Cutty Sark by NenadM

[rfolsom]

Sounds like a good deal, Nenad!

[SpencerC]

To hell with everything ...

 

Ornaments from C-plans resized to. My scale ...

 

I do not have too big fingers, so these are beats and ants I have to make

 

Seem pretty impossible

 

but ...

 

 

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How can I get these decals in gold? How'd u get these I can't find em anywhere. Our scales r really similar

[SpencerC]

And nenad, this is looking GREAT. You've made so much progress

[rfolsom]

Hello, Spencer; Good to see you again.  Our good friend Nenad is probably just getting out of bed at this time to go to work.  Is that right, Mr. Nenad?

[NenadM]

Bob, today I wake up at 06:00 while Admiral and kids were blissfully asleeping, take two ciggarets and pour a cup of fast coffee, and drived 170 km on highway ( bussines trip ) to Paracin town in south of Serbia... right now in factory, in a little pause I jump to MSW among ... meetings ... consultations ...  meetings ... consultations ... meetings ... like good becon, layer by layer on my bald head ... 

Addendum

Now is 18:00 local time, and I feel like ... squeezed sponge ... finding where to sleep tonight, to continue with consulting and meetings early in the morning until evening when another 170 km drive to home is in front of me, with crazy Turkish drivers on highway

Edited August 25, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Hello, Spencer, thank you for your kind words. Where have you been? What are you building now?

I do not still have right idea how exactly to make decals. Drawings of ornaments are from Campbell plans. Gold color is gold acrylic 2€, but main question is , what will be under this gold acrylic: wood, wire, rope, clay or who knows. I am still thinking about and experimenting, because I concluded that several positions on rear ornament, in scale are to much small to be seen even you put your nose near. It means that whole approach have to be: 1. microscopic, which means that only I can see/know what is this, or: 2. artistic, which means that whole damn thing will be as "look like". In my thoughts, I am somewhere between, limited by my unexperience, and have to bang my head for a while, untill I reach there. Before that stage, first I have to: finish coopering, do some. soldering work ( hinges ... uh!) equip and mount rudder, fill and cover hole above rudder, correct black color of hull, paint longitudinal strips, find a way for Her final standing ... Having in mind I am pretty overloaded by office work thise days/months, it seem that there is enough time to think about

 

And not enough time for Her 

 

 

Edited August 25, 2014 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

She's waiting patiently, as am I and the rest of the CS Fleet...  Priorities first!!  This is just a hobby;  (or is it .... ..)

[NenadM]

Hey Bob, that is a question. Is it just a hobby if it occupied brain and mind in this quantity and quality. In my life I had. and still have many interests and hobbies, but in all 55 years nothing occupied me as this. Maybe classic guitar playing more. than 30 years ago. Maybe ZX Spectrum and programing in Basic. And maybe I forgot. From this distance, it seems to me as I am getting high on some shipocholic supstance ... or as I am influenced by MSW radiation ... Or I am still a kid deep in my soul

To much philosophy from me. Deadly tired after back home, and hope tomorrow to visit Her and to continue working

Edited August 28, 2014 by Nenad M

[CaptainSteve]

Nenad, I think you need to go talk with our Dr Per. He won't help you with your problems ... but he will tell you that you are no crazier than the rest of us !!

 

   

[rfolsom]

Wow, Nenad;  Zx spectrum.  It is very similar to the Timex Sinclair.  When I was 13 I was visiting my older sister in Denver (I now live in a suburb) and was looking for that computer.  Every place was sold out, but did find a Commodore VIC-20 on sale for $85.  That summer I spent approx. 13 hours a day programming in Basic....

[NenadM]

Thin layer of soft yellow colored varnish, and BINGO !!! Color of Muntz metal is here !!!!



And obviosly happy evening

First hinge for rudder with nails made of top of needle

 

Edited August 28, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Memories, Bob... one full monthly salary for ZX, another for little TV ... two my programs were published...

 

And I was not married, so could spent such amount of money to toys   !!!!

Edited August 28, 2014 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

Yes, good memories... would love to see the programs you published;  and I remember mowing a lot of lawns to get the $50 i needed to buy the Timex Sinclair;  when we found the Vic-20 for $85, Sister loaned me the extra money...

 

Good work on the rudder!

 

~Bob

[NenadM]

No, Bob, this little programs are not saved, even the magazine with following articles to that programs, and they are not saved in electric form

Simply basic programs for positive law and judicial practice databases with possibility to input data and to save it ON TAPE, without machine code, without assembling 

 

And you are not alone which has somebody to poke in ribs ... My FB friend R.Vlahovic ( world champion in ship modeling this summer in Bulgaria) wrote me that fittings on ruder are to wide ( and he is right) and suggest me to remake them ...

 

 

Cold shower ... 

Edited August 28, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Nenad, I think you need to go talk with our Dr Per. He won't help you with your problems ... but he will tell you that you are no crazier than the rest of us !!

