Hello gentlemen!
Encs herewith a few better images shot in daylight-- the full set will be in the gallery in due course.
So that's it for this build--a short 18 months span.... ha!
Infuriating it took so long ==> as so much of the ship is not there--yet just about everything that is visible is scratchbuilt and or heavily modified
The hardest bit was getting the water to be translucent..... yet opaque...
( Scapa Flow has a lot of tide and waterborne silt)
One can just about make out the hull underwater when viewing overhead from a 1/700 airship
The date of the model has been altered to 1920.... !!!
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Photos of the ship later--as was pointed out--do show the ship looking in a rather worse state with much equipment removed or " acquired " .....
though the ship may be on the bottom -- in 1920 she is not yet decrepit-....
- most of the standing rigging is in-place and only some of the running rigging has rotted and dropped out of the blocks into the water.....
=> the locals have not as yet removed every-thing that is not firmly fixed...
Some the railing cables at the bow have corroded through and are now hanging...
All in all a challenge to make it look interesting whilst matching up to grainy old photos
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next model...?--Back to something where it all is afloat!
Jim Baumann

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