Titanic model by James Pepper

The port side displays the exterior of the ship, while the starboard side is removed to display the interior. The scale is 1" = 20 ft. The propellers, engine pistons, cranes, rudder and winches move. The detail includes carpeting, floors, doors, walls, paneling, windows, fireplaces, staircases, even the drapes in the First Class Reading Room! The lifeboats are tied to the davits. Various rooms are labeled. The funnels, sections of the roof, and the hatch covers can be removed to look down through the ship. The ship is made of a variety of papers including poster board, drawing paper, construction paper. Also the use of fine colored pencils, 3 bamboo skewers for the drive shafts, several paper-clips, a few toothpicks (encased in paper) for the working pistons, some wire for the anchor chains and string for the rope. Two ships are finished, another 2 are built to E deck and another 4 are to F deck. Several years ago I built the Normandie for a friend who was the attending physician on the dock for the burn victims. That ship was lost. So I'm making enough of these ships to preserve the art. It took me 9 months to build the first ship. My interest in the Titanic came from my Great Great uncle who missed the boat train. He took the Lusitania to America. I am a graphic artist.

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