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Revell Viking ship
- Thread starter jagmkx
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Woooo....Very nice, looks good and aged, great presentation also. Love it! 
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Thanks to many for the positive remarks on the Viking ship. It was a 3 on a difficulty build scale of 1-10. The most attention was
planning and testing the wood color variances and toning/shading progression. The vac u form sail (two are supplied) was the greatest concern as I have seen a few sails done in paper and cloth and looked to that as the standard. Trial and error on the vac u form spare led me to the final method. I think these sails were typically composed of wool? (not the historic expert). The decks were reportedly pine and the hulls oak, but there are many variances on that wood so I tried to simply imply differences. The instructions, while ok could be much better. The wood grain texture on the styrene was excellent. This model is a gift for a good pal who is a Minnesota Vikings fan as well as of Viking heritage so the shields are subtly done in the team colors. If I build another, I will be more decorative and colorful with the shields and try to add a green (algae color wash) to the deeper recesses of the hull planking. The six small 'hull davits' have weak mounting points that are problematic. I think there should be 'bullocks' (not educated yet on ship rigging nomenclature) on most of the sail 'control lines'. But once you start the additional detail quest, I would really like to build a Viking ship that can exhibit the what I believe are typical ornate carvings on the bow and stern 'horns'. (?) I'm very pleased to be a newbie to this group. I have some other ship builds (and many other genres) to post soon but perhaps the best would be to figure out how to create an album? Thanks
planning and testing the wood color variances and toning/shading progression. The vac u form sail (two are supplied) was the greatest concern as I have seen a few sails done in paper and cloth and looked to that as the standard. Trial and error on the vac u form spare led me to the final method. I think these sails were typically composed of wool? (not the historic expert). The decks were reportedly pine and the hulls oak, but there are many variances on that wood so I tried to simply imply differences. The instructions, while ok could be much better. The wood grain texture on the styrene was excellent. This model is a gift for a good pal who is a Minnesota Vikings fan as well as of Viking heritage so the shields are subtly done in the team colors. If I build another, I will be more decorative and colorful with the shields and try to add a green (algae color wash) to the deeper recesses of the hull planking. The six small 'hull davits' have weak mounting points that are problematic. I think there should be 'bullocks' (not educated yet on ship rigging nomenclature) on most of the sail 'control lines'. But once you start the additional detail quest, I would really like to build a Viking ship that can exhibit the what I believe are typical ornate carvings on the bow and stern 'horns'. (?) I'm very pleased to be a newbie to this group. I have some other ship builds (and many other genres) to post soon but perhaps the best would be to figure out how to create an album? Thanks
