NenadM

So much to learn from you, Nils!

Thanks Denis.

As I wrote, and as I was afraid of, home "entertainment" starts. In my life, last 30 years, in situations when I had no enough money, I have made a lot of home furniture (kitchen, bed room, beds fod kids etc etc, and so I have a lot of design and carpenter experience.

But ... When you have stubborn architect in home, everything runs complicated and with a lot of philosophy ... On the other side, I must let him to spread his wings ant to allow him to show and implement his creativity and knowledge ... Two persistence and stubborn, "I know all" and "I know better" folks in same bag and on same project ... huh ...

First result ... Different day rhythm ... Both on summer vacation, I rise up about 07h, start with homework at 09, ready for project and carpenter works at 11-12h ... He works over night, rise at 14-15h ready for work at 16-17, just at the time when I usually work in home yard. When evening falls, instead to do my model, I join architect to catch a few hours together until my regular reading books and sleeping time comes(23-24h), and , so, my work on my CS is collateral damage of rearranging my office

 

I made my wishes in SketchUp, and Hothead imported it in his arch. programs, and rearranged it on another way, having explanations for all ... continuous fight of ideas character and temperament ...

 

 

 

THIS is gonna be a very natural model. The details all look very realistic. your cleaning job really did it. Congratulations and lots of power to complete it in this style. LIKE!

Hello Harry and wellcome. Thank you for nice words. I have seen your work and I like it. But I can not find your Flying Cloud log!

 

Would you be so kind to sent me link?

shiny and bright!  it looks like her Captain and master are driving their crew when it comes to cleaning. I've read that during the tea trade, the captains kept their ships clean and painted like yachts. 

 

Marc

 

I do not know about Captain, but master had problems during cleaning with two flies who entered in shipyard on unknown way in spite of protective nets on all windows. The rest of story is well known for all of us ... they stand steady usually on most sensitive parts of model where I can not kill them without killing my model, or at the same moment I start painting, they alight on my hand or arm or alight on my shiny bald head,  just when I try to be still and stoned doing precise painting job, balancing above model and holding at the end long thin brush, seeping under main rail, painting surfaces and wires, trying not to paint anything around, all under magnifier ... 

Maybe, Marc, may be. Or we just enjoy in challenge?

 

Anyhow, a bit mad or not, after week with 35°C in shade, we all like two rainy days with max temperature of 20°C.

 

Hothead is home on his summer vacation, with many plans for me ...??? I have to put him gently on his home place to understand that I am a master of my life ... still

 

Cleaning continues, one side done

 

Nice work Marc.I have a question: Why do you decide to furle sails?

 

Maybe I miss something in your log

 

Nenad

Hey Nenad, I thought that was weathering you added, you know, some rust - - - - -   But your cleaning up job is looking great.

 

Cheers,

 

 

That were my thoughts also, Piet, until I concluded that weathering is art by itself, and I have great opportunity to ruin all model trying to weather it

 

Nenad,

 

You are doing a fine job on making her spic and span. As Piet already ascertained, you're not going for the weathered look. She'll be all shiny and new ... I wish you a steady hand during touch ups!

 

Cheers

 

Her fate is to be covered under sails and under glass box with (maybe)  some led lighting , so by nature of this statement, nobody can approach less than 1m seeing Her. So, this is rather question of my actual idiotic pedant state of mind than anything else

Can it be smaller ?

I said - NO

Piet said - YES

 

well well well done !!!!!

i always stay breathless when see your painted surfaces ... HOW ????

Thank you for your very nice words, gentleman!

 

Interesting ... there are days when you have only 3-4 hours of full activity, but you are deadly tired as you pulled mountine whole day ( yesterday ). And at the very next day, as today, when I had two outside meetings, one divorse trial, all on 35°C with 95% hummidity from 08 to 15h, coming home and cooking dinner, working after in homeyard fighting with wild ... everything! ... almost 3 hours, and after that I spent two hours in shipyard cleaning desk and tools and making some order... I just have no explanation for that changeable status of body energy. It is possible that it different battery status comes with milleage (years you collect running from day to day)

 

Anyhow, I rested from Hotheads drill, and it was time to come back to shipyard and to continue with my work

 

As I wrote, I cleaned main deck from dust and pieces of ... who knows what ... and started with color repairing on inner bulwarks

 

As you can see on next picture, looking from distance, it sems as nothing has to be done.

