Viking Ships

[grendelsmother64]

OK, here's some pics of a few of the re-test-builds (and the attempted mods).
They're a little messy cuz I'm a clutz, I get excited and I tend to modify on the fly.

Hopefully I'll get to texturing them them over the next few days.

The "jolly-boat" is 5 inches on the deck and about 7" total length (just to give you some scale).
The really long longship is 18", and the other two are 10" and 11".
The idea is to have a variable middle section, so you can make them just about any length.

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/v1.JPG

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/v3.JPG

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/v4.JPG

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/v6.JPG

Hope you like...
Shawn

[goas77]

Very good the ships, I have liked them very much. I want to see them finished.

[Tommygun]

Nicely done.
Textures look good too.

[Reivaj]

WoW!! i love these vikings ships!! great work ;D i´ll be waiting for them

[grendelsmother64]

Tommygun,

The one that's already textured is a jollyboat...a pirate-ship's small boat.

I did it a few years ago, and you can download it here:
dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/Giant_Squid_and_Jollyboat.pdf

But the textures of the viking ships will be similar.

Shawn

[afet]

Those look absolutely fantastic!!!
I can't wait to see them finished.

[grendelsmother64]

OK, here's the first hull textured (well, half a hull).

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/Viking%20half%20hull%20jp.jpg


I haven't printed it yet so I can't tell if its too dark (no ink).

It should be fairly straightforward to put together.

Glue the outside gunwhales to the outside of the inside gunwhales.
Fold the bow tabs out, and glue the bow ends together (the white parts), then fold the tabs under the hull, fit the deck and glue.
Make two halfs the same way, then slide them together to make the length of boat you want.

The mast and sails and steering oar are coming next...soon I hope.
And I'm probably going to add some nautical detailing at some point...and some funky viking dragon head thingies...

Hope you like,

Shawn

[Tommygun]

Looks good.
I'm thinking of making a small boat when I get my SciFi items all done.
My biggest fear is getting the wood grain right.

[mruseless]

Looks great! I'm trying to get my hands on every ship and boat I can for our 50 Fathoms campaign. I like to use 3D models where I can, but for the really big ships I have to use flat maps.

[afet]

Beautiful work, Shawn. Are you planning to account for the row of oars somehow?

[deathdragon]

more ships A Viking we will go a Viking we will go

Looking good

[grendelsmother64]

Here's the complete viking ship!

Two different sails, a mast, and a hull half (you make two and put them together).

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/vik_sail_01_red_white.jpg
dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/vik_sail02_canvass.jpg
dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/Vik_mast_01.jpg
dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/Vik_ship_01.jpg

Have a look at the test pics above to get an idea of how it goes together. (the only difference is i made the mast ring beefier and mounted it on the underside of the boom instead of the top).

Good luck.
Hope you like,
Shawn

[kiladecus]

Wow! I have to say that between Dave Graffam and you, 2010 is the year of the ships!

Great job!

[afet]

Dec 1, 2010 10:54:43 GMT -9 kiladecus said:

Wow! I have to say that between Dave Graffam and you, 2010 is the year of the ships!

Don't forget the FDG Medieval Sailing Ship.

Fantastic work! I can't wait to try this out.

[old squirmydad]

I built the first half of a ship last night, worked well.
Any plans to do an extra mid-section to do extensions, oar banks, wolf and dragon heads, or shields for the gunnels? ;D

[deathdragon]

Nice I like it another model added on the to build list

[grendelsmother64]

Any plans to do an extra mid-section to do extensions, oar banks, wolf and dragon heads, or shields for the gunnels?

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Plans...?
Yes.
Time...?
Uh....maybe....

Shawn

[grendelsmother64]

And here's the extension part and the oar banks (with steering oar).

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/vik_01_extras.jpg

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/vik_01_oars.jpg

I made the outside gunwhales of the extension separate, so it would be easier lining things up.

The oar banks fold down the middle and slip over the gunwhales (folding the oars up).
They may need a little reinforcing with an extra layer or two of cardstock. Or maybe a few strips under the little folds.
A little bluetac should hold the edges down.

The steering oar shouldn't be glued below the gunwhale line, that way it can be slipped over the gunwhale. Then fold down the handle.
It goes on the right...hence the word starboard...steer-board. (and port is the side that you dock on...the left side...so you don't break your steerboard...)
You might want to colour the underside of the oars and the steering oar with black or brown marker.

Next stop...dragons and monsters...

Shawn

[old squirmydad]

Cool, I'll have to make a second ship that's longer as I just finished the first one. ;D

[afet]

This is excellent. Thanks so much for your work on this.

[grendelsmother64]

Here's a few monstrous viking style heads for the bow.

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/heads01.jpg

The other two ships should go fairly quickly if I get the time.

Hope you like.

Shawn

[old squirmydad]

I do like them, they're much better than the image I pulled off of the internet.
I'll upload a pic of my finished ship today.

[grendelsmother64]

Can't wait to see some pics Squirmydad.

My daughter came by as I was sketching mastheads, and she copied one, (the Oseberg dog/dragon) but she put flowers and a big bow-tie on it.
It's still on my drawing table, but I didn't scan that one....

As for shields...I think you're on your own.
But a clever felllow might peruse the following gallery and do a little cutting and pasting....
www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=all&q=viking+shield&m=text

Flickr is a pretty good resource for...ahem...research...

Shawn

[deathdragon]

No shields awww dude next you'll be tellin me I gota print cut & assemble it myself lol
Seriously though it looks good I like it

[old squirmydad]

Here's my build with shields and a figurehead that I acquired from Google searches;


I think the sail is out of proportion and there should be enough room (if you break it into two pages) to almost double the sail's height and that should bring it into scale with everything else. I'll be doing that tomorrow. I also plan to glue a piece of thick card under the hull to prevent warping. Fun model.

Here's some more pics;

Why is Quasimodo so upset?


Ahh! Squids!


Old squid, seen a lot of use.


Lots of room for passengers in this ship too.

Thanks again for the model. ;D

[mruseless]

Sweet!! Love the shields too!

[grendelsmother64]

Wow, that looks great Squirmydad!

Thanks for posting that.

Yeah, I know the sail could be bigger, but that's about as big as you can go on one sheet of paper.
With the mock-up I made, it looks better if you open the mast ring a bit and let the sail sit a bit lower on the mast.
The other thing I was thinking is that you have to have some room below the sail for figures.
But yeah...a bigger sail would look better.
Plus I printed the sail on a bit lighter stock...some cover stock...so it wasn't too top heavy.

Like the shields...maybe I should include some...

Ah......the kraken!!!!!

[Dave]

These are absolutely brilliant!

[grendelsmother64]

Here's a PDF of the whole thing (but you'll have to ask Squirmydad for the shields...and Quasimodo...)

dl.dropbox.com/u/15163033/Viking_Ship01.pdf


I'm gonna clean it up a bit at some point, if I do I'll repost the "official" version back here.

Shawn

[Dave]

Shawn, you gotta start selling your stuff. Your boats are so much better than mine, and people are paying for mine.