RMS Titanic by MisterMeester - Trumpeter - 1/200 - PLASTIC

[Winnie]

I have heard that the E6000 glue/adhesive available from Amazon and others, is great to maintain flexibility, yet have a good bond. I purchased some for my Hood and Missouri builds, as there are some large plates on flat plastic surfaces. I'm unsure how that will work on metal to metal though. It's relatively inexpensive though. Will allow for shifting of parts while curing though!

 

I got paint on my hull, but now have to fix it... I decided to not go wild on the PE hull parts and happy I didn't do the superstructure!

 

Cheers

Harald

Southport

 

(Edited to add:)

Warman... I must have driven through many times on my trips from Saskatoon to Weyakwin or LaRonge... Never stopped though. 

Went to a hobby shop in Saskatoon, but can't remember the name, been since 2013...

Edited Monday at 01:14 PM by Winnie

[MisterMeester]

Ahoy Harald!

 

Thanks for your post. The E6000 packaging says it's good for metals, so I suppose it would work. I considered it, but for the sole reason that the instructions do not mention it, I decided on epoxy. I'll be touching up the edges with CA.

 

Speaking of glue....the Gorilla two part epoxy I've been using is 5 minute quick setting. I'm finding it to be not very user friendly for the larger back plates. My method of application involves mixing a puddle of the stuff onto an old CD and transferring it to the PE by way of dabbing a round toothpick in it and applying small drops onto the PE. This is somewhat time consuming. Longer than 5 minutes for the larger plates. The epoxy begins to set before I'm done, resulting in it becoming globby and stringy.

Bob Smith Industries makes a "Mid-Cure" (15 minute) and "Slow-Cure" (30 minute) epoxy. Segue to the Saskatoon hobby shop you likely visited. Express Hobbies. Couple of blocks North of 33rd St. It's essentially the one and only here. They have both epoxies in stock. I think I'll get the Slow-Cure and give that a go.

 

Back to the hobby shop....I moved here in 2016. Didn't actually step through their door until 2022. Not sure what else might have been here before then. There's one other store here that I've never been to as they are pretty much all about RC.

 

Cheers,

Mark 

[Force9]

I have my popcorn and snacks at hand to follow along on this important step.  I'm very curious to understand your experiences with adding these detailed sheets to the sides... You've already identified some areas of awareness for those coming along behind you.

 

I decided to stick with some styrene scratch building to address some of what mini brass solves, but I am curious to know if you will remove the well deck bulwarks and instead rely on the thinner brass sheets to better represent the scale thickness? I haven't seen any other modeler do this, but it seems an obvious approach to take to improve those areas of the kit?  Thoughts?

 

Wonderful progress

Evan

[MisterMeester]

15 hours ago, Force9 said:

………I am curious to know if you will remove the well deck bulwarks and instead rely on the thinner brass sheets to better represent the scale thickness? I haven't seen any other modeler do this, but it seems an obvious approach to take to improve those areas of the kit?  Thoughts?

 

Wonderful progress

Evan

Hello Evan!
 

Thank you for your post.

 

Honestly, removing the well deck bulwarks had never entered my mind. I’ll take a look at that when the time comes, however preliminary thought on that is….leaving the delicate PE without any backing support in that area makes me nervous.

 

I neglected to mention….I found working on the hull, prior to acquiring and employing the cradle I’m using for her, to be awkward and cumbersome. Prior to the cradle, I managed to inadvertently erode away a fair amount of the rivet detail. The main reason I got this MiniBrass kit was to rectify the lost rivet detail. My initial plan was to use 3D rivet decals (I even went as far as purchasing some), but decided the PE was the way to go instead.

 

Cheers,

Mark

Edited 14 hours ago by MisterMeester