After 20 years, its done!

[wedo]

About 20 some years ago I received a wooden model ship to build called the Wasa. It was a Swedish ship build in 1628 and had a long career of about a mile and a half. It was launched and sailed away, was hit by a gust of wind, tipped over and water rushed in though the gun ports and it sank. It was recovered in the early 1950's and is preserved in a museum in Stockholm. I started building it many years ago and put it on hold for several years and a move to Tennessee. About I year ago I became enthused enough to restart. This is to say I have completed her. Here are some pictures of her setting in her display case. It is about 44" long, 13" wide and 18" tall. Whew! Its done.

[DWSudekum]

Nicely done.  It would have taken me at least that long hehe.  Great job.  Thanks for sharing this with us...now.. how do you put it in the bottle?

DW

[3Dface]

not sure i would have finished that quickly.... WOW!
wonderful work

[Shufflex]

Wow

sorry can't think of anything else to say.

Wow again. 

[Havasujon]

Beautiful work..I wish I had the patience to do that sort of craftsmanship!

[jscott2]

Wedo, that looks great.  I know I would like to see more pictures, and I'll bet others on the forum would also like to see them.  Can you post more?

Good work,
Jim

[wedo]

I know I would like to see more pictures, and I'll bet others on the forum would also like to see them.  Can you post more?

I have some more pics, however the site requirements are fairly limited in size and I can't really show the images large enough to see the details clearly. I will look at another way to provide a link to the full sized images. If someone has already figured this out let me know.

[wedo]

OK, I think this will work thru photobucket. If you're interested in more and larger pictures here is the url to go see more pictures of the Wasa  http://s32.photobucket.com/user/wdolingh/library/Wasa?sort=2&page=1


copy and paste into your browser and once there you can look at the 8 pictures of the Wasa, either individually or as a slideshow.

[jscott2]

wedo, thanks for the extra pictures.  Absolutely fascinating level of detail there.  Can't imagine how you did the rigging - must have used long, tiny tweezers with lots of patience and steady hands.

You have every right to be proud of your work.
Jim

[Danny]

Can since the Patience and Steady hands to fulfill that Final piece.  Looks Outstanding to me.
Is a Treasure in itself.........Very, very well constructed my Friend............Danny  :+}