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Hoy, 1760

Hi Albert, hope you are well. Good to see you back with great progress. Will your Hoy got the masks & rigging system? I found the rigging plan for the bowsprit in this kit is very different from David Antscherl.
 
Jackie Wolf said:
Hi Albert, hope you are well. Good to see you back with great progress. Will your Hoy got the masks & rigging system? I found the rigging plan for the bowsprit in this kit is very different from David Antscherl.
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Hi Jackie. It's good to be back indeed. Early today I've scratched and glued on the two fashion pieces which required a tricky notch each to embed the extra beam (a bracket for the rear end of the cabin floor I added accordingly to Antscher's monograph). It was a bit of a damned job.
I'haven't made any decision on masting and rigging the model yet. Just in case, I will be following the monograph, although almost the entire pattern is a (qualified) guess of the author. Cheers.
 
Honorable Members,
What's your valuable guess on that kind of "porthole". I've been puzzeling about it since I began the Hoy, but I still have no clue. I don't think it's a garnish, as it's believed by Wuxiaomeng (some siplified sort of those laurel wreaths on fashion untill the early decades on XVIII century). At some point I have been convinced it could be a round gunport without its lid, so I provided the deck beneath with an extra lodging knee and a couple of study carlings (see the piks obove) and I purchased two guns and carriages suitable as 3-4 pounders at 1:48 from Vanguard. But then I had to face two problems: the width of the deck (a bit too narrow even for a couple of those pop-guns, also due to the fact kit frames arrangement results in some 5 o 6 mm narrower model if compared to monograph) and the discontinuation in the wale inner spirketting.
I woke up this morning with a new theory: Considering the was just above the bench guessed by Antscherl, could have this been a kind of head (toilet), for peeing, vomiting, etc. ? @AllanKP69 ?
Thanks in advance for your opinion!
Regards,
Albert

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kuba91nt said:
Hoy is a typical harbour ship. These are probably portholes for ropes to float tree logs. That's why hole is near the capstan.
At least, that's my guess.
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I think this make sense. it looks like kinds of fairlead that allows the line to get through. Laurels are too luxurious for a working ship.
Antscherl’s guess of that bench, suggests this could be a passenger ship. hoy are multi purpose ships.
 
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Jackie Wolf said:
I think this make sense. it looks like kinds of fairlead that allows the line to get through. Laurels are too luxurious for a working ship.
Antscherl’s guess of that bench, suggests this could be a passenger ship. hoy are multi purpose ships.
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Thanks mate!
 
Albert Mary said:
Oh, sorry, didn't get it was you. I have been binge-watching your thread about your great Swan class sloop, possibly my next project. Thank you so much!
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I had a lot of fun building that model! Of course, you will need the book series - and I commend to you the work of our colleague:

H.M.S. PEGASUS - Swan Class by David Antscherl & Greg Herbert Scale 1:36

As I had anticipated, I started a new challenge: the construction of an English frigate, with a carpentry that, until now, I had never approached. Very fascinating architecture, and a model, the Pegasus that struck me immediately, already from the first splendid images seen. I am studying a lot...
shipsofscale.com
 
dockattner said:
I had a lot of fun building that model! Of course, you will need the book series - and I commend to you the work of our colleague:

H.M.S. PEGASUS - Swan Class by David Antscherl & Greg Herbert Scale 1:36

As I had anticipated, I started a new challenge: the construction of an English frigate, with a carpentry that, until now, I had never approached. Very fascinating architecture, and a model, the Pegasus that struck me immediately, already from the first splendid images seen. I am studying a lot...
shipsofscale.com
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Some minor steps have been already taken... . Ricci's model is outstanding, but I find your log more instructive to a naive like me. Kind Regards!

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Jackie Wolf said:
This intermediate cannon looks good. but how could Amati get to sleep at night with such “sviwel gun”ROTF
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That's a good point. Let's say that most of the "heritage companies" still remain in the dark ages of modeling. I came back in the business after maybe 30 years just because of some amazing POF models, inconceivable and/or unaffordable except from China, as well of Canadian, US and EU companies wich started investing in this niche hobby.
 
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