Cutty Sark by NenadM

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

 

Fine fizzling work friend! Nice done with all that small holes and wire! Seems to be another lunatic here.............

 

Regards

Gerhard

[mtaylor]

That work, my friend, is justly deserving of a beer.  

[NenadM]

Need to get over the habit of chewing on that work board, when doing that kind of fabrication, looks like you have chewed about 80 mm off already and will need a replacement board soon.

You have made some very nice Dead Eyes Nenad, few who started where you did with this project would have had the patience and fortitude to develop the skills and knowledge gain from research now shown in your work.

jud

 

Hahahaha Jud ! It is not a work board, it is just a junk piece of material I grabbed to fix wire temporary on it, with some unsuccessful attempt to carving. Thanks for nice words, my friend. If I just can rewind time, and to keep my today patience and ... hmm... if I can dare to call it  ..skils ... when I started this project ... Huh, all generals are smart, and smarter - after battle !!!! 

 

 

Hi Nenad

 

Fine fizzling work friend! Nice done with all that small holes and wire! Seems to be another lunatic here.............

 

Regards

Gerhard

 

A "little" boring, my friend. (36+14) x 3 =  150 holes. Laser cutting did not drill all holes all the way through material, so I have to manually drill and adjust every each hole on every 4mm and 3mm deadeye. Later, after mounting, it would be a huge problem, if I do not do it now

 

 

That work, my friend, is justly deserving of a beer.  

 

Many beers still  in front of me, Mark.

 

Holes, painting brown with white ring around over Cu wire to get proper look of CS deck dead eyes, and then playing with CA and wire parts to fix them well to the rails and to the the deck. I just can not dare to imagine how it could look when some line pull out dea deye from deck/rail in the middle of rigging ... 

 

In the next post, hidden deep in my log, is shown main idea what I want to do

 

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/2501-cutty-sark-by-nenad/page-122#entry340954

Edited May 29, 2016 by Nenad

[NenadM]

Stage No 3.

 

 

 

Edited May 29, 2016 by Nenad

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

 

As You see, even the boring things pay out, when they are done

When I keep the measure in mind, perfect job!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[popeye the sailor]

dead eyes look great Nenad..........looks like you might have enough  

[NenadM]

Stage 4. Thickness of dead eyes and another, a bit darker, layer of acrylic

Lesson learned - when I picked up piece of 3mm veneer for laser cutting of dead-eyes, I did not sanded and smoothed surface. Entering in microcosms on this scale, I realized that particular dead eye look dirty. Add to that a bit greater thickness than it has to be, and not parallel surface with wire, little sanding resolved situation

To understand what I am talking about, here is picture before




And after



Followed with little color correction to get "older" look



And to get point where I am going, I finished two of them, with white acrylic on ring, and with mat CA varnish



I think that specific look and color of CS dead eyes must be involved

Considering their dimensions and fact that there will be 3+3 white rope lines around and through, it is sure, unnecessary work, but very nice playing for me I enjoyed very much
 

Edited June 1, 2016 by Nenad

[mtaylor]

Wonderful work on the deadeyes, Nenad.  

[cog]

I would call them deadeyelets ... could you make them even smaller !!!!!!! I think not with the same finish ... Stunning work Nenad

[NenadM]

Thanks Denis, Mark and Carl. When started I have no idea what I am entering to. If I knew, probably scale would be larger

[Gerhardvienna]

 If I knew, probably scale would be larger

 

Hi Nenad

 

But keep in mind, the larger the scale, the more details have to be realized!

You make a tremendous job here!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[Omega1234]

Hi Nenad

 

Mighty fine job on the deadeyes. They look great. You must have the patience of an angel to do all of them.

 

All the best.

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[Piet]

Fantastic looking dead eyes Nenad!

 

Cheers,

[NenadM]

Hi Nenad

 

But keep in mind, the larger the scale, the more details have to be realized!

You make a tremendous job here!

 

Regards

Gerhard

 

You are quite right, my friend. when I saw MSW member`s Sudomekh 50% larger Ariel model, with details ...  toilet in WC cabin ... I got ideas ... 

 

 

Hi Nenad

 

Mighty fine job on the deadeyes. They look great. You must have the patience of an angel to do all of them.

 

All the best.

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

 

 

Thanks Patrick. Patience is not my main attribute ... rather opposite, but I am well trained animal ... I am rather an action man than "sit and think", often faster than it has to be ... and very very stubborn and persistent man ... but life puts me in line ... almost ... sometimes working with my clients I must have steel nerves, court hearings request calm person, fully concentrated, with ability of brain to work fast with multitasking ...  hard business meetings with delicate theme also ... all looks like complicated chess party which often need patience, and learned me patience ...so, I think all is a matter of willpower and commintment ... and training 

 

Fantastic looking dead eyes Nenad!

 

Cheers,

 

Thank you Piet. I think you overstate a bit. Shackles are not exactly as I planned, but ... who cares, they aresmall, situated and almost hidden under rail, and they can be seen only when you lay your head on deck. Happy for me for this ... if there are outside dead-eyes, I could probably learn hard soldering earlier than I need

Edited June 2, 2016 by Nenad

[NenadM]

White collars, massproduction

 

[NenadM]

Soldiers ready to march on their places

 

 

Final painting and fine-tuning done.

