International Scale Modeller

My new one commissioned by my boss, the Airfix Wasa, I bought it off ebay and I've no idea how it was stored but its warped to hell, its been a real pig to get it together, didn't do it as per instructions as i could not get the deck atattched and level so glued the hull front together then when the glue set glued the rear the glued the deck a bit at a time using loads of masking tape to hold it till dry.





Broke lots of these bits on the top rails (whatever they are) so will have to make some new ones.

Hi all I've decided to display it on the turn with the gun ports open and water just starting to enter, I think that's a fitting setting.

Hi all well this is going to be a challenge to paint, to say the least, but I've made a start.

I hope you bought shares in the masking tape company, lol!

Nice paintwork, great detailing!

Hi all well the transom will have to be done in small pieces, the ornamentation is making me crosseyed

Hi all a little update, well after exhaustive research(20 mins on google pooped for the rest of the day now) the Airfix kit is a little wrong the little sticky up thing on the top of the rails do not exist(thats great as I thought I would have to make some of those as I broke some whists struggling to get the warped hull together, also there should be another gun port on the second tier down sternwards of the last on on the model, roughly where the little slot is on the kit, I may add it when I find out what purpose the slot is for also the ornamentation above the top rail dose not exist neither does the ornamentation between the rails. not tremendous problems so should be able to sort them.

These are the little sticky up things which I've now removed.

Hi all Airfix missed a gun port on this so I've been racking my brains trying to think of a way of making one and I think I've got it.
first I covered on of them with bathroom sealant to make a mould then I tried to make a resin casting but it was so thin they kept breaking when I tried to get them out, so I thought I need something more flexible so being as how it was so thin I thought just acrylic paint, but that was too flexible and wouldnt come out of the mould so then I thought How can I stiffen it up a bit so I put a thin smear of superglue over it, hey presto it came out, here is the result, I may make another mould and try again as this is a bit chunky probably because of the number of times ive tried using it but at least I know it works.

Hi all well all the detail painting on the hull is done.

I've glued the cannons on the sinking side as when it's attached to the base I think it would be very difficult.





Added to the base, need to get some more Poundland bathroom sealant now for the sea

Hi all made a start on the sea around her.

Hi all did some more work on the seascape

WOW, a lot of work has gone in there, well done

Did some more to this.









I would love to add some figures but can't find any to add to it.

Hi all next update





I was going to add some stays but Airfix would have you use the God awful plastic coated cotton ratline thingies so no hole through the crows nest



Wish I hadn't added the main stays now as drilling out the holes in the crows nest will probably slacken them all off

Hi all got some of the stays done.

Imgur has trashed all the pictures in this thread for UK viewers.

NoelSmith wrote: ↑Thu Nov 13, 2025 8:23 pm Imgur has trashed all the pictures in this thread for UK viewers.

The ones posted on Imgur are visible if you use a VPN set to a location outside of the UK.
The last 6 posts though aren't on Imgur but a site called i66.tinypic.com which apparently closed its photo hosting service back in July 2019.

Thanks for the feedback Neil.

I built the Revell one when it was first released.
More accurate than the old Airfix kit.
Painting it was a bit of a challenge doing all those colourful figures.

A note for anyone building either kit. There is a company named Artisania Latina who make a wooden Vasa kit. On their website you can find a guide to painting all those figures that you can download.

NoelSmith wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 6:47 pm Thanks for the feedback Neil.

I built the Revell one when it was first released.
More accurate than the old Airfix kit.
Painting it was a bit of a challenge doing all those colourful figures.

A note for anyone building either kit. There is a company named Artisania Latina who make a wooden Vasa kit. On their website you can find a guide to painting all those figures that you can download.

Thats worth knowing - thanks. I admit I'm tempted by this kit, now re-released as a vintage classic, - and Hellers 1/100 HMS Victory.
I built the Victory years ago, only got round to rigging the lower masts before life intervened. Left it in my parents house, Mum passed in '93, Dad in '07. Got back to the house after the funeral to find the sisters husbands family had been in during the funeral "sorting things" - which translates to one of his brothers taking all the models I'd built and left and throwing them - literally - into a corner as, to use the last words he spoke that day, "kids trash". I'm afraid I lost it......