AKERBOOM 1681 after Ab Hoving nominally 1/66 but drawings in 1/64

[Hubac’s Historian]

Herman, thank you for that link back to Peter’s build. I had forgotten how excellent his Hohenzollernmodell is.

 

[Rodolphe]

XXX

 

[Rodolphe]

That is an extraordinary model, Rodolphe! Is the model contemporary to the 17th C, or by a modern builder? The carved work is so fine.

XXX

 

[Rodolphe]

Your observation of the flat shape of the bottoms of Dutch warships up to at least the 70s is accurate. Something must have changed the design in the last decades of the century or the first ones of the next, because all the drawings that gradually begin to appear in these years show much more V-shaped ships. I guess it must have something to do with speed. But who am I?

As to the colors of my Akerboomr: as I said I am hardly an expert on colors, but this 'recipe' came from my Artitec friend Herbert Tomesen. I trust his sense of color better than mine. If he says green was not really used for the upper works, I simply believe him.

XXX

 

[Ab Hoving]

Nice try Jules.

 

[Rodolphe]

Nice try Jules.

XXX

 

[The learner]

Interesting build and I can't wait to see the rest of the model go together I love your method of research and the end results

 

[Iterum]

Interesting build and I can't wait to see the rest of the model go together I love your method of research and the end results

Thanks a lot - due to illness I am recently "out of order" and do not want to risk the hole project by bringing in some less good parts as I'll build them now.

 

[Hubac’s Historian]

I hope you'll be feeling better soon, Chris.

Best,

Marc

 

[Iterum]

Hello friends,

I have got new pills prescripted - and they do work very well and so today I do blow the dust from AKERBOOM's drawings and will take you with me on my journey into the plans' pleasure.

To be continiusly filled...

 

[Ab Hoving]

Welcome back Chris. Go for it.
Ab

 

[Iterum]

Thanks, Ab! To follow your construction I worked in the CWL- you used to positionate the bulkheads in a rectangular shape as shown here:


Today I tried my abitilies to construct the CWL- layer using taylors' ruler's (much cheaper than a classic curves ruler's set for ship construction).

So I got the light green area as the CWL-(card)board - but I did not find a good bow:


and after ending lines to become a well looking harmounious ending into the stern's post.



So as a real lady she has has her own "problematic body areas" - so I do not know how avoid her trouble spots in an elegant way.

I cannot "suck honey out of" this two vdV drawings


as a reasonable solution at the running of the curves towards the stern post below the transom.


So my scale rat will take a brake with a pice of Gouda:


Perchance there were any suggestions?

 

[Ab Hoving]

Suggestions? No, just curious where you need that waterline shape for. I must have build a hundred ship models in my long life, but so far I never felt the need for a waterline shape. I follow you with much interest, hoping to learn...

 

[Iterum]

Suggestions? No, just curious where you need that waterline shape for. I must have build a hundred ship models in my long life, but so far I never felt the need for a waterline shape. I follow you with much interest, hoping to learn...

So this isn't the construction water line (I construced today), Ab?


So it must be the deck's line?
For placing the guns?

 

[Ab Hoving]

Ah, now I understand what you're up to.
You are right, this is indeed a waterline. But I never constructed it like you did. I cut slits in my frames at the same height (call it waterline height, but I usually use the line of the lower deck), combined my frames with the central 'spine', and shove a rectangular piece of card into the frames up to the spine from both sides in. Then I marked the contour on the card, took it out and cut. No construction on paper needed, just simple scribe and cut.



You are following a different path by not adding the lower deck, which put me on the wrong track.
I usually use the deck line for this longitudinal part, thus combining two functions in one, like here for a pinas model (The front part was the cable tier, which was closed, so here I partly took the hight of the upper deck):



You are doing fine Chris, sorry for not understanding immediately.

 

[Iterum]

Ah, now I understand what you're up to.
You are right, this is indeed a waterline. But I never constructed it like you did. I cut slits in my frames at the same height (call it waterline height, but I usually use the line of the lower deck), combined my frames with the central 'spine', and shove a rectangular piece of card into the frames up to the spine from both sides in. Then I marked the contour on the card, took it out and cut. No construction on paper needed, just simple scribe and cut.

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You are following a different path by not adding the lower deck, which put me on the wrong track.
I usually use the deck line for this longitudinal part, thus combining two functions in one, like here for a pinas model (The front part was the cable tier, which was closed, so here I partly took the hight of the upper deck):

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You are doing fine Chris, sorry for not understanding immediately.

Thanks a lot, Ab! Yes that is a different path you did use - much more straight foreward. I have to left behind my very German overengeneering tendencies and stay with your clever cut of corners to get the same result.

Die to the bigger gaps between the bulkheads I am affraid of (I think you called it) "the hungry horse effect" of sinking in "skin" not becoming the Imitation of the bent planks we are after...