Ideas for uses - champagne bottle fixings

gregh

gregh

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I`m a bit partial to cham.....  well sparkling wine.  Each bottle comes with a cork and a twisted wire fitting and metal cap.

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For years I`ve wondered what I can make from them, but I`ve had no brilliant ideas.

So I open it up to the forum. What can I use these for??
 
Well, I've done larger scale modelling,(1-12) and the baskets are good for...baskets! Wrap around a little sail-cloth type material, paint etc. I'm not certain about a smaller scale usage.

Funnily, somebody gave me a bag of Barbie doll kitchen accessories ("any use?") and the buckets in Barbie scale make great G scale fire buckets on stations etc,,,,my motto is - never throw anything away....
 
Get some cheap (pound-shop) translucent ice-trays..
Cut the individual cubes off. Turn upside down, and form the cage into the protective cage you see on ?chemical? containers..

Corks look very like substantial mooring bollards, for those with a nautical element to their modelling..
 
I'll just take the contents - Thanks.
 
I studied (well married someone who studied and spent some time there) in the capital city of the Fizzy Stuff. Been collecting the corks for sometime. Be grateful is somebody could explain what they are useful for. The corks, not the other things, you understand.

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I know. The corks are from other wine types, but in defence the pic is from 2011.
 
I wonder with a bit of imagination, some painting and some Scale Barrels they might bulk up a removable Barrel Load?
JonD
 
Depends how many barrels you need. I suppose that I could give it a try :-) :D
 
KandNWLR said:
Depends how many barrels you need. I suppose that I could give it a try :-) :D
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On the Selketalbahn in the Former East German Days there used to be a Factory at Silberhutte that made Wooden Barrels. Some pictures I have seen show up to two Open Wagons full of Barrels up to 3 or so high mounted Vertically. I got some of the Barrels that Steve Warrington sold and made a load by cutting them in half and mounting them Horizontally onto a false bottom. So a wish to do a proper load is in my head.
JonD
 
KandNWLR said:
Be grateful is somebody could explain what they are useful for. The corks, not the other things, you understand.
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Some years ago, a local bar were collecting vast numbers of wine corks for a local charity who used them for loft insulation.
I can imagine the aroma...
 
and the fire risk!
 
Wire bit for shabby chic 'rustic' bar stools. Cork bit with the curved top flattened and top added for 'rustic tree trunk' table to go with the stools
 
Neat idea,
I have never met this 'Shabby Chic'. Am I missing much! ;)
 
stockers said:
Neat idea,
I have never met this 'Shabby Chic'. Am I missing much! ;)
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More shabby than chic around here................
 
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Be grateful if somebody could explain what [the corks] are useful for.
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I used a cork to make a steel oil drum.  Circles of wire to form the ribs, covered with tin foil and painted, followed by some Scenic Rust treatment.
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'Shabby Chic'
Definition:
"Second-hand furniture nobody wants, badly painted."

;) :D ;D ;D
 
beavercreek said:
Wire bit for shabby chic 'rustic' bar stools. Cork bit with the curved top flattened and top added for 'rustic tree trunk' table to go with the stools
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The best idea so far. Thanks.
(Don't need ideas for plain corks - no such thing in Oz any more, at least not the 'economy' wine I buy. All screw caps.)
 
ntpntpntp said:
I used a cork to make a steel oil drum. Circles of wire to form the ribs, covered with tin foil and painted, followed by some Scenic Rust treatment.
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Superb conversion of a Cork. The Cement Mixer and Cement Bags look good too, thread drift please some more info?
JonD
 
I've wondered about using them as general shapes under a tarp on a wagon. Not quite sure what the load would actually be but I think it would look like well, what ever the view wanted it to be :)
 
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I`ve wondered about using them as general shapes under a tarp on a wagon. 
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Funnily enough I did start to do just that as a load for another flat wagon from the thread I linked to above.  Made a start but never got around to finishing it off, so maybe it`s a job to continue during the soggy months!

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