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
but my heart sunk to see the hull cut down like 570 did on his bismark OH DEAR 
but at least this ship is gettin built oh it hurts me to see that done 
but i know you have your reasons for doin it but couldunt you have made a bit deeper seascape to allow the hull to sit in full hull 
