1/350 titanic scale hull plates ?

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old hoodoo - 18 Apr 2004 01:19 GMT

I am helping my son in a science project and have a Revell 1/350th Titanic hull. I notices the overlapping
hull plates at least appear to a laymen to be hugely out of scale. Were the overlapping hull plates really that thick?

AL

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WinBear (Bob Horton) - 18 Apr 2004 06:32 GMT

If www.titanicmodel.com is still there, you can learn more than you ever
wanted to know about the ship and its construction. Hope this helps.

WinBear

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Kurt Greiner - 19 Apr 2004 18:13 GMT

You are right, the plate thickness on the Titanic plastic models are way out of
scale. Even on a very large model, say 1/96 scale, the plate thickness would
be subtle, maybe .010 or so. To give you an example, when we make up hulls in
large scale we usually tape and just apply a few extra coats of primer to
represent hull plating, if it is done at all. Other guys use very thin
aluminum strips.

Hope this helps

Kurt

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Ron - 19 Apr 2004 19:19 GMT

Tape and a swipe of evercoat putty works too.

> You are right, the plate thickness on the Titanic plastic models are way out of
> scale. Even on a very large model, say 1/96 scale, the plate thickness would
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