VASA 1628 (De Agostini)

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

Now everything just had to be attached to the ship.



Before that, a window had to be inserted which was not included in the kit.



In the same step, I added the sheavehole on the port and starboard sides



To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,
and again something was built that was not in de Agostini's plans. It was the turn of the hackboard with the flagpole. I assembled it directly on and in the model piece by piece according to various plans and pictures.



To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[dockattner]

Thank you for sharing all of this wonderful work Rudiger! You are bringing back so many memories for me.

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

in the book by Björn Langström (The Royal Warship VASA) there is a picture of the gallery area of the starboard side on page 98.
There you can see small golden decorations on the ship's side (see attached picture). These are not listed in the book by Wolfram zu Mondfeld. Question to the members of the forum: did these decorations exist and what did they represent? Maybe Fred Hocker can write me something about it. Many thanks in advance for your efforts.



Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

They are probably done by artistic license, because they do not appear on the real ship.


Nope.. not on this side either... The fact that the illustration in Björn Langström's book shows a blue hull indicated his book is obsolete.


They are not even on Paul's Vasa model which is painted accurately with respect to the original vessel... so they probably shouldn't be there.

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

Today there's a little treat as a reward. It was the turn of the rear lantern. In my opinion, one was never found and yet Björn Langström and Wolfram zu Mondfeld have the same sketches (perhaps they copied each other). It is also stated that the lantern was made entirely of brass or was gold-coloured. In Foxtrott's model, it is painted in the same colour as the ship. Since I'm starting from the books, I painted my lantern gold-coloured.

First, I milled a 15 mm acrylic round rod into an octagonal shape and then used a 0.8 mm milling cutter to mill the window frames. These were then blackened with black panel liner from Tamiya. The machined surfaces were then polished. I painted the candle white with a 1.5 mm hole
The tail is also made from a round rod. The flower at the end is made of pear. The air outlets are made from black cardboard and fixed with superglue. The base and the bottom of the lantern are also made from pear. After assembly, the corners were covered with 8 angels made from boxwood and the thing was finished.


I think I've managed to create something really nice that I'm a little proud of.

To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[dockattner]

Wow, wow wow!

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Thank you for sharing all of this wonderful work Rudiger! You are bringing back so many memories for me.

True memories, or nightmares of the tasks and time!

Great work done on this ship, the unpainted planks look like ship has measles almost.

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

I still owe you the attachment of the lantern at the rear. The bracket for the lantern is made of 2 mm burnished brass wire and the side supports are made of 1 mm burnished brass wire. I glued the brackets to the bracket with superglue because I didn't want to try soldering to the object.



As everything fits together, I will remove the lantern again and store it well. It will then be the last thing to be attached to the finished model.

To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

That's a lantern worthy of the King's ship.

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

According to Fred Hocker, the railings on the ship were ‘Pale Yellow’. I then glued everything on and repainted it with lemon yellow slightly mixed with white. Let's see if we can leave it like this.



To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

A few more small steps. The piece port lids have been rigged and the two anchors made. After that, several ropes were made for the shrouds and stages.



To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

Next up were the mast foot fairings. These are not included in the kit either. On the foremast, a platform was installed between the mast foot and the grabrails. The servant was also rebuilt and fitted. An opening was provided on the main mast for rigging the main halyard. More on this later.



To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

Rigging the main halyard on the main mast was a bit difficult. I used a chisel to carefully remove the bulkhead underneath the small opening down to the bottom and the gratings. Now the servant and the carding block were pre-rigged and the servant was glued to the bottom and under the gratings. To do this, I used superglue and carefully pressed the block onto the base with tweezers. Once dry, I fixed the deck carding block in place. This will only be needed again when rigging the yard.



To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

The ropes for the shrouds have been made and will now be partially covered and attached to the mast on my tried and tested machine.



We are now finished with the retelling and the following construction phases will take place in real time. Posts will no longer appear as frequently.

To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[GrantTyler]

Wow, wow wow!

True story

 

[GrantTyler]

Hello everyone,

The ropes for the shrouds have been made and will now be partially covered and attached to the mast on my tried and tested machine.

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We are now finished with the retelling and the following construction phases will take place in real time. Posts will no longer appear as frequently.

To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

Good morning Rudiger. Apologies for the gazillion "likes". Wow this is brilliant modelling. Cheers Grant

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

All the shrouds are in place and the first deadeyes are attached.



Now it's time to make ropes for knotting. Plenty of them are needed.

To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[Lucius]

Hello everyone,

The shrouds on the main and foremast are rigged and are only tensioned after the stays and back stays have been fitted.



To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger

 

[oldflyer]

Such great work!!
I had built the worse example (Corel) of the Vasa - wish there had been other choices way back then -
Again excellent work

Regards,