Cutty Sark by Nenad

[popeye the sailor]

your getting there Nenad.......little by little.   can you get a flat lacquer where you live?  it will dry flat and bring out the grain all at the same time.   where I live,  I can get a white primer....it would make it easier to repaint that aft bulkhead.  lite colored primer.....is the key

[NenadM]

Thx Popeye, I ll fix it

[edmay]

Hello Nenad, From the darkest holes your inspiration brings light,wisdom with challenges and positivity (were there's a will there's a way),if you were a mountaineer you would surely reach the top of Everest,without realizing you inspire many of us with your logs,thank you,have a good week. Edwin

[NenadM]

Edwin, thx for kind words

 

Truth, something pull me to climb up, but ... 

 

I have fear from highness ( not when was young). When I climbed this summer to Manasia Monastery walls, I was frightened to death, even path on the top of wall was almost 2m wide. Stairways are made of iron bars and TRANSPARENT !!!

 

Today I`d rather be a miner than a mountclimber. One friend of mine is extreme mountclimber ( you know kind of people who hang on hands and foots from a horisontal stone as a spider) and extremly like to show me his spider pictures. Something like that

 

 

 

Aaaaaaaa ...

 

On the other side, I`d very like to visit some day Hua-Shan monastery in China, but I m not sure if I could have enough courage to go to the end. Travel around a world and do not climb ... who do that ?

 

Here is way to HUA

 

Enyou !

 

Edited March 5, 2014 by Nenad M

[capnharv2]

Trust me Nenad, you'll never find me going there. . .

 

My idea of a big adventure is going thru the drive-thru at Starbucks

 

Thanks,

 

Harvey

[NenadM]

Harvey

 

When I was young, almost do not know what fear of height is.I discovered my fear about 9 years ago in Bulgaria Aqua park Sunny Beach. I persuaded my daughter (she was 16 years then) to go together with Hothead (14) on highest and most "dangerous" waterslide in park ( 20m high 70 km/h speed), he slided down, then she slided down with screaming, and I ... I was suddenly afraid and didnt , so went bravely down by stairs .... She had strong will to kill me whole week, and can not forgive me until today ... We remember this today with big laughing

 

Here is picture from this "monster"

 

But, wishes, wishes ...

 

Edited March 5, 2014 by Nenad M

[capnharv2]

Nenad,

 

I would have done same thing as you

 

Harvey

[NenadM]

Back to the build.

 

No work yesterday, but this evening I`m gonna fix most recent blunder I made. Stanchions, ready for mount, must wait for a while (still tumbling inside head - can I do this better ?)

Edited March 5, 2014 by Nenad M

[dgbot]

Do not feel bad I loved the thrill years ago. Now if you were to put me on an extension ladder I would have to wear a diaper.

David B

[NenadM]

Not feel bad, David. Just make my frontiers. Untill some years ago,on-roof works on my house was my kingdom. Now, I am not sure, maybe Hothad ? As a father, I dare not send him up. On south side, only 3m high, on north side - 9m

 

South

 

 

North

 

[popeye the sailor]

I'm not so bad........I love a good roller coaster.  when I get up on a roof,  I need to walk around a bit to get my  'legs'.......after that I'm fine. 

    I haven't had to do stuff like that for quite a while now.......I might be a bit daunted.

 

we went to a concert a few years ago.......our seats were wayyyyyyyyyyyyy up in the  'nosebleed' section.   cripes......felt like I was going to slide off the edge!   don't lean over the railing..........I joked around about it for a bit.  don't think anyone was amused when I hollered out    'Avalanche'!

[NenadM]

Popeye, you made me laugh. Ha !!!. In some occasions I was "looking for my legs" too (problems with veins, I am not sure). Once/twice a year I used to go on roof to check if everything is OK and if all tiles are on their places after snow, wind rain etc. Also to clean chimney after heating season. Life learned me to do this.One time, about 15 years ago, I was forced to go on roof , fasten wit a rope to chimney, to urgently fix blown tiles, all during storm. Tiles were removed by hard snow earlier, and I didnt check this on time. Also, dirty chimney = smoke in the house. And with heating boiler 35KW power, you can only imagine how much smoke it produces. Very unpleasent expirience, believe me.  I didnt go up in 2013 - there was no need, because we take a gas heating, and a winter was soft. This year, I wrote earlier about, we removed again to heat with dried coal, and must go up in april/may

 

Bact to Her Majesty

 

Mess under aft deck fixed (brown ==>> white)

 

 

Mounting of stanchions started

 

 

Edited March 5, 2014 by Nenad M

[popeye the sailor]

looks really sweet Nenad.........stanchioning is a very nice bit of detail......

[Piet]

Very nice looking stanchions Nenad, that really adds to the authenticity of your model.

 

Hey, I was on the roof of our house just last week to look for some possible damage.  I have no fear of heights, don't like cole mines though 

Here is a pic of me ready to dive off the roof but changed my mind, no water below, just grass.

 

Piet, the Flying Dutchman ready to take a leap.

