Cutty Sark by NenadM

[popeye the sailor]

see.......I knew you'd do it!   persistence always pays   {makes other thing we're crazy  }

 

great work Nenad!

[NenadM]

Thank you Denis

 

I ignored Her calling today. After long long time, today I suddenly and unexpected, get a new client who needs some paper urgently to the evening ... 12 hours of lunatic work without any stop, job done, and 300€ in cash in pocket ... also after long long long time...

 

If every day could be like today ....

Edited January 30, 2015 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing?
Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago?
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone to workshop everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn
Ooooh, when will they ever learn?

Who do not learn from his mistakes, repeat cleaning mess he made

Cleaning continues...

Booring ...



And some bad ideas in my head



Better look of deck color ?

Hmmmmm again

Gonna get upstairs to look Hobbit 2

Edited February 4, 2015 by Nenad M

[mtaylor]

By jove, I think you have it!!!!  Enjoy the movie.

[dgbot]

I prefer Tolkein over cleaning any day.

David B

[NenadM]

Cleaning as preparing for repainting, mixed with 2 tones of anthracite for heating and Hothead visiting us, continued slowly ...

His two days visit just remembered me why he make me very nervous from time to time ...

Edited February 4, 2015 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Curiousity is direct enemy to our intention to go fast forward

 

I was not satisfied with deck color, and while I was cleaning rails, my attention jumped down to deck all the time, thinking ... can I do something to look better ... sanding, sanding, sanding, and again ...individual deck planks are not visible enough ... sanding sanding sanding ... how it will be if ... sanding sanding sanding ... could I try to ... and in circum

 

Yesterday I finished cleaning, and tried to "wash" part of deck under houses with rough brush and water

 

 

Hmmmm, not bad ...

 

Today I washed all decks, and sanded with 360 paper ... hmmm ... better, but, to much contrast

 

Then I mixed acrylic mat warnish with little tip of brown ( just to give some nice thin tone and to stay transparent) and this is it

 

 

 

And macro shot to have idea about color I get

 

 

I think this is better, and as nusproduct, it looks pretty old

Edited February 5, 2015 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

More photos

 

 

 

Insuficient camera, there is no purple tone, all is in brown tone

Edited February 5, 2015 by Nenad M

[Piet]

That's looking very nice Nenad.

 

Cheers,

[NenadM]

Thank you Piet

 

And now, artistic work in applying multiple semitransparent layers of acrylic and balancing between them begins ...

 

Wish me luck ... there will be no fun in third cleaning of inner bulwarks with 2mm sandpaper in pean ... two cleaning is quite enough !!!

[wefalck]

Are you trying to achieve a 'realistic' or an 'old museum model' look ?

 

For a realistic look the deck is way too dark and too brown. Real decks are usually quite bright, more like newer wood, due to constant cleaning. They also attain a more greyish hue due to the weathering of the wood.

 

Your deck currently looks more like what you see on old museum models, where the wood has darkened and accumulated some dirt.

[NenadM]

Thank you for your interesting, Wefalck

 

Actualy ... something between ... thinking about weathering whole model before masting ...

Edited February 6, 2015 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Violently disturb Her privacy ( you sleep to much, let's do something) and start with "primer"

Begining before cleaning



After "primer"



Several layers remain

"Primer" is thin acrylic in color of wood, with purpose to cover places and dots I can not reach to clean this strong brown

 

Idea comes remembering almost 30 years ago when we, as a young just married couple rent apartment, and after few years we were waiting our daughter to be born, and decided to replace wallpapers in future princess room with nice bright white color ... ( Admiral`s wish ... my command ...) removing before all wallpapers, and ... what I found under ... I could not believe What I see ... dark purple brown and intensive black acrylic on all walls ....  $#%#%# ... later I was told by householder that this was some Canadian facade paint ... there was absolute no way to remove paint surfaces and traces, and Admiral did not want new wallpapers ... she was in 8th month of pregnancy, and I could not resist any of her wishes ( young, fall in love etc etc) ...  it could be resolved only by gypsum panel, but this was not our flat, and to invest a lot in ownership of another people was out of question ... so, what to do ... I mixed gypsum and mass for smoothing, and covered most intensive blemishes of brown/black in one, two, three layer ... and after a while, they "disappeared" under coating, and I could paint walls in white ... and wait for Princess to be born ...

