Revell 1/570 Titanic

Thanks Matt. I've been to the titanic site and its really out there. the section on cargo rigging alone was more than i think i could stand to do on any sailing kit! I've only just begun. One thing im not really experienced at is scratch building. But Im hoping i won't have to do much of that. Its all about how one sets one's personal parameters. If you go for accuracy on a kit, then you want to be exact with your detail. If, on the other hand your going for imagination(like in a sci-fi kit) then you can play it almost however you want. I think for Titanic, im just going to go for a nicely done kit, but not an educational model.  The PE will help with that. Hope you guys aren't eye sore from my philosophizing.  Thanks Matt,

Shaun

Hi, Brian.  Its a tremendous site over there. But like I told Matt, the PE, at least on this kit, is going to do most of the detail work for me , since I don't have alot of experience with scratch building. Not that I won't try though ;). Again, your work has been really fun and educational to look at and an inspiration. Take your time, and we will all be looking forward to the finished product.

Shaun

Thanks, Shaun. The scratchbuilding that I did was minor and pretty easy - like you, I had no experience with it when I began. I agree that accuracy should play second fiddle to enjoying this work; do what you enjoy and at the level you enjoy it.

I've decided to do the Marconi rigging after all, and I'm going to try to do that and the decals soon to finish her up. I've already begun work on an Academy 1:400 version with all of the photo-etch I could find and the wooden decks, and I'm also going to try to take the scratchbuilding to the next level. If I don't finish the 1:570 before I get too deep in, it will be waiting another 2 years...

For the detail people, I was told once that the forward most funnel was actually for show. Does anyone know if that is true or not or just another sea story?

seasick: Partially true - I was actual the aftmost funnel (#4) that was fake. Located roughly above the engines rather than the boilers, it vented only a small fireplace in one of the public rooms. It was intended to emphasize the size of the Olympic-class liners and make them competitive with the likes of the Lusitania and Mauratania, which also had 4 funnels.

Today was rather discouraging. I had intended to finish the model by adding the decals and the Marconi wires, but both were sort of a bust. I spent a few hours on the Marconi, but just could not get it looking right, and eventually cut it off and decided not to attempt it at this scale. Much harder than the other rigging. The decals were relatively easy, but I ended up being able to see the surrounding decal sheet, which was disappointing...

What did I do wrong here? Or is this the best I can hope for? (I used Testors decal set, but otherwise just applied them as I remembered doing 'back in the day'.)

Hi Brian. I've read in Finescale about using Pledge Future and then spraying it with a flat clear.  Try it.

Shaun

A light coat of any type of overcoat like dull coat or gloss coat covers it up nice.

I concur that you should put down a clear gloss first, then the decal followed by a dull coat. I use a clear gloss enamel, but I suppose future would work equally as well if not better.

Arnie60:

I agree with your method but he already put the decal on and I never liked removing decals.