Cutty Sark by NenadM

[NenadM]

Thanks everybody for likes and nice words

 

Preparing for two very nice details ... Harness Cask

 

 

Edited April 16, 2016 by Nenad

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

 

This will not be too hard to do. I would use boxwood, turn it to shape and cut the lines with a sharp knife or scalpel. The rings and hinges can be made with thin black paper, the top plate with thin plywood. This is just how I would try it!

 

Regards

Gerhard 

[NenadM]

Still playin' arround

 

Testing piece

 

[mtaylor]

That's "playin' around"????  Looks great to me.

[Omega1234]

Hi Nenad

 

If that's only 'playing around', please send it to me.  I can make use of it, that's for sure!!    

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

 

THIS is it!

Nobody will care, if there are four ore five rings around. This looks good to me!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[popeye the sailor]

looks awesome Nenad..........now you need to make the other one     the buckets came out great..........nicely done!

[cog]

Nenad,

 

You should really make it to scale .. oeps, you did ... it looks great for someone who's just playing around ...

 

Cheers

[NenadM]

That's "playin' around"???? Looks great to me.

Hello Mark. I am aware that anyone who even will notice casks, even who eventually wants to see planks on cask and rings must use magnifying glass.

 

Problem is obviously in my head and brain ( eaten by worms ). I want 5 rings, and I want it more clean, clearly and neat, and to look as a cask on a first sight. Every day I become more and more idiot .... it was a long time since I visited Dr Per ...

Hi Nenad

 

If that's only 'playing around', please send it to me. I can make use of it, that's for sure!!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

 

It really was just testing and playing, Patrick. Idea "how to" came, and I tried. Almost satisfied

 

That and another test-pieces are reserved, my friend ... My brother`s wife collect a thousand pretty little things and spread them on every horizontal surface all around their flat, each one on exactly specific place ... so ... from time to time, I use test pieces ( as three "Star of India" and box-for-small-items made from test deck house item, earlier) and made something for her to help her to complete her dust-collecting-collection. Right now, there are several test pieces waiting for me to make another part for her exhibition ( pin-rail, wheel and this gask )

Hi Nenad

 

THIS is it!

Nobody will care, if there are four or five rings around. This looks good to me!

 

Regards

Gerhard

You are absolute right, my friend, but my building-brain is a bit bugged ... and I want to test my possibilities

 

Rings are made from 1mm wide strips of Cu 0,5mm foil. Devil hard to cut so slim pieces, and them seems to be to much wide - there is no room for five of them. Considering I am not able with my tools to cut them 0,5mm wide, I have to find another solution ( thin wire, paper, .... )

looks awesome Nenad..........now you need to make the other one the buckets came out great..........nicely done!

Thank you Denis. I`d rather say - to make two new one

Nenad,

 

You should really make it to scale .. oeps, you did ... it looks great for someone who's just playing around ...

 

Cheers

I enlarged it a bit (cca 0,5 mm in dia). insensibly to eyes, but over all expectations helps a lot during making process

Edited April 16, 2016 by Nenad

[SawdustDave]

Nothing wrong with using card stock for such fine cuts Nenad. Looks same when stained or painted, and makes life much more simple for sure.

[mtaylor]

I do understand perfectly what you're doing and why.   By saying that, I think I need to see Dr. Per also.

[NenadM]

Nothing wrong with using card stock for such fine cuts Nenad. Looks same when stained or painted, and makes life much more simple for sure.

You are probably right, my friend. In this scale there is something interesting. Gluing vertical strips made ftrom 0,5mm strips of veneer were made with usual white wood glue, water based, and it was easy to wipe excess of glue with semi-wet, almost dry thin brush ( of course, sanding after). Rings from Cu foil can not be glued on such a way, and CA was entered to game. But ... on the thinned top of tooth-pick as a applying tool, I picked up the smallest drop of CA less than cca 0,5 mm dia, the smallest I can pick, but it is even too large against whole construction. This drop of glue was mainly absorbed under Cu Foil on both sides, but there are still microscopic remains and a thin layer over and on Cu foil, which gives matte effect I do not want. With card stock I think there will not be such a problem

I do understand perfectly what you're doing and why. By saying that, I think I need to see Dr. Per also.

