schooner in a bottle by mhmtyrl - FINISHED - BOTTLE

[mhmtyrl]

hello every body

thisi is my first attempt in building a ship in bottle, the plan belong to souvenirs de marines album.

actually this is a top sail schooner, for the sake of simplicity I skipped the square sails and many of the stays etc.

Next time I will try to add all the rigging (if possible 🙂

mehmet

[b dylan]

Very nice.

 

Could you please describe your technique for making the seascape. Thanks.

[mhmtyrl]

thank you Bob

the sea bed is actually home made play-doh, my wife found a recepie from net (just google it, you may easily find), we added blue acrylic paint during steering.

 

then I added the dough inside the bottle in little pieces and flattened them by tools I have made from skewers we use for barbecue :-) I can attach some photos for them too if needed.

then via the tip of the skewers I made waves, not very big ones, but some are big too (so make them randomly in terms of size, but they had better follow a line-check out the wave patterns of a real sea photo)

then with a white acrylic I added white to top of the waves

this is how I made, I have watched nice you tube videos for this, check it out :-)

 

 

mehmet

[Omega1234]

Hi Mehmet

 

Very nice! You can't beat those types of schooners as subjects for SIB's. They just look so good.

 

All the best for Christmas and New Year.

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[mhmtyrl]

SIB schooners???? wov wov wov.... such a high level reference of comparision for my poor little schooner in the bottle :-)

 

cheers

mehmet

[Omega1234]

SIB schooners???? wov wov wov.... such a high level reference of comparision for my poor little schooner in the bottle :-)

 

cheers

mehmet

   

[AndrewNaylor]

Fantastic job I love the following sea as she rides up on the swell very realistic 

If this is your first I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the fleet

Andy

[JerseyCity Frankie]

Its a very nice Ship in a Bottle! Also I love hearing from a model builder in Ankara-Türkiye! Also I will point you in the direction of this website dedicated to Ships in Bottles: http://www.bottledshipbuilder.com/ which has a lot of resources for ship in bottle builders much like this website Model Ship World.

[mhmtyrl]

thank you Andrew, I guess you'll see the rest of the fleet soon as I am so motivated by the comments :-), Frankie thanks for the resource, I registered to that site too, hope I will learn more about bottled ship building.

 

I reccomend model ship building in bottle to every one; it is fantastic, so enjoyable but also very annoying at times :-)

[IgorSky]

Hi Mehmet!

Very, very nice work! Congrats!

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[DSiemens]

Excellent work she looks great!  I like the way you colored the sails.  She looks like a hard working ship.  

[mhmtyrl]

thank you Daniel, the sails are made up of tea bags, natural tea stained :-) you do not have to apply anything more...except for few touches of pastel