Dana Smith
Weaverville, North Carolina
The canopy of the Industria Mechanika’s 1/35 scale Steampunk Fish Submarine is designed to be built closed, but Dana thought the interior too good to hide, so he worked out a way to pose it open. He hand-painted the finish with True Earth acrylics, mixing colors to give each panel a slightly different sheen, and placed the model on a scratchbuilt wharf. “It shows someone working on refurbishing the vehicle, probably on the cheap, like most of us would do it,” he says.