NenadM

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?

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?

He has good tastes !!

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 ...

I think I see a little Dali, and Picasso in the mix.  What is that old saying?  To build ship models and to be an artist madness helps.  I have been called compulsive and insane when I brought a small winch I made to work and then I brought in a miniature stove that I made for a friends daughter.  They wanted to have me committed.  I would also show the pics of Manitowoc as well.  And as far as they were concerned we all needed some therapy. But that is how it goes.
David B 

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 ?

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 ?

Beautiful work!! both your paintings and the stern decoration!
 
Always amazed at your work

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 ?

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 ?

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

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 ?

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 ?

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

Part one:
 

 

 

 

 
Enough for today. Glueing was problem ...
 
Color corection follows when all will be done
 
Btw, here is place and part of work when lost lines, angles and proportion of fields make problems

I am curious too

Exelent soldering work on that scale

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

Thanks everyone,
.. more pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Matija

Very nice metal work Matija
 
Nils

Good work on that Stern decor  Nenad,
 
it Looks great
 
Nils

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

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

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