The Secret Of The South Sea

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July 16, 2016
The Jiao Long is actually exploring the South Sea, however, I put a Comic-y new paintjob on it
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July 16, 2016
The aquarium as display "base"
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July 16, 2016
Fichtenzoo's submersible is just awesome...
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July 16, 2016
...and the best resin kit I have ever worked with.
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July 16, 2016
I gave the Submersible a patriotic US paint job...
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July 16, 2016
...but later it will end as a wreck on the ground of the sea...
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July 16, 2016
I actually turned the skipper...
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July 16, 2016
...of Fichtenzoo's submersible...
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July 16, 2016
...into a skeleton only to find out...
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July 16, 2016
...that after closing all hatches and windows, one cannot see it 🙁
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July 22, 2016
Slow progress, as the submersible will end up as a wreck on bottoms of the sea, some fins might be detached...
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July 22, 2016
...Doktor Elchmeister Mirakulöse Wasserbombe (Dr. MooseMeister Miraculous Water Bomb) 🙂
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July 22, 2016
...and the entrance to the forgotten underwater base...
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July 23, 2016
The entrance to the hidden underwater US Naval base "FichtenFoo" deep in the South China Sea 🙂 ...
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July 23, 2016
...more or less convincing variant...
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July 23, 2016
The diver from the Jiaolong enters the secret base - but what will he encounter??? 🙂
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July 24, 2016
The tie-in novel to the diorama (OK, the cover looks too tranquil for a thriller...)
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July 30, 2016
What the hell were they doing at that underwater Naval base? It'S like a Who-is-Who of discredited scientific theories...
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July 30, 2016
test (with photographic weathering) --> I need a bigger base (but that is impossible)
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July 31, 2016
primed
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July 31, 2016
"sanded" (WIP)
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August 5, 2016
The submersible has sunken...
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August 5, 2016
...a long time ago...
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August 5, 2016
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August 6, 2016
The corals from Industria Mechanika are awesome...
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August 6, 2016
...the submersible is buried...
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August 6, 2016
..."HELP?"...
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August 6, 2016
...what lies beneath?
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August 6, 2016
Going into the aquarium (which work
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August 6, 2016
Touchdown 🙂
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August 6, 2016
Short story is going ahead well 🙂
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August 6, 2016
...now with cover (I probably will use the "finger hole" to let the Jiao Long dangle from above
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August 7, 2016
As there is enough room in my aquarium, I added the Shinkai research vessel, too...
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August 7, 2016
...which is a marvel of scale model engineering, btw...
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August 13, 2016
The Shinkai is almost finished...
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August 13, 2016
The Jiaolong is dangling somewhere...
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August 13, 2016
...so are the two now, the placement of the wires it not very discrete, though...
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August 13, 2016
orange tint --> still no real underwater feel...
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August 13, 2016
bluish tint --> same
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August 14, 2016
I tired the cellophane wrap which improved the color mood but...
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August 14, 2016
...finally Photoshop was the tool...
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August 14, 2016
...albeit one can also go to far (like here) in the photo manipulation.
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August 14, 2016
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August 20, 2016
with Choppa's background (picture slightly color-corrected)
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August 20, 2016
with Choppa's background (picture slightly color-corrected)
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August 20, 2016
two more (Photoshop)
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August 20, 2016
two more (Photoshop)

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Some fun with alternate time lines... but if all the fuzz about the South Sea is about...a secret Steampunk-ish US Naval Base and the technologies it might hold 🙂

Deep Sea Exploration

47 images

1:35 Implausible Long-Nose Submersible (Industria Mechanika IMFF004)

1:35 Animals - Set 5 (Mantis Miniatures 35020)

1:35 Animals Set 20 (Mantis Miniatures 35076)

1:35 German UMA Mine (Schatton Modellbau 3576)

1:128 Deep Sea Lab (ParaGrafix Modeling Systems PGX161)

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