SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht

[G.L.]

I agree with all the previous comments on the leeboards.

 

G.L.

[KORTES]

Dear сolleagues, 

thank you very much for your kind words.  

My best regards, Alexander.

[BETAQDAVE]

Kortes

    Will you be applying a heavy coat of varnish to your model as is shown on all of those harbor photos?

[KORTES]

19 hours ago, wefalck said:

Very clean work. I like this combination of wood and metal !

 

Did you glue the steel edge to the lee-board ?

Yes, for the assembling i used PVA adhesive and СA.  

 

[KORTES]

1 hour ago, BETAQDAVE said:

Kortes

    Will you be applying a heavy coat of varnish to your model as is shown on all of those harbor photos?

 My greetings, Dave. There's no point in coating with varnish the model as the functional yahts.

The more so, it is considered bad form in the region where i live, the shine has to be matted. So, as uasually I plan

 on covering it wwith tung oil or linen oil.

My best regards.

[amateur]

Although a boeier that does not shine like a mirror is considered to be ‘a bit neglected’ .

modelling standards and ship-standards clearly no not coincide

 

are the leeboards flat, or do they have a curved profile?

 

jan

Edited December 12, 2018 by amateur

[amateur]

Btw make sure the bolt is in the correct place: it is slightly below the centerline of the leenord, not on the centerline.

 

 

this image shows a drawing of a portside leeboard of a friese boeier (drawing downloaded from maritiem digitaal), newer than Sperwer, but valud for almost all boeiers, i guess)

 

Jan

[KORTES]

Thank you very much Jan, very informative.

But looking at the photo i have to notice its not always like that.

My best regards.

[flying_dutchman2]

On 12/9/2018 at 9:35 AM, wefalck said:

Incidentally, the Dutch national archives and some museums have a lot of plans for downloading.

wefalck : Which ones? Besides het Friese Scheepvaart museum which has many plans, what other museums have plans for downloading?

Marcus 

[KORTES]

I Made control blade.

[flying_dutchman2]

That is a serious looking rudder. Beautifully executed. 

Marcus 

[KORTES]

Thank you very much Marcus .

[KORTES]

I made Helmstok.

Raw material - steel.

[KORTES]

Сomponent parts.

[amateur]

What do you mean? The foto is exactly like the drawing: the bolt is just below the mid-line of the leeboard, there is only one difference: the number of planks used: 8 in the drawing, 7 in the leeboard of the sperwer.

the curvature of the leeboard is too small to be seen in the picture.

 

Jan

Edited December 12, 2018 by amateur

[KORTES]

Fitting.

[amateur]

@Marcus,

 

the only one I am aware of is the navy-archive, that has almost all pre-wwII ships on line (in very high definition, and lots of detail drawings.

 

next to that is maritiem-digitaal, but most of that is low-resolution, small sized (like the one of the leeboard, posted above).

 

Apart from that, I do not know of anything.....

 

Jan

[amateur]

Hi Kortes,

 

nice tiller. When the tiller is completely to the left or right, does it stay clear from the bulkhead? Very ofthe the tiller has a very subtle curve upwwrd, just to make sure that it does not touch the bulkhead. 

Do you also plan to add the eyesbolts to attach the flagpole to the rudder?

 

Jan

[wefalck]

Marcus, I believe 'maritiem digital' is a sort of portal through which one have access to (some) material from various museums, including, I think, Rotterdam. I have not looked at it for some time though.

 

Concerning the varnishing, I found this always a bit garish on the Dutch boats that have been converted into yachts. Must be some sort of fashion, but in reality doesn't say anything about the quality of maintenance. A thick layer of varnish on a model too looks much like a cheap souvenir model, where also 'glossy' seems to be taken as a sign of quality. I gather something a bit more glossy than satin would be right. Personally, I would apply some cellulose-based woodfiller, rub this down with very fine (0000) steel-wool and then polish with a felt-wheel in a power-drill. On the hard wood you used this should give a nice sheen whithout adding a perceptible layer of varnish.

[KORTES]

38 minutes ago, amateur said:

 When the tiller is completely to the left or right, does it stay clear from the bulkhead?

 

Yes, I checked. 

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Do you also plan to add the eyesbolts to attach the flagpole to the rudder?

Yes, I'll show you now.

 

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Edited December 12, 2018 by KORTES

[KORTES]

Blackening and assembly.

[KORTES]

Assembled, installed at place .

[KORTES]

[paulsutcliffe]

Lovely work kortes

 

[amateur]

41 minutes ago, wefalck said:

Marcus, I believe 'maritiem digital' is a sort of portal through which one have access to (some) material from various museums, including, I think, Rotterdam. I have not looked at it for some time though.

 

Concerning the varnishing, I found this always a bit garish on the Dutch boats that have been converted into yachts. Must be some sort of fashion, but in reality doesn't say anything about the quality of maintenance. A thick layer of varnish on a model too looks much like a cheap souvenir model, where also 'glossy' seems to be taken as a sign of quality. I gather something a bit more glossy than satin would be right. Personally, I would apply some cellulose-based woodfiller, rub this down with very fine (0000) steel-wool and then polish with a felt-wheel in a power-drill. On the hard wood you used this should give a nice sheen whithout adding a perceptible layer of varnish.

Maritiemdigitaal is the portal used by the dutch maritime museums to their digital database. The quality of the pictures differs between the museums, and there is no way to order high quality copies of the pictures/foto's/drawings shown.

But as the museums have invested in this system,they have no own database/ordering system (the fries museum being an exception, but even there is no download-option/ordering option)

 

Jan

[amateur]

Beautiful rudder!

 

question: you are not using black paint, but black wood instead.

How are you going to apply the distinctive white striping?

 

Jan

[michael mott]

Beautiful workmanship on the lee boards and the rudder Kortes.

 

Michael

[wefalck]

Somehow I liked the bright steel parts. Many older museum models have such parts left bright - does work for a model, but not possible, of course, in real life.

[G.L.]

Fantastic rudder, Kortes!

[KORTES]

Thank you very much, Colleagues for such a high evaluation of my work.

My best regards  Alexander.