A friend of mine received a Minicraft 1/350 Titanic… The kit is a mess, glued with CA glue, and painted with wall paints. Some parts are deformed for using too much CA glue, and some of them are missing… That’s the case of the masts, both of them. My friend commisioned me for making them from scratch, but I don’t know anything about the ship, so I need the overall length of the masts, I think both have the same length (I said length, as they’re tilted backwards, overall height taken from the deck is less than real length). I’d need to know where to place the rigging (three points per mast, I think), so I want to knwo where exactly to place the marks for my friend to add the rigging. Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards.
While I’m no Titanic expert, I do know there’s a ton of written reference material out there about the ship, and getting that detail shouldn’t be a big deal. Or maybe somebody here will just have the same kit and can give you specific detail on the parts.
Meanwhile, it sounds to me like your friend isn’t experienced enough to tell a wonderfully made part from one that’s poorly done. If you just ‘eyeballed’ the length, do you think s/he’d notice?
http://www.titanic.com/ for literally any little bit of trivia. And I’m with BGuy - the other person does not sound like a rivet counter so close enough will probably be good enough!
I have that same kit sitting on a shelf waiting for me to get back to building. It was my first attempt at a large scale ship and I am sorry to say that it kicked my rear so bad that I put it up and haven’t gotten back to it. Not that it is a bad kit, far from it, that is a great kit. All that aside when I was doing research for the build I came across possibly the most detailed and crazy website dedicated to modeling the Titanic. I don’t know if they have the info you need or not but it is an amazing wealth of all things Titanic and has some good links to other sites. The website is: