"Viking boat tiller .in 28mm" Topic
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| Hlaven | 16 Sep 2018 1:38 p.m. PST |
Anyone have any ideas on making a tiller for my 28mm mdf Viking ship? |
| Kraken Skulls Consortium | 16 Sep 2018 1:51 p.m. PST |
A little balsa would do the trick. Tillers on longships were really simple affairs, honestly. |
| Kraken Skulls Consortium | 16 Sep 2018 1:51 p.m. PST |
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| Hlaven | 16 Sep 2018 1:54 p.m. PST |
It is the Sarissa one. I was thinking I could cut and file one out of the leftover mdf sprues. |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Sep 2018 2:04 p.m. PST |
Seems like a simple enough thing to make:
Perhaps use plasticard (Plastruct or Evergreen styrene) or, as you mentioned, a piece of leftover MDF. The handle could be made from a thinned down piece of bamboo skewer. Dan |
| Hlaven | 16 Sep 2018 2:11 p.m. PST |
Thank you all. I have mdf,plasticard, and bamboo skewer.
Those pics and diagrams are perfect. |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Sep 2018 2:14 p.m. PST |
Hlaven Glad to help out a little bit with pics. One more:
Let us know what you did and how it turned out. Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Sep 2018 2:21 p.m. PST |
Hlaven Check this out:
link I'm not exactly sure which article here mentions the making of a rudder: link
link Some of these searches might help too: link
link Dan |
| Kraken Skulls Consortium | 16 Sep 2018 3:56 p.m. PST |
Here is a fantastic walk-through to upgrading the Sarissa kit, and he has a tiller too. link |
| Benvartok | 16 Sep 2018 9:58 p.m. PST |
Mine is done, Merrimack resin with gb crew. I augmented the resin stuff with bits from the plastic revel kit – oars, mast, tiller and the uprights for storing oars and sail plus a rat and a cat……a raven, misc stores, barrels, a foundry captain….. Anyway aside from my problem the plastic stuff was great. |
| Hlaven | 17 Sep 2018 3:08 p.m. PST |
Thank you all again
I will post my ship when I am done. I used a skewer which had a flat end of wood on one side. Drilled a hole near the top and put part of a toothpick through the hole. |
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