Hoy, 1760

[Albert Mary]

The port inlay... danm awkward, but pretty decent in the end. Cheers!

 

[Magic Mike]

Nicely done Albert! Regards, Magic Mike

 

[Albert Mary]

Nicely done Albert! Regards, Magic Mike

Thanks Mike!

 

[Jackie Wolf]

original deck found its good home

 

[Albert Mary]

original deck found its good home

Yep... definitely! A grim satisfaction, worthless to say...

 

[Albert Mary]

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.

 

[Dubz Modelling World]

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?

 

[Albert Mary]

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

 

[dockattner]

Clean work, Albert!

 

[Albert Mary]

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?

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!

 

[Albert Mary]

Clean work, Albert!

Thanks Mike!

 

[Dubz Modelling World]

Thank you very much Albert, I have both, the kit and the book and so are very interested in your work

 

[Albert Mary]

Thank you very much Albert, I have both, the kit and the book and so are very interested in your work

My pleasure!

 

[Albert Mary]

Here's the stern, ready for counter, planking and the tuck rail mounting. Gotten the practicum, I bashed the fashion pieces in the early stage of building to have a sturdy pair of filling pieces below them, instead of the sort of ordinary frames the kit would ask, in my opinion far too frail to do the job in the actual boat. The kit fashion pieces nontheless will perfectly work, coming in handy, as so called aft fashion pieces (see the pic below). Thanks for whatching! Cheers.

 

[Jackie Wolf]

Here's the stern, ready for counter, planking and the tuck rail mounting. Gotten the practicum, I bashed the fashion pieces in the early stage of building to have a sturdy pair of filling pieces below them, instead of the sort of ordinary frames the kit would ask, in my opinion far too frail to do the job in the actual boat. The kit fashion pieces nontheless will perfectly work, coming in handy, as so called aft fashion pieces (see the pic below). Thanks for whatching! Cheers.

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This is what the designer struggled for. K6d looks flimsy because he believed that structure on seawatch book more likely to be seen on larger ships.

 

[Albert Mary]

This is what the designer struggled for. K6d looks flimsy because he believed that structure on seawatch book more likely to be seen on larger ships.

I got his point and we already had an interesting tech talk about that, but even the plan he based on (see page 1 of this thread) suggests the fashion piece is chopped off and stands on some horizontal structure, which is to me a filling piece. The tailed fashion pieces came with the kit could have worked just as a fairing for the deadwood to plank, offering almost no structural strenght to the leaning stern mounting. I also consider that this Hoy, although a tiny vessel compared even to a sixth rate with guns on the quarterdeck, is far heavier, once loaded, than a sail yacht (i.e the wooden America's cuppers of 19th century) where that figure was commonly adopetd.