Airfix 1/144 Wasa

[Guest]

Hi all well I'm going to display it with the gun ports open on the turn with water just starting to enter the gun ports, fitting setting I think


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[Guest]

I have been quietly watching I built is it the royal prince the one with three lamps on the stern when I was in my early teens it's the rigging that I could never manage but I know you can


Roger

[Guest]

Is it common to have the main hull pieces badly warped? I looked at this Cutty sark today, and they're banana like. I see you have had to do the hull on parts, did you use normal cement or something different?


This is the air fix kit.

[Guest]

Hi mate, first of all don't panic on the cutty sark the hull and deck are built differently to the Wasa (I've built this kit before) and its my dads favorite kit he has built it 3 times(unfortunatly his eyesight is not what it was and cant see him building it again) use superglue, I think you should be ok following the instructions, but if it seems to badly warped do what I did glue the front part let that dry then gradualy glue it 2 or 3 inches at a time till you get to the stern (the advantage of superglue is you only have to hold it for ten mins or so till its set enough to progress to the next bit ) just make sure the front (the prow) is set fully (overnight ) before you start on the rest, if you do have to use this method dont try to fit the deck till the hull is set again overnight as you will have to force the top of the hull apart to fit the deck (in places) and if its not fully set you may find the hull pings apart again. I'm sure it will go as per instructions so dont worry.

[papa 695]

Well it seems to be fighting you all the way Ken but you seem to be getting the better of it

[Guest]

Sorry Roger I completely missed answering your question yes it is the prince, I would love to build that one but it don't come up on ebay very often and when it does its always silly money, the last one I saw went for 160 quid, I stopped bidding at 50 and that was a tenner more than my limit.

[james pithouse]

ding ding round 1 to ken the next win will be the to the wasa

[Guest]

Hi all well this is going to be a challenge to paint, I've made a start.


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[monica]

glad that you did keep at it Ken,and nice to see that you did win,looking good,even with all the problems you had,


keep at it,nice progress,

[Guest]

Hi all here's a question I've been pondering since I started this build. If you were and experienced old sea dog(never sailed a ship in my life, don't know one end of a spar from the other) and you could see what was about to happen, let's say the ship is listing to port, would you jump onto the sea off the port side or hang off the starboard side and wait for it to sink.

[james pithouse]

starboard more height to jump off. But if you were a captain go down with the ship not like Captain Schettino did and left when he's ship was starting to sink after hitting the rocks and left other people to defend for themselves.This ship (cruise ship Costa Concordia) or the other thing you can do is sand down on the starboard which is on the right side a little at a time until it sits level not the left side port left (as in port ( left in a bottle as in red wine) starboard right

[james pithouse]

looking good ken keep it up

[Guest]

Hi all a little update, well after exhaustive research(20 mins on google pooped for the rest of the day now) the Airfix kit is a little wrong the little sticky up thing on the top of the rails do not exist(thats great as I thought I would have to make some of those as I broke some whists struggling to get the warped hull together, also there should be another gun port on the second tier down sternwards of the last on on the model, roughly where the little slot is on the kit, I may add it when I find out what purpose the slot is for also the ornamentation above the top rail dose not exist neither does the ornamentation between the rails. not tremendous problems so should be able to sort them.


These are the little sticky up things which I've now removed.


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[james pithouse]

ken it' looking good keep it up great

[Guest]

Hi all started working on the base.


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