Thanks for all the replies, been a while since I've seen this activity over here
Maybe this will inspire to other unexpected modern ships, in even more modern bottles... What about a trashed container ship or oil tanker in a coke or whiskey bottle or like? With a lot of poluted ocean around it?
Although a feasible idea, I've contemplated this kind of things before (as this has been a plan of mine for over 10 years). However, there is one big point against it. Tankers and other modern ships are so large/long that downsizing their length to fit them in a bottle, creates an extremely tiny scale. This brings with it a limited width and height of the vessel and this leads to a rather simple bottling process. With limited all-round dimensions you don't have to fold or assemble anything, you can just slide it through the bottleneck. That makes it a lot less impressive than a normal Ship-In-Bottle build of a sailing vessel.
The reason I chose the Sea Installer was because of its odd length-width-height ratio, the raised crane being an additional plus (not even part of my original idea, as the legs would have been challenging enough).
I guess any modern crane vessel would be suitable, as long as you raise that crane high enough to make it fill the bottle properly.
With this build I went from idea to start of construction within 1 week, which is not what I normally do. However I've decided to live with some of its errors and learn the lessons I've learned from them. At this point I'm still happy I'm trying this, although the bottling process is something I'm somewhat afraid of.
During tests, I've always put one part of the hull sideways and push the other part on it that way. That way you can push, using only one hand/tweezer. She can't really sit upright, since both parts have the legs sticking out at the bottom, so you can't squeeze them together. However, adding all the detail on the sides now, and with the sandy bottom in the bottle, I'm hoping I don't break anything when doing this.
I'm nearing completion now, working on the helo deck. We'll soon find out how this will go
Once/if/when she is in the bottle, I'll start doing a lot of testing for additional features:
- Glass etching, I'd like to etch the company logo and perhaps the name of the vessel on the backside of the bottle
- Epoxy pouring, I'd like to pour in epoxy as a water layer inside the bottle
- Dressing up the bottle, I'd like to dress it up to resemble a wind mill nacelle, with a hub (without blades) over the neck and a stand that resembles the tower.
I only see the above as extra features and I won't try to apply them to the model if bottling was succesful and tests weren't.
Thanks for all the replies, been a while since I've seen this activity over here :heh:
[quote]Maybe this will inspire to other unexpected modern ships, in even more modern bottles... What about a trashed container ship or oil tanker in a coke or whiskey bottle or like? With a lot of poluted ocean around it?[/quote]
Although a feasible idea, I've contemplated this kind of things before (as this has been a plan of mine for over 10 years). However, there is one big point against it. Tankers and other modern ships are so large/long that downsizing their length to fit them in a bottle, creates an extremely tiny scale. This brings with it a limited width and height of the vessel and this leads to a rather simple bottling process. With limited all-round dimensions you don't have to fold or assemble anything, you can just slide it through the bottleneck. That makes it a lot less impressive than a normal Ship-In-Bottle build of a sailing vessel.
The reason I chose the Sea Installer was because of its odd length-width-height ratio, the raised crane being an additional plus (not even part of my original idea, as the legs would have been challenging enough).
I guess any modern crane vessel would be suitable, as long as you raise that crane high enough to make it fill the bottle properly.
With this build I went from idea to start of construction within 1 week, which is not what I normally do. However I've decided to live with some of its errors and learn the lessons I've learned from them. At this point I'm still happy I'm trying this, although the bottling process is something I'm somewhat afraid of.
During tests, I've always put one part of the hull sideways and push the other part on it that way. That way you can push, using only one hand/tweezer. She can't really sit upright, since both parts have the legs sticking out at the bottom, so you can't squeeze them together. However, adding all the detail on the sides now, and with the sandy bottom in the bottle, I'm hoping I don't break anything when doing this.
I'm nearing completion now, working on the helo deck. We'll soon find out how this will go :woo_hoo: :heh:
Once/if/when she is in the bottle, I'll start doing a lot of testing for additional features:
- Glass etching, I'd like to etch the company logo and perhaps the name of the vessel on the backside of the bottle
- Epoxy pouring, I'd like to pour in epoxy as a water layer inside the bottle
- Dressing up the bottle, I'd like to dress it up to resemble a wind mill nacelle, with a hub (without blades) over the neck and a stand that resembles the tower.
I only see the above as extra features and I won't try to apply them to the model if bottling was succesful and tests weren't.