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Hoy, 1760

Another tricky piece (for my poor skills and my miserable couple of files): tringular in section in order to compensate the kit knuckle wrong arrangement (parallel to the ground and not to quartedeck sheer) and with angled pockets to match the tilted counter timbers... . Now I'm going to simulate the rabbet for the missing planking with a proper strip of cherry. I also glued on an shaped the 3 pairs of filling pieces to the deadwood, although smaller than in Antscherl's practicum due to the different layout of the aftermost cant frame.

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Could you please point out exactly what you think is wrong with the kit? I can see the Antscherl book, but as far as I know, the kit isn’t based on the model shown there – perhaps that’s the reason?
 
Dubz Modelling World said:
Could you please point out exactly what you think is wrong with the kit? I can see the Antscherl book, but as far as I know, the kit isn’t based on the model shown there – perhaps that’s the reason?
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Of course it is. The two k7 parts come with the kit, to be glued together to form the knuckle, were both too short and inconsistent regarding the match (spacing) with the notches of counter timbers, then I had first to scratch a fresh part from a 7 mm thick billet to have it broad enough to give it with the same radius of the wing transom, but I still had to face the wrong orientation fore and aft of said notches. Below a pic taken from another Hoy illustrating the (minor) problem of wrong oriented sloping. Regarding the matter "who is who", the kit is not based on Antscherl's book, but both the book and the kit are more or less strictly adherent to a bunch of well known NMM ZAZ plans, then by the transitive property, Kit and book have got more then a vague similarity and the latter could help out a lot in the building of the former. Dispite Mr. Passaro's complaints, I observe that Seawatch Books and Dry Dock Models coexist peacefully as SOS sponsors.
Cheers!

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