 

 

But, looking carefully, particulary with magnifier, there are damaged places, dirty places and undesired traces and dot remains from rail color

 

 

 

And this make me very nervous, so I started with first 3 fields with white acrylic

 

 

 

Slow, very slow and fragile work under main rail, with the thinest brush I have, taking care not to paint something arround I do not want to paint.

Try to play with acrylic paints and sanding paper. You can be amased with results

 

Thx Patrick

 

At least, I retutned to shipyard and finished all dech dead-eyes lines

 

 

Next is cleaning, color repairs and color corrections of inner bulwark space on main deck

You have very very big hands or your model is very very small

 

Very very very good job !

Thanks Denis

 

Model arrived in Novi Sad without damage, Model was valuated with 8,6 grade ( rating from 6 to 10)  and meet requirement for Hothead to be called for next stage of exam

 

Finally in office in front of my PC, and I can answer to posts regularly ( pretty clumsy doing it on smartphone)

 

At first, thank you all Gentleman for nice comments and supporting words

 

Patrick

 

Typical situation with non-typical participants ... 

 

Carl

 

like father - like son, you are correct. There is one old traditional sayings : "acorn does not fall far from the tree"  

 

His future job is close connected with investors. In Serbia, last two decades, you can get a architect project job ( and any other job) ONLY if you are high positioned in political party which won last elections. No mater what you know and did you know anything at all. It stinks. It means - NOT HERE !!!!! If you want to keep your integrity and personality. To late for me, but not for Hothead and Princess 

 

Gerhard

 

Yes, Princess faced with Her first empty weekend in last 10 years ... going to swimming pool ... what a discovery !!!! Never late. Better now than never

 

Mark

 

I accept your suggestion about posting in "what have you ..." 

I know that Mark. Even they will be 70 years old, and I will have 100 years, they will always be children

Yes, I plan to live very very long

And have to drive his model in my car to Novi Sad, there is no other way, without damage

 

 

Denis

 

War of temperaments, stubborn and "I know everything" on both sides. But it is all OK, regular kind of my family life. My, and my late Admiral "family and child rising politic" was - enable them to express them-self in any way, even to fight with us. And talk with them in every single moment when they want to, even in endless stupid conversation, this was the only way to make their strong self-confident personality and to make them life fighters. And I think that we succeed in that 99%

 

I joke him that he will be good shipmodeler when he grows up one day   ;D

 

Piet

 

Thank you for your nice words and wishes, my friend.

 

 

All "glass" on place ( every passage, central gathering area, restorant roof ...) glasses visualy conect all modules of elementary school in one object

 

Model is almost finished. Boy who had to do laser cutting, forgot to put on machine table with gym roof and 50 decorative trees ... I hope he wil do it tomorrow

Lines of hull appears!

 

 

Step forward. Details

 

Only allowed material is card panels and Iuvidur 1mm thick

 

Wood of any kind is not allowed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just wait to see glassed surfaces ...

Somewhere in the middle ... I hope

 

She is ok, but sometimes pit bull temperament of her late mother bumped out, particulary when she has her own nervose sources (she finaly realised that with full time doctor's job she just has no more time to be director of two hip-hop dance studios just to mention thatvher 10 years of dancer and coach carrier means a lot to her, if she want beside job a time to resy, to finish German learning and to start and finish car drive learning, and want beside all of that, some time to allow some boy to enter in her 27 years old life). And to be honest, Hothead and me are not quite right, but ... sometimes push, somethimes pull... family diplomacy. Tripple of nervouse family members at the same time = spice of family life.

 

Show which is presented from time to time in every home

Oooooo ....

 

Huh !

 

Just incredible!

Shipyard temporary changed with "kitchen-yard"

 

Hothead's theme for his project and model architecture exame is - school building. Everybody other starts with traditional basic cube form adding details. But him ... no ... why it can be simple when it can be complex ... he started with flower form dressed in glass ... real soon of his father