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    Short pause in shipyard. Job trip with little travel to see incredible Black River Monastery at south of Serbia, situated in deep wood on mountain gorge with steep cliffs ... Monastery church is situated in cave, miniature hermitages and monk cells are around and partially drilled in stone, narrow passages as labyrinth, wooden terraces above the precipice .... all walled with stone ... Enjoy as I did!
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    Final touch and weathering before thiny varnish
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    Final touch and weathering before thin varnish
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    Thank you, Scott, for nice words. As I wrote earlier, in early stage of build I have big mistake which can not be resolved, and which I noticed after mounting 4000 foil strips as mynz metal under water line, except to start model from begining. Deck and deck rails are not paralell ... deck fence has different random height ... So, then I decide to overdetail Her to turn off attention of anybody who will se Her. And that is simply - that. Beside that, making this little beasts is chalenge! And fun. All the best. Nenad
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    Details
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    Painting
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    Almost ready for cleaning and white paint VID_20240324_142002.mp4
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    All of them
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    Cap Band,, step by step Remarks Strip of Cu foil on start is spiral, with ends INSIDE Dont forget to apply thiny foil of soldering on surface of strip. 1. Cut a strip of copper foil of the required width, long enough to wrap twice around the mast. Sand well 2. Bend the tape around both masts in a spiral, so that the ends of the tape are on the inside 3. remove from the mold, adjust to the correct dimensions and tighten so that it does not unroll, then solder the assemblies. Apply a thin layer of solder paste to the surface of the ring to strengthen it 4. Solder the foil over as a cover 5. Remove excess material 6. Drill the holes for the hooks
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    Making Cap Bands dia 6mm and 8mm is pretty tricky task, which take me couple of months thinking about "how to hell to do this". I forgot how did I make this little beast on bowsprit couple of years before. Thiny, slim, and at the same time it has to be strong enough to hold whole structure and ropes. This is a place where all pull forces from mast ropes came to gather. So, yesterday I had brainstorm, and this is it. In one of next post I will explane step by step my idea
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    Micro soldering First Cap Band
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    Thanks, dear friend, you remind me that I read about it a along time ago, somewhere on MSW. It can not be boring to me with me 😉🤪
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    And off course, a mistake! Fortunately, yesterday I temporary put masts on their place to make some pictures, and ... realised .... connection ring on Mizzen for lower yard for spanker is positioned too low! Where were your eyes and brain, Nenad? Happy me! For now, I am curious can I remount CA without damaging wood, and reuse ring with yard holder, or have to make a new mizzen mast ....
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    Progressing All three nests got plankung with light weathering, so, they are done! Exept painting in one of next stage..
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    Micro-soldering, testing on way for top of mast
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    When you have not enough hands ... Second mast almost done
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    And the nest ...
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    More mast details
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    Master work!
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    Nice work!
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    Working on mast, question arrises - metal fittings are small (1:100) and - which material to use for them? e.g. yard holdings ... Galvanized **** for gutters I have is to rough and very hard to fit. Cu foil I have (0,3mm) is very thin and elastic and can not hold yard. Brain storming idea - to cover Cu foil with thin layer of soldering? And this is it! Soldering gives it required strenght , even it is 4mm in dia at the hole part.
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    Side remarks: I know everything looks messy and sloppy right now. (Nothing new in my case 😇) Despite the fact that I apply CA in tiny drops with the tip of a pointed toothpick, some parts of the fittings are so small that even that drop simply sinks and drowns them. This thin devil which hold yard has only 4mm dia, and small drop of CA on top of toothpick just can not be smaller than 1mm. so, that is how it is. But ... Before painting, there will be a fine cleaning and finishing. In doing so, as before, I will use acrylic paint in several thin layers, each of which will be sanded with the finest sandpaper with a grain size of 360-400. I know from previous experience that this way the effect of chiseling is achieved, all little bumps will be aligned, so that everything will look completely different when it is finished. Of course I'm also counting on the effect of visual masking with bunch od ropes sails that will wrap around these little beasts. And another thing to mention: With modern phone cameras (Honor X8a 100MP) it is easy to take a detailed macro shot of your work. Too detailed sometimes, I think, if part is too small. See photos included. Keyboard and a detail ... which also exposes dust between keys ... ugly, isn`t it ... you know what i mean?
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    All three nests - metal works done. Holder for yard on fore lower mast done. This was tricky. Made from Cu foil 0.3mm which is harden wirh thin layer of soldering on surface.
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    Old saying: "when the hill won't come to man, then man will come to the hill" So, if soldering do not work , super-glue will work
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    I take a short look at back ... 11 years ... Many things changed since begining. Now, I mainly know exactly what I am doing, where are my limits, where simplifications are necessary, right sequence of moves. Ok, I stray here and there, made my mistakes and remakes, little parts still disappeared from desk, just to be fun For complex structures, as deck are, or as masts and yards are, lesson is learned: first make all parts, and then mount them as Lego blocks. And - dont rush anywhere (which is easy to say, and not that easy to do ... my temperament) So, idea is to make all 9 mast parts, to make all yards, trying them temporary are they fit in place as them have to be, and then, after all is finished to start with standing rigging. (Rigging will be hard to me, considering my eyes have same years as me (65) and magnifying glass over fragile structure can damage it if I should not be careful and patient enough.) Some add thoughts ... before masting and rigging, I have to make Her final stand and glass cage, to save Her from dust during that works. So, go on, slowly but persistently, among my other hobbies

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