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.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roxyddhucng
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!
