Post by NoelSmith on Feb 27, 2021 18:40:48 GMT
Anyone contemplating building the Vasa should have a look at Artesania Latina's website and find their kit of the Vasa. It is awesome!
I know it is a wood model kit, but before dismissing this post because it is not plastic, get their Vasa instructions up to have a look at.
The main building instructions (nearly 400 pages worth) have really full details on how to rig this ship model.
It would be a matter of scaling them down to suit the Revell and Airfix kits.
The biggest bonus is that Artesania have a separate painting guide for all the carvings and figure work on the ship, with all the RAL numbers for the paints.
This painting guide is a number of pages of coloured photographs showing how each and every carving and figure should be painted. Brilliant and comprehensive.
Artesania Latina I believe worked with Fred Hocker at the Vasa Museum in order to produce this kit, and it is thought to be possible the most accurate wood kit of the vasa to date.
It is big! 1/64th scale I believe, so anyone into building big wooden sailing ship models will have many hours of work ahead of them by the time it is built, rigged and painted.
Artesania's Vasa is the latest wooden kit of this ship. Other manufacturers wood kits have been available before for some time.
If only someone would produce a larger scale kit of the Vasa in plastic perhaps in 1/96th or 100th scale it would make a very impressive model that would not have to compromise on detail due to a small scale.
Maybe someone like Zvezda or Heller could do something like this.
Maybe even Airfix might consider a re tool of this ship in a bigger scale like 100th than their 1/144th scale kit that is showing its age and inaccuracies.
Their old Vasa kit appears regularly in their catalogue each year so it must sell well, but now might be a good time for a newer, bigger more accurate kit from them.
I know it is a wood model kit, but before dismissing this post because it is not plastic, get their Vasa instructions up to have a look at.
The main building instructions (nearly 400 pages worth) have really full details on how to rig this ship model.
It would be a matter of scaling them down to suit the Revell and Airfix kits.
The biggest bonus is that Artesania have a separate painting guide for all the carvings and figure work on the ship, with all the RAL numbers for the paints.
This painting guide is a number of pages of coloured photographs showing how each and every carving and figure should be painted. Brilliant and comprehensive.
Artesania Latina I believe worked with Fred Hocker at the Vasa Museum in order to produce this kit, and it is thought to be possible the most accurate wood kit of the vasa to date.
It is big! 1/64th scale I believe, so anyone into building big wooden sailing ship models will have many hours of work ahead of them by the time it is built, rigged and painted.
Artesania's Vasa is the latest wooden kit of this ship. Other manufacturers wood kits have been available before for some time.
If only someone would produce a larger scale kit of the Vasa in plastic perhaps in 1/96th or 100th scale it would make a very impressive model that would not have to compromise on detail due to a small scale.
Maybe someone like Zvezda or Heller could do something like this.
Maybe even Airfix might consider a re tool of this ship in a bigger scale like 100th than their 1/144th scale kit that is showing its age and inaccuracies.
Their old Vasa kit appears regularly in their catalogue each year so it must sell well, but now might be a good time for a newer, bigger more accurate kit from them.