But it isn’t as though the Trumpeter designers just copied and pasted the starboard side details over to the port side resulting in all the errors... There are clear differences to the two sides that were intentionally made. In addition to the kit portholes, I needed to add a few that were missing or needed to be relocated. These locations were marked with a green Sharpie pen and some Tamiya tape laid down to help with alignment.

These Ash Places and their outer doors were not symmetrical between port and starboard. Trumpeter got that right. The doors are in the right spots on either side, but inexplicably they’ve added a third narrow door on the port side that leads to a phantom Ash Place. The wiskers is drill swarf from the port holes, I've used Porthole Jiggs from Nigels Modeling Benc to drill pilot holes on all the ones that are to be drilled. Since the smallest portholes don’t need to have a pre-drilled centering hole, I was able to jump right into it… This scratch building was actually the very first thing I did on the kit after I first bought it a few years ago… I wanted to see what I could make of this area before I invested any time elsewhere. As promised on one of my original posts, this will be a bit of a sporadic build while I finish my Niagara.

New Arrivals

In truth, I don’t think I needed these centering holes except for the largest porthole sizes. The bit size would generally match close enough in the small and medium porthole sizes that it didn’t allow for any drift. Despite the fact they will be largely invisible once the ship is complete, I am determined to try and represent at least some of the interior areas. My first attempt has been on the port side Private Promenade. Rather than just print out a drawing or photo of the area, I decided to try and replicate, as best as my skills would allow, using Evergreen plastics. I laid down some tape and traced the edge. The tape was then transferred to a piece of card paper and cut out. I felt it to be a shame to leave out the Pontos sets interior detail for the lifeboats so my model will show the Portside boats with their covers on, and the starboard side without covers

Some additional hull details need to be attended to, but I can’t put off drilling out the portholes forever… RMS Titanic Model Research and Tech hosted by Zeno Silva and friends. You’ll find Bob Read, Cyril, and Vasilije all contributing here. Having tested the LED's I over painted them using Tamiya clear Orange as the kit's LEDs are a nice Victorian yellow type light If you choose to use Trumpeters recommended Cocoa Brown, don't because it is too brown. I added a 50% bright red mix and got it right the second time unlike the below first attempt.Here is a historic photo of the rudder showing human scale. Note the large bolts on the flanges that hold the five large panels together. These measurements were transferred to a length of Tamiya tape and the holes drilled through the template. Can you name a ship more famous than the Titanic? Probably not, right? The RMS Titanic is easily the most famous passenger liner ever built. Unfortunately, it’s so famous because it sank on its maiden voyage, causing the death of more than 1500 passengers and crew members. There is a small industry around 3 rd party guides to serve this need, but it seemed to me that I could fashion some workable guides on my own using stuff I already had laying around. A fantastic detailed large scale plastic kit of the famous ill-fated White Star Liner. This mega kit contains a 1.3m single-piece hull, 7 sheets of photoetched parts with a whopping 1280+ pieces.