by Goodwood » Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:37 pm
Very crisp build, and that lighting rig couldn't have been easy to fit into such a hull. It kind of reminds me of how I've seen model starship builders light their vessels. Unfortunately, it seems that you've got a bit of light bleed in your deckhouses, which in future can be solved by painting the inside walls black.
Also of note to future Titanic and Olympic builders (apologies if this has been stated before): the two cranes in the fore well deck should be pointed either toward the bow parallel to the sides, or forward and inward at a forty-five degree angle as with the stern cranes (reversed, obviously). IMHO, having them intertwined as they are on this build (rigging problems there, no?) is possibly influenced by photographs taken of the wreck by Ballard's 1985 expedition, which show them tangled up against the aft wall of the well deck. I believe that this was the result of the bow section's plunge to the bottom after the ship split in two; the force of water shoved the cranes into each other, and they got further mashed up when the section impacted and settled.
Beyond those niggling issues, I can't say that I could do any better. I've been tempted to get the Minicraft deluxe kit with all the photo-etch and the wooden deck veneer, but there's a small problem: bitter experience with armor builds has shown that beyond simple tacking of mesh screens and other flat, non-folding detail bits, I'm rather hopeless with metal. That, and there's this nagging sensation in my mind that wood veneer decks distort the kit and can interfere with certain perceptions (since the veneer isn't exactly paper-thin, you know). I've never actually used them, though, so I could just be talking b*ll*cks.
This is my first post here so please pardon any unintentional offense.
Very crisp build, and that lighting rig couldn't have been easy to fit into such a hull. It kind of reminds me of how I've seen model starship builders light their vessels. Unfortunately, it seems that you've got a bit of light bleed in your deckhouses, which in future can be solved by painting the inside walls black.
Also of note to future [i]Titanic[/i] and [i]Olympic[/i] builders (apologies if this has been stated before): the two cranes in the fore well deck should be pointed either toward the bow parallel to the sides, or forward and inward at a forty-five degree angle as with the stern cranes (reversed, obviously). IMHO, having them intertwined as they are on this build (rigging problems there, no?) is possibly influenced by photographs taken of the wreck by Ballard's 1985 expedition, which show them tangled up against the aft wall of the well deck. I believe that this was the result of the bow section's plunge to the bottom after the ship split in two; the force of water shoved the cranes into each other, and they got further mashed up when the section impacted and settled.
Beyond those niggling issues, I can't say that I could do any better. I've been tempted to get the Minicraft deluxe kit with all the photo-etch and the wooden deck veneer, but there's a small problem: bitter experience with armor builds has shown that beyond simple tacking of mesh screens and other flat, non-folding detail bits, I'm rather hopeless with metal. That, and there's this nagging sensation in my mind that wood veneer decks distort the kit and can interfere with certain perceptions (since the veneer isn't exactly paper-thin, you know). I've never actually used them, though, so I could just be talking b*ll*cks.
This is my first post here so please pardon any unintentional offense.