Warship Wasa 1:65 Wooden Model Ship Kit

Model ship kit of the Wasa as a wooden model by Artesania Latina on a scale of 1:65

History of the original

The Wasa is a part of Swedish, European and world naval history in both a positive and negative sense. This warship with 64 bronze cannons was launched in 1628 (17th century) after its construction was completed with more than a thousand felled oak trees ordered by King Gustav II to fight in the Thirty Years' War.

The anecdote about the Wasa says that it was sunk in Stockholm harbour as the flagship of the Swedish Empire.

It was the most powerful ship of the time, only to be surpassed a century and a half later by the USS Constitution, one of the first American frigates. The WASA sailed with a weight of 1,200 tonnes and a sail area of 1,150 m2 (80 tonnes).

One of the strongest points of this model is its great attention to detail, which is particularly reflected in the many sculptures on the stern of the ship, divided into five parts: the lions with the shield, the human faces with emotions, the group of the king , the angels and the servants and the mermaids or sea animals. He had 700 other sculptures depicting biblical heroes, Roman emperors and Greek gods in striking colours.

The Wasa was rescued in 1961, after three hundred years in the deep, and converted into a museum ship, which has been open to visitors on the island of Djurgarden in Stockholm (Sweden) ever since.

The kit in detail:

The kit is the first premium kit from the manufacturer Artesania Latina. The design was created entirely in 3D, enabling the parts to be manufactured with absolute precision. All wooden parts are precisely prefabricated using the laser cut process. Planks must of course be customised. All fitting parts are made entirely of metal and some are particularly detailed using the etching process and are clearly laid out in a sorting box. The sails are already sewn.  A set of cast metal figures for an even more interesting representation of the model is included. German instructions are only available as a PDF document with over 2000 photos and video documentation for particularly complicated construction stages. The instructions are available for download.

This kit includes a wooden model stand.

Who is the kit suitable for?

Building the model ship requires a lot of manual skills and experience in ship modelling. The kit is aimed at very experienced modellers.

What do the building instructions look like?

The following are available for download:
-parts list
-Illustrated instructions with 415 pages, multilingual including German
-Instructions for painting the figures
-colour chart with RAL numbers and Artesania colours

What else is needed ?

Colours, adhesives and tools are required and can be found in our range.

The profile scraper blades type A and B at27304.

Technical data
Scale: M 1:65
Length: 1070mm
Height: 870mm
Width: 400mm
Construction time: 1500 hours