Final resting place
Time for something COMPLETELY different. Felt like having a bit of a play with something I've always been fasinated by; sunken tank graveyards.
Here I've attempted to show a 1/35th Japanese Type 97 medium tank sunken in shallow water off a Pacific island with a diver exploring it.
5 additional images. Click to enlarge.
Michel Verschuere said on January 5, 2019
Great model, looks real. I once watched a documentary on the Chuuk Archipelago (Marianas) that has a lot of Japanese wrecks from WWII in it, a paradise for scuba divers! Well done Carl!
Tom Cleaver said on January 5, 2019
A minor correction: Chuuk Archipelago was known in WW2 as "Truk (pronounced "Trook") Atoll," main Japanese central Pacific base and today a SCUBA diver's wonderland of wrecks after the three raids in 1944. The Marianas, close by the deepest part of the Pacific, the Marianas Trench, have nothing divable like Chuuk do to depth of the ocean.
Carl Christensen said on January 5, 2019
Thanks Michael. Would be very cool to do a dive like this. Hope to get the chance one-day.
George Henderson said on January 5, 2019
Very cool. I really enjoy and envy armor dioramas
neil foster said on January 5, 2019
This is great ,very imaginative. Well done.
david leigh-smith said on January 5, 2019
Excellent imagination and execution.
Jeff Bailey said on January 5, 2019
Great diorama, Carl!
Craig Abrahamson said on January 5, 2019
A unique dio indeed - I like it! 🙂
James B Robinson said on January 5, 2019
Outstanding job Carl! Really like this concept.
Robert Royes said on January 5, 2019
Now that's different, nice work!
Paul Mahoney said on January 5, 2019
Nicely done in concept and execution ! love the marine growth effects on the tank - great work!
August Horvath said on January 5, 2019
Absolutely magnificent and very creative.
But I can't help thinking how nice it would look in an aquarium ...
Carl Christensen said on January 5, 2019
I agree. I had considered getting a cheap fish bowl to put it in. Maybe I should quite my job and go into aquarium display building? Haha.
Tom Cleaver said on January 5, 2019
This is really imaginative and very well-executed. I like it a lot!
david leigh-smith said on January 5, 2019
Carl, if you are really interested in this kind of thing, there’s a nut job of an iModeler trying something similar here...some good photos, if nothing else...
https://imodeler.com/groups/nose-art-group-build-1917053956/forum/topic/uss-princeton-and-vf-27-redux/?topic_page=1&num=15
Tom Bebout said on January 6, 2019
Carl that is really creative, like it a lot.
Greg Kittinger said on January 7, 2019
very nice! Took me a moment to realize you hadn't forgotten to add the tank to the diorama!
Carl Christensen said on January 7, 2019
Haha, yip it's there. I should not have mentioned what type to see who was first to work it out.