RMS Titanic Wreck Site

About The Build

Manufacturer: Revell

Scale: 1/570

Subject: R.M.S. Titanic wreck site

Kit Number: 85-0445

Date Built: August 2005

Modifications:

• Heavily modified from the Revell kit
• Stern is 90% new from .020 sheet styrene
• Bow section is 85% new from .020 sheet styrene
• Crumpled and torn plating made from embossed lead foil
• Deck houses made from Evergreen strip styrene
• Tom's Modelworks merchant ship railing set

 In 2004 I started with Revell's 1/570 R.M.S. Titanic as a base and combined it with heavy scratch building to create a model of the wreck site as it appeared on the 2004 expedition. The hull was cut in half and the bow modified using embossed foil to create the buckled hull plates and destroyed aft portion. All decks as well as the deck houses are various shapes of Plastruct sheet, tube, rod, and square styrene. The only kit items I used in construction were the deck fittings and cranes. The stern section is almost entirely built from sheet plastic and lead foil save for the overhang under the poop deck. Both sections were painted and weathered with various acrylic rust colors and pastel chalks. I plan to build another wreck site in the future based on the larger Revell 1/400 scale kit so I will be able to add much more detail than I was able to in this small scale.

Completed Build
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