Nuka-Cola (Fallout 3) Bottle replica: Ideas please!

Hey guys- my machine with photoshop on it is back home, and right now I am at my apartment for a week or so. Once I go back home I will update the Quantum label.

Also- It turns out my Boss's husband bottles his own beer, so I may have an opportunity in the future to proffesionally bottle some Nuka-Cola's and Quantums with probably generic cola and Mountain Dew Voltage, if anyones interested. I am looking into the cost of getting some simple cardboard packaging made.
 
Arafinwe said:
Hey guys- my machine with photoshop on it is back home, and right now I am at my apartment for a week or so. Once I go back home I will update the Quantum label.

Also- It turns out my Boss's husband bottles his own beer, so I may have an opportunity in the future to proffesionally bottle some Nuka-Cola's and Quantums with probably generic cola and Mountain Dew Voltage, if anyones interested. I am looking into the cost of getting some simple cardboard packaging made.
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Ooh! That would definitely be cool!
 
Thanks for the labels, I was able to track down some glass Coke bottles.

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I searched the stores for a long time, but i only found some old style Coca-Cola bottles.

So it will be a Hellenic Version of Nuka-Cola or something.
I thing that on Fallout universe it became a popular drink here...


When i get inks for my printer, i will start working the photoshop.:cool
 
The bottles aren't that hard to come by. Not common, but not rare either. I usually find them in the gas stations I go to.

Did anybody ever do graphics for the caps? Small round sticker size?
 
We make vinyl decals and we can print on vinyl.
So if you send me a hi-res pic I can print your nuka cola decal.
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Arafinwe said:
Hey All,

I'm looking to make replica Nuka-Cola bottles from the video game Fallout 3, using glass Coca Cola Bottles as a base.

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I've already made the label in Photoshop, with the proper curve to fit the bottles correctly. I am just looking for a more proffesional way to get the label on the bottles other than sticker paper with my ink jet printer:

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The sticker paper looks cheap, the ink bleeds, etc. Also the label area of these bottles I have are rounded, thus creating a crease in the label here and there.

I was hoping some one would have an idea for an alternative method of labeling the bottles. Would a decal work, "water sealing"? (what ever that is)

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
-Hayes
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I'm actually working on these as well. Your labels look good PLUS remember that after 200 years the ink on the real world labels would fade and bleed as well. Short of finding someone who can make the labels like the real companies get made you're not going to probably have an easy time. For some of the colors i'm going to use mouthwash. I was thinking of using the LED too. I wouldn't use any organic oils since it tends to go rancid over time.
 
Cool stuff. I went out and bought some glass Coke bottles last night - these labels aren't intended to wrap all the way around, right? I might resize them so they do wrap around on my bottles.

Also, what have people done on the caps? I scraped the paint off of one of mine, but...it looks like I scraped the paint off.
 
Jm419 said:
Cool stuff. I went out and bought some glass Coke bottles last night - these labels aren't intended to wrap all the way around, right? I might resize them so they do wrap around on my bottles.
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My labels indeed were not intended to wrap all the way around, like a real label on a glass coke bottle. Keep in mind the labels in game didn't have nutritional information on them or anything like that, I did it purely for aesthetics. If someone wanted to be super accurate to the bottles in FO3 and FONV you would cut off that extra stuff and just use the logo.

Its funny that this thread was bumped because I've been thinking about redoing the labels to make them a little cleaner, and make labels for the new Nuka-Cola flavors and some Sunset Saparilla.
 
Yeah, true - it's just that on my coke bottles, the Coke logo is painted on, and the color doesn't quite match, so I'm planning on just sizing them up a bit; they're even a little narrow for my Coke Mini bottles.

These are gonna be Christmas presents for my buddies who got me into Fallout, and I'm planning on making some Quantum too.

What about the cap? Was there talk about doing something about that?
 
Jm419 said:
Yeah, true - it's just that on my coke bottles, the Coke logo is painted on, and the color doesn't quite match, so I'm planning on just sizing them up a bit; they're even a little narrow for my Coke Mini bottles.

These are gonna be Christmas presents for my buddies who got me into Fallout, and I'm planning on making some Quantum too.

What about the cap? Was there talk about doing something about that?
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All my logos had labels that were painted on, too. I just used something with a hard edge, like a dime, and rubbed away at it until it was gone.

I personally never made caps for mine, but a few ideas have been tossed around if you back track through the thread. The most promising being IIRC was painting the cap red and making a decal.
 
Arafinwe said:
All my logos had labels that were painted on, too. I just used something with a hard edge, like a dime, and rubbed away at it until it was gone.

I personally never made caps for mine, but a few ideas have been tossed around if you back track through the thread. The most promising being IIRC was painting the cap red and making a decal.
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Yeah, but that's a bunch of work. It's meant to be a cheap prop, and I just used an old scissors to scrape the paint off, then kinda weathered the rest of the cap. It looks ok, but I might try the dime.
 
What sized coke bottles are you guys using? The only glass ones here are 8oz ones. I think i have a good bottle for the sunset but not sure yet.
 
That looks about right but I'm not that interested in making these enough to spend that much lol. I'll find a few at some point. I'm actually going to use my 8oz ones as a variety pack (non canon but neat) as if Nuka made samplers of their various types.
 
I've got to stop by some of the convenience stores in the Latin sections of New Jersey and see if I can find some of the 12-oz. bottles. Seems like something they'd stock there!
 
I wish we had more selection of stores here. All they had in the local store was some off brand soda and bottled water.
 
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