Hello Mark, fellow patient of our Doctor I visited him, and have got excellent advice and therapy ... more and more casks ... maybe he will have similar advice for you - more rudders ...

 

Edited April 16, 2016 by Nenad

[NenadM]

Not serious working this days, which were filled with different activities out of workshop

 

Spring comes, and everything, (including weeds) in  homeyard is getting wild

 

So, get down on your knees, Chief,  and worship botany God ...

 

before

 

 

and after 

 

 

and that is only one of places where is jungle in yard. This Yuka stayed, because it is planted in top of old boiler, and limited to grow anywhere around

 

At the evening, we visited my father (90) still very connected with his excellent brain and with reality. Three generations ... My father, as specialized engineer was first person who ride first former Yougoslavia nuclear reactor in Vincha

 

 

Next is very old historical picture found in family archive, from opening of nuclear reactor, my father is sitting on a control desk, after him is President Tito with top-level leaders of Yugoslavia ( Aleksandar Rankovic, Edvard Kardelj, Mosha Piade, ...

 

 

Just to mention, my father is author of famous (in that time) "Mostar appeal" about prohibition of bombing nuclear plants, which later developed to international Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM). He had more than 150 scientific works in matter of nuclear energy, nuclear safety, and environment pollution protection. he is retired more than 25 years from now, and very very old

 

But still live

 

Nice family story

Edited April 14, 2016 by Nenad

[popeye the sailor]

I agree.........nice story Nenad  

[mtaylor]

That is a great story about a great man, Nenad.  I like the family picture because you can see the love.

[NenadM]

Task was: Make casks to look real, just like casks, even from a "fast train passing" look, and let them have five ringa, and two of them, of course, to be equial

 

Starting with 7x7 mm molding saved from old Tehnididakta kit, careful cutting to shape - 7mm dia to base, and 5mm dia to top. Fine sanding

 

 

Planking with veneer strips 0,5-1mm arround, sanding

 

 

Base and top made from veneer, sanding to shape

 

 

And rings (rims) ... From laser printing paper 80gr. No other material in my ship yard agree to listen me !!!!

 

 

 

Nice details on top, hinges (simulated) and handdle

 

 

And after that all, painting.

 

I used transparent acrylic to allow plank structure to be seen clearly, and to simulate weathering.

 

Gold acrylic with drop of black, mixed with secret magic ingredient added to simulate metal shine, all covered with thin acrylic matt lacquer

 

 

Very very very satisfied with result

 

Cheers to you all, who pushing me over my limits !!!!

Edited April 16, 2016 by Nenad

[GLakie]

Awesome job on those casks Nenad!  Well done!! 

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi my friend

The first one was good. BUT: These are phantastic!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[Piet]

Thank you for introducing your family all together.  You can rightly be proud of your father and his achievements, lot only for your country but to the world.

 

Your casks look exceptional Nenad, and you have not yet reached the pinnacle of your modeling prowess. 

 

Cheers,

[cog]

Very nimble fingers you've got, Nenad. They do look very good. It's quite a feat on that scale

 

Cheers

[mtaylor]

Great looking casks, Nenad.  I daresay that "mission accomplished" on them.

[NenadM]

Awesome job on those casks Nenad!  Well done!! 

 

Thanks George. Four hours for both of them

 

Hi my friend

The first one was good. BUT: These are phantastic!

 

Regards

Gerhard

 

Thank you Gerhard. I think a first one is a bit dirty, with hoops too wide

 

Thank you for introducing your family all together.  You can rightly be proud of your father and his achievements, lot only for your country but to the world.

 

Your casks look exceptional Nenad, and you have not yet reached the pinnacle of your modeling prowess. 

 

Cheers,

 

Hello Piet. I hope so.

