my daughter gave up on this model quite awhile ago, I airbrushed the hull with good results however I find the deck to be a challenge.I airbrushed the wood deck tan color and now have to paint the 2nd most prevalent color flat brown for handrails, not a whole lot of molding detail on this model (revell) anyway of getting around ALOT of masking on ship decks? sure alot harder than aircraft

Hi Dave,
As far as getting around masking of the decks, it's basically in how you build the model, mate...when you have a ship model with multiple decks/superstructure assemblies, I find it easier to work in assemblies, painting and building as you go, adding photo-etch, etc, so that you're not faced with a huge task of masking around tiny areas of the vessel...sometimes it's not possible to do so, and then you're faced with either masking or brush painting multiple deck assemblies.

Harder than aircraft?...at times, ship modeling can be quite intense, my friend, but I've seen many aircraft builds that I marvel at as well! Again, its all about how you build the model, and the planning/construction steps that you follow as you go...some guys can build an entire kit without laying on a lick of paint, and then masking/shooting the different colors as needed, but myself, I'll stick with the methods that I use...

Cheers,
~Gunny

I built a 350 scale Titanic for my wife (WELL EX-WIFE). I had a few 350 scale kits under my belt and figred this was going to be like them. I ended up despizing it. The fit poor on decks, tons of little bitty pieces, in short just amess. Maybe because I love the warships but this is one kit I was happy to slap together and get it out of the way. Sorry to say tht my attitude shows in the workmanship too. Even though Tracie is long gone, this monstrosity still is up there on the shelf behind my Bismark

I agree with the poor fit comment, I threw it away prefitted the whole thing and what a piece of junk! when I build my first ship it will be of higher quality.Any tutorial builds online in this forum? thanks for all comments.

For the ultimate tutorial on building your 1/350 Entex / Revell / Minicraft Titanic, try here

http://rivetcounter.txc.net.au/

For colour schemes and rigging plans try here

http://www.titanic-model.com/

While were on the Cunard-er topic, are there still sites that address Titanic-to-Olympic conversions?

--Karl

The place to ask this particular question is here -

http://titanic-model.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=100

Ocean Liner Models did a set - one in PE and one in resin for a Olympic/Britannic conversion.

Scroll to near bottom of page

http://titanic-model.com/brass.htm

Unfortunately the vendor site for Ocean Liners Models now says that he is no longer offering the Olympic/Britannic conversion sets now.

Dave

You get it back or was it part of the settlement?

There's something to be said about a pre-nup and the models included in said contract.

Sorry.

I couldn't resist. I know you got it back.

I had a friend who built this kit. He scrapped everything but the hull and the funnels and scratch built the rest. In the end, it looked pretty darn nice. I have the 350th version and have had it for geez, I dunno, I think since it first came out. I haven't built it yet. I want to get a little more experience under my belt before I build it or my Bismarck. And at the rate I build....I may never get that far...