This latest project is brought to you today by the letters "P" and "L": "P" as in "Push your Limits", and "L" as in "Learn from your Mistakes".
What you see before you is a 1/1200 scale model of Bismarck encased in resin. Inspired by that HMS Hood build and having wanted to try resin for years, I bought the goods and got to work, beating the ship up and building the forms with acrylic sheet and started pouring.
I learned pretty fast that resin likes warm temperatures, and with my basement being cold to begin with and a classic cold snap setting in, the resin set with a whole lotta bubbles in it. That combined with some bigger bubbles escaping from the hull, Bismarck would be obscured by bubbles and an uneven addition of coloured dye. Trouble ahead.
...BUT the obscurity could be made to work by adding a stormy surface to an apparent stormy sea! Silicone caulking to the rescue! It's not a great final product, but it looks okay.
Lessons learned for next time, and the next shipwreck will be spectacular. Enjoy this in the meantime.