 

   

 

Captain !!!

 

I am already regular visitor to his clinic ... and it do not help, as you say... just another good reason to attach myself more and more to the MSW

 

Bob, do you read this ? Always room for one more in clinic , particularly for folks with three models making simultaneously  

Edited August 29, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Some testing on way to make hinges ... obviously it can be smaller and thiner. Yesterday made - removed

 

 

 

I am afraif I am not able to make them more smaller or more thiner. Maybe in next life

 

And here I discover earlier wrong reverse turn of moves. It is impossible to glue hinges on rudder and to make imitation of rivets. Glue dont catch to varnish. So, there have to be real nails, and some more testings have to be done

Edited August 29, 2014 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

Captain !!!

 

I am already regular visitor to his clinic ... and it do not help, as you say... just another good reason to attach myself more and more to the MSW

 

Bob, do you read this ? Always room for one more in clinic , particularly for folks with three models making simultaneously  

Did you mean "folks" or "fools"?

[NenadM]

Bob, I mean folks

This is democratic forum and everybody can read on his own way

Edited September 23, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Right to scale !!!!!

And rudder can move

This is "dry" test before mounting. One of this days I ll explain whole process

Edited September 23, 2014 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

Before I'll admit myself to the clinic, maybe I'll work on coppering the rudder...

[NenadM]

Before I'll admit myself to the clinic, maybe I'll work on coppering the rudder...

 

I do not understand, Bob, be more specific - rudder or rudders ... 

[NenadM]

In a life, s***t never comes alone. Always one and another and another .... until only your nose stay under ...

 

This are not pictures from document "Conservation plan" of Cutty Sark

 

This are pictures of so called "carpenter ants" I found in my attic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And real war begins ... whole yesterday and today Hothead and me unmounted covering of roof wood ... and war will follow when I return from business trip tomorrow and next day ... 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Still, I succeed to spent a hour in a workshop to make another hinge

Here is process for dummies as I am

 

You recognize this part of folder with mechanism ? New appedix for Captan Steve topic  !!! 

 

 

Cut as much as possible to dimension you need to be in scale. You will correct later to the right dimension

 

 

Shape around needle to get space reserved for soldering

 

 

 

Shape whole thing to future look and test it to get right longitude

 

 

 

Get holes for rivets on place. I use my 40 years old school divider - made of solid and good steel, and I saved this as tool I use more than 40 years

 

 

 

Not align piece jet ! First clean another surface with Dremell tool of excess of material which appear after making holes on opposite side of piece 

 

 

 

Now align, and wide a little holes to the dimensions of future rivet you will use

 

Solder needle to the prepared place. I use needle, it fits to my needs

 

 

Cut needle on one side, and with Dremmel tool remove excess of needle and carefully and slowly, shape width of piece to the scale. Really slowly and carefully. This I found nice tip how to track your microscopic work: First, round corners. And when you star to thin piece, half of circle on corners start to change shape, and by this you can know you successfully thinned piece. Measure to the drawings as much often as you can

 

 

 

Make another part using same method

 

 

Solder another part, and take care about excess of heat, don't allow to un-solder first part

 

 

And Ta - da - da - da  !!!!! ( fanfare in background) 

 

 

 

At the end, hinges are between 1,5 and 2 mm wide, little more than in scale ( about 1/4 mm), and that is really much for me. From distance, this all look as it is 100% in scale

Edited August 31, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

One of the most tricky question in future works for me is - how, to hell, to make metal fittings for masts. Making this litte hinges with success and satisfaction, and hope arise that I can/be able too make them also when time comes

Edited September 1, 2014 by Nenad M

[mtaylor]

Nenad,

 

Wonderful rudder hinges. I have no doubt in your ability to do the metal work for the masts.  I'll also wish you good luck in your war with the carpenter ants.  Hopefully they haven't eaten too much of the wood.  We wouldn't want them to go after Cutty, so make them all dead.

[dgbot]

Great job.

David B

[rfolsom]

Very nice hinges, my friend;  how long did the process take?

[NenadM]

Bob, if you count experimenting, training and testing time until you find right method and material and line of moves - a lot.

 

When things get clear and when finaly you know exactly what are you doing, it lasts a bit less than a hour per hinge, including taking photo process, changing tools on Dremell toy, looking for a fallen hinge on floor, and answering to Admiral's call "why you didn't do ..."

Edited September 1, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Shall I return to water ports to make 6 x 2 x 2 hinges ?

NO !

This is dead end street with no exit full of many other "shell I ..."

Edited September 1, 2014 by Nenad M

[juleslucas]

Good progress Nenad!

 

To imitate metal pieces you might try to use and empty tube of Mustard, cut it in half and wash it, and use that for a material... you can easily cut it, fold it and do a lot of thing with that. 

 

Just for an idea...