🚢 RMS Titanic 🚢 1:100 Scale Model - Construction Montage

🌏 www.fordmodelt...
🐤 / modeltmitch
🌳 www.linktr.ee/...
Since some of you had noticed the Titanic model in the background of my most recent video with ‪@flivverchannel‬, in which Steven and I discussed the Model T hobby at quite some length-I thought I'd share this photo montage of the model under construction.
On April 20th, 2020, with my sister’s assistance, the keel was laid down for the construction of the RMS Titanic-well ok not full size I admit! It’s built to a scale of 1:100. At 2.7 metres in length, it’s longer than my dining table! She was “launched” on August 20th 2020, four months after construction commenced.
Construction is almost entirely cardboard. The model consumed more than 400 hot glue sticks, 14 sheets of A1 size 600gsm cardstock, at least 2 litres of paint, many metres of copper wire and cotton thread plus countless matchsticks. To ensure strength, as the cotton rigging is under tension, the masts consist of bamboo kebab sticks hot-glued together in clusters and concealed in paper tubes.
Solid core copper house wire was stripped and cut to size to create the hand railing, for which each rail was tediously hot-glued to tooth-pick uprights-literally hundreds of glue joints! Each and every port hole was meticulously measured and hole-punched in the correct place on each hull plate before each plate was hot-glued into place on the corrugated cardboard frame.
Just like the real ship, the model has a keel, in this case, comprising 6 layers of corrugated cardboard, held together with hot glue. The entire model is illuminated at night by over 450 micro LED’s. The completed model weighs in at just 7 kilos-a little less than the 46,000 ton original!

[@TaijanDean]

If there are two things I love, it's Model Ts and the Titanic. Great work!

[@ModelTMitch]

Thanks 😀 and that makes two of us 😁

[@matheusferreira9350]

It's simply perfect! Congrats for the hard working, where did u found the templates for the ship's hull like those in 1:02 ?

[@ModelTMitch]

I just Googled "Titanic hull profile" and it came up in Google Images. The image I found was low resolution, but I was able to make it work. Had to adjust every single piece to the correct scale, but as you can see, it paid off.

[@artm7171]

This is amazing ! Beautiful.... Brought me to tears!!!!

[@ModelTMitch]

I had no idea a cardboard model could evoke such emotions 🙂 thankyou for your comment 🙂

[@langfordrae2589]

Congratulations! It is a beautiful piece of work

[@ModelTMitch]

Thank you very much! 😀

[@willymack5196]

Beautiful

[@ModelTMitch]

Thank you :)

[@Caddy2006]

Wow you done an amazing job!!! 😮

[@ModelTMitch]

Thank you! 😊

[@Caddy2006]

Your welcome 😀

[@ZirconJumamil]

How many days that took you to built that?

[@ModelTMitch]

It took 4 months 😀

[@DreamGrandDragon]

absolutely magnificent

[@ModelTMitch]

Thank you so much 🙂

[@flivverchannel]

Impressive! Love it.

[@ModelTMitch]

Thanks for that 😀

[@flivverchannel]

I did my first T Tour last weekend: 300km. And it rained the first day... Videos coming, eventually.

[@ModelTMitch]

@flivverchannel I look forward to seeing it 😀 I've got a 100th Birthday celebration video coming up for my T, which coincides with the biggest car show on my calendar, so should be good 🙂

[@Sillyguywithdaboats]

This is so underrated!!!!!!!

[@ModelTMitch]

Thank you 😊