Shipwreck in a Bottle

[wreckvalle]

Mother Nature has caused me to cancell the last few charters. While stuck at the dock I decided to make a replica of one of NY's favorite shipwrecks. The RC Mohawk was sunk due to a collision in 1917. I know model building is not really wreck diving related but I thought some of you might get a kick out of this one.

Building a ship or shipwreck in a bottle Shipwreck in a bottle

The R.C. Mohawk Shipwreck  New York and New Jersey's Wreck Valley history of the Mohawk


Safe diving
Capt. Dan
www.aquaexplorers.com

 

[RJP]

Pretty cool.

 

[Ed Palma]

Awesome!

But I thought it would be a scale of the actual wreck as it lay on the bottom

 

[caseybird]

Nice model. I built a few ships in bottles when I was a kid. You did the ocean a lot better than I did. What did you use?

 

[caseybird]

Stupid double post.

 

[idocsteve]

I too expected to see a shipwreck, not a ship, in a bottle.

Seems like that would be an even more enjoyable project. Take the original model, and "wreck" it, and make a model of it as it currently lays on the bottom of the ocean.

There's a term for that, commonly used in model railroading layouts that escapes me. You take a commercialy available model but you make some modifications to it so it no longer looks like the prototype it was modeled after originally. Sometimes different kits are combined, some of the parts not used to create something quite different from the original.