I often need bottes for my dioramas and the price of those for sale are ridiculous, so I decided to make my own.
This is how I make bottles.
I have not given any dimensions, or sizes, as these would vary according to scale, so you would have to calculate your own. (I will be happy to help you with that - just send me an email with the details).
For those who are visual learners (like me), I have inserted a diagram (albeit a primitive one!) to help make sense of the text below.
- Take a tube that has the scaled outer diameter of the bottle. Cut it to the scaled length of the bottle.
- Now find a tube that will fit into the larger tube and cut this into short sections (Short, so as to save money. Long if you have loads. The choice is yours).
- Take an Evergreen styrene solid rod, having the diameter of the bottle neck in the desired scale.
- Cut these into lengths longer than the bottle neck and deep enough for the following steps. Insert these solid rod pieces into the narrower tubes,making sure that the extended piece is long enough for the scaled bottle shoulder and neck.
- Now stick these into the bigger tube.
- Use superglue to glue it all together.
- Added a blob of quickset epoxy to create the bottle neck shape.
Once shaped and dry, I painted them and put them into crates. Easy enough. Now you try....
[Yes, now that I have my own 3D printer, I tend to use that instead]