RMS Titanic by Dean77 - OcCre - 1/300

[Dean77]

 

I'm at the stage of rigging my HMS Beagle so thought I would make a start on the Titanic.

I've always had a fascination with Titanic, my parents had a book by Robert Ballard about Titanic and the discovery of the wreck. I would spend hours looking through this book.

I have the hobbyzone building slip but the Titanic keel is slightly to long to fit. With a bit of fiddling I can sort of use the building slip, not as entirely as it should though!

 

 

 

 

False keel assembled and bulkheads dry assembled.

 

 

 

[Titanicphile]

I have been away from ship building for awhile.  Then one day I came across the Occre Titanic.  My jaw dropped and before I knew what the what, will be delivered tomorrow.  I will pull up a chair and watch your kit take shape.  Looking forward to seeing the next update.

Rick

[GGibson]

Bought this OcCre Titanic kit when it was on sale a few months back.  Couldn't help myself.  It's in the shipyard queue for building, but realistically probably 9-12 months before starting.  I need to learn a lot on some other builds before tackling this classic.  With that said, I will be following your progress, Dean!  Hope all goes well and excited to see it come together.

 

Gregg

[Titanicphile]

And so it begins.  Not to hijack Dean77 thread.  Just letting all know it is officially started.  I will post my own thread once I get further along.

[GGibson]

16 hours ago, Titanicphile said:

Not to hijack Dean77 thread....

Yeah, you sorta did!  But, looking forward to following both of your build logs.  Best wishes to both!

 

I'm sure you are familiar with it, but there is an interesting 34-part YouTube series on the OcCre Titanic construction...

 

 

[Paul Jarman]

Looks to be a very nice kit. I am currently building the Amati version. Will follow along with interest.

I see that Occre are using the same Colour card for some of the detailing as Amati. I can replace all of mine with PE from Minibrass.

You might want to consider doing the same if there are upgrades available.

Good luck and enjoy building this version of this iconic ship.

Paul

Edited March 29, 2022 by Paul Jarman

[Titanicphile]

Any progress.  What are your thoughts on the peel and stick details supplied.  I like, but believe with the right approach. One could use to make look more prototypical than just stick the plates onto the structures.  Not too keen on how the skylights are depicted.  One could I believe easily scratch build that detail.  Overall very pleased with the kit.  I do believe OcCre's hull details are  approached in a better way than Amati's.  I ordered sets of porthole frames for card models that are the perfect size to add that missing detail rather than just a round hole. Looking forward to your progress 👍.

[Titanicphile]

On 3/29/2022 at 3:20 AM, Paul Jarman said:

Looks to be a very nice kit. I am currently building the Amati version. Will follow along with interest.

I see that Occre are using the same Colour card for some of the detailing as Amati. I can replace all of mine with PE from Minibrass.

You might want to consider doing the same if there are upgrades available.

Good luck and enjoy building this version of this iconic ship.

Paul

I went too that site. I had no luck finding your referenced PE!  Tom's Modelworks has a super PE set for Titanic, but alas it comes in 1/350 scale. I am hoping I can get them enlarged to 1/300.  Another alternative, draw up and do your own.  I never have been very good at this other than very simple items.  Looking forward to your response 👍.

[Titanicphile]

Dean77, you got to checkout Minibrass.  I originally entered it wrong and was sent to a site that had nothing to offer.  But upon entering exactly as Paul Jarman suggested, good googly moogly.  I fired off a request to see if they could offer in 1/300.  I bet if all of use asked, they might agree too one more scale offering.  They have in every scale but 1/300.  Thank you Paul Jarman.

[Paul Jarman]

Sorry about, they do quite a bit of PE for various scales but I didn't check to see if they had 1/300.

But the card parts you have in your kit look way better than the Amati set.. They look to be made with self adhesive.

Have you checked out the 36 part log on YouTube? Your kit looks very good and will make fine model.

Paul