DSiemens Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 So I was a approached by a member of my ship club to build him a submarine in a bottle. He was a sailor on the US Bonefish. He didn't want a regular submarine though. He wanted just the pariscope sticking out with a big eye looking out. Here's what I came up with. Has anyone else do e a whimsical bottle and what ideas have you had. Here's a few I've talked about with people. Ghost ship in a bottle - bottle with just the sea. The ghost ship is invisable. Ship in fog - Bottle full of cotton balls. Ship wreck - For when you bottling efforts go horibly wrong. Ship trying to get out of bottle - this one's more involved but I thought might be fun. A ship firing broadside into the side of the bottle with cracks apearing in the glass and water spilling out onto the stand. Show off you whimsical bottles and tell us about your ideas. Jim Goodwin, JesseLee, James w rogers and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseLee Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) I have always called my first SIB attempt a ship wreck in a bottle! Edited July 16, 2016 by JesseLee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fellingham Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 I've seen a variation on this sub in a bottle. The horizontal bottle was completely filled with sea and a tiny periscope was stuck on the outside of the bottle with a little bit of water effect around it. JesseLee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSiemens Posted July 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 That's a clever idea to. Actually it makes me think. I've seen a submarine in a green bottle that was made to look lIke it was going through murky water. Mix that with a periscope sticking out of the bottle and you'd have a pretty cool sib. JesseLee and Dave Fellingham 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exwafoo Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 Not a SIB. It was made for me by my son when he was 8 as a last minute birthday present. Kitchen foil, and a toothpick. kept in a small plastic display box and I wouldn't part with it. Alan . Chasseur, JesseLee and John Zuch 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSiemens Posted July 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 That's awesome. Kids are great. JesseLee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipwright1912 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Well, the one SIB I've made so far that I could really call "whimsical" was one I did depicting a scene from H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel, the War of the Worlds, wherein the fictional Royal Navy torpedo ram, HMS Thunder Child, engages in battle with the Martian tripods. Got inspiration to make it from listening to Jeff Wayne's musical version on the LP record (no substitute for good vinyl, in my humble opinion!), wherein the battle gets a rather awesome music treatment. As for a basis for making the SIB, I chose to stick close to the Thunder Child's real-life basis, the one of a kind torpedo ram HMS Polyphemus, slightly enlarged to have two single-gun turrets fore and aft to more closely match how the Thunder Child was described in the novel. As for the Martian tripod walker war machines? Ordinary corks cut to have a flying-saucer like shape, and then some bits of wire stuck into them to make the legs and the heat-ray laser guns on the top, with a pair of little green beads to make the sensors/eyes. One of the tripods I chose to have its front shot away and billowing black smoke from a direct hit from the Thunder Child's guns (which have little white puffs of smoke to suggest muzzle flashes), with the Thunder Child herself steaming for one of the legs at full whack to finish the job on this crippled tripod with her beaklike ram on her bow under the waterline. For anybody who's read the novel, you'll know that this victory is going to be short-lived, as the other two tripods coming up behind the ship are going to melt it into scrap with their heat-rays, but insofar as the actual scene goes, I wanted to show the Thunder Child in all her glory before her violent death, when she was still kicking Martian butt and taking names Ended up selling it, but it definitely was one of the favorites out of all the one's I've done. I've also done a submarine, the USS Nautilus, but while running on the surface. I'd like to do another running underwater, but I've yet to figure out how to put a layer of water in the bottle, while having the sky and sea below clear so you can see the sub clearly. IgorSky and JesseLee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorSky Posted May 6, 2017 Report Share Posted May 6, 2017 On 29.04.2017 at 9:14 AM, Shipwright1912 said: I'd like to do another running underwater, but I've yet to figure out how to put a layer of water in the bottle, while having the sky and sea below clear so you can see the sub clearly. Hello Shipwright1912! For several months I am studying the properties and methods of working with a two-component silicone. One of my current projects also requires a transparent sea to see the underwater elements of the composition. Best Regards! Igor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSiemens Posted May 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2017 Some one gave me this today. I guess not a sib buy related and whimsical. exwafoo, Chasseur, JesseLee and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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