Cutty Sark by Nenad

[NenadM]

Thank you dear friends.There are many details of deck furniture with identical or similar color. So, there will be more "color games" here

 

 

There is something I discovered and want to share: ... when you use mat acrylic transpsarent warnish toned with a drop of acrylic paint (yellow for rails and white for decks), and when this mixture just start to dry turning itself to "plastic", fast moves with brush with only little drop of this mixture left desired yellow/white tone on surface, but also left on surface nice thin shine satin effect.

 

I am proud to declare that final painting and color triming of hull and outer bulwarks just started. After that, only marks for water level on bow and stern left, and I can climb to the deck for a long time, making all this things settled on and under all three decks. It seems that dead eyes will be first in line

Edited February 14, 2015 by Nenad M

[Piet]

Bravo Nenad, well done!

 

Cheers,

[NenadM]

Final look and color of left hull rails

 

Nice and precise straight lines, clean and straight edges of color surfaced

 

 

Happy to the sky I succeded this. Hours and hours of exercises paid off

 

[NenadM]

Numbers on bow ...

They follow different line before fire and after

Look at this pictures:





What will be ?

On a "hmmm" road again ...

Edited February 17, 2015 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

First attempt with idea to paint numbers




Grrrr ... my thinest brush seems like gigant broom when I put it close ... each number is over 2mm high ... and I just WANT this numbers

Must discover some hot water

Must discover

Edited February 17, 2015 by Nenad M

[CaptainSteve]

Can you print the numbers with your computer ?? You'd be able to change the font size to whatever you like. If you can get transfer paper for your printer, then you'd be able to make adhesive stickers. Just reverse the image to make the numbers for the other side.

[NenadM]

Hey, Cap ... thx for idea and interest ... I just found ... or just remembered how I wrote letters on stern decoration ... with very very thinned top of toothpick, writing point by point

Here are test numbers in scale



And "in place"





I think it will be ok

Edited February 17, 2015 by Nenad M

[GLakie]

Nice work on your railings Nenad. You see? Your diligence paid off with a result you are happy with. Well worth the extra time and effort I think. 

 

Cheers

[mtaylor]

You should have a smile a big as the moon or bigger, Nenad.  She really looks great!!!!  What tribute to your ingenuity and pushing for making it what you want.

[Sailor1234567890]

I don't know that she was launched with those numbers. 1869. My understanding is that the plimsol mark and the draught marks were not invented until the mid 1870s or so. If someone knows better please correct me but I doubt she was launched with draught marks. Are you building her as launched or later in her career?

[NenadM]

...Are you building her as launched or later in her career? ...

 

Hard question, considering I started with very simplified TEHNODIDAKTA plans, continued by Campbell, with many many photo investigation and photo consulting ...

 

During this voyage, I noticed differences of Her look through a time, and I marked them somewhere in my log ... number and positions of hull windows, number of hull rails, and many little, significant or not, different details.

 

Just to mention - today I first time since I started, saw a bow protective net on Her in dry dock !!!! IgorSky posted it in "Amazing photographs". I did not notice presence of this net on models and kit plans or photos until today, which seems to me a bit strange ...

 

Probably someone more dedicated could reconstruct exact look in certain period, but I am not so much dedicated

 

So, my build is/will be a kind of mix - dimensions and proportions by Campbell, ( in measure of mess already done to compromit proportions) today look, but with all spreaded sails ...

 

There will be more dilema, having in mind different kind of sails, and probably different rigging details

 

As a conclusion, having in mind that destiny of my model is not to be on competitions and exibitions, but only to sit still in living room in Her glass cage, main thing is fun,and question of accuracy is, and will be under influence of my curiosity, challenge to my so called skills, patiente and, of course, time

 

Thanks for your interest

 

Thanks also to Mark and George for kind words of support

Edited February 17, 2015 by Nenad M

[dgbot]

For the shear pleasure of the build and the challenge.  I like your style.

David B

[NenadM]

I also like it, Dave. I have to!

[NenadM]

Here they are. Main tool - thined tootpick

 

 

Grrr ... too late I see ...little far from bow edge ... I have to live with this mistake. Now there is no way to clean letters without big mess under on sheating ... acrylic stuff ... great danger to leave white splodge which would be worst solution

Edited February 17, 2015 by Nenad M

[dgbot]

If you do not say anything I doubt anyone would notice.

David B

[NenadM]

Another rebus ... color of front name panel

 

 

 

or it is just playin' of the light?

[NenadM]

If you do not say anything I doubt anyone would notice.

David B

Ah Dave, whole my life my tongue is a bit faster than my mind ...

[IgorSky]

Another rebus ... color of front name panel

Hi Nenad,

I think you can look at the photo etched or laser cut details.

