Bastion spirits bottle replicas

Mihr

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so I've really gotten into prop making recently and want to make replicas of the spirit bottles that appear in bastion for my friend's birthday.
unfortunately this is my first experience with making bottle props and I have no idea where to find bottles with the general shape of the ones in the game and what material to use to decorate them
I want to start with the likes of:

lunkhead liqueur:
Lunkheadliqueur.png

Cham-pain:
Cham-pain.png

and finally mender mead:
Mendermead.png

EDIT:
I asked my friend which spirit he liked the most and ended up choosing the bastion bourbon:
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Craft stores will have general bottles, sometimes weird shapes, but the best source I have found has been thrift stores (goodwill in my area). Often the bottles I want are the ones filled with decorative olives and crap. Just pry 'em open and clean them out. They smell to high hell, but you can get some good cheap bottles.

Another source is perfume bottles. These can get a bit pricy, but if you look for cheap or highly discounted stuff, you can find some great shapes. Again, the smell can be overwhelming, but some cleaning and time in the fresh sunny air helps.

The ones you pictures might be easily found in a Michaels or general craft store. The nice thing about the pics you have is that the bottles are covered. This means you can buy a bottle that is close and add materials to it to get the shape you want. These added materials will then be covered (like in your third pic).

Bastion is a great game, these should be a fun little project.

As for decoration, it looks like much of what is pictured is melted wax and cloth. In the case of pic 2, its just melted wax, a paper label, and that is it. The "cork" seems to be a skull. This can be done by getting a wine stopper (they are cork or synthetic cork with a tab at the top to they do not go all the way into the bottle) then sculpting a skull on top of it with apoxy sculpt or some other medium.

Bottle 3 looks to just be a jug wrapped in fabric. Hot glue might hold it down if you use a clay jug (found at silly home décor shops or maybe a pottery barn type place). You can get the "script" on the fabric by using a fabric transfer or if you are feeling steady in the hand, a sharpie.

Bottle 1 might be a bit trickier, as I cannot tell if the greyish stuff is sculpted or fabric. For inspiration here, search the forum for people whole did things like the skelegrow bottle from harry potter to get a good idea of how to sculpt a bottle shape from scratch. If you go this route, you can use any bottle (old shampoo for example) then sculpt what you want on to it, finish, wrap, etc.

Good luck!
 
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