I have a thing for Subs and have build a few.
This is a non whiffer though.. well sort of it is an imagined setting.
You see I have a thing where I think that Ships and subs sitting on stands do not look right. To my eye I prefer them in their "natural habitat", being water somewhere.
So to try something a little bit different I wanted to try and get a sunken U-boat model.
I settled on the Trumpeter 1/144 Type XXIII Coastal U-boat, a late WWII design and quite a small submarine. But as a model sizeable enough to try and replicate a sunken wreck.
There was a couple of Type XXIII that were sunk in action but a lot more were scuttled. This is one of the action casualties, U-boat U-2359 sunk by Coastal Command
So first up we build the kit and did a bit of wrecking.
![](http://www.modelblokez.org.au/bthpix/whatif/sub/type23_1.jpg)
Next step I figured was the encrusting of 70 years of marine life and steel rusting away
![](http://www.modelblokez.org.au/bthpix/whatif/sub/type23_2.jpg)
Then the hard part.. replicating the look in paint
![](http://www.modelblokez.org.au/bthpix/whatif/sub/type23_3.jpg)
next is the base, some marine plants, weed etc and a couple of snagged fishing nets as this boat was sunk in quite shallow water.
Be interesting to see how this progresses even from my point of view
Brian T