Vladimir_Wairoa

Thank you everyone. @rwiederrich I did intended but the moment I setup the length without jibboom I realized it was merely a sweet dream. maybe foolish one: D

Wrap. Dear fellow Builders, there is no prettier object in the earth than boat lines....for us....i know ladies would be protesting but ...we know thee is no point in arguing im closing the cathedral of the oceans. first, Id sincerely like to thank you All, that watched, looked, commented, liked my build. I would most likely not finished it otherwise. I am amateur violinmaker, that once told myself i will try to model cutty. Having thought of myself, it cannot be more difficult than violinmaking. what is art of ship modeling? where that art lies? I had to try it having had only one attempt of halfbuilt hms terror in the pocket,/ and no other small ship whatsover / i looked at cutty sark bow pamous pic wharving at sydney quay...and told myself, that would do. - wrong. it is far more difficult than i thought it will be.... I did not know what i will step into....where will i go. hull went smooth, unless, one cannot miss small part of modelbuilding even in huge projects.... looked at small models of it, I tried to do someting different, than just another 1.96 cutty sark, I wanted to smell the more realistic details of the deck. If i was told to do it again I would certainly back off. w hy? because i know now what is to dvelve into mere 3000 hours of repairs. I need to mention the way I worked. It was not up down process than designer set out plans and hand work down to workers , carpenters and so on rpecise instruction clearly having in mind what process would look like etc. even material. I mean ship modeling surely is up- down process as there is plan to be fullfilled and rather closely than vaguely for the saek of reault. but as aome cathedral in the past were (to peoples astonishment when they realize) built without an architect following rather bottom up rule - I built up closer to this approach. as thought or idea sprung, or someone led me to some direction there was not clear from start what would deckhouses looked exactly like - it went various ways some mistaken and had to be reversed. some good some totally wrong that had to be scrapped from start. experienced builders know by expecience what works for them. i have to find my own paths as well...slowly I dreamt with her I had to watch her in my room even I did not wish to ....:) she was in my way to the desk, to my wardrobe. she is hell of a MONSTER. but she has tender lines in her. She is crippled from the bottom and even more cut off from the top. but if i managed to get her body, she would shine even crippled diorama Wise people dont make mistakes of fools, as saying goes, they learn that is better to make 12 small models to know what is it to build one big one. seems i am not one of them. I soak myself with troubles and try to skirmish away from abbys with some grace. it is not always possible but i know one think. i hated her during process I sweared even, but i was the wrong for whats count. I repaired almost everything unill satisfaciton. I learned a tons. I will go SMALLER next definitely. I carved as I loved her. I wanted to see her shine despite my lack of craft. I gave the most of my abilities to her I possibly could. and for that reason I am satisfied whatever the flaw. she is not perfect by any mean. her butt is approx 2 cm narrower that plan is telling, but I dont mind even I can tell the curve of her butt from memory even in midnight....e.g. revell model is horribly wrong in this direction and possible other makers as well.. .She does not have rear companionway as I deliberately did not want to make it. she does not have rudder finished as I dont have strenght nor material to do it properly. she is ready to be fully masted if someone ever desired so. who knows. Her steel bulwark is sound and strong. there is lot to critisize. I dont know whether I managed to create the charm she has. Others must tell. For what I know, I gave her all I have in my abilities. there is never another time.... I need rest. I am eager to build small boats like, whaleboat, or cutters or so before I start way smaller and hopefully better that this - Glory of the Seas. I must say, for me it was definitely more difficult than to make good sounding violins. I have both to prove now thank you . im posting some pics and will make a small gallery. you can feel im glad it is over. True. I just tasted of some masting and rigging and full masting and rigging of such giant would take another 2 years or so. I must asy though I regret not seeing her under sails though. but she is way too big for that. SO i have to stick with whats there hope you enjoyed it as I did. Whats most important? I did not loose interest of shipmodeling, quite contrary... thanks Vlad.

