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I am not a ship builder so this will no doubt take months. I'm sure there's been many threads on this subject, but I thought perhaps a rookie ship builder's perspective might be interesting.
Anyhow - I received this as a Christmas gift in 2017:
Massive bench hog:
I ordered these beautiful wood decks from scaledecks.com:
Got the bulk of the airbrushing done- this is no small task. I love airbrushing and I literally got tired of it after 45 minutes or so. There's so much to paint! Mr Color flat white - 2 bottles, True North anti-foul red and Tamiya flat black. The black crazed the anti-foul red a bit where I had overspray - not sure what I'm going to do about that. The True North paint went on really nice but remained tacky for days. I let it set for a couple weeks before masking and spraying the Tamiya black today. Here's the hull:
Uncharted territory for me for sure (no pun intended). I've worked with photoetch quite a bit, but not certain how to approach the railings - paint first? Any advice is welcome.
Thanks,
John
I am a model ship builder, and my ship projects frequently take months. So don't feel bad about taking your time to do it right. In fact, I have a heller 1:100 Soleil Royale on a shelf that was started over fifteen years go. Lots of rigging on that kit, so it is going slow.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
This looks good so far. Ship builder too, less talented than Don.
I'd go back and repair the red. You wont be able to do that once you start adding detail, and you will wish you did. No rush.
Paint all of the PE before gluing it on. It just can't be done later for railings, esp. with all of that wood deck.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
I am not a ship builder either, and kudos to you for jumping into it. And I think it WILL BE interesting.
Following your thread.
This will be well worth watching. Pulling up a chair.....Cheers mark
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Little more work on the Titanic - I bought Gorilla clear glue for the wood decks. Scaledecks reccomends Gorilla wood glue so I have that on order. I did a bit of painting before putting the decks down. Slow going as they take a while to try and require every clamp I own! Any advice on putting these decks down will be greatly appreciated. They fit pretty well all in all.
My first attempts - small pieces that went on easy.
They will add a touch of refinement to the Kit John.....Cheers mark
I've been on hold waiting for these Pontos pedestals as I'm at the point of adding the main deck. They arrived this week along with a few tiny! little folks to add to the deck.
Hope to get back to this HUGE build
This is epic. Will be watching this beauty come together.
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keavdog I've been on hold waiting for these Pontos pedestals as I'm at the point of adding the main deck. They arrived this week along with a few tiny! little folks to add to the deck. Hope to get back to this HUGE build
Those Pontos Pedesatls are great to work with and will add a touch of refinement to your Build.....Cheers mark
Hey, John,
I hope everything is going well with your build. I have been working on my minicraft titanic about 5 years now. I could have had it done much sooner, but I haven’t worked on it all the time. Here is a link to a website that you may find of interest http://www.titanicmodel.net/. Another site to get some info on detailing the Titanic is http://www.rivet-counter.com/. Both sites are valuable resources for someone wanting to go the extra mile to detail the model. Happy modeling.
Tony
Hey Tony thanks for the links. Very helpful. I started doing the rigging for the main deck and the material provided is finer than human hair! Difficult to work with but probably has a nice scale appearance.
tfritt Here is a link to a website that you may find of interest http://www.titanicmodel.net/. Another site to get some info on detailing the Titanic is http://www.rivet-counter.com/. Both sites are valuable resources for someone wanting to go the extra mile to detail the model. Happy modeling. Tony
Here is a link to a website that you may find of interest http://www.titanicmodel.net/. Another site to get some info on detailing the Titanic is http://www.rivet-counter.com/. Both sites are valuable resources for someone wanting to go the extra mile to detail the model. Happy modeling.
All I can say about that first link is WOW! Not sure if he would do the lighting differently today with all the SMDs and micro LEDs, but that is some incredibly fine work. The attention to detail is beyond astounding. Makes me want to build one.
Bob
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Current builds: Revell 1/96 USS Constitution with extensive scratch building
tfritt Hey, John, I hope everything is going well with your build. I have been working on my minicraft titanic about 5 years now. I could have had it done much sooner, but I haven’t worked on it all the time. Here is a link to a website that you may find of interest http://www.titanicmodel.net/. Another site to get some info on detailing the Titanic is http://www.rivet-counter.com/. Both sites are valuable resources for someone wanting to go the extra mile to detail the model. Happy modeling. Tony
I do have to admit that it is impressive and that I admire someone who can pull a great build off like that.
After a night of wrestling with the super fine rigging I finaly have the main deck on. The main deck had a bit of warping so I glued in sections but I think I have a workable ship!
Looks great. I had the same experience with the warped decks.
Beautiful job! I have the same kit that I bought in 1985. It's gonna be a project nice retired in a year or so. I was curious on the wood deck from Scaledeck. Is it precut or did you have to cut it out? Any thoughts on other brands of f wood decks? This one sounds to be Cadillac as far as accuracy and quality. Sounds quite thin too. Thank you, Jim
The deck is all pre-cut and very nice quality. I'm not aware of other manufacturers as I don't usually work in this subject area. There are others on this forum that can advise better than I. I've got to reboot this build, I've been doing too many group builds ;) Look forward to your buid.
Check out ChrisSCs build - well documented and a nice job.
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