Cutty Sark by NenadM

Second, I've never played AoE. I used to have Age of Sail on our old computer, and that was a lot of fun. Nowdays, I just fly and crash airplanes (MS-FSX).

BTW, plating is monotonous, but you're making good progress and it looks good!

Thanks,

Harvey

Edited July 13, 2014 by capnharv2

NenadM · July 14, 2014

Thx Harvey

My favorite games are/were : AoE, Descent, Tom Rider I-V, F-16/M-29, and Call of Duty I,II,III multy-player on NET

After that my own computer can not run modern games ( 8 years old, but good enough for business to run in same time ESET, MSWord, OutlookExpress, Thunderbird, MSAccess, MSExel, Chrome, Skype, Adobe acrobat, Winfax, etc etc without freezing my PC), and it was more important to renew Admirals and Children computers and to bye laptop than to renew my own PC), so there was online chess on cellphone, crossed with paper Sudoku before starting work on Her Majesty

We all enjoy in playing, are we ?

I was little overfull/overload/overcharged by plates, and little rest I needed evoking memories and forming a index/content of log, and today I`ll continue with plates. Tomorrow one day trip to Novi Sad ( 80 km from Belgrade - not to EXIT festival which is currently running) with Hothead about continuation of his bachelor/master study there. It is opportunity to visit great fortress of Petrovaradin, but festival runs there, and a crowd ....

Edited July 14, 2014 by Nenad M

NenadM · July 14, 2014

Intruder in office ... new attorney prentice ...

Yesterday the drawer behind Him was opened, and He was inside ?!?!?!? Today, near the drawer

Back to plates, plates, plates

I was analyzing this photo

First eight lines of plates from waterline to keel are without gore strakes ~~"lawns" (?)~~. Only between the eighth and ninth row gore strakes ~~lawns~~ start ( red arrows). So, even I step away from regular coopering procedure, when curvature starts, I decide to try to "push" gore strakes ~~lawns~~ as down under waterline as much as it is possible, to the place where them are not visible when model comes from down to up. On the same edge of bow toward stern, you can see almost parallel rows of plates, without visible gore strakes ~~"lawns"~~ near edge, and I decided to try to make this
Did I succeed ? I think - yes

Edited July 15, 2014 by Nenad M

rfolsom · July 15, 2014

Not sure what you mean by "lawns", but coppering is looking good!

~Bob

NenadM · July 15, 2014

Not sure what you mean by "lawns", but coppering is looking good!

~Bob

My English ... "lawn" ... I mean GORE STRAKE ... sorry, I hope my last post now has some meaning ...

Today in Novi Sad town with Hothead, and we visited old fortress of Petrovaradin, Novi Sad is main city if Vojvodina province, famous by his history and EXIT festival which just has finished (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_festival)

Little history of fortress ( from Wiki)

The first larger fortifications were created with the arrival of the Romans who built the fortress. The fortress was strengthened due to the threat of Turkish invasion, but felt after a two-week siege in 1526. The Austrian Army captured it again after 150 years of Turkish control during the Great Turkish War in 1687, and began to tear down the old fortress and build new fortifications according to contemporary standards.

In 1692, the Hofkriegsrath ordered engineers to Petrovaradin to investigate the area in order to build a new fortress. Count Keysersfeld received both financial and personnel support. On September 9, 1694, the Grand Vizier Sürmeli Ali Paşa arrived at Petrovaradin Fortress from Belgrade. A siege of 23 days was laid on, however poor weather conditions in October forced the Turkish forces to retreat towards Belgrade with their task left unfinished.

New plans were developed in 1751 and major works began in 1753 and lasted until 1776. After the completion of the Petrovaradin Fortress, there was never any further threat from Turkish forces, and fortress is pretty preserved and in good shape

And some photos

Edited July 15, 2014 by Nenad M

NenadM · July 15, 2014

Almost 20 km of underground defense structure in several levels, ready for 10.000 soldiers, 500 guns and 6000 citizens. Amazing facts. Only 2 km opened for public ... Real touristic treasure sleeping in darkness !!?!?

Same situation with Kalemegdan fortress in Belgrade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade_Fortress

Edited July 16, 2014 by Nenad M

NenadM · July 16, 2014

Almost done first side

dgbot · July 16, 2014

Looking good. The prep work you did really shows.

