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Wine Bottles?
Are there any tips or tricks on making wine bottles. I rarely see realistic
ones... but I've seen a few that look really nice. Perhaps a mold? Any advice would be appreciated (or where to get nice ones!) |
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Wine Bottles?
Tink wrote:
Are there any tips or tricks on making wine bottles. I rarely see realistic ones... but I've seen a few that look really nice. Perhaps a mold? Any advice would be appreciated (or where to get nice ones!) There are some artisans who make extremely realistic wine bottles - one even has real wine in them! There's a vendor who appears at many of the mini shows here in Southern Calif. with a wide variety of excellent cases of wine and wine-making equipment. (No, I can't think of his name offhand - ) Otherwise, the best I've seen are either real glass or pre-made clear plastic with real labels and some detailed painting for the lead top wrap. You might make inquiries at IGMA www.igma.org or possibly at NAME www.miniatures.org I just googled for Miniature wine bottles and got quite a few good hits. - Herb |
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Wine Bottles? - Correction
Herb wrote:
I just googled for Miniature wine bottles should read Dollhouse miniature wine bottles and got quite a few good hits. - Herb |
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Wine Bottles? - Correction
Thanks Herb
"Herb" wrote in message ... Herb wrote: I just googled for Miniature wine bottles should read Dollhouse miniature wine bottles and got quite a few good hits. - Herb |
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Wine Bottles?
I just joined the Goggle mini group so I hope that you are still
looking for ideas for wine bottles. I have tried several methods of making them with varying degrees of success. (1) Sculpting in polymer clay (using mostly translucent clay with a bit of pealized tinted clay) and coating several times with polymer clay gloss coating is alright if you are putting them at the back of a display and have an impressive label. My labels come from a wine book that I got from a remainder bin at a book sale. (I also got the beer & whiskey books in case I wanted to expand my mini liquor cabinet at a later date.) The labels were scanned into a computer, reduced and printed in colour onto label sheets for ease of use. (2) I have also used the Lite Brite pegs from a children's toy that I got at a garage sale. You can get refill packages of just the pegs at toy stores like Toys-R-Us. Put a plastic peg in a vise and sculpt the top with a rotary tool. The rotary tool's heat and the friction will make the plastic opaque but this can be hidden with foil around the top of the bottle. The best foil that I have found is the thin stuff from around chocolates. If you don't fancy eating your way to a supply of thin foil, check the confectionary supplies at large craft stores like Michaels or some bulk food stores like Bulk Barn. The confectionary foil comes in packages of 4" squares in silver, gold, red, green, and sometimes pale pink and pale blue. (3) I have also tried using the clear/green Christmas mini lights after removing them from their mounts. This year there were the usual sized mini lights and also a slightly bigger size labelled "commercial use". These larger ones were a bit taller but also had a greater diameter and the bottoms are better proportioned for 1:12 scale. A label will hide the filament inside and a thick application of foil at the top will shape the neck of the bottle better. You can use a thin coat of glass paint to mimic the colour of the contents of the bottle. The downside to this is that you have to have a diamond file to smooth off the bottom of the light bulb so that it stands up straight. If you are near a "Princess Auto" wholesale/surplus store, they have diamond files at cheap prices quite often. (4) You can also use a purchased mini-bottle and make a mold and use something like Environtex (which is a thick craft shellac available at craft stores and even some hardware stores) to pour other bottles but I find this very messy and very costly compared to the other methods. You have to use a molding material to which the casting solution will not stick. Model Builders Supply in Aurora has some of these molding supplies. (5) The easiest way to get some bottles made is to make friends with model railway enthusiasts. They can make molds of almost anything and usually have a range of materials to make the bottles from including pewter and plastic. If they use some of the "scenic water" compounds made for their craft, they can tint some using various colours. (6) However, my best bottles are not only real glass but they have authentic labels and are filled with whiskey though they are in scale. . At 1.75" they may be a bit off scale. They came in little tarten matchboxes and cost 55 pence each. I found them in numerous tourist shops when I was touring the British Isles about 15 years ago. I hope that some of my ideas as of use. Good luck with your project. |
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Wine Bottles?
Sorry for the late response but I don't check this group too often anymore
since the spammers took over. The name of the fellow with the real wine is Steve Klein - Klein's Wines. The best way to make wine bottles is to learn how to blow glass. The ones I sell are hand blown glass. Carol S P Miniatures www.spminiatures.com "Herb" wrote in message m... Tink wrote: Are there any tips or tricks on making wine bottles. I rarely see realistic ones... but I've seen a few that look really nice. Perhaps a mold? Any advice would be appreciated (or where to get nice ones!) There are some artisans who make extremely realistic wine bottles - one even has real wine in them! There's a vendor who appears at many of the mini shows here in Southern Calif. with a wide variety of excellent cases of wine and wine-making equipment. (No, I can't think of his name offhand - ) Otherwise, the best I've seen are either real glass or pre-made clear plastic with real labels and some detailed painting for the lead top wrap. You might make inquiries at IGMA www.igma.org or possibly at NAME www.miniatures.org I just googled for Miniature wine bottles and got quite a few good hits. - Herb |
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