 

There are another interesting stories in my family  ... for instance, about my grandfather, may I say, kind a cowboy when he was young, even he was a doctor of medicine, crossing Albania by foot with Serbian army and another refuges when he was only sixteen, running away from enemy, when Austro-Hungary occupied Serbia in WW1, graduated on Sorbonne University after WW1 ... but not that story, another one ... gambling story ...

 

Very nimble fingers you've got, Nenad. They do look very good. It's quite a feat on that scale

 

Cheers

 

Thanks for nice words. It is a kind of amazing discovery when you become aware that those little attachments can do so precise stuff

 

Great looking casks, Nenad.  I daresay that "mission accomplished" on them.

 

Yes, them are finished.

 

Now only a few details left on aft deck , and I can move to main deck, to fight with dead-eyes, and ... boats ... four of them ... and a nice and tricky metal pumps etc etc ... just to mention, nice fences on fore and aft deck I left for later, after setting up masts, considering I am pretty clumsy with my arms when I am concentrated and impatient on one particular little detail with fingers... maybe in mean time I learn metal works ?

Edited April 18, 2016 by Nenad

[popeye the sailor]

nice job on the casks Nenad.....they really look great!

[NenadM]

Thank you Denis. Is there any way to borrow me your fingers ? Even for a month ? Or two ? 

 

[NenadM]

A few details more

 

Notice that there is a difference between present stage and when Lou made his photos

 

 

 

I chose Lou's , it seems more real. Obviously, this is deck entrance to underdeck rudder mechanism space. On present stage, it is not clear what is this on photos. There are some photos on net when tourists use it as a chair!

 

And here is what I did today

 

Hatch 8x8 mm.

 

 

"on place" testing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hmmm

 

Hatch is ok, but another piece has to be remade. I am not satisfied with result ( i did it fast, and of course, sides are not equial, and it is a bit overscaled)

Edited April 20, 2016 by Nenad

[cog]

Re-do-dodely-dum-dum-do ... I thought them quite nice, Nenad ...

[NenadM]

Re-do-dodely-dum-dum-do ... I thought them quite nice, Nenad ...

 

I just have to leave something to my brother`s wife collection         

[NenadM]

Preparing for Compass

 

 

Max 9mm kigh, and max 6 mm in greatest dia. Considering I am dummy for metal works, I am not sure about details i can present in that scale. Probably I`ll make some form only to "looks like" a compass.

 

But, let us playing arround 

 

Interesting detail. On C-plans, enlarging compas details, which are presented pretty poor, it can be seen it looks like a compass presented on lou`s photos. On other side, comparing present stage and Lou`s photos, we can notice a change in compass design. 

 

Lou`s photo

 

 

And present stage

 

 

Do anybody know a reason for design changes, particularly CS did not sail after period Lou`s photos were taken?

 

And do anybody know what are names and purpose of details marked with "?". It will be interesting to know for us, people living couple of hundreds - thousands miles from sea. Maybe there is answer

Edited April 21, 2016 by Nenad

[popeye the sailor]

wish I could shed some light there......don't know enough about the compass and upgraded design  >shrug<

[Sailor1234567890]

Great pun. Light is exactly what two of those things are. The cylinders on either side are to hold a lantern so the compass can be lighted at night. Seems the shape of the glass is different. It's a whold different binnacle (brass thing that holds the compass) You can see in the older image that the binnacle looks a little  beat up. It's likely they simply changed it for a similar one that isn't as dented as the original. These things were often lost at sea. The older beat up one may not be the original either. She may have gone through several compasses in her career. While not quite "expendable" they were something that could and did often break or get washed away and would have been replaced by whatever the local ship chandler had on his shelf in the next port she visited just as line, sails and even her boats would have been replaced had they been lost or damaged beyond repair. In the case of sails or boats, there would have been a sailmaker and carpenter on board to provide these items. A compass is a precision instrument and would have been procured from the chandler. Hope this sheds some light on your problems.