Little by little she's starting to look like a Lusitania. I got a resin 1/350 Normandie, same scale as this Lusitania. It makes the Lusitania look tiny side by side. The Normandie was a huge ship!
I fitted and glued down some more wood decking on my 1/350 Lusitania today.
Some progress on my Lusitania. That big deck is giving me lots of trouble to install as the hull is a bit warped. Just making things worse trying to fix it after it's glued. Best to just leave it be.
Adding some of the easier details to Lusitania. It's much more enjoyable than wrestling with gluing decks!
Lusitania is getting some rear end work.
Just catching up on this build log. Thats incredible work. 
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Thanks Brian!
Lusitania Funnels are up and rigged. The ventilator covers are also installed. The funnel caps are not glued yet, just stuck on there crooked. Two of the ventilator covers had to be skewed as the rigging was hitting them. The funnels also wouldn't sit straight on their platforms, they rocked side to side so I used a slower setting epoxy to give me some time to get them to sit straight. The covers were tedious and so was threading the funnel cables but I'm glad I now have at least some of those lines out of my way. It was becoming a tangled mess with EZ Line laying everywhere. That's it for today!!
Wow ! I love the red smoke stacks.
Thanks Donnie.
These precut railings are really giving me a hard time on this model. In hindsight I think I would have been better off using generic railings and cutting them myself as I usually do instead of trying to make all these fit.
The wood decks and some warped parts aren't helping the fit either. The front wheelhouse was the worst so far. Not my best job of getting this one together. You only get one of each so if you mess it up you have to live with it. I'm gonna live with it lol!
These precut railings are really giving me a hard time on this model. In hindsight I think I would have been better off using generic railings and cutting them myself as I usually do instead of trying to make all these fit.
The wood decks and some warped parts aren't helping the fit either. The front wheelhouse was the worst so far. Not my best job of getting this one together. You only get one of each so if you mess it up you have to live with it. I'm gonna live with it lol!
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That is a great looking build, I like it.
This is a really good job - you could not do it better -> well done
Thanks marter 1229 and Uwek. Some more progress on my Lusitania. Main mast, ratlines, some rigging, and more railings.....lots of railings!
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Great progress!
Thanks Terry. I put on the front mast, ratlines, and some rigging on. The end is in sight. I just have a few more railings, the cranes, anchors, props, and more rigging to go.
Thanks shota70. Today I added the wireless spreaders and lines, the docking bridge and stairs, and the bow railings.
I'm in the home stretch on my 1/350 Lusitania. I put together and installed the cranes, davits, and lifeboats. I need to add a few more things but expect to be finished tomorrow or the next day!
I'm calling 1/350 Lusitania done. That's as much as I feel like doing.
Congrats! Great looking Lusiana and well made!!! 