IgorSky

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Nice to see you Igor. Enjoy the rest of Summer!

Hello Allegheny!
Try looking at this page. Several different methods are described there. But you can also invent a new way.
https://shipbottle.ru/russian/mybook/index09.php
 
 

Completed ‘Duguay -Trouin’ 1800.
Captured in 1805 and became ‘HMS Implacable. Scuttled 1949.
 

Greetings All,
Have made considerable progress on my 1813 lakes brig model. Cap rail, chain plates, most of the deadeyes and chains, plus most of the deck structures have been added. Much still to do, but getting there.





 
Anchor's A Weigh!
John Fox III

Le Dugay-Trouin later HMS Implacable. Still a lot left to do.

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Hello @IgorSky,
I am very new at this particular hobby of putting a ship into a bottle.
In fact I'm working on my first one.
I saw this topic and was very interested in learning just how it is done.
Could you please elaborate on the methods used?
Thanks!

Hi!
I've made a stopper in traffic a few times. There are several different ways.

Hi!
I've made a stopper in traffic a few times. There are several different ways.

Hi!
I've made a stopper in traffic a few times. There are several different ways.

Greetings,
I've never actually made or used that type of stopper, but can guess how it could be accomplished. I suspect the vertical part inside the neck of the bottle has a slot in which a piece of wood would be pinned so that it could slide inside the vertical part during insertion, then rotated 90 degree so that it would lock the stopper in.
Anchor's A Weigh!
John Fox III

Only recently started my addiction and have four or five projects under my belt. Progressively getting better. I’ve seen some older bottle art with locking stoppers. Pieces of wood are projecting perpendicular to the stopper inside the bottle. Trying to figure out how that is accomplished. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all, I’ve been very busy with work but I got back to working on the galleon a little more. Next up I install the masts using the same simple wire hinge method I used on my first build. I like this method because it’s easy and with the cheap bottles I’m using, the glass clarity is such that you can hardly see the hinge anyway once it’s in the bottle. 

I used super glue to glue the hinges into the deck and when I did so I made quite a mess of glue by mistake. It didn’t look very good in patches so I instead just put an even coat of glue on all of the deck surfaces to hide my error. It ends up not looking bad, it comes out with a semi gloss finish and just looks like I gave the deck an oil finish. 

Next I rigged up all the lines. This was a bit tricky in planning because my last ship had only 2 masts and I wasn’t following someone else’s plan this time but I think it worked out. All the masts can be raised by pulling on the strings with only minor poking with a stick. I also added some wood strips to cover the string ends. On my first ship I left them bare even though it didn’t look that good because I was working within a fraction of a millimetre of the ship being too wide for the bottle. This time that is not the case so I made it look a little more complete. 
Next I cut up my sail cloth and glued it on to the spars. I think the one for the aft mast is okay but I will probably try to take the sails off the main masts and put some on that are a little smaller. These ones just aren’t quite the right shape. 
I actually went out and bought a smaller bottle before doing this because I thought this tiny ship would be a bit lost in the 750ml bottle I had originally chosen. A quick transfer of the contents into my large bottle and some time under a fan to dry it out and the bottle was ready for resin. 

I poured the resin in the same manner as I did last time but it was much less daunting this time seeing as I had done it once before. 

The long tube and funnel prevents the resin from making a mess in the neck of the bottle. 
 
That’s it for now! Next time I’ll probably fix those sails and get ready to set it in the bottle. 
Cheers!

Hello and thanks for accepting me to your group. I recently completed my first SIB after years of wanting to try and now I’m hooked. Loved looking through the posts here and already learned so much, a bit to late for this project but planning the second one now 

Second SIB completed. Similar design to the first just much smaller. Lots of lessons learned on the first build and now more on this one. Loving the time spent learning and can’t wait to try a square rigger 

I had a favourable change of schedule this week and was able to get back to the project much sooner than anticipated! I began, with much trepidation, the process of filling the bottle with the resin. I’ve never worked with resin before so I was a bit nervous about messing it up but it went off without a hitch. The funnel and tube assemble worked perfectly and the colour came out just right. 

 
Next I layered up 3 layers of mod podge inside using a paint brush to give some texture to the wake of the ship. I had trouble getting it to dry when after several hours it was still completely wet but this was solved by pointing a small desk fan into the mouth of the bottle to give it some airflow. 

Once the mod podge was dry and clear and I was happy with the texture reached in with some white paint to highlight the waves. Again, I don’t know why this image is upside down but it doesn’t matter much. 

 
once the paint had dried it was time to put the ship in at last! I bent up some wire coat hangers to use as my reaching tools and used this to apply some white glue to the middle of the wake. I also fashioned some long forceps/tweezers out of coat hanger with hockey tape wrapped around the ends to give it some grip. I used the makeshift forceps to carefully position the ship in the middle and press it down to dry. Next was to raise the sails but I needed to wait for the glue to fully dry and it was already past midnight so it was time to quit for the day. 

Bright and early the next morning I got to carefully pulling the sails up with a combination of hooking them with my coat hanger tools and gently pulling on the strings that came through the bowsprit. Once they were up I wrapped the loose strings around a screw to hold them steady and glued the strings into the bowsprit with a dab of glue on the end of a coat hanger. Once that glue was dry I was able to cut the loose ends with a regular craft knife, no need to make a special coat hanger knife thing. 

That was the hard part finished, last thing was to make a nice display stand. We had some old walnut laying around that hadn’t been used for anything else so I set to work cutting it up. I even bought a router specifically to make a nice decorative edge on the base of the stand. 


the finishing touch was to apply a coat of tung oil to darken the wood and give it a bit of a satin finish

And at long last, there it is complete! I thoroughly enjoyed this project and I hope you liked following along with this beginner’s first go of things. I’m incredibly happy with how it has turned out and I already have my sights set on the next project in which I will attempt to make a galleon. It won’t be for a little while though as this has consumed my thoughts entirely for the last couple months, especially being away and unable to work on it whenever I wanted to. Until the next one, enjoy these photos of the finished build!




Thanks and see ya next time!
 

That was a great upgrade and tuning of the kit ... Need for SIB! Very nice!

Super quick update here.
I know the traditional way to display a ship-in-a-bottle is to have a Turk's Head knot on the neck of the bottle, but I haven't tied one of those since I was a Sea Explorer back in the early 80's.  I did a little Googling around to relearn and then practices a few times.  It turned out looking pretty nice!  Four passes, which filled out the neck nicely.
Then, yesterday, I designed the base and fabricated all the pieces.  It's all mahogany, cut from some leftover wood I had.  Routed the edges.  Resawed a piece for the piece supporting the neck.  (I thought the full thickness of the board was a little too bulky.)  I thought this turned out well, too, although I'm concerned about the butt joint on that neck piece. I think I'll make some small reinforcements for it.
I got some Varathane wood stain the other day.  It's that "super fast drying" variety, which I've never used, but from everything I've seen, it works well.  Still debating if I want to use tung oil or polyurethane varnish on it.  I'm going over to the trophy shop this afternoon to see if they can make me a name plate for it.
Down to the final stretch!