View Full Version : RMS Olympic under construction


Bay7
08-30-2006, 07:18 PM
Here's a diorama of the Titanic sister; Olympic under construction.

It's in 1/350th scale and was a real pain to build as it used up all my tiny sticks of plastic - late in the build, I discovered small thin Photo Etched girders and trusses I could have used rather than scratch building them!

Its all painted in grey to replicate the infamous photos of the ship at this stage.

In reality, the Titanic would have been next to the Olympic in an earlier state of build - I didn't have the patience or plastic to built 2 - I didn't have enough to build the full length either, so I cut the model in half.

Cheers,

Mike

http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d134/maximumUK/?action=view&current=Dsc00424.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch3

Bucket:

http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d134/maximumUK/?start=#imgAnch1

RacerJoe
09-01-2006, 09:22 PM
Wow! :thumbsup: Very intricate, I can see lots of attention to detail and work that went into it. Very Nicely done! :thumbsup:

John P
09-02-2006, 09:25 AM
INSAAAANE!!!! :eek:

Midnightrun
09-03-2006, 02:29 PM
WOW Nice!!!

:thumbsup: ---Midnightrun--- :wave:

Yo Homeboy
09-21-2006, 12:13 PM
Excellent idea to display this model.

DR. PRETORIOUS
09-21-2006, 05:18 PM
Excellent, on your photo bucket page what is the other ship in the pictures?

Bay7
09-22-2006, 04:26 AM
Thanks for the compliments guys!

It's a bit wonky in places - I'm going to stick it on ebay and see how it goes then get to work on a 1/600 version.


DR. PRETORIOUS, which ship/image do you mean?

Cheers,

Mike

DR. PRETORIOUS
09-22-2006, 07:35 AM
The ship you have on the water base.

Raytheon
09-22-2006, 03:44 PM
Now i'm seriously impressed...i would usually use different words but not on this forum ;)

Outstanding work!

bert model maker
09-23-2006, 09:45 PM
wow is all i can say, i have never built a ship, but always wanted to, yours really looks good ! i like the diorama you chose, very unique.

Bay7
09-26-2006, 07:00 AM
The ship you have on the water base.

Thanks again guys!

The ship on the water base was an attempt to make the RMS Olympic in a wartime dazzle camo scheme used during WWI.

In all the photos of the ship underway, the decks were teeming with soldiers and crew and I tried to recreate it with clay - to create the inpression of people without having to glue 100's of photo ecthed people on! Didn't quite work, as it made it look like the decks had gone mouldy!

Cheers,

Mike

Jafo
10-08-2006, 10:12 PM
fantastic work

roadrner
10-17-2006, 12:13 PM
Sweet looking! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: rr