 

Rounded shackle have got second white acrylic layer ( white acrylic is semi-transparent, and second painting was necessary).

 

After that, all of dead eyes have got thin layer of acrylic mat varnish ( two reasons: I use feature of acrylic to plasticize, for: 1. getting stronger connection between shackle and wood; 2. to use feature of acrylic to penetrate into wood and to make it harder. I wrote earlier that I make some kind of mistake choosing type of wood for laser cutting, and it really need to be a bit stronger.)

At final, every hole in dead eyes was "re-drilled" with sharpen top of toothpick. Also I wrote earlier, laser drilled holes were not pierced through, and I had to correct all holes. Now, after painting and varnishing, I had to remove excess of paint and varnish from every hole from both sides. If I do not, rope can not pass through, and it can be huge problem when rigging time comes.  

Edited June 4, 2016 by Nenad

[Omega1234]

Hi Nenad

 

Nicely done. Your soldiers look like like they're ready for business.

 

Rigging a three masted ship is daunting, to say the least, but you're going to tackle it with aplomb, for sure.

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[Sailor1234567890]

Captain Woodget used to say, "give me a boy and I can rig a ship". I'm sure you'll be able to handle this little task.

[NenadM]

Boys! Where are you? There is some workk to do here!

 

Edited June 5, 2016 by Nenad

[Gerhardvienna]

And we are waiting for the next wonders of the world

To be serios, nice job again!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[cog]

I'm heeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrree ... wha's-up, Nenad. What do you want us to do, which you haven;t done already, and so goooooooooooood ...

[NenadM]

... What do you want us to do ...

 

 

Let`s do some exercise with a pair of ropes, for beginning ...

 

 

Nai Ni Chen ...

 

She exactly knows what she`s doing

Edited June 6, 2016 by Nenad

[mtaylor]

Let`s do some exercise with a pair of ropes, for beginning ...

 

nainichen_RopePull_cropped.jpg

 

Nai Ni Chen ...

 

She exactly knows what she`s doing

 

But can she tie ratlines?  That's the real test. 

[cog]

First she must install the standing rigging, else those soldiers of Nenad are unemployed ....

[NenadM]

But can she tie ratlines?  That's the real test. 

 

From arm to leg - probably 

 

 

First she must install the standing rigging, else those soldiers of Nenad are unemployed ....

 

Unemployed .... ?

 

Practice, helping her to install standing rigging

 

 

OK, little digressing ... I am still far from rigging. Many details on main deck has to be done. First - cleaning white panels and mounting dead eyes which is next move. It will take a time. Then: lockers, 2 x WC, hatch - couple, pumps, winches and ... life boats - four of them ... and many little tiny things on main deck. After that - bowsprit, masts and spars with full equipment, and then, after couple of millenniums, standing rigging. Long way to run. But, I am not in hurry. Rather a bit impatient. God thing is that I expect my skills to grow until rope-work begins

 

And thinking ... it seems usual to think forward when you are doing some kind of boring and monotonous job on your model, particularly if it repeats   

[cog]

 

 

God thing is that I expect my skills to grow until rope-work begins

 

Don't we all, Nenad, don't we all ...

[NenadM]

​One step forward, two steps backward. Paying back time for my impatience comes again.

 

Today I started with cleaning of white panels, it goes well, and happy, cleaned my working table to make comfortable place for delicate working ...

 

And ... you can guess ... all my work with dead eyes goes to hell

 

At next pictures you can see why

 

 

Here is 3mm dead eye on position next to it`s own hole

 

 

And here is 4 mm dead eye also on position next to it`s own hole

 

 

Obviously, my idea to simulate real way they are connected under rail with wire and deck - simply - does not work, at least not in this way. Under rail construction is too wide, and demands hole to be expanded to 3mm, which is out of question. Holes are too close, and expanding all of them them easily can make rail, at least, ugly

 

So, in this scale, having in mind my earlier mistake ( not equal width of bulwark under rail), I will waive this solution, and make something like this

 

 

Why, dummy Nenad did not make some test before making this bunch of dead eyes? 

 

Blessing in disguise is that I have enough ( more than I need) new 4mm and 3 mm dead eyes already laser cut

Let`s go again, third time !!! 

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

 

Dont you worry, thats what we call expirience.............

Any mistake we make, is another step forward to more of "lesson learned"   Keep on going, its getting better with every try!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[mtaylor]

Nenad,

 

Too bad you can't modify the strops you have made and if the hole needed to just a bit wider.  

 

What Gerhard said... it's a learning experience and we're all doing that.  Hang in there.   

[NenadM]

Ok, some testing

 

 

 

Much better, but ...

 

When I was calculating width of dead eye, I forgot to count depth of wire.

 

0,5+0,5mm=1mm !!! Enormous 1mm on that place in this scale!

 

And exactly this 1mm produced all 4mm dia dead eyes to be too much close to each other

 

Tomorrow I'll consider the possibity to make ALL of dead eyes from 3mm laser cutt pieces, if I have enough of them

Edited June 9, 2016 by Nenad