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I have been lurking in the background while trying to get over a terrible cold. The last couple of weeks have been so so and I haven't done much shipyard work. I've been logging in to see the progress on the current Oseberg builds and have watched all of Pavels videos (#1 - #14) over and over...

Introduction We live in a village in the Finger Lakes of New York (USA) with a large Danish heritage. Jensen, Christensen, Nielsen, Jorgensen and Sorensen make up a significant percentage of the population, including the Admiral, who was born here. (Fun fact - the Admiral's father was born...

Finally, he began to build a drakar.Set by Pavel Nikitin, scale 1:25.I started with the slipways. The convergence is good. I was slightly sharpening some details with a file.I have assembled and glued all the frames. I made a selection on them - a comb for lining the belt. Glued the keel.There...

I just opened a box with a new kit from the Ukrainian manufacturer "Ships of Pavel Nikitin". And just delighted with it. The whole ship is made of different types of wood (alder, beech, walnut) and no plywood or MDF...

Finally, the kit package arrived. Have wanted to build a Viking ship for a long time, but there hasn't been a good historically accurate kit. But now Pavel has put on the market a very nice kit. Have done an initial review of the content and can say that the quality is of a very high class...

Yet another famous "actor" of secular navigation: the Oseberg. The boat was built in the last half of the 800's and was buried roughly 50 years later. The ship is some 50 to 100 years older than similar vessels which have be found. I completed the kit a few years ago and, more than anything...