VASA 1628 (De Agostini)

Hello everyone,

It was the Grätings' turn. I didn't take anything from the kit and did everything from scratch. The quality was very poor. The gratings are made of boxwood and the remaining mouldings are made of pear.

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It fits and will be glued later

To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger
 
This is shaping up to be a top Vasa build, Rudiger. I am always fascinated by the wide array of results that people achieve with this kit. As did Paul, you are applying the requisite patience, skill and rigor to produce a beautiful model. I always like it when builders take extra care and attention on even the under-planking. I have enjoyed so much your earlier work and will follow with great interest.
 
Just like Daniel20, there are a number of us recent Vasa builders. The resources available to you through this forum, the publications, plus Fred Hocker and the Vasamuseet, make this ship one of the few that provides accurate reproduction. Your work so far is clearly leading to an outstanding model. Congratulations.

Regards,

PeterG
 
Hello Rüdiger,
Sorry that the access to information is frustrating you. If you will write to me on DM (fred.hocker@smtm.se) I can send you a set of seven sheets of plans as PDFs that, while not up to date, are the most accurate full set that we have at the moment. I can provide information on what needs to be updated (mostly construction detail that will not affect your model).

Plans and information have developed over time as we study the ship in detail, plus external authors make their own drawings of greater or lesser reliability, depending on what information they have access to and their own inclinations and talent. The ship has been a popular subject since it was raised, and lots of people have decided on their own to write books about it. We try to help them if we can, but we do not exercise any control over what they choose to write and they do not always listen to us when we try to provide them with up to date information. Our understanding of how the ship was built and rigged is very different now than it was when the museum's first set of drawings was made in the 1970s, and most of the other authors, such as Mondfeld, wrote their books and made their drawings before the ship was fully restored. It took over thirty years after the ship was raised to fully reassemble all the loose parts and the rigging.

I know that the new rigging book seems expensive, but we are only recovering some of the printing costs - we invested over a half million dollars of our own funding in the research, writing and production of illustrations. Modellers are a prioritized audience for us, and some members of this forum may remember when I polled them about what they wanted to see in the rigging book.

I hope the model is still enjoyable for you.

Fred
 
Hello Fred,

First of all, sorry for my poor English.
Thank you very much for your contribution to my construction report. I don't want the discussion to go in the wrong direction. I did not write that I cannot get any documentation, but that there are no plans on the market that are binding or at least all the same. I am fully aware that VASA has been researched more and more over the years and that there have been and still are new findings.
Thank you also for your offer regarding the plans. My model is almost finished except for the rigging. You are welcome to have a look at it on my website (http://www.eschker-modellbau.de/Aktuelles-Projekt). It is a beautiful model for me and will remain so. Regarding the price of the book. It is quite clear to me that a book about the rigging of the VASA justifies the high price for me. I will certainly buy it, but I will have to save longer for it. Finally, please note the following. This was not a criticism of you or any other person or institution. Maybe I didn't find the right words, sorry. It was just a normal lapse for me as a modeller who still enjoys finishing the VASA.

With kind regards
Rüdiger Eschker

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Hello everyone,

After planking the bulwark, the stern was planked. I did this in order to be able to measure and attach the bar timbers as accurately as possible later on. I took the dimensions of the stern from Mondfeld's plans (shame on me). You can already see that some of the gun ports were set too low. However, this was not a problem as the holes had not yet been cut out. I'll come to the problems with the rudder and the openings in the fuselage later.

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To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger
 
Lucius said:
Hello everyone,

Somehow I don't have it with sensible plans. First it was the Le Requin where there were errors and now the Vasa. I should probably change my hobby. I bought books and paid a lot of money for them. And now? Somehow I'm slightly frustrated and don't feel like continuing at the moment. Where can I find reasonable plans for the Vasa for affordable money? I'm not a person who writes to museums to get plans. Why does every book say something different? The book Vasa 2 by Fred Hocker is also no bargain (92,- to 100,- Euro) and would also be too late. The hull is finished with all the decorations. I'm not going to change it any more. So I have another “wrong” ship. But don't worry, I'll continue the building report and I'll think about the rigging, which is also very simplified. At worst, there will only be one hull model (looks great on Foxtrot) Please don't get me wrong, I love my hobby, but I had to get this off my chest.

Greetings
Rüdiger
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You know Rudiger, 'Beauty, is in the eye of the beholder'. I grow Bonsai, have done for 30 years, and I can tell you without shame that none of my trees are perfect or anywhere near it. I know each of their technical faults (and there are plenty) and often those faults annoy the perfectionist side of me, but the number of times people who have no idea of Bonsai look at them and say 'Wow! Look at that!' And I end up appreciating my trees that much more through their eyes.
I sincerely hope you continue with your Vasa. To me she is already beautiful, the actual ship, with her feminine lines, is a wonder of engineering and grace, I can't believe how amazingly clever those ship builders were. And you have already conveyed this into your model, so please don't stop just because you know it may be a little 'technically' incorrect here and there. The rest of us great unwashed are not aware of those imperfections, we, as those Swedes back in the 1600s who witnessed her being built, just behold her beauty, watching with awe and anticipating her completion. Keep going mate! If not for you then for the rest of us. :)
 
Hello everyone,

The next step was to make the frames for the gun ports. I took three sizes from the plan of the one whose name should not be mentioned and transferred them to a template. I then glued the mouldings with Loctite superglue, sanded them down and fitted them into the existing gun ports. The second row of gun ports was only remeasured and marked after the remaining bargwoods had been fitted. But more on this later.


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To be continued

Greetings
Rüdiger
 
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