Look what I did today....

sorry Frank just fell of my chair man i thought i was the only nutter, gonna be one hell of a build, are you going to hook it up to a 9v battery or lower voltage? love to see it light up keep us posed please

thats wild!!! Are the lights going to flicker off and on ? You should have a little speaker in the ship with little screams and yells and people yelling.

frank it looks incredible. absolutely fantastic



joe

Looks great so far. Should be a stunner.

Regards, Rick

I guess I can consider myself perfectly sane. LOL. That is an amazing job, Frank,

wow! very creative with great modeling skills!
niice diagram thing too!
why is there a piec of coal in the shadow box?

My oh my.. what great skills!

I'll never be able to achieve that. Great job!

Thanks everyone...

maffen, there's going to be at least two power sources, and maybe three. Since I'll have all that space within the base box, I won't have to try and condense everything so much. If I could have found one of those push button toys that played an old ragtime tune, halfway realistically, I would wire it to a momentary-on switch.... I've even considered using an answering machine with recorded ragtime, but that's getting the horse before the cart.

Granted, it's not much to look at, at this point, but she's coming along slowly but surely.... leaps & bounds from where she started!


The most time consuming aspect has been researching, removing kit structures, building updated ones. I bought another kit in order to have enough vents to go around and to rebuild the funnels. (kit funnels are too short)

QUOTE: Originally posted by jinithith2 why is there a piec of coal in the shadow box?

jinithith2,

The coal is an actual relic from the wreck site. In 1994, RMS Titanic, Inc. conducted an expedition to the Ship to gather artifacts on the ocean floor, which included a 5lb lump of coal from one of the ruptured bunkers. It is illegal for anyone to sell a piece of the Ship itself, or the personal property of those who perished in the sinking... since the lump of coal didn't fall into either category, the company busted it up into 1/2 (13 mm) to 3/4 inch (19 mm) pieces and offered them to the public to help finance future expeditions.


They sold like 'hotcakes' on Sunday morning! I got mine through the company in 1998, and after deciding to make this diorama, I figured including it in the display would be a fitting gesture.

Take care,
Frank

You have done a wonderful job, I cant wait to see her finished.

Thanks for sharing.

Nice work Frank, She is gonna look great

Thad

Frank, it looks great. Thanks for sharing the photos. What are you using for water?

Regards,

awesome detail for 1/570... Where did you get the fiber optic stuff?

AWESOME!! Can't wait for the finish!
Dan

Thanks all...

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lufbery Frank, it looks great. Thanks for sharing the photos. What are you using for water? Regards,

Haven't decided yet... it will be either Woodland Scenics Realistic Water, or Enviro-Tex (sp?) The tricky part is going to be texturing the surface to keep it in scale. Capt. Smith said the ocean was "as flat as a mill pond".... however I'm not going to make it dead flat as that wouldn't be realistic... maybe like the surface of a lake on a calm day?

Ripples will have to be very tiny, or they'll over whelm the very small lifeboats.

QUOTE: Kevleerey Posted: awesome detail for 1/570... Where did you get the fiber optic stuff?

I got one of those lighted star-burst kinda things (don't know what they're called) at Wally World and used the optics from it. Cheap, but effective.

Take care,
Frank

Just some simply amazing work you've put into that kit, oldhooker. Thanks for giving us a peek.