For example

 

or

 

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

Edited February 18, 2015 by IgorSky

[popeye the sailor]

I had trouble with the roman numerals with my Revell Cutty.  the decal sheet was garbage in the kit,  so I ordered a set from Revell.  when I was ready to use them,  I found that they were in just as bad a shape......broke into tiny shards when wet.  had I known that there was a product called decal bonder out there,  I probably could have saved them.  I have a decal maker program....the bad thing is that ink jet printers do not print white.   so I printed out several copies of the decals and traced all the numerals in with a white paint marker.   they were not perfect.......but they suited my needs and I went with them. 

 

http://www.taubmansonline.com/

 

look in the hull markings and variety packs.........these may help you

[NenadM]

Thank you Igor and Denis ... here is Serbia, where you can not find such a things, particular 2,5 mm letters, particular in white. This is why I drew them

Cosmetic works continued

color mess on white panel

Before



And after



Tool - allmighty toothpick with "softened" top

 

BTW - on those photos is shown the closest shade and look of color I get

Edited February 19, 2015 by Nenad M

[popeye the sailor]

wait......don't tell me......you found that in the latest copy of  '101uses for household items'      a very neat and interesting idea

[NenadM]

Dont know, Denis, somewhere sometime I just needed brush I didnt have, used piece of wood and hammered it to soften it on edge and finished job. After that, in another sitiation, I needed very little but sharp brush for something I do, also I do not remember what, which, quess what - I had not, and idea bumped ... and if can use something for painting, you can use it also for cleaning ... tried ... it works ... I am happy

Edited February 19, 2015 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

Hello, my friend:  once I get to Nebraska I'll start again... good to see your fine progress!

[NenadM]

Hello, dear friend Bob. We miss you and your three builds. We miss your puckish runaway pig also  . 

 

Hardly wait for progress on your CS. But, life goes first   

[keelhauled]

Looking good!

 

I've been on travel, so I'm catching up.  You have a steady hand to paint those numbers on the stem!

 

Hoping to get to work on the Cutty this weekend.  I spent about 20 hours drawing the belaying pin plan for the ship using multiple sources.

 

How is work going?  Everything back to normal? 

[NenadM]

Thanks Marc. Waiting for your progress and comments. Thanks for your interesting about my job - a bit better, but ... near luck of money horror ... economic crisis and clients rapidly get poor, companies also... but ... life must go on

Few days without work, full of drinking 10 l of tea and water per day, because I have got a sand in a wrong place of me followed with booring, but not so strong, but continious pain ... I feel like geyser .... Im ok now, and had a regular working and life day

Make up finished today, finally. This non-working days, I was thinking a lot about very next step, and concluded that next I have to make bowsprit first with bow ornaments after. Without this, hull is not complete, and I can not start to fill fore deck with belonging stuff. Also, this gets me extra time to rethink deadeyes mounting method

So, let's start making something from wood. More than a year ago, I cutted old wrong bowsprit when I had to do one of reconstruction of fore deck, so, drilling a hole for a new bowsprit is first step. Main question is line and position of hole



Hmm, it wil not work with Dremell... Must call some hard artilery to help



OMG what a hole ... ok, it will be filled and fixed, and completly hiden



Diameter of this crater is, quess what, again, result of lost hull lines - consequence I faced with - bowsprit must be a bit thicker ( 1mm or less than in C-plans) and 3mm longer and a bit rised up, to get its proper angle and its right position toward to fore deck, and to get profile look even a bit like CS. There will be ornament panels to hide this little extra space added

Preliminary mounted in looking for and checking proper longitudinal position ... seems to be ok



Next ... considering bowsprit is dressed in iron shirt, before mounting, surface have to be very very smoth, to imitate metal painted white. I dare not to dress it in aluminium. After thined bowsprit forward the top ( about 1mm in diameter longitudinal to the top), I decide to use acrylic instead putty, and srarted to evenn surface. This is first pass:



Must wait for acrylic to dry and harden, and that was all for tonight

Edited February 24, 2015 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Editing post I just remembered that I forgot to draw numbers on right side of bow and on both sides of stern ... so inpatient to leave brush and to make some wooden dust

Edited February 24, 2015 by Nenad M

[ScottRC]

Editing post I just remembered that I forgot to draw numbers on right side of bow and on both sides of stern ... so inpatient to leave brush and to make some wooden dust

Know exactly what you are saying here, been there, done that too many times.

[omarcs]

You come up with great ideas. I really like using them!! I have yet to do bow and stern numbers. Your painting jig looks perfect. I have been wondering how to do this, and now the solution.

 

Omar

[NenadM]

Different kind of "fun" those days keep me of my build, but I did some 20 pages comparative research about lower part of bowsprit and all details on it. Complicated structure withsome moves which have to be done before name tables, considering some wrong extra space which I have to mask somehow

 

Right now is 09:00 am, and I'm sitting in pub drinking morning doze of coffee, waiting for appointed time in Court, and browsing MSW

 

Hope to continue this evening

Edited February 27, 2015 by Nenad M