My Titanic effort? ship nbr 3

[2Kamser]

well i'm really into boats/ships at the moment so all other builds are on hold
started on Ralph Currell's Titanic and so far all is well exept i broke off my last blade for my cutting knife
cut out the center "spine" and glued it together leaving the fold out parts glueless
then i cut out the hull formers and glued them to cardboard from a cerealbox, but during the process of cutting the individual parts i broke off the last blade (it is a surgical knife) so i had to resort to my backup - a cutting knife with a little bit thicker blade but turned out to function well on the cardboard

question for all you experienced modelers - should i print out a throwaway copy of the display bottom to tack the model to while working
or should i go straight for the good printout of the display and work directly on it?

will post some pics of the progress on this one after i'm done cutting out the skeleton of the ship and decided (with your suggestions) if to put it on the real display or the throwaway/working display
/Håkan

[silveroxide]

If you are in the learning process, by all means make a copy. I still scan my originals just in case. There are some who will go straight to the originals, but I tend to be safe than sorry later on.

[peter taft]

Hope you get as much enjoyment with the model as i did... you might like to see what can be done with the model up-graded. The link is to one i made a while ago... Enjoy, bye the way... the base is worth doing too, really finishes the build off nicely. Have fun

YouTube - Titanic II The Sequel

[Gman93643]

question if I may to peter taft...how did you upscale that model from 9 inches to 35? Did you take it to a professional printer, or did you do it yourself? Thanks!

NG

[Maltedfalcon]

As long as we are talking Titanics
here is a model I will be releasing soon
it is 1/144 bow section
In the comparison shot mine is the one on the left.
just a little bit of tweaking of colors and a couple more parts to go.

Matt Sparks

[peter taft]

Originally Posted by ngwithrsd

question if I may to peter taft...how did you upscale that model from 9 inches to 35? Did you take it to a professional printer, or did you do it yourself? Thanks!

NG

The up-scale was my own doing and very easy... In the printer setup i set for multi-page printing {so many pages increase to each individual one} at the time i wasn't thinking what scale she would be, just so long as she was BIG. The resulting up-scale made it a lot of fun and games - depending on where a single part fell on the multi-sheet print, it was a case that the one part might be made up from four or five pieces {in other words, i had to make parts before i could make parts - if that makes sence !} all done on an A4 printer The only way to keep HIGH quality print from such a small original was to increase resolution and to boost colour output, also done in the printer setup. With such a big leap in size, i had to make extra formers {lots more} and the spine had to be really thick to keep her straight and true {X5 laminates} probably 3 ply timber would have been better, but this is a paper model and i didn't want to stray from that. Short question - long answer, sorry bout that. Enjoy your build friend
I forgot to mention if you go to the link on my signature you will find other Titanic items and models + links... also that this was my first ship build, i am into Sci-Fi and Real space really !

[peter taft]

Originally Posted by Maltedfalcon

As long as we are talking Titanics
here is a model I will be releasing soon
it is 1/144 bow section
In the comparison shot mine is the one on the left.
just a little bit of tweaking of colors and a couple more parts to go.

Matt Sparks

Very nice build and one worth having - great designing too friend

[Maltedfalcon]

Originally Posted by peter taft

The only way to keep HIGH quality print from such a small original was to increase resolution and to boost colour output, also done in the printer setup.

This sounds like an interesting method, can you post a picture of a part
so that we can see the what the final resolution looks like?

[Gman93643]

Thanks for your reply peter, I understand how you did it! I think I might upscale it to 1:300 scale myself and give it a go!

[2Kamser]

Hi Peter, what kind of printer are you using?, i got the HP CP1215 color laser printer and there seems to be an option to upscale, but i have not been able to figure out how make it print over several pages (might have to resort to RTFM on this)