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Post by matti on Mar 6, 2014 15:35:22 GMT
I'm trying to make knektarna on Vasa's deck. (Still not know what you call them in english.) In another thread Fred gave me some directions on what the different heads where portraining, but I didn't really understand where they where placed. Here is picture with a number for each knekt. If Fred or anyone could tell me which ones where turks, roman soldiers and so on it would be a big help.  1: Noble lady 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: /Matti |
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Post by fredhocker on Mar 7, 2014 9:32:22 GMT
Matti,
1. Noblewoman
2. Turk
3. Roman warrior
4. Roman warrior
5. Turk
6. Roman warrior
7. Roman warrior
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Post by matti on Mar 7, 2014 9:44:53 GMT
Cheers Fred, that will be helpful! I found decent pictures of 2. I interpret him as having a helmet with a laurel wreath. He definately looks to have a full beard. But I interpret him wrong? (Edit: Looking back againg I see that the lower part of the moustache is quite obvious, so I seem to have been wrong with the beard.)   /Matti |
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Post by fredhocker on Mar 10, 2014 8:15:52 GMT
That's not a helmet and laurel wreath, it is a turban.
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Post by matti on Mar 10, 2014 9:01:37 GMT
Thanks Fred. In the above pictures there looks like an even surface with a knob on the head. Is the turban combined with a turkish helmet perhaps? When looking at old turkish helkets, many had a pointy shape with a knob.
/Matti
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Post by fredhocker on Mar 10, 2014 9:49:16 GMT
That might be the case, and some Ottoman troops wore a helmet/turban combination. This knight has that arrangement, but the fore halliard knight, which is also a Turk, has a cloth turban only.
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Post by matti on Mar 10, 2014 10:01:23 GMT
Thank you very much indeed for taking the time Fred! I feel like I should bring you a bottle of wine or something next time I go to the museum. You are most helpful to us.
/Matti
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Post by fredhocker on Mar 10, 2014 10:36:27 GMT
Lagavullin scotch or American rye whiskey, please!
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Post by matti on Mar 10, 2014 10:51:11 GMT
Haha, ok as nice as Rye is I still have to go with the scotch then.
/Matti
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Post by Clayton on Mar 12, 2014 11:45:47 GMT
I know of an absolutely superb American Rye Whiskey that is a prohibition era recipe and apparently was Al Capones favorite. Templeton Rye: www.templetonrye.com/home/Cheers! |
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Post by fredhocker on Mar 13, 2014 9:18:56 GMT
Hey, aren't you two guys the moderators who should be telling us to take this whiskey discussion to the general board?
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Post by Clayton on Mar 13, 2014 11:46:00 GMT
Ha! Well I guess I am a pretty laid back moderator. Back to Vasa topics!  |
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Post by nauthst on Nov 29, 2015 21:13:27 GMT
Hi!
You two certainly know to what you are referring when you say 1 through 7, but I am puzzled. Are these locations notated on someone's drawing?
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Post by fredhocker on Nov 30, 2015 8:51:45 GMT
The locations were marked on a photo at the beginning of the thread, but the following descriptions should help:
1. The knight for the mizzen halliard, just before the mizzenmast at the break of the quarter deck.
2. The knight for the main topsail halliard, at the starboard, after corner of the hatch abaft the mainmast.
3 & 4. The main topsail sheet bitts with crossbar, directly abaft the mainmast.
5. The knight for the fore halliard and toprope, at the starboard, forward corner of the hatch abaft the foremast.
6 & 7. The fore topsail sheet bitts with crossbar, directly abaft the foremast.
Fred
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