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TITANIC IS FINALLY FINISHED! I have posted completion pictures in the Gallery of completed kit ships, but I couldn't resist this one that shows the "place of honor" for this model in my office. Ensures that I will look at it multiple times each day. 😁 A few final construction notes. Some of these you'll see better in the Gallery pictures: The kit instructions use a plain wood dowel painted brown for the masts. Couldn't stand that idea so I found a walnut dowel of the same size and used that. I bought a finished walnut base. The kit includes a MDF base, but I've never figured out how to make one of those look like wood, and I didn't want a black base under this one. You'll see a yellow stripe down the side between the white and black parts of the structure. This is in the box picture, but not in the instructions. I did it by using the planking strips, which were perfectly sized, and pre-painting them. Even conserving the supplied rigging thread, I ran out after rigging the Marconi antenna and didn't have enough for the leads down to the ship, so I used some spare from another kit. I wanted to get this done this week as we are headed off for 5-6 weeks for a long Asia trip. When back and time adjusted, I'm going to do the Dumas Chris Craft Commuter next. Should be a different challenge to get the finish right. Thanks to all who have followed this build -- for your encouragement and help. Regards, David20190110_163053.thumb.jpg.74b9c794874238b4e84d116ecb36a4c7.jpg)
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Wonderful Regards, David
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Popeye: OK, got it. I gave you measurements for two boats. The larger one is 2960, and the smaller one is 2961 (they are called "dingy" and "cutter" respectively in the English instructions. These part numbers are unique to the Titanic kit. If you call Ages of Sail, ask for James. He's really good, and sometimes they keep an open kit around to cannibalize for missing parts. You might be able to persuade him to sell you a "sprue" from that vs. ordering from Amati. Two "sprues" come with the kit. Regards, David
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Popeye: Thanks for the comments. You asked "Do the sprues have part numbers?" What's a sprue? Thanks, David
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Finished the lifeboats on the starboard side. I'm pushing to finish the boat, because I go away at the end of this week for 5 weeks and want to have it done before I go. Regards, David
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Before going into mass production on the lifeboat davits, I wanted to make sure I understood how it all comes together, so I did two davits and one lifeboat and mounted them. Result below. The stern lifeboats (like this one) hang partly out from the deck. The bow lifeboats mount flush to the edge of the deck. Regards, David
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Here's one of the lifeboat davits not yet painted and dry-fitted on the deck. This is a five piece brass assembly with a lot of bending, but it's not too difficult. I think these will add some real detail. Also a pic of the funnel stays, which are now finished. Next steps are to finish all the davits and paint them, then add eyebolts to the lifeboats, and then mount and rig them. Regards, David
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Popeye: I wasn't thinking about what Ages of Sail normally shows -- if the Titanic lifeboats work for you, my thought was that you'd have Ages of Sail order 1 or 2 plastic sets of the Titanic ones like you saw in my picture. They are Amati's US distributor, so they might be able to do that. Each "set" comes with 7 of the 38mm lifeboats, and two smaller ones that are 33mm, plus a tenth item that is Titanic-specific. Hope this helps. Regards, David
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Popeye: The lifeboats are 38mm long. If that fits, I would expect that Ages of Sail could order some from Amati for you. Regards, David
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I've installed the stanchions on the upper decks -- a couple of pics here. A sequence issue: I had to install two small lifeboats now (see pics), because the funnel stays would be in the way if I did those first, But then I have to do the stays next, because the davits for the rest of the lifeboats would make deck attachment really difficult. Then I'll install the lifeboats. Speaking of the lifeboats -- I think way back in this log someone commented that they thought the use of plastic boats was inappropriate for a kit of this quality -- but as I have painted them I've found that they look nicer than some metal boats I've painted, and hold very fine detail as you can see. Regards, David
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Bow detail finished. It's New Year's Eve here, but Happy New Year to all and especially to our Australia/New Zealand friends who are already into 2019. Regards, David
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Heinrich: Thank you -- the pictures and plans are very interesting. I see the rivets, but I fear that I'll never have the patience to get that much tiny detail into my model. 🤪 Regards, David
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I hope everyone is having a great holiday period. I used some of the spare time to work on the funnels, and they are now all up. She's beginning to look like a real steamship now. The stays won't go up until some of the deck detail is finished, as they would be in the way. Regards, David
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Tom: All of the details are part of the kit. It's an Amati kit, and I have found their kits to be very high quality. Regards, David
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Cabins now installed on the deck; cranes and detail installed near the stern. Regards, David
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Thanks, Popeye. The red hull color I used looks pretty similar to the photos of the Amati model on the box and in the manual. Re the other colors -- my yellow matches the pre-printed yellow stripe, and I am pretty good on the other colors (green, gray, black and white). As might be apparent, I'm not a total stickler for complete historical accuracy. 🙈 🙉 🙊 Regards, David
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More on the sides. The photo-etched brass sides mount on thin plywood, and the instructions suggest painting that black or blue to give background and depth to the windows. So I did -- used blue. But as you can see in the first two pics below, the ply backing doesn't come up to most of the windows. So you have a nice blue background for the small portholes at the bottom, and the larger windows would be uncovered and black -- except where one or two vertical frames show through, which makes it look unfinished. So when I sprayed the plywood, I also sprayed some white paper. I'll cut that into strips and attach to the back -- the first one is shown below, and the result for that first strip in the last pic compared to the uncovered windows. This works because those vertical attachment points don't line up with the frames, so I can glue the paper to them without worrying that I'm weakening an attachment point for the bulkhead. Those vertical points are part of attaching the brass to the wood. Regards, David
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Before painting the bottom of the hull red, I need to install the sides. As much care as I took to leave enough room when building the structure, when I went to dry-fit the photo-etched sides and their backing, they didn't fit -- just. So I had to grind down the underside of the deck, and also grind off some of the PE siding, and now it fits -- tightly. This has to be painted before installation. Regards, David
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The hull is now painted black. I found that when I went to sand the paint off the nameplate letters, the 2 coats of spray enamel were too thick, and I ended up taking some paint off the background and surrounding areas. So I repainted the nameplates with acrylic (brush), and that sanded off nicely. It's a flat black on the hull -- the flash just makes it look a bit glossy. Regards, David
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I've installed all of the portholes, doors and scuppers on one side. All of this brass detail will be painted over in black. There are a LOT of portholes to install! The Titanic nameplates aren't on yet. Regards, David
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