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Academy, Hobbyboss or Revell Titanic? Which is recommended?

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  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Green Bay, WI USA
Academy, Hobbyboss or Revell Titanic? Which is recommended?
Posted by echolmberg on Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:08 AM

Hi guys!

Please forgive this airplane guy for posting in the ship forum.  Surprise

My 8 year old little girl is extremely interested in the Titanic movie and she'd love it if I could build her a model for her room.  I was in my local hobby shop with her the other day because she also wanted to get a model car.  Anyway, we saw on the shelf an Academy, a Hobbyboss and the Revell offerings of the Titanic.  Her jaw just about dropped to the floor when she saw them!  I thought I'd ask everyone here which one of the three you'd recommend.  There were all in the 1/550 - 1/570 scale range.

Any thoughts?

Thank you!

Eric

  • Member since
    September 2009
  • From: Miami, FL
Posted by Felix C. on Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:38 AM

I built the 1/570 Revell one when I was 10 years of age. Nice and huge kit. Only problem was that it was entirely white. I ruined it trying to paint it.

The 1/600 Academy is color coded and does not require painting. It would also be newer tooling and more accurate.  Recommend the Academy. review with pics here: http://titanic-model.com/g-academy.html

The Hobby Boss requires painting as with the Revell.

 

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Green Bay, WI USA
Posted by echolmberg on Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:17 PM

Thank you Felix!

That is a great web site!  Thank you for posting it.  It looks like it's going to be the Academy kit for me.  I remember as a kid back in the early '80s, my brother built the Revell Titanic.  It's entirely possible that it fell victim to the invading hoard of alien fire crackers.  How I survived my childhood I'll never know.

Thanks again!

Eric

  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:26 PM

The Academy kit would be a great one if she wanted to "do it alllllllll by myself, Dad!" with a little help when it came to the gluing, of course.

On the other hand, my daughter and I built the Revell Titanic with her doing almost all of the work. She got a real thrill out of masking off the hull for the red and black sections, then spray painting them, and she by-God was determined to brush paint all the small stuff all by herself. She was a few years older than yours, but still, if you stick to acrylics (oh the joys of water cleanup!) and throttle your urge to "help" more than absolutely necessary, you may launch a new modeling career.

P.S. - A good father-daughter activity is to watch the movie Titanic together again, strictly for research purposes, you understand ...

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