Spray by IgorSky - FINISHED - 1/350 - BOTTLE - Captain Joshua Slocum

[Omega1234]

Hi Igor

 

What would life be without errors and mistakes! The good thing is that you're on top of things and working towards a good outcome.

 

Hopefully the same sorts of problems won't crop up with your Atlantic model.

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[cog]

 

Also, I'm trying to come up with some tool that would allow me to fulfill ability to make some action inside the bottle.

And what kind of action might that be ...?

[IgorSky]

Carl, I want to make miniclip to facilitate pulling the thread inside the bottle and be able to hold some of the details.

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[cog]

Do you know long tree scissors? A long handle, a head like a scisor, which you close with a piece of rope/string. You could instead of scissors use a clamp like utility at the head. Scissors look something like this ...

[IgorSky]

Do you know long tree scissors? A long handle, a head like a scisor, which you close with a piece of rope/string. You could instead of scissors use a clamp like utility at the head. Scissors look something like this ...

scissor.1.jpg

Hi Carl,

Yeah, I guess the similar construction, but small in size.

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

Edited April 29, 2015 by IgorSky

[IgorSky]

Hi everyone.

Yesterday I finished working inside the bottle. Now I need only to make the stopper and to insert it into the neck of the bottle.

 

 

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[Omega1234]

Hi Igor

 

Wow, that looks great! Heaps of character. Loads of charm. Beautifully executed with loads of atmosphere.

 

The stands is also a really nice complement to the overall effect of the model.

 

Really nice! What's next (ie after the Atlantic)?

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[IgorSky]

Hi Patrick,

Many thanks for good words!

Yes, I am continuing construction of the Atlantic, but the work is progressing very slowly due to various reasons.

The next project ... hmmm ... a some times ago I saw Mike's log, in which he talks about his building of the model RS1 by Colin Archer. Very nice boat. Most likely, this will be the next project.

 

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[Omega1234]

 

That'd be a nice choice. Go for it!

[cog]

Igor,

 

Nice tool, even nicer result in that bottle ...  Very well done!!! Looking forward to your new project

[captainbob]

Fantastic finish, It would make Joshua Slocum proud.  The RS1 is a nice boat and a good choice.

 

Bob

[mtaylor]

Wow... that is sweet looking.  I like the way you adapted to the shape of the bottle.

[mikegerber]

Hi Igor

 

Today, I have just boarded your log ... - and behold, "Spray" on great adventure ride! - Congratulations on this great finish!   

... and yes! - The RS1 would be a great choice and it would be a great pleasure, if "Stavanger" would get a sister ship on MSW. 

 

Best Regards

Mike

Edited May 1, 2015 by mikegerber

[IgorSky]

Hi Bob, Mark, Mike! Thanks for good words!
I have not quite finished this project. I have to make the stopper. I'm looking for a suitable piece of wood.

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[DSiemens]

She looks great Igor! Great choice in bottles too.

[IgorSky]

Now the model is completed

[Omega1234]

Hi Igor

 

What a magical job you've done! It would seem from the angle of the booms that your ship's just slightly heeled over as she's caught a breeze. It doesn't take much imagination, then, to picture her sailing off into the sunset, gently rolling across the waves. Where to?. It doesn't matter. Any journey's a good journey and Captain Slocum's enjoying the ride!

 

Marvellous. Ya gotta be really pleased!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

Edited May 11, 2015 by Omega1234

[IgorSky]

Where to?. It doesn't matter. Any journey's a good journey and Captain Slocum's enjoying the ride!

 

 

 

Many thanks Patrick!

It seems to that way Captain Slocum went into his last journey...

[hexnut]

Wonderful presentation!  I have to ask--how did you do the cross-pin through the stopper? (Did I miss that step in the log?)

[IgorSky]

I do not know how  accurate  is this information, I only read its in a group of friends Captain Slocum:

 

"Member Ole R. Börgdahl wrote to me and asked me if I knew what had become of Captain Slocum back in 1909. Although it has been a mystery for many years, I am pleased to provide the following update, thanks to new evidence provided by the same adventurous anthropologists and forensic archaeologists who have been busily on the trail of the lost aviator, Amelia Earhart: "Dear Ole:...As for what happened to Slocum in 1909, he was presumed lost at sea. He sailed south as he did every year, late in the season, with the goal of sailing up the Amazon to its source, or something like that, and was never seen or heard from again as far as we know. At least until a couple of years ago, when new evidence indicates that Slocum did indeed sail up into the wilds of the Amazon to nearly its headwaters. He beached his old boat SPRAY, and fell in with a small tribe of Amazonian natives, soon assembling a harem of 12 native, nubile young wives, and fathering a whopping brood 16 kids, 38 grandchildren, and 97 great-grandchildren before passing on at the ripe old age of 105. The village has grown, and most of Slocum’s progeny grew up and went to sea in the Brazilian Merchant Marine. You can usually tell his offspring; their skin is a tad lighter, they begin growing half-beards before age 5, and love ‘stewed onions’ from infancy onward; none however have ever been able to learn to swim. That’s as much as we know at this point."

[IgorSky]

Wonderful presentation!  I have to ask--how did you do the cross-pin through the stopper? (Did I miss that step in the log?)

 

Hi Bob,

I have put here some photos showing how to do it. I will find them and I will give you a link

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[captainbob]

The spray as you built her is a fine boat, the story about Slocum is fun but the stopper takes the cake.  Great job.

 

Bob

[IgorSky]

Thanks Bob!

Yes, I could not finish this project because of the stopper. Today I received a few pieces of walnut and finally I have put an point to this project

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[cog]

Igor,

 

It looks like she is sailing away on a sea of ink ... beautiful.

 

P.s. I'm interested in those images of the stopper too ...

[IgorSky]

Thanks Carl!
Yes, I will find this link tomorrow.

[Mfelinger]

Hi Igor,

the result is the same effort and the knowledge that you have invested ...

and this is outstanding, congratulations.

 

Matija

[IgorSky]

Thanks Matija!

Bob, Carl, here the link with these photo - http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/1589-latest-full-profile-photograph-of-your-build/?p=306141

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[hexnut]

Thanks Matija!

Bob, Carl, here the link with these photo - http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/1589-latest-full-profile-photograph-of-your-build/?p=306141

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

Thanks!  The technique was as I suspected, but the way that you implemented it is beautiful and provides a very convincing illusion.

[cog]

Thanks Igor,

 

Inventive !!!

[Josh Williamson]

Just seeing this amazing miniature model, and wow!  Very impressive - I can't imagine the patience that must be involved with such a project.