{"id":884,"date":"2011-12-03T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=884"},"modified":"2019-06-12T01:05:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:05:37","slug":"884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"MOCpages Backup: Countach in a Bottle (4-Wide)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 4-wide Lamborghini Countach LP400 built in a bottle<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got the inspiration for this when I saw the Ship-in-a-bottle built by Jeremy Moody<\/a> and I thought: “I have to build a car in a bottle”. That was about 2 1\/2 months ago and this was my secret project for this time. I wanted to be the first one to do this \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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\nI didn’t change the exterior design of the LP400<\/a>, only the colour and the “underware”. Yellow was an official colour for the LP400, some of the first models were painted yellow. So I chose this colour. I’d like to build a white one, but one of the main parts, the 1×2 “cheese wedge” with grill doesn’t exist in white, yet.<\/p>\n

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\nThis one is modular, as the whole model doesn’t go through the bottleneck. So, these are the modules which had to go though the bottleneck one by one.<\/p>\n

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\nMeanwhile I was looking for the right bottle. It had to have the right size, not too small and not too big. And it had to have a (more ore less) square cross section. And the bottleneck had to be big enough to get at least the wheels through it.<\/p>\n

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\nThe first three modules mounted together. Up to this point the building was quite easy.<\/p>\n

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\nThe rear end and rear axle mounted. On this photo you can see the biggest difficulty during the building: The “dimples” on the sides of the bottle make the interior almost round. It was almost impossible to fix the model to connect some of the modules.<\/p>\n

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\nI thought the side panels would be difficult to mount, but these just snapped into their place, to my great delight, I have to say. The front end instead, was like a pain in the $%& to mount. Everytime I wanted to fix it, something flipped away and it didn’t connect. I tried that for more than two hours until I came up with the idea to build a special tool for it. I’ll show that one on one of the following photos.<\/p>\n

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\nYes, it’s done. Poooh, that was tough!<\/p>\n

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\nA look through the bottleneck.<\/p>\n

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\nIf you think, that opening is big, here’s LEGO Nils crawling through it :-)) I still have to admit, that the bottleneck for Jeremy’s Ship-in-a-bottle was a lot smaller. So if you like this model, please take a look at his one<\/a>, too. It’s just amzing.<\/p>\n

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\nSide view: You can see that the Lambo just fits into the bottle. There’s no big gap in the length.<\/p>\n

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\nRear view: You can see it’s a 0,35 litre bottle, half of the content of a whine bottle. I don’t know how much this is in anglo-american units. I only know a pint is more ore less 0,5 litres and I think that’s all I need to know :-))<\/p>\n

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\nThe seperated twins…<\/p>\n

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\nAnd these are the tools I used to build this one: A pair of chopsticks, some long plates mounted as a stick and the special tool I mentioned earlier: Two joined Technic beams with a connector peg. The knob of the connector peg connected to the front end and made it possible to locate the front end exactly where it had to go. Meanwhile I used one of the chopsticks to fix the model. So this tool saved me from going mad.<\/p>\n

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\nIf you think building in a bag is difficult, try it in a bottle ;-). Or don’t, believe me, it’s nerve-wracking :-\/ OK, it was a lot of fun, too :-))<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well this is my 4-wide LEGO Lamborghini Countach LP400 built in a bottle. I hope you like it :-))<\/p>\n

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