Zvezda Medieval Ship Thomas

[Big Jake]

Woke a bit early and got some quite time on the Kogge, pre-stepped the mast to check fit as well as the crows nest. Set the bitt brace in place under the foredeck, test fitting the foredeck and added some more dark wash to add some 'grime', she's getting there.

 

[Big Jake]

Dry fitting the parts and though they were close, I still had to sand some material off the corners to fit without being bent. The kit gives you all the parts for both a standard Hansa Trading Kogge and King Henry's Fighting Kogge 'HMS Thomas', but the instructions provided in the kit are for the Thomas, you have to download a set for you doing a trading vessel. The main difference is the much smaller raised forecastle and Crowsnest (trading vessels normally did not have those). so I'll need to decide which I'm doing. While King Henry did have Kogges that carried cannons and small caliber weapons, this model did not.

 

[Big Jake]

Got about 2 hrs. on her today, did the water-based wash down and did some trim up painting. I repainted the rudder the darker hull color as it was more correct.

 

[Big Jake]

Not a lot done tonight except prepping the corners of the 'castles' upper deck sections. By taping the edges before filling the gaps with putty, this allows a clean removal of putty without covering the wood grain. I fixed the shroud bases because I'm going to make up the deadeyes vs. use the plastic kit supplied preformed deadeyes, while nice they just don't look natural. I test fit the stern assembly to see where I might run into issues with placement, I'll need to trim a bit from the rudder post, so the stern brace fits easier. You can see the difference in Pre-wash vs. was on the stern section of the upper decking, I have washed that yet.