Posted by James Pepper on December 24, 1999 at 18:03:33 in 152.163.207.189 :
In Reply to: Titanic scratchbuilder Kit in 1:144 ?!?!? posted by Robert Hahn on December 23, 1999 at 16:21:27:
Robert: If you are going to go to the trouble of making a kit of that scale, perhaps you should consider two different types of models. A less expensive version and a more expensive highly detailed model with working parts. The less expensive model would be accurate, with all of the knowledge on this board, it would compete with the models out there now and probably steal their thunder, steal their market share.
But a purely definitive titanic, using the same molds for the previous type with minor corrections, so you could have working propellers, alias rotating propellers, the ability to light the ship using fiber optics (perhaps building into the molds methods of attachment for the fiber) and working hatch doors, cranes, anchors, etc. The finer model could be built by the few who really know how to do it, and who could afford to do this.
From an economical standpoint, the first accurate models would help pay for the work put into the finer detailed definitive model.
Just an idea.
Merry Christmas
James Pepper