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!
Joaquin na sua Vespa The entrance to Castillo di Luna with a banner alluding to the exhibition. On the 16th anniversary of this blog, which began on September 11, 2009, I have the great pleasure of presenting to you the exhibition that our colleague Joaquin Bejarano Verano held between July 15 and August 15. I met Joaquin in person 7 years ago, at another of his "ships in bottles" exhibitions. I'll translate the poster that hung in the exhibition hall, as I think it perfectly sums up who he is in our artistic world: "Joaquin was born in Rota, Cádiz, Spain, in 1952. He is a kind person, full of wisdom and mastery. He has always been drawn to the sea and this fascinating world of bottle boats. He has been practicing it for over four decades. He developed his own techniques and original tools to delicately assemble the miniatures in the bellies of bottles. He has held both solo and group exhibitions. His mastery of this art is so high that he is considered one of the ...
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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