 

Cheers,

[bucknbarney]

Nenad, you are an inspiration. Watching you go through difficulties and chalenges with such grace on your build log is so helpful and inspires me on my build to keep working through.

 

Thank you for your posts here.

[NenadM]

Thanks gentleman

 

There is one secret about yesterday start of mounting stanchions I forgot to share   

 

On workbench is always small red container with clean water and some old rag, used to wash/clean/dry paintbrush from colour/glue.

 

On the other side, all stanchions were in their similar small white container (cover of old spray bottles I kept for such a purpose).

 

Laying down Her Majesty from dry dock, turned her on soft base of rag on table, and intend to spread stanchions on near white plate to see them all and can chose between.

 

And then     , somebody obviously salted my brain, I picked up white container, and instead to pour contents (stanchions) to plate, I pour all of them direct to red container with water .....  follow long angry hour of drying them  ... happily, acrylic is resistant to water .... but ... 

 

Obviously there is sometime some kind of magic or spells in shipyard, and I must do something about ...   

[NenadM]

looks really sweet Nenad.........stanchioning is a very nice bit of detail......

 

Popeye

 

On second picture you can clearly see un-proper and wrong change of wideness of bulwark we discussed earlier, consequence of lost hull lines. As you see, correcting of this was impossible by sanding, only by very deep surgery, what I'm really not in the mood. As Bob (Rfolsom) said, I must/can live with that. Because of that I intend to overload Her with "visual masking" details, in hope not to be seen from ordinary average people

 

Great lesson learned for next building

 

Thx for interesting and support

 

Nenad

Edited March 6, 2014 by Nenad M

[popeye the sailor]

I commented on that earlier Nenad.........when you fit the deck out more......get the pin rails on,  and get her looking busy,  I really don't think it's going to show that badly.   your doing a fantastic job!   exactly........the next build will be better.   you've had enough set-backs........time to see you smile!

[NenadM]

[popeye the sailor]

that's the spirit!

[mtaylor]

Nenad,

Her Majesty is looking more proper every time you work on her.    Stay off the roof and stay healthy.

[NenadM]

No work yesterday, only some little research looking forward about inside main deck bulwark content

 

Analyze is in attach

 

Questions

 

1.

 

comparing Lou`s pictures and pictures I have ( almost from Google) , I noticed that there is another one "change" of colour of some parts

 

- Rail Winches on Lou`s pictures are white and on other - black

 

- Bollards on Lou`s pictures are white, and on other - on some - black, on some -  white

 

2.

 

Accommodation Ladder - to be or not to be. excluding masts and rigging elements, this will be most sensitive part of model. Very nice detail, but ... They are on the right side of ship, and it could condition position of finished model in "golden cage" of glass

 

Inside bulwark contents.pdf

 

[NenadM]

One side done. second to half

Edited March 8, 2014 by Nenad M

[bucknbarney]

Wow Nedad! This build is looking fantastic. Going through your first posts, you have come a LONG way. It would be great if you could do a post at the end of your build with pics from first steps to last with a few descriptions for is to look through.

[dgbot]

Your bulwarks and stanchions look great.  What did you use to fabrcate them?

David B

[NenadM]

@David

I use thin office clips. If you are pleased to rewind in log some pages before, you can read whole proces

Thx for interest

Edited March 8, 2014 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

Stanchions look great!  Are you doing the pinrails next?  Once I'm done painting the lower bulwarks, I'm going for the pinrails..

 

~Bob

[NenadM]

Thx, Bob

Next are inside bulwarks of fore and aft deck (shapeing and correcting)

 

Then replanking ALL decks (not jet clear thoughts about colour)

 

 

For now I am not really sure to do rails or to do coopering first ( heart of this dilema is -  (for now) not resolved question about method of making and mounting deadeyes and way of their fixing to bulwarks). So, in mean time, I am byuing some time in other works which have to be done before

Edited March 8, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Little lazy yesterday

 

Little diligent today

 

First finished stanchions

 

 

Pretty happy, except one big discovered mistake (trick question). I am shamed, and do not want to write about. all will be covered with pin rails and dead eye rails, and think nobody will see 

 

And then painted fore deck bulwark. Not satisfied at all, but I think it will be good enough, and there also will come many details (catheads, little "bulkheads", ah, almost forget bowsprit ..... etc etc) on this thiny bulwarks

 

 

And then moved to aft deck bulwark. Works still last, and waiting for putty to dry, going forward to planking, started some tests 

[NenadM]

Yestreday I have got sample cooper tape foil, and inpatient to start testings, first trying "coopering"

on some scrap material

 

 

 

"rivets" are "made by needle - I do not like how it looks

 

Upper slice is without sanding, down with light sanding ( light mehanicly cleaned oxidized layer)

 

Many questions still exist. Oxidized sliece has colour more similar to real CS, but not enough (little more yellow is needed). Cleaned is so much bright and shiney, foil is thin enough to work with, but it seems just a little rough. And, of course, serious question of proper glue arise (any idea ?)

 

More tests have to come before final decision, and in mean time trying to find Zync foil thin less than 0,1 mm ... still optimist ...

Edited March 9, 2014 by Nenad M