NOS vintage Billing Boats WASA 1628 490 boat ship kit

  
Box has some wear with scuffs/tears but still in solid shape. All the parts are in new condition and complete. See pictures for additional details.

Vintage and collectible Billing Boats WASA 1628 no. 1:75 scale, Wooden hull. The Vasa (or Wasa) is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. Richly decorated as a symbol of the king's ambitions for Sweden and himself, upon completion she was one of the most powerfully armed vessels in the world.

However, Vasa was dangerously unstable and top-heavy with too much weight in the upper structure of the hull. Despite this lack of stability she was ordered to sea and foundered only a few minutes after encountering a wind stronger than a breeze. She was salvaged in 1961, with a largely intact hull, and was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet ("The Wasa Shipyard") until 1988 before being moved moved to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.

Kit also includes laser cut wooden hull and wooden strips, fittings set, sails, rigging thread, plan and manual. Paints needed in this model boat kit: BB#1, BB#5, BB#14, BB#16, BB#17, BB#18 + BB#40 Thinner.