HMS FLY by cafmodel - 1/48

[cafmodel]

Yes, the advantage of CNC is to make such complicated parts.

He'll take Kits to a new level

[cafmodel]

[James H]

Do you just need to square the corners of the CNC-cut rebates? I assume they will leave a small round corner.

 

Looking great so far. 🤩

[cafmodel]

Yes. Just remove the chamfer and burr, CNC has processed more than 90% of materials

[cafmodel]

[James H]

Some nice, clean machining there, Tom. I'd love to see more of this.

[dvm27]

Love to see how the stern elements fit together with the sternpost and inner post tapers.

[Jaager]

Tom,

 

One thing to check = on many warships, the gun ports are parallelograms and not rectangles.  The sides are vertical ( or in the plane of the frames ).  The sill and lentil follows the slope of the deck at its location and not the LWL or horizon.

[cafmodel]

10 hours ago, dvm27 said:

Love to see how the stern elements fit together with the sternpost and inner post tapers.

[cafmodel]

10 hours ago, Jaager said:

Tom,

 

One thing to check = on many warships, the gun ports are parallelograms and not rectangles.  The sides are vertical ( or in the plane of the frames ).  The sill and lentil follows the slope of the deck at its location and not the LWL or horizon.

Yes, especially in the head and tail, it's obviously a parallelogram

[Old Collingwood]

Superb work.   I have considered HMS Fly  As my next wood build   but  not in this scale   I was thinking of 1/72   to complement my  Pearl  build.

 

OC.

[Beckmann]

Hi, what Kind of wood do you use? And in wich scale do you work?

 

Matthias

[cafmodel]

Cherry wood  1:48

[Sailor1234567890]

What are the steps for in that stem part? I presume they must slope downwards so water cannot collect?

Edited February 24, 2020 by Sailor1234567890

[druxey]

Sailor: the steps are cut into the fore deadwood as the base for the cant frames. If this is a foreign language for you, you should read up about it in a standard text on wooden warship construction like:

 

Longridge, The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships

Goodwin, The Sailing Man of War

 

Both of these books are highly recommended.

[Sailor1234567890]

Nope, not foreign at all. Just hadn't thought that far ahead yet. Thanks for enlightening me though. 

[captain_hook]

I wonder if you will offer pear or boxwood upgrades for this kit when it will be offered. I‘ve seen your enterprise kit, very beautiful although it seems somehow simplified and the lower decks are skipped. But cherry isn‘t as beautiful and nice to work with as pear and boxwood (just my opinion), so I decided not to look for it in the future.

[cafmodel]

Hello

I agree with you. If you use pear wood or yellow poplar wood, it is the best.

But there is also a major problem is the cost. The price of pear wood and boxwood will be much more expensive than that of cherry wood, especially boxwood. The material utilization rate is very low

The second is processing. The density of pear wood and boxwood is much more expensive than cherry, so they can only be processed by CNC

So that's what I'm thinking about. I hope the price won't be too expensive,

[cafmodel]

 

Boxwood

Edited February 29, 2020 by cafmodel

[James H]

Those look great. Will the whole kit be boxwood?

[dvm27]

If I’m not mistaken that is a correctly tabled joint on the rudder. That’s a level of realism that I’ve not seen before on a model. Well done!

[tlevine]

Very nice!

[captain_hook]

The boxwood parts are great. It would be great if you decide to make a swan class sloop kit like the fly out of boxwood, it is a pity LSS stopped selling their kingfisher kit some years ago. It was sold for about 2000 dollars if I remember correctly and there are still a lot of people out there searching for some available kits. So if you stay in that price area with all the great details you‘ve shown I‘m sure there would be a lot of people interested to buy one. At least you could sell the figure and decorations - there are a lot of swan class POF builders who don‘t want or can‘t do the carvings on their on yet (like me).

[cafmodel]

7 hours ago, captain_hook said:

The boxwood parts are great. It would be great if you decide to make a swan class sloop kit like the fly out of boxwood, it is a pity LSS stopped selling their kingfisher kit some years ago. It was sold for about 2000 dollars if I remember correctly and there are still a lot of people out there searching for some available kits. So if you stay in that price area with all the great details you‘ve shown I‘m sure there would be a lot of people interested to buy one. At least you could sell the figure and decorations - there are a lot of swan class POF builders who don‘t want or can‘t do the carvings on their on yet (like me).

I'll make fly later,

I have tested several kinds of wood before. I can use boxwood or pear wood

[cafmodel]

On 2/29/2020 at 5:07 PM, James H said:

Those look great. Will the whole kit be boxwood?

Yes, this is boxwood. After CNC processing, the material is very delicate. At present, only boxwood and pear wood are most suitable for CNC processing

[Richard Feliciano]

I too am constructing the Fly. Observing your sketches, the frames in the stern have steps at the top. Do you have copies of the Sea Watch books by Antscherl? I have enclosed a copy of the photo etched details if  you are interested. I have extra copies. 

[cafmodel]

Hello 

You're making fly? What size?

I have temporarily stopped making fly, and I will continue to make Fly after I finish Le coureur,

I'm getting ready for the next boat, and it's going to be a whole new design, completely different from the previous one
I think it's going to be fun

Thank you very much.

 

Tom

 

[stuglo]

On 1/19/2020 at 4:58 AM, cafmodel said:

First draft of clay sculpture

Some of us (non americans) will find the the hand gesture inappropriate- was it really like this?

[cafmodel]

Hi,

This is a very interesting topic, I think he should use the index finger. Not the middle finger

In fact, I am not very sure, because the current information is relatively small

[JeffT]

42 minutes ago, cafmodel said:

Hello 

You're making fly? What size?

I have temporarily stopped making fly, and I will continue to make Fly after I finish Le coureur,

I'm getting ready for the next boat, and it's going to be a whole new design, completely different from the previous one
I think it's going to be fun

Thank you very much.

 

Tom

 

hmmm. what could this be?