A viking ship

Well, I saw "Vikings" the series and found it fascinating enough to inspire me to build a Drakkar Viking ship. I wanted a real wood kit as the plastic equivalents simply did not convince me. Found several, but...Boy! Those wooden kits are expensive! I settle for this Chinese kit that appeared reasonable priced and went to work. The build is mainly from scratch materials including several kind of woods and metal pieces. Needles to say is a fairly complicated kit. Fortunately, the kit provides extra materials to cover for a few screw ups. Because I like details, I added a considerable amount of scratchbuilt pieces here and there and liberally added seats, cords, knots, fabrics, barrels, etc. to increase the realistic feeling of the finished model. As it is an all-wood ship, I decided to add actual wood stains and varnishes and the finishing looked pretty good. The oars were made with a little wood turning machine and the dragon head was painted. The bunch of shields was a big question mark for me, as I understood that the shield colors and patterns were from different Viking clades and found difficult to believe that 10 or 20 clades will travel in the same ship. After much debate and because it was easier I went for the same yellow and black pie painting pattern. I don't know how to use a sewing machine, so I finished my model without a sail, at least by now. Now the model proudly sits in my display ready to take on the English coast!