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!
At the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art was exposed a play with a 18th century Galleon in 2006. What most amazed to me is its resemblance to the "sea" of Yinka Shonibare, held in 2010 and exposed in London, as a big news. You can review the post about the London bottle and check the obvious similarities by clicking here. ...
The miniature of CS-ALN I had never made any miniature inside a bottle other than a ship or boat. The reason is that there is something common between bottles and boats: the liquid! The idea of doing an aircraft had already happened to me, but it would have to be a hydroplane with its floats. CS-ALN, the first aircraft that commander Pedro Cadete piloted Commander Pedro Cadete watching a restored CUB, which still participated in World War II. In 2024 on a flight, after 49 years of piloting CS-ALN The exception I present to you, the realization of a Piper Super Cub without floats, was to be a childhood friend of Pedro Cadete who was for decades commander of commercial aviation and began, precisely in a CUB, like what I performed on December 10, 1975 at the Tires Aerodrome in Portugal. Not long ago, there was also the circumstance that triggered this process. Pedro gave me a flight to another older Cub and that's when I learned that it had been identical (just like the one I did)...
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