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Building the titanic

mickeyfinch said:
Hi There are many examples of kits for the titanic. Ide like to approach this from scratch. Never done this or anything like this before. I have skills and tools.
Any advice would be appreciated
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I've researched the titanic for the last six weeks. gleaning facts and dimensions. I think I've sorted all the measurements for my project except one. Cant find it anywhere. " What was the height of Titanic from the keel to the boat deck. " This seems to be a fundamental measurement for building the hull, but as yes ive not come across these details. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
 
mickeyfinch said:
I've researched the titanic for the last six weeks. gleaning facts and dimensions. I think I've sorted all the measurements for my project except one. Cant find it anywhere. " What was the height of Titanic from the keel to the boat deck. " This seems to be a fundamental measurement for building the hull, but as yes ive not come across these details. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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A simple google search revealed :

The height from the keel to the boat deck on the Titanic was 60.5 feet. Here are some other dimensions of the Titanic:

  • Length: 882 feet and 9 inches
  • Width: 92 feet and 6 inches
  • Height from waterline to top of funnels: 175 feet

  • Draught: 34 feet and 7 inches

  • Gross register tons: 46,328

  • Keel plates: 30/20 inch thick at the center, reducing to 24/20 inch thick at the ends

 
Justin said:
A simple google search revealed :

The height from the keel to the boat deck on the Titanic was 60.5 feet. Here are some other dimensions of the Titanic:

  • Length: 882 feet and 9 inches
  • Width: 92 feet and 6 inches
  • Height from waterline to top of funnels: 175 feet

  • Draught: 34 feet and 7 inches

  • Gross register tons: 46,328

  • Keel plates: 30/20 inch thick at the center, reducing to 24/20 inch thick at the ends
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Hi Yes I got that. measurement from the keel to the top of the boat deck. the one im looking for is the measurement from the kee
 
Amazing. New to the modelling thing, after trawling through dozens and dozens of diagrams and photos, to see the discrepancies and inaccuracies of the various interpretations of the structure of the titanics hull.trying to decide what are the accurate ones isn't easy. I understand that the original photos are the best way to go ,but it's difficult to transfer these to paper.
( just a rant after my initial experiences)
 
This titanic was a gift for my sixtieth birthday , i have it saved for retirement.
This Trumpeter kit It is the most detailed one on the market. It can be further detailed with the improvement packs from the KA and Pontos brands, with wooden covers and countless improved and photo-etched parts.
Building a ship of these characteristics from scratch is a very ambitious project. For me this kit is a challenge.
I recommend a kit, but I don't know your skills in building models.

Salud ;)

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Hi. I would say I'm about a third of the was through completing the hull of my Tatanic model. I learned some lessons already. Like how. Accurate your work is today depends on how much time you took yesterday. Being a retired builder in real life helps. We live in Spain now and I brought all my tools with me. The one that has real come in handy is the flip saw. I can shape all my bits of wood on the end of the saw. And having dozens of clamps helps too. I still have a lot to learn !!
 
starting to think about rivets for my titanic scratch build. I've had a few ideas including embroidery pins making them myself from wire and hammering the end. with a 200 to1 scale they will be very small.
anyone any ideas?
 
Ufffff! That's a huge job. The Titanic would have more than three million rivets, but if you only make a third of them it is still a lot. At 1:200 scale they will be tiny, you would have to use a very fine wire, but getting the rounded shape would not be easy and would possibly be out of scale. I'm thinking about the solution. To see if anyone can think of something.
 
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Skip the rivets! This is not because it’s too hard or because it takes too long. It’s because at any reasonable viewing distance if they are correctly modeled they will be invisible. The largest rivet used to build Titanic had a shank diameter of 1-1/4”. When hammered, the mushroomed end would have had a diameter of about 2in and would have stood proud of the shell plating by about 1/8”. Most of the rivets were smaller than this.

At a scale of 1:200 our large rivet’s mushroom head would have a diameter of .01” and a height of .0006” Viewing the model from a distance of 6”, would be equivalent to viewing the actual ship from 100ft.

Rivets were sized and arranged in accordance with complex rules approved by classification and regulatory organizations. Low stress areas might just have a single row of rivets while highly stressed areas three or more rows. To add rivets accurately you would need the complete riveting schedule for the ship.

The photo below shows a section of hull for a Great Lakes freighter built three years before Titanic. Plating is shellac saturated paper glued in place with PVA glue.

Roger

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I have found this throughout my research over the last three months.some companies are offering small figures to put on the deck.bear in mind that people were smaller back then,a a six foot man would scale down to about half an inch. Not realy worth making at that size.the discrepancies on the type of propellor. Some so calledcreserch and even so called original photos show the centre propellor as having four blades. Other research suggests that a for bladed propellor was considered but never made. Think I'll have to do what I'm happy with.
 
mickeyfinch said:
Think I'll have to do what I'm happy with.
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This is what it's all about, doing what you like and enjoying the process. Surely the Titanic you build, will be recognizable and you will be satisfied with it. I will build the kit and try to improve it, but without obsessing.

Saludos ;)
 
ive finally found a great material for plating my Titanic. Its a fairly hefty black tape purchased from the Chinese shop here in Spain. I have to cut hundreds of plates and glue them on, although the tape has a sticky back. the wood glue gives me a little movement and adjustment. Im still learning. I have to define the overlap by rubbing a sharp piece of wood across it .I'm really pleased with this at the moment.
 
Any ideas for rivets for titanic hull. I'm thinking about very small tacs ,but even these would be grossly out if scale,and very difficult to obtain with a domed head.
 
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