Airplanes in Bottles

[Peter]

I have built two ships in bottles and loved the challenge. I am planning on building some of the ship plans in the gallery section as ships in bottles. Anyway I came across this guy who builds planes in bottles!!! It would make for some interesting challenges.

http://www.lib.aero/~ari/aibs/

Here's how he does it
http://www.lib.aero/~ari/aibs/construction/


Maybe we should invite him to join our solid fraternity?

Peter

[Ken Pugh]

Excellent!  Thanks for the links.  I keep an eye on the bottle modelers if for no other reason than to peek at their techniques for very small models.

Ken Pugh

[Balsabasher]

I once saw a film of a mariner building a ship in a bottle,how he made it was to assemble it with the details like sails etc folded down,the ship was inserted into the bottle onto a layer of soft putty,once dry he pulled the cord and the sailing ship sprung into life ! simply amazing.
Barry.