Vasa in 1:50 (scratch)

Thanks, Fred! Your idea to use red at the lamp is to me a little bit surprising, but I like the idea more and more the longer I think about it. But also yellow will mirror very good the colour sheme of the stern which changes from dark and blue tones below to brighter colours at the top. If you mention the house of light: Do you mean the French-style baloon-lamp for example shown at this etching?

But another question, Fred: Do you think the winged angels fit with the visual program of the Vasa? I wonder if the angels are a more catholic faith and so they are a little bit out of place for Vasa. would it be better to cut the wings?

The lantern I rebuilt now a whole lot smaller with two angels.



Everything is only temporarily stuck with mounting glue, so it still looks a bit wild.

Now I head to the glass panes.

Regards, Alexander

Meanwhile, Hong Kong has provided the acrylic glass surprisingly quickly and in perfect quality.

I cut the acrylic and imitated provided with "lead glazing".
According to the notes by Fred, the size of the glass elements are 10 x 15 cm in the original.
The "lead glazing" has been slightly milled with circular saw (0.3mm blade) and draw with a black finepen




 


Inside the lanteen according to the Landstöm design a small 3-unit candle with 3 wicks made of fine wire

The acrylic glass I have stuck in the framework made of fine brass-4-edge with Microscale Microclear. It is very stable which I tested involuntarily with several drop tests of the finished lantern. ;-)



First I tried a red painting of the lamp.



This I changed into gold paint (Humbrol). Looks a bit more pleasing.



The optical qualities of the House of Light are convincing.



Overall, the lantern is well managed. During assembly but the shock: The proportions were no longer correct!





I had cut the hat and the lower part of the Lantern each 5 mm against the Landström design. Thus, the lamp has now become too wide with the figures. What do you think? In a next step I wanted to redo the female figures without wings and make them thinner.

Here again Landströms design for comparison:



Regards, Alexander[/b]

Hej!

I like the way the glass and lead caming worked out, very convincing. I also like the shape of the roof with its vents. It is very possible that the roof was covered in copper sheet, which could then have been gilded, so the gold is a reasonable possibility.

The winged angels are a pure fabircation by Landström, we do not have any other figures like that anywhere on the ship. We do have a lot of very skinny herms and caryatids. If you wanted the top of the lantern to resemble the tops of the cupolae on the galleries, then there would be skinny herms along the corners of the roof, rather than on the sides of the lantern.

I think that the overall size is pretty good. We will have to consult you when we start working out the full-sized reconstruction!

Fred

My third variant of the lantern loooks pretty good after all.






Meanwhile I got the anchors ready.



If you compare their size and wight, it seems incredible, that they should be able to hold the whole ship.

Regards, Alexander

Alexander, perfect work about lantern and anchors.

Thanks, Vlad and Clayton!