First of all, this build has been going on for almost 19 months now. It’s one of the old Revell 1/570th Titanic’s, originally built OOB for my Daughter, but then I began detailing it as materials became available: Rails, Ladders, re-built funnels, re-built Curl Vents, scratched decks, scratched Benches, scratched Skylights… etc etc…anyhow, today I was at the point of installing the fiber optic “Deck Lights”.
I’m going to mount it diorama style, as she appeared at 1:20 am on the night she went down, with the correct lifeboats in the water and being lowered, with passengers on the deck and in the boats… something like this:
Way too many modifications to list, but I thought I’d let you see it as she appears this evening.
[:O][:O] sorry Frank just fell of my chair [:D] man i thought i was the only nutter, gonna be one hell of a build, are you going to hook it up to a 9v battery or lower voltage? love to see it light up [:p] keep us posed please
thats wild!!! Are the lights going to flicker off and on ? You should have a little speaker in the ship with little screams and yells and people yelling.
maffen, there’s going to be at least two power sources, and maybe three. Since I’ll have all that space within the base box, I won’t have to try and condense everything so much. If I could have found one of those push button toys that played an old ragtime tune, halfway realistically, I would wire it to a momentary-on switch… I’ve even considered using an answering machine with recorded ragtime, but that’s getting the horse before the cart. [:o] [:D]
Granted, it’s not much to look at, at this point, but she’s coming along slowly but surely… leaps & bounds from where she started!
The most time consuming aspect has been researching, removing kit structures, building updated ones. I bought another kit in order to have enough vents to go around and to rebuild the funnels. (kit funnels are too short)
jinithith2,
The coal is an actual relic from the wreck site. In 1994, RMS Titanic, Inc. conducted an expedition to the Ship to gather artifacts on the ocean floor, which included a 5lb lump of coal from one of the ruptured bunkers. It is illegal for anyone to sell a piece of the Ship itself, or the personal property of those who perished in the sinking… since the lump of coal didn’t fall into either category, the company busted it up into 1/2 (13 mm) to 3/4 inch (19 mm) pieces and offered them to the public to help finance future expeditions.
They sold like ‘hotcakes’ on Sunday morning! I got mine through the company in 1998, and after deciding to make this diorama, I figured including it in the display would be a fitting gesture. [:)]
Haven’t decided yet… it will be either Woodland Scenics Realistic Water, or Enviro-Tex (sp?) The tricky part is going to be texturing the surface to keep it in scale. Capt. Smith said the ocean was “as flat as a mill pond”… however I’m not going to make it dead flat as that wouldn’t be realistic… maybe like the surface of a lake on a calm day?
Ripples will have to be very tiny, or they’ll over whelm the very small lifeboats.
I got one of those lighted star-burst kinda things (don’t know what they’re called) at Wally World and used the optics from it. [:)] Cheap, but effective.
