William Hill's Titanic Replica

I have been a Titanic fan since the mid 70’s. When I bought the Minicraft 1/350 classic model, I was intending it to be a cool decoration for my computer room. I had some delusional thoughts of making this model the ultimate in accuracy and precision. I had no idea what kind of a struggle I was in for. I have only done some minor modeling projects prior to this, mainly to teach myself how to use an airbrush and glue plastic together without leaving toe prints in the cement. I was thinking this project would take a mere few months, and then I could have friends over and they could be in awe of my miniature Titanic. Unfortunately this was not to be. I soon found myself filling and sanding, and filling and sanding. On several occasions my Titanic almost became a sail boat. I came to the conclusion that I should focus on completion of assembly and not worry about making it ultra accurate, and as far as that goes I’m happy with the result. It is still a cool model even though it is not a completely accurate representation. I want to build other ships for my computer room and don’t have 25 years to spend on this one...

 

...A big thanks goes to GMM’s photoetch, which made astounding improvements. I also used Tamiya acrylic paints since I felt these were easier to prepare and spray than enamels, and I dullcoted the hull after spraying. I spent many hours getting the white and black mixed just right, but the white star buff….forget it. As far as the rigging goes, I’ve purchased about 6 million different spools of monofilament. I did find one that seemed to work well, but ran out half way through. Couldn’t find that one in the stores anywhere since it was black ice fishing leader and…..now it’s out of season and I can’t buy it since it’s going into summer. Sometimes it’s tough to be a Titanic fan. Well, I’m off to build Tamiya’s 1/350 Enterprise!