Vladimir_Wairoa

good day Jamie, neat and lovely work on cutty competitor. horizontal sailing look is eyecatching . Vlad

Hat off sir i keep going to watch nd learn here just fabulous ! thank you for sharing it Vlad.

Brilliant work and outcome Derek, thanks for showing , Vlad

Welcome to msw Uwe. Vlad

good day Rob, woudl you mind me trying to ask some questions about glory - plan? im still hesitating about building flying fish as that was built countless times i would like to something significant as not overbuilt. as finished Michael Mjeldes book i have at least emotional connection with such meaningfull boat ( at least for Donald McKay and for sake such important vessel was burnt to the ground i would love to raise her beauty up again )... i have myself plenty of informations and all rigging stuff from book and omportant some reall good close photography from ship itself and drawing covered. yet i struggle with hull shape though meaning i amhaving perfect plan of flying fish but how would i use it for glory body is a mystery to me at the moment. im not sure if some body shape outline with curves even exist of glory which would be sufficient enough so I would have basically all imoortant information about ship perfectly covered. i did not find it in Michael book infortunately. thank you and all best Vladimir

Hey Vaddoc, how is your yacht going? impressive though. you wont believe this. i was just today thinking abou upgrading that rail with proper casettes as well as scale allowes me to. just cutting wood. more to come thanks for stopping by.

Thank you Nenad. I call that your dedication and focus on details in your scale as well.

Thank you for compliment Mark, it means a lot to me, youve been welcoming me here in this really friendly forum and watching / supporting her from start, for which i am really thankfull you know there were few moments i led her to almost to ashes with my two important mistakes with her curves... thankfully i repaired im really glad she she is heading to blossoming direction hopefully now... yes she is as big as could be. o have now plenty of time to improve here and there whatever comes up to my mind. i would put her under main sails but i will not as she cannot be longer so bowsprit is all i can do and this is her definite size. good luck to your projects. Vlad.

Thank you Rob. much appreciated. Vlad

Mark thank you indeed for nice words, im glad varnished look pays off as even i think white looked a bit more cleaner and polished than colour im ok with that anyway. my family already stated firmly that they feel all sorry for me as they watched rise of ship for about two years now and around 1300 hours...i laugh... after one horrifying day when i had oversprayed toiled i had to scrape down all white mess...well now only laying a plank by plank deck remains - im looking forward to it even a bit nervous :)) fingers crossed. many thanks !

Good day clipper lovers, who seen my previous posts already knows the unpredictable way I work. As obvious, a lot is going on within cutty in shipyard, today I will try to post by pics explaining themselves how I did what I did. you might know I work rather on brisk inspiration of ideas than on systematic approach, /i rarely know what will finish look like, and trying various method - even using wood instead of metal if possible as easier to wirk with- call it cheat whatever :)) . unfortunately This approach leads to many further repairs even scraping down a hlaf of work already done if I found a new or better way how to make it better , nicer more realistic etc...long time work ...speaking of disadvantages of this approach. I call it reverse alchemy....for Vaddoc im adding one photo as mammoth out of room . :)) left shipyard room for a tiny bit of time so only shortly, her goes - coppering finished ! i will leave one side without it. - maybe strange i dont know yet. :)) one day i started to focus on details and though what I could do more realisticaly with my limited hand tools...as this scale was picked for detail, bow and stern decoration not for sails.thought about details more , and tried tedious mouldings with beveling corners of pieces, updated cabins thorougly, and redone small verticall ballustrades...collored cabins finally... to the varnished look not white... even I hesitated. I left toilets white but left cabins varnished,. what do you think ? I would feel sorry to paint maple veneer and I varnished mouldings with tranparent asphaltum oil color diluted thorougly - it is undistinguishable from mapple veneer now... made door casettes in doors, fife rails upgrade, new proper mooring pipes, and i reworked bulwark stanchions properly, got idea of rounding them and screwing to the plate...thats how it is supposed to be. square wass bad. too bad. even not in centre of stanchion call it feature :)) installed sheaves .... detailing _ leaning towards more realistic approach started with my struggle and swearing and regret that I have only hand tools , specially working on wooden stanchions ...I updated them 3 times and only now i am satisfied. i finally found a way how to shape them with dremel in hands...fun. what else. well...you can see new sheer plank over temporary deck...as i wrote around january i can do proper planking later. this rises deck higher above water "cemented" gray canal how it should be. is there anyone who planked after rigging is up_ i bet noone. oh well i reworked toilets completely, adding proper base and proper doors inlayed, an added vertical wood collumns to poop deck. Oh and I updated poop deck to extend "white " line properly towards end of cabins and left them squared as should be not round. well i can see i am building this vessel twice. :)..thank you everyone hoping you like the news. . Planking deck will be really the final part. I even swear. I am already standing on deck of flying fish in my mind. ..

