After a disappointment with the aborted USS Yorktown - I browsed the stash & came up with two candidates - the Revell 1/700 Titanic, or the Airfix 1/600 RMS Mauretania. The Titanic has figured in several blogs ( of various scales ), so that went back into the stash & I'm going to see if the fragile mojo will survive building this.
This will be a bit of a mixture of parts - the original moulds date back to 1964 - I have one box, with a complete set of parts & another box, with two partly complete sets of bits - however, the bits have been in storage for a long time & some have suffered, so I'm going to have to lay the bits out & sort out which are the the best. Hopefully, I'll have one good model, another which will need a bit of repair & the bits of a third - I know there is a deck missing, which would take a bit of scratching. The models were all from ebay & were sold as 'possibly not complete'. If I make a hash of one, at least I have another in the stash ( and some spares ).
As is my habit, I'm going to waterline this model - it's not my usual scale ( 1/700 or 1/350 ), but as a stand alone model that really doesn't matter.
There will be some pictures of the bits, but I don't reckon there is one complete sprue! I had the original idea of doing the Mauretania dazzle painted, as when she was a troopship in WWI, but on research, the camo is much too intricate for me & the details of her armament & added lifeboats are somewhat sketchy. A lot of detail seems to come from a card model from the late 80's. The later Airfix boxings had an alternative of all-white ( with green stripes ) as a WWI Hospital ship, but that looks a little stark.
Dave
This will be a bit of a mixture of parts - the original moulds date back to 1964 - I have one box, with a complete set of parts & another box, with two partly complete sets of bits - however, the bits have been in storage for a long time & some have suffered, so I'm going to have to lay the bits out & sort out which are the the best. Hopefully, I'll have one good model, another which will need a bit of repair & the bits of a third - I know there is a deck missing, which would take a bit of scratching. The models were all from ebay & were sold as 'possibly not complete'. If I make a hash of one, at least I have another in the stash ( and some spares ).
As is my habit, I'm going to waterline this model - it's not my usual scale ( 1/700 or 1/350 ), but as a stand alone model that really doesn't matter.
There will be some pictures of the bits, but I don't reckon there is one complete sprue! I had the original idea of doing the Mauretania dazzle painted, as when she was a troopship in WWI, but on research, the camo is much too intricate for me & the details of her armament & added lifeboats are somewhat sketchy. A lot of detail seems to come from a card model from the late 80's. The later Airfix boxings had an alternative of all-white ( with green stripes ) as a WWI Hospital ship, but that looks a little stark.
Dave
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