Simply incredible.  Thanks for sharing all of this with us!

Groot

Exceptionally realistic!  

That is just brilliant. Its just so realistic and so well done. And that ROV cable looks real nice once you pull back. It would be nice if it could be shopped onto a seabed image.

Thanks for sharing this.

Greg

Now all you need to do is build a specially lit darkroom to display it in.

Thanks everybody, I'm truly humbled 

Greg, It would be great if I could find a museum to send it to.

goldhammer

Get together with Gamera and see if he will accept her in the Japanese GB.  Absolutely stunning pics and work on all the damage.

Lol, great idea but Steve is already cross-posting his work on both threads 

  Well done!

Bravo!!!  Excellent photography too, truly captured the mood.

This has been a joy to watch, and I must say I've looked forward to seeing what you've been up to each morning with my coffee. Thanks for the WIP, Steve.

Now all you need to do is build a specially lit darkroom to display it in.

Get together with Gamera and see if he will accept her in the Japanese GB.  Absolutely stunning pics and work on all the damage.

Absolutely fantastic Steve!!! Love everything about what you've done here!

Very interesting build,great idea.

Impressive, must impressive!!

Thank you so much guys!!!!!!!!!!

And thanks go to Tanker Builder for the idea of a ship in trouble.

This is incredible stuff. Way over on the art side! Very very well done!

Well that gave me the goosebumps.  Absolutely convincing. This could be used for movie ala Titanic.

Here it is.

I'm going  with these pictures.

There's a lot of them so you may want some some popcorn.

This is what it looks like without the "special effects"

Steve

Ah , Well ;

   I got the feeling  you won't let us down though . P.S. Whale Sharks can go down to 2000 ft they think !

Thanks for the vote of confidence guys. I was very unhappy with the sea life, and in 1/350 scale, the tiny creatures I was attaching would have been anywhere from 4 to 6 feet tall. I'm going to do some minor fixes and take some better shots tonight. I have a better idea for lighting as well.

And no TB, I'm not putting a shark in there at 3000 + feet. Now a Sperm Whale....... Just kidding.
I wish  I had kept my best (fair) picture from last night to at least show you something, but I deleted them all.

Hey !

Don't forget , at that depth except for what you already have , there ain't much in visible plant life to see , just the normal pile of lichens ( underwater types ) and rusticles . Don't go putting a shark in there or sumpin .You have it nailed .

This is so incredibly cool. You've done a masterful job.

This is a really fine thing you've done.

No sea life! Remember the point of a diorama is to tell a story. In this case you've chosen the discovery of the wreck.

Good that, and do not let your audience have their attention waver.

I'd consider spraying a little black on the areas not in the vicinity of the ROV.

The big Aha! moment...

LOL thanks guys.

I took some pictures of the finished build tonight, but I was completely unhappy with the sea life I added. There was too much contrast with the dark color of the ship, and the scale was way off. I removed them but need to go back over the places where they were and repaint. I also waited too long to take the pictures and it was too dark for the camera to focus.

Anyway, I will take some new ones tomorrow.

Steve

Darned it I cant believe that ROV!  Fantastic, just fantastic! You really are "Model Crazy."

I can't wait to see the whole thing.  This is such an interesting project, particularly adding the ROV!

Groot

Yo !

  Don't ruin all that beautiful work now . If it won't get smaller , Well , So What ? You are doing some kind of fantastic job . In my imagination I can just barely see the umbilical for the R.O.V. , so there ! !

This is where I'm at so far. I need to attach some sea life to everything, and set the lighting mood in my "studio" (garage) to take final pictures, but here's a small taste. The ROV is lit, but you can't really see it with the ambient light. I wish I could make the ROV umbilical a little smaller. I'll hit it with a heat gun again to see what I can do.

By the way. When I was a contractor, I was roughing in a soaker bathtub in a house. My partner had just sprayed a couple cans worth of the stuff under the tub for insulation purposes. So it starts it's expanding trick, and bulges out about a foot, which was typically fine as we would just cut away the excess the next day. Well I dropped my brand new 30' tape measure into the goop and watched it swallow it like the blob. I wasn't about to stick my hand t in there, so when we cut it away the next day, I retrieved my measure but couldn't get the stuff off it. I still have that tape measure, and it is still mostly covered with Great Stuff.

Thank you Mr Tilley,

I'm hopping  to have some completed pics soon. I have both sections installed, everything wired, and the silt spread. I am now working on attaching the sea life.

LOLOL...Sorry JTilley, but I can picture that happening! I've used it several times but you never know how much to start with, and the last time I used it, I replaced a walk in door to my garage, and used it to fill in around the door before putting the trim on. the next morning I came out and there were huge blobs of the stuff that had oozed out all around the door trim! LOLOL... had to scrape and retrim dry wall and sand before being able to paint. What a mess...

Doug