Hello Captain,
There are NO DRAWINGS at all supplied with the AL kit (unless something has changed - recall I purchased mine from DeAg but I can assure you it is the very same kit). The AL kit will come with a photo-rich build guide. Indeed there are hundreds of pages to the guide offered digitally as .pdf documents. You can see that build guide here:
https://www.deagostini.com/us/assembly-guides/. Just click on the Vasa and you will see the twelve build stages presented there for downloading.
But there's more. There is an official build on the ModelSpace website and you can see a builder demonstrate every single step of the construction:
https://forum.us.model-space.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=540. The first nine stages of the official build are in the
Official Build folder - the final three stages are in the
Member's Build folder. Something happened and the builder was not permitted to post progress in the
Official Build blog so he switched over to the
Members page and completed the build.
I think it would be really important for you to carefully review these materials. I say this because if you are looking at my build it does not represent the kit build in many of the details. My build is my interpretation of the kit and has been modified.
Now, to answer your specific question. The kit does come with sails and if you are interested I could take a picture of them and post it for you. I would say they are the 'standard' sails provided with many kits. I think you would find them very usable depending on your goals. With regards to rigging - there are rigging instructions provided in the AL (DeAg) build guide but it is greatly simplified for buildability. You can see what that would look like by reviewing the
Official Build or any of the other DeAg build logs (available on the ModelSpace forum as well as on MSW). But if you want to make the rigging more accurate I would refer you to the plans available digitally from the Vasa Museum (I could send those to you as well). The rigging instructions for the Billings Vasa are also much more accurate than those provided by AL. See the wonderful builds on this forum by
@Daniel20 (
https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/vasa-490-build-log-billing-boats-1-75.7366/) and
@PeterG (
https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/vasa-build-log-billing-boats-scale-1-75.3759/) though I'm guessing neither of them are following the Billings rigging plans blindly.
A final thought: the AL (DeAg) kit is designed in a way that helps a newer builder complete the model successfully. The instructions are written for someone with little experience. The kit builds into a VERY nice ship model. Noteworthy, however, is that the kit instructions call for most every wooden surface to be painted. If you don't want a painted hull (for example) you will either need to figure out how to turn the cheap wood strips provided into something that looks good or source aftermarket materials.
Sorry for this long post. I hope I have been helpful.
