Skuldelev 3 - a Viking ship in 1/48

**thorst** · #1 10-28-2012, 10:51 AM

Hello,

During the last weeks I was very restless in terms of modeling, had several
projects on which I did drawings for future kits. I forgot a bit about the fun
of modeling. So I decided on Friday afternoon that I start even another
project - but this time a single model, without the intention to make it a
kit. Inspirational pictures on another forum made the topic clear: A Viking
ship. After a google-evening I found several nice diagrams of the
"Skuldelev 3", a medium cargo ship:
The Skuldelev 3 ship

About 5 hours after beginning, the developments of the planks were
finished at 2.30am. After a long sleep, a support structure and the keel
was drawn and the parts were printed.

To say it from the beginning: I'm an absolute newbie in ship-modelling! So
don't hesitate to tell me my mistakes!

The hull will be constructed in two halfs, each of them starts with one half
of the keel which is held down to the support structure. This will be
removed after all planks are applied, and the hull's interiour will be added.

This afternoon, the first 5 planks on each side were applied and wait for 3
more to come tonight. You can see the progress on the pictures below.
Until now, this is a very fun project!

Best regards,
Thorsten

**bailey** · #2 10-28-2012, 11:27 AM

Thorst, very interested in this; a couple of months ago I was lucky enough to visit the excellent Viking museum in Roskilde and saw the remains of the original ships and the replicas. Good luck with the model - you are off to a really good start! Bailey

**thorst** · #3 10-28-2012, 03:31 PM

bailey, thanks! Do you have any pictures you could share?

In the meantime, I have glued on the last planks, see the images below.

Best regards,
Thorsten

**thorst** · #4 10-28-2012, 06:23 PM

And the last update for this weekend:

I broke off the hull halfs from the support structures, they came out very
nicely with just minor points where a bit of glue came through the keel. The
halfs are quite rigid and their shape is also very satisfying. They can be held
together by just two small Tamiya strips, the five you see are more than
enough.

Thorsten

**ct ertz** · #5 10-28-2012, 06:54 PM

Pretty cool!
CT

**Burning Beard** · #6 10-28-2012, 09:53 PM

That is wonderful. I saw a Viking Ship at the convention center in Copenhagen that had that construction. I was amazed how small and how shallow the draw was on the ship.

Beard

**Alcides** · #7 10-29-2012, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorst

To say it from the beginning: I'm an absolute newbie in ship-modelling! So
don't hesitate to tell me my mistakes!

I can't imagine what is going to do when you get more experience.

Fantastic start. The hull looks great.

**thorst** · #8 10-29-2012, 01:38 PM

Thanks!

Alcides, until now it was just basic drawing and construction. When it comes to ship specific features, you will notice my lack of knowledge quite soon!

**bailey** · #9 10-30-2012, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorst

bailey, thanks! Do you have any pictures you could share?

In the meantime, I have glued on the last planks, see the images below.

Best regards,
Thorsten

Thorst, here are some rather random pics from my visit to Roskilde (let me know if they are too small); most are of the replicas but a couple are of the actual ship remains in the museum. The craftmanship is amazing; I have built a few clinker (lapstrake in the USA) boats with modern tools and I have the utmost respect for those so called 'dark age' craftsmen - and the ship designers. I'm sorry that I can't remember which of the ships is number 3! Bailey

**thorst** · #10 11-02-2012, 07:08 PM

bailey, thanks for the pictures!

I was able to make some progress during the last two days. The outside of
the ship was sanded, especially at the bow and stern where the planks
end. Therefore, cardboard was sanded, the dust was collected and mixed
with white glue, this gives a nice putty (not my idea, it was posted at the
kartonist-forum). After applying the putty, the surface was covered with
superglue and sanded.

In the inside, some additional beams were glued to the upper 4 planks. I'm
not a specialist, so I can't comment on their name or function.

Then, the complete inside was sealed with superglue, sanded and painted
preliminarily in dark brown.
Finally, the tw halfs were glued together.
Tomorrow I will work on the bulkheads which are already laminated to
cardboard.

Best regards,
Thorsten