I am adding some more pics I found... around spring of this year. as I wanted to mainain relative lightweight of the ship, and tried to stiffen whole construction I installed some wooden bits to the sfkeleton from the bottom, so they work together to both directions of the installment and add overall stiffness to the boat, leaving it relatively light. skeleton is made of pine which remain lightweight well, i did not weight it. mass of wood on deck added up and butt is heavier of course...being solid. as 2 adults lift the boat i would suffest of some 50 kilograms entire built boat. i will will weigh her probably at some point out of curiosity...:)

Hello, good question thanks. there is an 10 mm thick and maybe 15 cm long iron rod installed in mast bottom to fit the hole drilled into bulkhead . i will try to find photo. its different instalment of two other masts but pretty much solid to withstand entire rigging if ever continued So, unfortunately i did not photographed all process, but i found leftover from rod, and will try to explain. Mast itself is of beech wood which is stiff itself and there would not need to be any outer protections against potential cracking speaking of rigging. Its strength would withstand any possible rigging tensions itself perfectly. ( speakig of model of course) I however secured it just in case of any horrifying cape horn roaring 60 ties by bronze cap. You can see from pics. 8 mm steel rod bored into mast bottom about 10 cm length into. Than i secured some 2 mm thick solid bronze cap to the outer shape of mast to prevent any tensions and potential cracks. After i simply bored mast into predrilled hole in bulkhead. As you can see from post 144 That is secure as hell because in sipte bulkhead is inly 24 mm thick in fore - aft direction - center of bulkhead where is hole is ineed shuffled into centerline wood-)which it pretty much secures agsinst longitudal tensions and left right tensions are negligible from crack also because bulkhead is 200 mm solid in that direction. In case of curiosity, as you can see mast and bulkheads are approx 24 mm thick and rod is about 8 mm so there is plenty of solid surface around to keep it firmly in place. Thanks for asking V.

i now see your mastering in painting Bruma, i like very much what are you doing with revel model. Vlad

im coming to learn Sir, Splendid.

Archjofo, Beyond words , fantastic

what a Beauty Pete, absolute first class. congratulation. V.

Mario this is my go to model im watching. interesting aporoach with plastic cup, hovewer i would not go that route neat details for sure. go on. Vlad

congratulations Eric. She is really beautiful you should be proud. Vlad.

fantastic Brian . like it very much Vlad

her bow is so beautiful isnt it .

Thanks for stopping by and leaving nice words vaddoc. i did enjoy it true. i must have. i know this scale of such monster was only once in a lifetime occasion so i had to give her everything whats left from my abilities. and even more . but sometimes other point to some some trick or direction that betters thing up and so on for which i am really thankful

always pleasure to look here vaddoc. new boat is being raised up to shape. hoorah! thanks fo sharing the process as well, it is really helpful. very nice, happy continuation. Vlad. i can see familiar chisel name :)) and jig is no 1!

i havent thought of that. well i would maybe rather see the outcome on other hull at first as I dont have idea what i would want to achieve. should it be like rust ? or glow? aeging ? i have plenty of rivets to try on on hull though. do you have such example of please? anyway massive thanks Bruma.

very nice progress along stem and with treenaisl Bradley.

Hi Bruma. I did try it. Massive Thank you! I will post you probably love emoticon as you pointed me to dry brush method and helped to enhance the hard effort of carving . I knew there was somethijg missing in it, something very important. I looked into it and the mwthod is fabulous. It consist of building up layers upon layers of tiny amount of gold or metallic color with pointing of brush rather than strokes. Always from tiny portion up not otgerwise. I believe it paid off hansomely. It enhanced carved relief that stepped even more out of black surface behing. At this point it is more than adequate i think. What do you think?

nicely done Bruma. superb. Vlad

many Thanks for advice on dry brush Bruma, i will dvelve into it. the carved ones stay. V.

Little amusing details. (So Still ongoing)..... How is everyone? Im posting sime recent detailing work along lifeboats platform. I decided deliberately to sit platform on cabin roof instead of letting it little higher and I secured it with curved rod endings eyes for middle boat. Thin legs supporting it are simply not fastened on bottom side as firm to keep all platform and boats firmly, now its okish. then various works on boats related...rudder is not completed yet... ..thank you very much for the look. Vlad.

Hi Martin , thanks, opinion much appreciated. V.

Dilemma. Good morning gentlemen. I have dilemma to solve. Which one would you opted for final mount of cheeks ornamensts? I ended up having two , liking both diferently. At some point i like and value carved much more because of difficulty time and skill it endured , and being 3D yet not being gold colored and not detailed to the point of complete realism another just gold painted 2dimensional one possess...im a bit scared to paint carved one though. Which would you pick if it were you ? Thanks a lot for any opinion. Vlad .

this is lovely .superb.

Nice progress Bradley, looking fwd to the continuation. shape is emerging nicely. V

Bruma fyi I appreciate constructive criticism maybe more than anything:) as likes are not correcting my mistakes but criticism would at this point i know this was largest ship i will ever build so im now thankful that i cannot make full rigging. that would be probably few years to come. im determined to wrap in 1 week thanks for valuable comment. V.