João Pedro "Stormy Weather"

My son John Pedro was seduced by the beautiful lines of the 1933 Stormy Weather and performed a miniature to put inside a bottle. It was his first and, so far, his only miniaturism work inside a bottle.

João followed my method, building hulls with thin pine strips on a previously done mold.

The hull geometry held in cardboard.

Filling the spaces of longitudinal sections.

Once filled with a mass, to homogenize the surface, it have to dry.

With dry and sanded hull, thin pine straps began in the oblique direction.

Then the wood is then placed in the direction of the length of the hull.

With the wood glued and dry, the cardboard mold is carefully removed.

This is the end result.

Then begins the work of doing the cabin and other superstructures.

Here we already have the masts.

Positioned masts.

The introduction of the "Stormy Weather" miniature presupposes, firstly, a base on which it rests on.

The sailboat is introduced with the masts lying down, but without any articulation device at its base.

The masts are placed in accurate place, with stilettos, but without any fit!

The final result!

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Stormy Weather - sailboat in distress at sea

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