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Huntsman 31 MM 1061 Plan - Difficulty of building ?

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SwordsmanDreamer:
Dear all


I thought i might have a go at the MM1061  Huntsman 31 plan. The web site https://www.sarikhobbies.com/product/huntsman-31-MM1061/ doesn't indicate a degree of difficulty, whereas it does for the Huntsman 28.


I have been working on the Dave Milbourn 24 inch Swordsman, which is coming on well, if very slowly. I have the hull planked up, the superstructure yet to do. I didn't encounter too many problems. Would I be ok with the MM1061 plan ?


I notice as well that the same plan appears to be available from here:


https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/323109404339?rt=nc


I suppose this is some kind of copyright infringment ? Or perhaps there is no copyright/it has expired ?


Thanks

tony52:
I had a look at this one in an old (1996) Model Boats plans handbook and it is listed as two star difficulty. One star is for beginners and four star is the most difficult. Two star reads as being for someone with a little experience or the willingness to read up constructional techniques.

The text with the plan reads - Fairey Huntsman 31 - A 1:12 scale model of a handsome fast cruiser 31" in length and 9.5" beam. For engines up to 8cc, ply construction.

Today the star grading system is open to personal interpretation and the 8cc would probably be replaced by a brushless. Someone with more technical expertise than me would advise.

The plan is drawn by Model Maker Staff, which would probably be Vic Smeed, Alec Gee and Phillip Connolly. I did a check in the index to see if there is a Model Maker magazine article to accompany the plan, but couldn't find one. If there is one it would be in Model Boats magazine (after April 1966) and as I don't have an index for these later magazines and it would involve looking through all the editions on the Magazine Exchange website.

Colin Bishop:
Why not simply get the recent Huntsman plan drawn up by Dave Milbourn to 1:16 scale and either build 'as is' or have it scaled up. The prototype is the basis of the SLEC kit.

https://www.sarikhobbies.com/product/fairey-huntsman-mm2111/

http://www.slecuk.com/balsa-wood/Fairey-Huntsman-31-PR814.html

Colin

SwordsmanDreamer:
Thanks very much Tony52 for your advice.

SwordsmanDreamer:

Thank you Colin Bishop for your advice. I'm afraid I have no knowledge of how one would do "scaling up", though I think i remember from technical drawing lessons at school all those years ago that it was a pretty tricky business, but perhpas some kind of CAD package can facilititate this nowadays ?


I wonder which of the two, i.e. the Dave Milbourn, and the older plan 1061, would produce a more asthetically pleasing boat ? My ideal is in fact a Spearfish, but there are no plans for that boat (as a model), so i was going to build a Huntsman 31 and make it rear cockpit etc.


I have read that supposedly the Spearfish was taken from a Huntsman 31 hull, at first I accepted that on face value, but on reflection, one is a 30 and one a 31, though I appreciate that that  may just be marketing / labelling and that they may indeed be the same, though there again, I have noticedd some line drawings on the internet that appear to give the Spearfish a slightly shallower forefoot.


By the way, what is going on with the text box that one types one's replies to on this forum ? It is grindingly, heartbreakingly slow. I have taken to writing replies in notepad and pasting the entire content into the reply box.

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