Scenes in a bottle

[Chris333]

http://www.unbrokenhome.com/bottles.htm

 

[Mark5]

Pretty cool, but interesting that the miner homes look to have the same square footage as the tipple, and I'm not sure if they'd wanna live that close to the tipple! (or the track)



Mark

[John]

Looks good .. but why?  Never understood the whole stuff in a bottle thing ..

[Chris333]

Yeah I don't know why, just wish I could do that out of the bottle.

[up1950s]

Great stuff . So the bottom of the bottle goes on last . First is a land mass formed in the bottle and hardened to fit exactly . Then removed , and dressed for the prom , while outside of the deal where it touches the glass is also painted . Then the deal it stuck in and affixed , let to dry and finally the bottom is glued in place . Just guessing . It's the pull a string ship masts that get erect after going though the neck of the bottle that get me , but I bet not all go though the neck and are sold as if they did .   

[DKS]

Great stuff . So the bottom of the bottle goes on last . First is a land mass formed in the bottle and hardened to fit exactly . Then removed , and dressed for the prom , while outside of the deal where it touches the glass is also painted . Then the deal it stuck in and affixed , let to dry and finally the bottom is glued in place . Just guessing . It's the pull a string ship masts that get erect after going though the neck of the bottle that get me , but I bet not all go though the neck and are sold as if they did .  

Nope. This is the real deal, not that false-bottom parlor trick. http://www.unbrokenhome.com/about.htm

The scenes inside the bottles are three-dimensional landscapes made from polymer clay, putty, ground foam, and a variety of other materials.  The buildings that are too big to fit through the bottle opening are assembled piece by piece within the bottle.  I look to the surrounding area for my subject matter, but also rely on historical photos.

Looks good .. but why?  Never understood the whole stuff in a bottle thing ..

Mostly I think for the novelty of having something in a bottle that doesn't look as if it could fit inside, meaning the modeler went through the arduous task of assembling things in pieces through the neck. The best ship-in-a-bottle models are assembled board-by-board using long tweezers and copious quantities of patience.

[up1950s]

Wow , in that case I am impressed as hell , even more so than the tall ship things .

[Nato]

  I built two ship models in bottles. Of course they were of the Cheater Variety a glass looking plastic bottle with an end you carefully glued on after building the miniture Clipper Ship and putting it inside. You had to carefully cement the end on so it loked like it was a solid bottle. Good luck on that. The mine model is limited by the size of the bottle so I can overlook the closeness to the mine for the houses. Very nice work.  Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake, Utah .

[Iain]

I know one gentleman that does ships in bottles.  He builds the hull outside of the bottle, and then cuts it up to fit inside, where he reasembles it.  He then cleans up the cuts with filler, details, and paints all inside the bottle whith long tweazers and custom tools.  His museum-quality work was featured in The Nautical Research Journal (think RMC with peer review and more 'prototype articles').

[Mark5]

The whole process of assembling inside the bottle boggles my mind.

Possibly in a similar manner to the way my model railroading boggles others I guess.

[Ian MacMillan]

Yeah I don't know why, just wish I could do that out of the bottle.

Under-rating yourself again!