 

Admirals make us happy ... sometimes ... 

Edited February 9, 2015 by Nenad M

[GLakie]

She's looking good Nenad! Nice work! 

 

Cheers

[NenadM]

Thank you George for kind words and support

 

First thin transparent layer ... just to give little yellow tone which is presented in most of photos, to be under next layers, to "shine" through them ...

 

 

Edited February 9, 2015 by Nenad M

[edmay]

Hello Nenad, The deck is looking real good,Edwin

[NenadM]

Thank you Edwin, I applied on deck two very thin transparent layers of acrylic yellow-white mixed with thinned mat transparent warnish, maybe ( just maybe) I'll add 1-2 more. Yhinning warnish I have got nice "satin" shine

 

Must do something about camera and colors ... it just do not look as on pictures

Edited February 9, 2015 by Nenad M

[dgbot]

Looking good man.  Have you tried changing the kind of lighting you are using? This will change the shade of the coloring quite a bit.

David B

[NenadM]

Thank you David

 

My workshop has no direct sunshine light, and as I almost work there in evening, I must use electrical light

 

In the middle of floor there is one bubble 100W, and under the desktop another bubble 200W on the right side, and third bubble 100W on the left, both about 1m under workbench on a wall in front of me. Enough for working. Comparing my experience with old camera ( old HTC Wildfire) and photos from beginning of log, in same light conditions, I concluded it is camera issue ( HTC Desire 310) ... I was mailing to HTC, but answer was something like this ... "what do you want ? You`ve got Quad-core processor for so little money, what do you expect more ..." All mailing what follows expose their politic to put the worst 5MP camera the had in really brilliant phone, to turn its price down. I wrote earlier about. "Honest" to the limit ...

 

I decided to bye for 10€ SD card for my old HTC and to use it only as a camera (luck of money for any better solution considering long time I didn`t work last year)  

Edited February 10, 2015 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Second layer (thin orange and thin white mixed, transparent)

 

 

 

Almost there ...

 

On next picture is approx. color I get

 

Edited February 10, 2015 by Nenad M

[popeye the sailor]

that's some serious paint work your doing there Nenad.........looking great!      you can almost see it at the bow!

[NenadM]

Layer #3

A bit darkened by brown

 

It needs a nice touch of transparent yellow, and that will be what I am looking for

 

 

 

Edited February 11, 2015 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

Wonderful work;  My friend...Hopefully soon I'll get out this trashy state and get to one that counts!!!

[NenadM]

I found new source of

photos of CS ... Youtube

 

How, there are only video clips?

 

Easy

 

Watching wideo, you noticed some detail you are interested to

 

Pause video, and capture screen. On android, typicaly power+home, and photo is almost in cellphone memory

 

On PC Ctrl+alt+shift+PrtScr, which sequence copies screen to ram memory, then open any picture related software you use, new document and simple paste command

 

Here are some captured photos, which can be usefull for analyze details not on plans

 

 

 

 

Little problem is - hours and hours of video materials on Youtube to watch which need to much time we usualy do not have

Edited February 12, 2015 by Nenad M

[dgbot]

That might be true.  But don't we all sacrifice much of our time for something we like?

David B 

[NenadM]

Layers #4 and #5, and finaly teac color I was looking for

 

 

 

What do you think - to add more yellow tone, or not?

Edited February 13, 2015 by Nenad M

[CaptainSteve]

I like it the way it is now, Nenad.

[usedtosail]

Me too. Nice job.

[GLakie]

I think you've got it Nenad. Looks good!

[mtaylor]

I think it's perfect.  If you're happy, we'll be happy.