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OMG those are GREAT!!!

@Rock - Dude!! - that paint job looks fantastic!

I'm sorry.....WHAT???!!!

Shhhh... @Thom -- 1st rule of Modeller's Anonymous, we don't TALK about our Valks VS our wallets....

Here is a photo dump of hopefully better pics. I'm no photographer, LED's are so hard to get to look right on cell phones! Enjoy! Don't look to close! The magic quickly vanishes! I'm not a Titanic rivet counter, I know there are those people out there, but I ain't one! Please ask me any questions about the build, I'll be happy to answer here in this thread!

Thank you so much guys! I learned a lot!!! I'm going to do a separate thread in the "Model Kits" section with full resolution pictures of Titanic, just FYI.

Thanks a lot guys! @arbit, yes, I'm going to be getting better daytime and nighttime pics today hopefully now that the Christmas day crazy is over and wife if going to see Avatar 2 the search for more money 💵 .. LOL

Merrrrry Christmas all you fellow Macrossworld Modelers! As many here know, about 18 months ago while on our way down to a family holiday on the TX coast, it came up in conversation with my in laws that my father in law had a model of the Titanic in his garage that he received as a gift from his wife and kids back after the James Cameron movie came out. He never got around to it as he really wasn't much of a modeler and was busy running his printing business all those years ago. As the new "wanting to please!" son in law I spoke up and said "Hey, I could build that for you!, heck I could even put some LED lights in it!". Now I was thinking they went to MJ Designs back in the day and purchased a little 12" long 1/750 or something kit for like $15, I would build over a couple of weekends and BAM, I'm the hero!. Weeeelll.....open mouth, insert both feel and bend over..When my wife brought home the kit in the back of her SUV a few weeks later, I knew I was in for it! 1/350 scale Minicraft Model, designed in the 70's by hand, a British company, and re-popped many times since then including after the movie release. First let me say this....the kit itself is TERRIBLE. At least my copy was. Decks were warped, NOTHING went together neatly, half the model is superglue, the other half is putty! But through all the trials and tribulations, I managed to pull off something pretty nice. This evening I revealed it to him, along with a movie poster size print out on metal my brother in law had done of the deck plans for the ship. VERY cool! We have a plexiglass case on order from the same guy that did my 1/72 M.F. Finemolds case years ago. My father in law was blown away. Happy son in law! 🙂 Mods include: ALL PE Railings/PE Staircases/PE smokestack ladders/PE window frames on many of the windows/1/350 scale PE crew and passengers/custom made lifeboat covers from newspaper/flags and cargo hold covers made from kitchen foil/LED lighting (2 levels)/ ALL port holes drilled out on main hull/E-Z Line for all rigging lines/hand colored decking with colored pencils to simulate the wood planks/custom made covers for the two Grand Staircases. Enjoy the pics!

I thought the same thing until I realized that it was a wide shot!

As Titanic has wrapped up, (don't worry, pics coming tomorrow or the next day), I've been looking forward to my next few builds, two of which are 1/72 USAF jets, one being the Academy F-22. It would seem Academy cheaped out and didn't include a pilot... Any one have any ideas on a place to get a decent resin or pre painted 1/72 F-22 pilot or pilots? A quick phone Google search didn't turn up much.. Any help greatly appreciated! 😁

I'm ALL in for one of these!

Thanks guys! @wm cheng Come down to Texas buddy, I've got you covered going to the gun range and learning to shoot whatever you want other than a minigun!!!

5AM Monday Morning - ALL 1/350 PE Passengers and Crew cut off PE fret... 5AM Tuesday Morning - PE Passengers and Crew started going on the decks. Got about 1/2 done, half to go. Can only do about 10 at a time and have to take a break! Soooo freakin small! Here's where we stand now...Ohhh..I'm not giving up on the Marconi Array, I am not going to let THAT beat me after all I have done! I have a NEW PLAN to try Friday or Saturday..It's gonna be down to the wire! HAHA! Literally! Stay Tuned!!!

Sometimes in life one is in need of a little bit of humbling. No matter how good you think you might or might not be, there come those days once in a while that remind you just how much you are NOT a pro. Take today for example. Two weeks ago, I built a small prototype of the Marconi radio array that goes from mast to mast on the Titanic. Ok, great. Had my plan in place, knew what I was going to do when the time came well....today was the day! Up bright and early, at the model desk ready to rock at 7:30AM. All that was on the plate for today was make the array, get it on the ship. HOW HARD CAN IT BE RIGHT? Well.....it's now 10 hours later, and I have exactly the square root of JACKSH*T to show for it. I've made two complete arrays and had both snap back on me and knot into an unholy mess. UV superglue and Hobbytown "INSTA-SET 3-5 seconds can both KISS MY BIG WHITE A**! I OFFICIALLY GIVE UP on make one of these. I knew going in that it would be extremely difficult, but I had a plan dammit! Anywhoo, I've lost my temper, I refrained from smashing the ship into bits, and will run a single line from mast to mast and call it a day later in the week. OVER AND OUT. Ohh did i mention in order to make the Xmas deadline now I'm going to be getting up at 5:00AM at least three days this week to get the stupid PE figures on the deck before work every day? No? OH JOY!!!!

@wm cheng DUDE!!!! That looks AWESOME! I'm so jealous! I always loved Aliens and the weaponry in it! "We sonic electronic BALL breakers, we got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks, WHOO!" - Hudson

@MechTech -.....wanna make me some custom metal gun barrels for the Missouri???!!!....

Ok, that Anakin is pretty sick!

Damn! That does look good, especially with the helmet on! Nice pickup @CoryHolmes!

Gorgeous!

Mr. Santa Claus came early to the model bench....THIS is my reward to myself after a year and a half of building a terrible ship model! BOOM! I can't WAIT! THIS is going to be soooo fun next spring/summer! OR...I might have a problem as I have NO where to put it!...LOOL!

I can't wait to see one of these decked out in a cool dark paint scheme or camo/low vis scheme with a sh*t-ton of guns and missiles hanging off of it!

"We're in the endgame now".....After 1 1/2 YEARS of work...hard work, setbacks, figuring out how to make a kit designed in the 70's by hand and re-popped in the 90's go together halfway decent, the Titanic (hiiiighly modified to accommodate lighting) and photoetch...sooo much photoetch.... is almost ready to set sail. I figure 3 to 4 more full days of work (mostly rigging) and getting her on the stand and wiring finished up to get her ready for the reveal on Christmas Day to my father-in-law. Final pics soon!

Pre-Ordered my Scout from HLJ!