very nice work on figurehead congratulation!

just lovely work on blocks etc... Vaddoc. i admire your patience

Hello Rick, another idea might be to use plastic cutty sark revell model and you can modify it with wooden parts up to desire...so that can be easier than starting wood from scratch....

Very nice fix Mark . Vlad

very realiatic and beautiful Kevin, congratulations. lightning is a top on a cake

Hello Dali, this is just beautiful. very well done. congratulations!

Thank you Rob, appreciate that ! V.

thanks Vaddoc, haha youre wrong its deep water harbour really , but there were a times of capes heavy gales prevailed the room. i do all messy work outside in my "laboatory" yet it takes kilometers of walking stairs. i hope you dont think i sand wood in my living room i had to reorganise . the moment i took her in ny room speeded up work considerably as all preparin , measuring , and pre drawing cutting and dremel drilling im doing instantly over my computer table , just for messy work i step away. but she reigns the room true. but really not for long now

much appreciated Geert , thank you

Im glad you like her Mark thanks for stopping by.

Good morning, i havent updated for some time, doing so nnow. Somethimes i feel i make 2 boats in one, coming up with new ideas. Summing up the pics, I had to reinforce nose, sticking in thick wooden nails. I was never satisfied with bow floral ornament, probably still undoable with carving even at this scale, so I tried to paint a new ones, with acrylic Golden metallic color. I have to say I am quite a satisfied with outcome myself, with tinest brush possible even small birds on tiny vineyards line are visible now. it really glows agains sunrays. I made rail winches out of some old rivets stuck into wooden block: i finally made cabin doors and made proper horizontal base for decks to follow reality more...Made davits lanyards. Finished ratlines and forestays. I made topsail yard to be attached at deck. updated catheads with release levers and chain eye...i almost finished 1 side of sheathing, ending with 480 individual pieces of brass plates...still another side to come but that will be done later as I run out of brass. I must say before bow curvature disaster all looked bleak but as I managed to repair that most important flaw , all seems really fit to me. foremast stay heartbocks are not really nice but I juct made them out of remained roundblocks leftouts from shrouds. they are quite fragile so i couldnt push wires more to them, but im sure knowing myself iwill repair them sometime in future. I attached 2 of three bowsprit guys, and from that pic you can see reewed topgallant rail outer wooden rails nicely stepping out of stright line to lean outwards making more steeper agressive curvature going in line with toprail. I tried to rivet the outer side of bulwark iron walls and attached eyed to deck. At this point all shourds and ratlines are fit, I secured lifeboat to the vessel _no pic unfortunately, and varnished Hull of the vessel with vax oil. I must say I found painting eith acrylics and putting semimatte vaxed oil afterwards really works visually for me. This Acrylics drying almost instantly, even not dilluted just brushing with good brush is what I used on yard. This is all for now, im adding pics along. Thank you. Have a nice sunday. Vlad.

Impressive stuff Geert, very beautiful. Vlad.

Very nice work Peter !

im happy i can consult with you as im certain I surely will when times come...V.