David B

NenadM · July 17, 2014

Another 700 plates ready to migrate from box to Her Majesty

Edited July 18, 2014 by Nenad M

rfolsom · July 17, 2014

I'm still amazed at your progress with the plating... If not 16 hour days, maybe 8 hours? Maybe hired help? Santa's Elves?

Looks great by the way... :cheers:

~Bob

NenadM · July 17, 2014

Thx Bob, I am asking myself same question from time to time. It seems that trick is in production material and method which allow to "rivet" one side of several pieces in one single pass, so during 2 hours of drawing, riveting and cutting, you can make 500-700 ready plates. in next stage, you dont need more than 30 sec to put glue with brush on hull, uncover protective foil from plate, and put plate on place. Sure, after first 1000 you get some routine, and whole process is faster

Edited July 18, 2014 by Nenad M

rfolsom · July 17, 2014

Yes, I believe I could cut my plates quicker; but I was unable to develop a method of riveting them in multiple quantities, so each plate was riveted individually..

I'll look into your technique the next time I need to copper... (My other current build, the Niagara, has no copper)

NenadM · July 18, 2014

One side - DONE !!!!

Started on Jun 14th 2014

Edited July 18, 2014 by Nenad M

mtaylor · July 18, 2014

Sweet looking coppering, Nenad. You are flying along quite nicely on this part.

NenadM · July 18, 2014

Thx Mark, I am also satisfied how it goes.

Color is almost there, reflections are present, basic coopering structure is caught and kept, rivets visible, plates almost in scale with rivets present ...

Considering circumstances that riveting in exact and real scale is impossible ( 0,03-0,02 mm per rivet) and I wanted rivets to be presented, I think I hit right proportion of plates, rivets, lines to match to my artistic idea.

Of course, when I finish second side, there will be light dark green transparent layer of acrylic, and mat transparent acrylic warnish. Idea is to try to simulate present color on CS with present but semi-kiled reflections

Wish me luck in this

dgbot · July 18, 2014

Well done. Kick back and take it easy for a couple of days.

David B

NenadM · July 18, 2014

I agree David, weekend is in front, and Admiral made whole list of homeworks for me to do next two days. And there is some office job waiting ...

Edited July 18, 2014 by Nenad M

dgbot · July 18, 2014

I was thinking maybe a round of golf, a snifter of fine cognac, and some good music.

David B

NenadM · July 19, 2014

Ha ha ha ...

Edited July 22, 2014 by Nenad M

NenadM · July 20, 2014

So, between two home works ... at 19:00 on 31⁰C in shadow and 75% humidity. sitting in home yard drinking some cold Ness, bathing in my own sweat and tears ... and thinking about Her .....

Prize question - who is She I am thinking of ?

Edited July 20, 2014 by Nenad M

NenadM · July 20, 2014

And attack from stern to the left side of hull begun !!!

popeye the sailor · July 22, 2014

I guess your thoughts turned to action

NenadM · July 22, 2014

I guess your thoughts turned to action

Denis, I think you are always here somewhere peek over my shoulder and looking into my head. As always, it seems you again read my mind. This evening, doing boring, not so much creative job ( plates plates plates), hanging my head with one and all and listening some radio drama, I suddenly became aware that I must do stern ornaments BEFORE final rotation of Her Majesty. Later this could be almost impossible.

So, another thing to bang my head - how, to hell, to do this, to meet my expectations and my vision how this must look. I have some ideas ( tinny rope, tinny wire ...) particularly seeing Doris log with masterpieces done with modeler Clay. Many tests has to be made, also many experiments, many logs on MSW to visit and study, considering very tricky curved surface on stern. And I want this to look as much as possible as on real ship .....

Hmmmmm

Today progress (until Princess call me to eat pancakes she made)

Edited July 22, 2014 by Nenad M

NenadM · July 23, 2014

No progress today ... some bad news about one my client/friend let me down, spiced with complex new Labor Law which I had to study and learn very fast (one of main fields of my work). But life must go on, and now at 22:00 I can finally think about future scroll saw works ... one eye to phenomenal Billy Crystal one man show on TV ... He is really something !

Edited July 24, 2014 by Nenad M

NenadM · July 24, 2014

@#€%%

Very good start of day. It is 05:00 at morning, two hours before my regular time, and I am complete awake ... Hothead wake me up to tell me he was sleepy and missed only morning bus for his summer job, and returns to sleep ... and my sleeping is broken in pieces ... He obviosly wake up wrong person ..

@€%*$#$%%

Again : little children eat milk. Grown children eat your liver

Edited July 24, 2014 by Nenad M

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