RMS Titanic - Revell 1/570 From Way Back When

[Ghostbase]

"Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch. Let's stretch her legs." Captain E. Smith. My favourite quote, and scene, from the 1997 film set aboard the RMS Titanic which was the largest ship afloat on 15 April 1912. She was a beautiful greyhound of her time and her incredibly sad fate still captures our imagination today.

 

This is the Revell 1/570th scale kit of the RMS Titanic, it was first released in 1970 and my parsimonious wife snagged it for £10.50 from M&S on Boxing Day, 2012. It isn't a detailed kit but I have enjoyed building it as one of my 'Covid-19' projects with very few scale modelling resources to hand at the start. The hull and superstructure were mostly airbrushed using the acrylic paints supplied with the kit. The decks, funnels and details were all hand painted. She was finished with a coat of acrylic satin varnish.

I really enjoyed putting this kit together, only my third 'floaty thing' since I was 10 years old! My wife likes it but is demanding a 1/570 scale pair of binoculars for the crows nest as well as a scale polystyrene iceberg 😙

 

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[John_W]

Turned out nice for a box scale kit.

[Ghostbase]

5 hours ago, John_W said:

Turned out nice for a box scale kit.

Thanks, I did wonder why it was 1/570 scale, the kit certainly wasn't sophisticated or too detailed! A set of decals to show the windows on the top deck would have added so much more detail but I guess that wasn't the market that this kit was aimed at.

 

The instructions were occasionally somewhat ambiguous regards paint colours and I did look at a couple of completed builds on this forum to get some idea regards many details. I am just amazed at the detail available on several modern Titanic offerings and the quality of those builds on this forum. One day I would like to try a proper detailed maritime kit; I do have a Trumpeter 1/350th scale Russian Navy Udaloy in the stash which I bought after visiting the Vice Admiral Kulakov in Portsmouth Harbour a few years ago, one day...

 

Michael

[BluesModeller]

Cracking little model!

 

Enjoyed building mine so much so I’m tempted to build another at some point.