They took me by surprise! I thought they'd cross the sea to Ireland and follow the coast south but instead the ship moved out into the Irish Sea and is currently at rest at the Isla of Man. I haven't heard or seen anything much from the ship except the antics of the crew in the various stop over points so there hasn't been much to relate. The ship must be coping though since they haven't sunk, but apart from some problems with the rudder oar and the sail earlier in the voyage, things have been very quiet.I've been thinking about building a 28mm scale replica of a similar Viking warship, though probably not Havhingsten. If I did build it, it would have to have bloated dimensions in order to faciliatate the figures bases, so the ships 'deck' would likely measure 60 x 9 cm amidships with the over all length of the ship being about 66cm. A bit too big to ever be used. The idea for these models would be skirmish games aboard the various ships and we already have two large ship models not being used...
The alternative would be to build a smaller, long ship, maybe 45 x 8cm amidships. Which ever I decided upon it would still have to wait until several other models are completed....
2 comments:
Go for it, but use curved planks (at least at the ends).
At last, something for the galley to fight.
Oleg.
Curved how?
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