Frank, Schnu and Matti:

 

Thanks for your nice and encouraging comments.

 

Also, its nice to have several likes, thanks to everybody!!

 

 

Saludos, Karl

[mar3kl]

Beautiful work.  I guess if I'm going to do the same sails I will need to find a sewing machine and learn to use it.

[Karleop]

Hi guys:

 

Continuing with the sail details  I arrive to the Lateen sail.  At first it appeared to me that the form to arrange the folding rigging lines, according to the Plan, was not logical.  So I tried to see them in the pictures of the 1:10 model at the Vasa museum and Clayton´s  and although it is difficult to see the details one thing is clear: there were different.

Revising again the drawings in the Manual instructions I noticed another inconsistency between the drawing that comes in the Plan and the one in the Instruction manual and although is not complete it seems to be the correct one.  Finally I decided to use the latter with some part of my own.

 

PLAN:

 

MANUAL:

 

MY OPTION:

 

Saludos, Karl

 

 

[md1400cs]

Karl,

 

I think that I may have said this before, but your sails are excellent. Nice work!!

 

Michael

[Karleop]

Hi friends:

It seems that I am approaching the final steps, now in the process of placing the sails on the masts.  As the first one I selected the fore sail or fore course.  One thing to mention is the great number of rigging it has:  18 lines for this sail only!!

 

Here some pictures:

 

 

Thanks for your likes and comments.

 

Saludos, Karl

 

[md1400cs]

Karl,

 

Excellent !!!  also thanks for the large format jpg's they are very helpful for really looking at the details of your beautiful work.

 

Michael

[fmodajr]

Karl,

 

I love the way you got the sail to billow out. Great job! Wow, 18 lines for one sail

 

Frank

[Karleop]

Hola Michael:

 

Thanks for your words.  I decided to double the pictures jpg size, due that sometimes is frustrating trying to see some detail with no success.

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hi Frank:

 

At first I was not sure how the sail would like without trying to "bend" the sail previously using diluted varnish or a bath with water and white glue as some modelist recommend, but as you already noticed the sail billow out thanks to the the number of lines used to fix it. Now I am in the process to install the upper one or topsail.

 

Saludos, Karl