- Scale
- 1:6
- Size
- 32 mm
- Category
- Miniature
Lee-Enfield on a Bottle Cap
A No. 4 rifle in 1:6 scale, resting on a Lion Red bottle cap.
Price
NZ$65
plus shipping from New Zealand
2 left
Ships from New Zealand, wrapped like it's going to war. Shipping: NZ NZ$8, Australia NZ$18, rest of world NZ$30.
Step one, step last
Primer to paint
Every piece starts grey. Here is what the brushwork adds.
True to scale
How small is it?
Photos lie about size. This doesn't: everything below is drawn to the same millimetre ruler.
About 1.2x the length of a $2 coin.
From the workbench
This one began as a joke at the pub about what the smallest display stand in the world would be. The answer, it turns out, is a bottle cap, and the rifle had to be scaled to suit.
It is a Lee-Enfield No. 4, built in 1:6 so it is just over 30 millimetres long. The woodwork is painted to look like walnut, with darker grain lines pulled through wet paint with a cocktail stick, and the metal parts are graphite rubbed on with a fingertip so they catch the light the way gunmetal does. The sling is a strip of painted foil.
The cap is a real one, flattened slightly, cleaned, and filled with resin so the rifle sits on a smooth glassy surface. It fits in an envelope, but I post it in a little box.
— Sunanda