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Annd another one holliday for eyes

Another holliday for eyes

Very nice work. Holliday for eyes

With "Aida" next 20 cm of make up in long two hours. Makeup goes well, white rail is straight, also line where white and black color meet. Two rounded "brown" rails will get their final look when I finish inside bulwarks with deadeye and nailholders and main rail, and ... because all has Teak "natural" color Beast is still in same position listening Verdi And Admiral catched me to repaint Hotheads room

I stayed speachless ...

David, I was in opera once, twice, and concluded - you can not enjoy and feel music if you watch around on decorations and action in scene. Libreto do not interest me. Only music. Listening and thinking of. Not only opera, but those days it will be Bach and Verdy mixed. I put music on my phone, attach little speaker in workshop, and this is it. I tried with headphones, but wires from my ears have strange passion to collect things from workbench

Just ...WOW !!!

Cap, we are expecting "hair" story !!!

There are not coconuts on Cutty Sark. Thanks anyway But idea stays ! I must rethink this idea considerinog hair of my daughters Persian cat Making ropes? That could be something !

Hmmm Look good

ROFL !!!! What an idea ! Genious !!!! And good result. But what to do rest of us who has not enough hair, and a little remains is white?

Verdi and Bach are exactly I need holding paintbrush tonight. (and magnifier ...) Preliminary final make up starts And my company As I wrote before, it seems he ( HM Adrian, The Princ of Persia) likes Verdi. Everytime I listened Requiem, he comes to workshop, and get this position Strange ...

Just like that, David. Little madness here and there. When I was starting with every new painting, I do not know exactly what I do. Just let paintbrush working until I got some idea about picture I paint. All tell me I am insane .... Who care ... I spent a good time making my art, and that is only important. If painting dropped out well, and somebody liked it, ok. If not, also ok.

There is a drop of truth in your words David. Admiral insists for some of my paintings to be hanged on a walls in our home (better paintings than me ... ) As youth, I won on some local compettitions playing classic guitar music ( Asturias, Requerdos de la Alhambra, HVLobos prelude, JSBach ...), wrote poetry and novels, .... But I realised early that only few can live from art, and I am not that kind of artist and man, have foots hard connected to earth And here I am now, missed enginier, missed artist, shipmodeler in trying, happy attorney,I think good husband and father... what to want more ?

I am curious too

Exelent soldering work on that scale

Thank you Nils, you would surely do this much much much better

When you make little ring of thin Cu wire 4mm diam. It has strange will to dissapear somewhere on work bench without any reason ... also without idea to come back ... ever When I was happy to see it traveling to the floor, I just let it go ... I give up of even a try to find it ... Strange ... as smaller the pieces are, their will to escape is stronger ... when I was making decoration piece under Star of India, I made couple wooden pieces 0,5x0,5x4-5 mm ... and sniffed ... just bye bye Spice of our hobby

Thank you for likes Quote: "For just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king" One moment Let's come back to make some mess

Very nice work. Waiting for more Nenad

And here is explanation - tutorial Star and basement Considering little dimensions ( 7-8 mm diameter) use only this tool - they are not designed for wood, but with them you can do it more precise Basement for star is made from wood tile 1,5-2 mm thick, which must be thinned to exact shape Ring is made from telephony wire, flattened on anvil after making circle. It is not necessary to solder, it is so small, and you can always hide composition place with star arm, if color do not cover composition Before installing ring, paint hole with red color, later it can be impossible Stage 6 - use Xacto or similar sharp scalpel, and make scarps, or cuts if you are skilled enough. My experience is that scarps are sufficient in such a scale Paint careful ring with blue and body with gold Star is made of galvanized sheet metal part. I tried different materials, and faced with problems how materials behave on such a small dimensions - if to much soft, you can not work with, if to much hard, then it is to much thick For gluing, use thinned toothpick to apply little drops of CA over ring After coloring ( all used colors are acrylic), you can correct scarps, and you can use clear matte acrylic varnish Left and right circle ornament are made on same way Ropes All ropes are made by "my" patent, considering I ( still) don`t have machine for this Basic technique is shown on picture You have to do some experiments, following direction of twisting in the weaving thread or oposite, combining 1,2,3 ropes together, or making double twisted ... Play a little I used thread for crocheting, because a less of little hairs, which is made ( twisted) originally from 5 thinner twisted threads When rope is done, you can twist it more by hands, and cover it before mount by one or two layer of thin gold acrylic to become semi-plastic, easier for work with. After cutting to dimension, "glue" ends with acrylic paint All another line ornaments are made of different ropes I made Ah, yes, parts are made by telephony wire, and little "leaves" on top by twisted thin wire - just two hears from regular multicore AC 220V wire Letters Point by point, on template I made from printed part of CS plans. After finished, cutted and glued all letters together in one sheet of paper base I hope I did not miss something to explain Oh, yes Main thing On such a scale, you first have to "divide" whole ornament in parts, adn to look at "on artistic" way - little points just dissapear caused by small scale, and you must chose and decide what parts are significant to give look and feel of whole thing, and to focus on them Little tip There was problem how to manipulate with so small pieces - too small for any tweezer ... remember adhesive force of water ... just lick the top of toothpick, touch desired piece, and you will pick it up Another little tip Use acrylic as first glue layer - also has some adhesive force, enough strong to accept piece you lay on it, and when acrylic color get dry, apply another thin layer to fix it, and varnish over

Whole ornament is finished. OK, little color correction here and there ... and maybe adding little drop of yellow to gold color before that ... something to thing about Considering there is a lot "bash" jobs/techniques applied, tomorrow I'll write little tutorial/explanation. I was a bit inpatience to try and to move forward and forget to explain main steps of this creative journey full of improvisations Here are pictures CS ornament - targeted look. Little more yellow tone ? I think it have to be, but maybe later, because front and rear decorations have to be in same color Left side Right side Look from floor It looks like, or I have to visit doctor for my eyes And again "problem" with close-ups ... magnify every little mistake. And when you try to fix it, you realise that you have to move center or end of rope which is 7 mm long and less than 1 mm thin, up or down for about 1/4-1/2mm ... and when you do this, another part moves out of position ... after a while, you look at, and it seems OK, and you make close-up, and see new mistake you made. Another endless circle I must confess, I have not enough patience to do this more than once, twice Time to think what is next move

Thanks Bob, feel free to take anything you need. I ll take your deadeye-rail steps. This is what MSW is for !!!

Uh oh ah .... thiny nice blue detail almost missed !!!!! How I did not see thid before ? Too much stearing in structure on Lou's great detailed high resutipn b/w pictures First thing tomorrow

Good idea, Cap Little edit: I finished whole ornament, and considering there was a lot of "bash" works (almost all ements), tomorrow I'll make tutorial for my log and presentation for this log And edit Whole process is explained here http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/2501-cutty-sark-by-nenad-bashed-tehnodidakta/page-114#entry264901 Used materials : multicore AC 220V wire, telephony wire, galvanized sheet metal plate 0,5 mm, thread for crocheting