Among the craftsmen for making ships in bottles, there is a professional slang term for placing a model in a glass container. It sounds, you see, funny: "bubbling". But how much labor is implied by this word! There are at least one and a half dozen ways to create a tiny masterpiece that boggles the mind inside a bottle.
It is necessary
Matches, toothpicks, wooden skewers, lime block, glue, wood varnish, epoxy resin, dyes
Instructions
Step 1
To put a boat in a bottle, you still need to build it. The whole "trick" is that the dimensions of the assembled ship should be incomparable with the capacity of the neck of the bottle you have chosen, everything should just scream that the ship could not get inside!
Step 2
To achieve this effect, build a prefabricated ship model. To do this, first make its separate underwater part, above water, all masts and rigging, all this must be made separately, exactly fitted. The dimensions of the ship's elements are needed so that all the parts, taken together in one dense "bundle", fit into the neck of the selected bottle. Then make hinges for the masts, as shown in the drawing, after putting on the cambric rings on the masts, which, after connecting the masts with the body, you will lower them so as to hide the connection. It is advisable to paint the entire movable assembly with cambric in one color for disguise.
Step 3
If you have chosen a bottle of spirits without dyes, it is not necessary to wash it on the outside, it is already clean enough for your purpose. After plugging the bottle with a cork, dip it into a container with boiling water to release labels, excise stamps, etc. The transparencies can be easily removed by prying the corner with a knife. Wash off the remaining adhesive in very hot water with a cloth and detergent.
Step 4
When the entire ship model is assembled, start creating a "raging sea". To do this, squeeze a few drops of paste from a green or blue ballpoint pen into the epoxy filler, mix well, add a fixer, add a little more alcohol so that the mixture hardens longer, draw the resulting mixture into a disposable syringe of the maximum volume, put a suitable tube on the syringe nose size to deliver liquid to the inside of the bottle. Squeeze the resin into the bottle, as it hardens, try to create waves by pressing the surface with a curved wire with a bead at the end until the liquid waves begin to maintain their shape.
Step 5
Press the underwater part of the ship's hull into the surface of the "sea" so that it protrudes above the surface by 0.5-1.5mm. When the resin has hardened, glue the folded top of the model onto the underwater part of the ship. While waiting for the glue to dry completely again, try pulling the solidifying mass of epoxy onto the sides of the ship in the form of rolling waves.
Step 6
While pulling the threads, raise the masts to their natural position. Lower the cambric onto the hinges to mask the joints. On a wire with a bead at the end, deliver a drop of glue to the hinges, which will fix the masts in an upright position. Wait until the glue is completely dry, then plug the bottle with a cork and start giving the souvenir a presentation: a stand, cork decoration, lighting.
