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dsteingass wrote:I need to do a bunch of putty work and sanding yet. Or should I paint this one, and make another master for you?

Your call, I can also send the master back after I make a mold...

That looks awesome Dave! I guess I should hurry up and make some food packets for the vending machine! It looks bare!

I could also make some cans for the machine if you want.

Nuka cola only came in bottles. American soda technology never progressed to cans prior to the great war....


WHY is there no beer in the Capitol wasteland is what I want to know........

Bottles then, I don't play many computer games. My bad!

I'm sure I found plenty of beer in fallout 3?

Good vending machine dstein! Bringing nuka-cola to the hive.

Yeah but you'd think that the beer would be in the vending machine too.

Silly Jake, Nuka Cola oNLY comes in bottles

However, if you can craft small coke-shaped glass bottles.....


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Beer is EVERYWHERE in the Capitol Wasteland, whatchu talking about? You don't really want to carry it around, it isn't worth much to sell.

I should be able to make some coke-shaped bottles. I don't have clear resin yet though, but if you want to wait a while, I plan on getting some.

Absolutely! I wonder if there is some sort of translucent flourescent blue pigment that can be put into the clear to make Nuka Cola Quantum (The formula for Quantum includes a mild isotope to make it glow )

There are all sorts of pigments you can add to the clear resin!

I plan on getting a lot of this stuff in the coming months.

If you can get the bottle shape like this:



That would kick ass! We can trade molds maybe?

No Hurry at all btw,

I'll most likely be able to make them clear and tinted blue, or other colors if necessary, but they might be a bit small to make hollow to put liquid in, although if I can, that would be cool!

We can work something out, I might put them on my site as scenery bits, and just send you some for advertisement!

finally you have returned to your workdesk!!! and yet again you have choosen a most worthy task to fullfill!!! the nuka cola vending machine looks super cool! what a way to return to the land of the makers^^

Hey man, all I ask is that you give me designed by: credits They don't need to be hollow man, capped, then you can cut the cap off with an xacto and drill it out if you want an empty. (Bottle Caps are currency )

Thanks Vik! It's a start. Part of me wants to just paint this, part of me wants to send it to Galorn for molding.

Things to think about while I play with putty, liquid GS, and sanding.


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HOWEVER..It is most critical that the caps have distinguishable pointy crimped edges like so:

http://chanced1.deviantart.com/art/Nuka-Cola-Bottle-Caps-207177604

Dont play with your putty too long. It will get stiff.....

/laughing like Beavis

We'll see what kind of deatail I can get on these things. You realize the caps will be about the size of a rivet, right?


Holy crud! I think I have the perfect thing for the caps! I'll look into it tonight!

cant you make those bottle lids(right word for these?) out of plasticcard discs made with the holepunch and some dents done by stamping some screwdriver bitz on them? could that work? ...mebbe if you use thin PC?

as for your problem what to do... wouldn´t want to be in your shoes now as i can see this would be great both ways^^

Vik, did you see how Jake got a "Eureka" moment mid-post? lol

Rivet-sized Caps Vik, Rivet-sized caps!!

caps...of course it´s called caps...and yeah... i typed it inbetween his idea... maybe some sort of brainwaves crossover?^^

It's called League ESP
aka The Secret Handshake!

Two tone bottles are tricky but doable. (Fill part way with clear then the rest of the way with colored resin)

dsteingass wrote:It's called League ESP
aka The Secret Handshake!

of course^^

No need for that, at that scale a little paint will go a long way methinks. You'll only need to paint a red stripe for the label and a dot of red on the cap, maybe white edge highlights on the bottle texturre? Just cast either in clear or smokey ink colored resin, it would be great!

Yeah, I think I alrady have the perfect bottle caps! In the picture, the far left two columns of sprockets, the far, far left is the one I am thinking of, hard to se, but if I sand it down just a bit to flatten the top, it should be perfect.

(You can click on the picture to zoom in.)


@ Galorn - Yeah, I have not tried anything like this, but that is pretty much what I was thinking. I mean, you don't want all of the bottles to be empties, right? I'll have to look at many tutorials before I try it!

Ah yes, the "Secret Handshake"! It works over thousands of miles!

Well Dave, I want it to look good. I'll see what I can do!

WOW! That's a great idea! From your ebay gear stash eh?

Yep! Now I just have to make a bottle to go wit it!

RSJake wrote:Yep! Now I just have to make a bottle to go wit it!

Id say look at the various indents your Pliers, and wire cutters have (to look for the "neck" shape)

RSJake wrote:Yeah, I think I alrady have the perfect bottle caps! In the picture, the far left two columns of sprockets, the far, far left is the one I am thinking of, hard to se, but if I sand it down just a bit to flatten the top, it should be perfect.

(You can click on the picture to zoom in.)


@ Galorn - Yeah, I have not tried anything like this, but that is pretty much what I was thinking. I mean, you don't want all of the bottles to be empties, right? I'll have to look at many tutorials before I try it!

Ah yes, the "Secret Handshake"! It works over thousands of miles!

Well Dave, I want it to look good. I'll see what I can do!

LOL! deffently!