{"id":1750,"date":"2013-01-01T00:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T23:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2019-06-12T00:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:20:43","slug":"mocpages-backup-lighthouse-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"MOCpages Backup: Lighthouse in a Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MOCpages backup<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Lighthouse<\/p>\n

A microscale version of the German lighthouse “Westerheversand” built in a bottle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I definitely left my comfort zone for this one. My Dad is a lighthouse fan and travels a lot to take photos of these unique buildings. For his birthday my mother had the idea to build a LEGO lighthouse in a bottle just like I had done with my Lamborghini Countach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I picked the lighthouse “Westerheversand”<\/a> because it is one of the most beautiful and famous German lighthouses and one of my dad’s favourites.<\/p>\n

Microscale buildings are far away from my comfort zone. Considering that, the design process was a lot a fun. Just like for the Countach I built modules small enough to go through the bottleneck and then mounted them inside. These are the modules:
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The most difficult part was to find a bottle in which I could build the model. It had to have an almost square shape in the front view and a big bottleneck for the Technic “belt wheel” I used for two platforms. A Whiskey bottle had the right size for the lighthouse but the opening of the bottleneck was smaller than it looked from the outside.<\/p>\n

So I had to cut off a part of the bottleneck to get a bigger opening:
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The opening now is just big enough for this wheel:
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And this is the result:
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Another front view, now with some daylight:
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And a rear view:
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\nThis is my micro scale LEGO lighthouse “Westerheversand” built in a bottle.
\nI hope you like it :-))<\/p>\n

Oh, I almost forgot this:
\nA Happy New Year to all of you :-))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A MOCpages backup Rated 5 out of 5 (48 ratings) 5,553\u00a0visitors 31\u00a0comments Added January 1, 2013 A microscale version of the German lighthouse “Westerheversand” built in a bottle. I definitely left my comfort zone for this one. My Dad is a lighthouse fan and travels a lot to take photos of these unique buildings. For … Continue reading MOCpages Backup: Lighthouse in a Bottle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17,2,4,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54WOz-se","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}