The Tank is exposed in the Museum WW1 Vehicules exhibition hall, visible to the public from the outside with limited vision of the left sponson inner space through a plexiglass and a limited lightsources. The complexity comes from it's size, weight and global lack of variations in color and texture with poor consistency of surface lighting.

This very small piece of metal - centimeter lenght - is usually not exhibited and comes from the stored warehouse collections of the Museum. Digitizing such items offers a great opportunity to provide resource for extended digital museography. Challenge here consists of producing accurate high resolution macrophotography for millimetric handcrafted details.

An unexpected discovery and a brilliant testimonial object of the realities of ww1 brave tank crews is this handcrafted mask for protecting the owner from liquified bullet metal rain entering the vehicule under ennemy fire because of the cinetic energy in the collision with the tank armor plates. Digitizing accurately Non self-standing objects like pieces of fabrics and clothing are a significant question for managers.