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.
Next step I figured was the encrusting of 70 years of marine life and steel rusting away
Then the hard part.. replicating the look in paint
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