Modeling the TITANIC in ANY scale

Hey , Don ;

The ship you speak of was used in some of the scenes and close ups .The " sintra " skin has a twelve square foot area put on by yours truly .

That's all I did  .And then I got an oil spill clean-up callout .Oh ,well , neat work that !

that was in reply to seasick's comment about the iceberg

Ha ha ha ha damn, that put me in stitches.

Thanks for the info for the images! I was thinking of maybe doing something with one of the big first class staterooms, and the images should be very helpful!

To expand on Don's comment....the September 1998 issue of FineScale Modeler has an article on the movie model. It was 45 feet long and was 1/20 scale. I say "was" only because I have no idea where it is at this time. Whether or not it toured.....I don't know, either.

There was another model....at 1/48 scale and about 18 feet long.....that was built by a man named Peter Davies-Garner. THAT model toured around the country and I believe it was at the Titanic exhibition in Branson, MO for a while. There was a book written about the build process called " RMS Titanic: A Modelmaker's Manual" which is pretty much the definitive bible of Titanic detailing.

As to wallpaper and tile images, there's an acquaintence of mine from the UK who has done up some fantastic downloads and created a website where they are posted for download....free. The link is below:

http://titanic-ma.weebly.com/

He's done quite a bit of research for these images so they are as accurate as they can be. Some info was based on Olympic, but most was researched through various authors and the odd History Channel personality.

Each image is set up to automatically print at 1/350 scale, but there is a scale next to each image so that they can be resized to 1/144 or whichever size you need. Below is a post over on the titanic-model.com website where he put up an image of one of the cafe walls. Pretty detailed stuff.

titanic-model.com/.../dcboard.php

As Forrest Gump says.....That's all I have to say about that.

Matt

Does anyone make a model of the iceberg?

There was one that was travelling with a Titanic exhibit all around the country. I believe it was something like 20 feet long. I'm not sure if it was with the exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I unfortunately missed it when it was in town.

I remember seeing a model in a magazine, Popular Science or Popular Mechanics, shortly after the last (the DiCaprio movie).  It was gigantic.  Forget where it was going to be displayed. It was made for shots in the movie.

Actually, I think it would make more sense to make the wallpaper on the computer, then print it on decal paper and decal the walls. I saw something similar afew years ago, decals for the restaurant floors for the Titanic. Unfortunately, they are no longer available.

So: Then you could exhaust your paint on the brush many times ,take the panel and install it and call it Titanic's wallpaper?

With the right references and a lot of patience, anything is possible. I think the hard part would be making the tiny furniture, which even at 1/350 would be tough. Also, if you look at pictures of some of the staterooms, they were covered with hideous patterned wallpaper.