The viking longship

So I have this fix idea to make a viking diorama. It's still an idea though and it's still in my head. And I got the idea after found several very nice tin figures at ebay in scale 1/32. The great thing with that scale is that the figurines are big enough to be able to paint for an amateur. The bad thing it's scale 1:32 because of course I need a ship in that scale.

Viking model ships in scale 1:32 is very rare.

Luckily I stumbled into Flo-Mo, Flowing Motion, who is a model maker and amateur boat designer living south of Vienna, Austria. He has done a boat design study of Gokstad Faering. And best of all, he also had add a scale on the drawings. So I tried to use his sketch on balsa. It didn't work at all.

Also, a ship five meters long is a bit too short, so I had to make it a bit longer. After discussions with our family's master miniature builder (wifey) I realized I have to make my parts thicker and in carbon. I aim for a ship 10 meter long, so I borrowed the Flo-Mo design and made that longer. That raw sketch can be found here.

In the original sketch there were only three planks but I had to make one extra. Yesterday the boat got some filling of papier-maché, when it's dried the plan is to get it look as a real wooden boat. Or at least, it's going to be brown.