Titanic stern section wreck (circa 1986) model

[Cian O'Reilly]

Hi All,
This is my first post here as a member. I'd like to share a project I've been working on for some time now - a scratch build of Titanic's stern section as it looked in 1986. It's been a long term project and it's only entering it's final phase now, as I begin to build the wreckage for a diorama. Once this project is complete I'll be working on a companion build of the stern as it would have looked not long after the sinking. While I have tried to be as accurate as possible with this build, I'm sure there are probably a lot of mistakes...when I began the project many yrs ago there was only very limited info about the stern available...a situation which as far as I can tell hasn't changed much - I'd be grateful for any critiques, feel free to point out errors or areas for improvement. Where possible I will correct the model...
Titanic Wreck Stern Section Latest., Cian O'reilly
Titanic Wreck, Stern Section (Circa 1986) Overview, Cian O'reilly
Titanic Wreck, Stern Section (Circa 1986) Machinery Detail 01 - Reciprocating Engines., Cian O'reilly
Titanic Wreck, Stern Section (Circa 1986) Machinery Detail 02 - Low Pressure Turbine., Cian O'reilly
Titanic Wreck, Stern Section (Circa 1986) Machinery Detail 03 - Refrigeration Engines., Cian O'reilly

 

[Kyle Naber]

Gorgeous work!

 

[Itsstillthinking]

Welcome and i must say this is fantastic work! Would love to see more shots from different angles. Keep up the good work!

 

[William Sartore]

Cian,

Incredible work! what is the scale and how did you do the engines? Any 3-D printing?

Bill S.

 

[Cian O'Reilly]

Hi William,
The scale is approximately 1/145...the plans I used when I started this build many years ago were basically just the standard Harland and Wolff deckplans enlarged to as big as I could get them at the time. The engines are entirely hand built - basically folding, bending, cutting, sanding, layering plastic on top of plastic etc. The Turbine was a pain to build, lots of building up layers there, but each engine was built over the course of about a month...

 

[Cian O'Reilly]

Welcome and i must say this is fantastic work! Would love to see more shots from different angles. Keep up the good work!

Cheers for the kind comments, I'll try to get more images up soon...

 

[Cian O'Reilly]

Continuing to work on stern section Photogrammetry...in this clip we travel forward from Titanic's folded back Poop Deck all the way to her port engine - shrouded now in the wreckage of the decks above. Along the way we pass over the exposed D-Deck, from which virtually every feature - cabins, companionways etc - has been erased by the sinking, implosions during the fall to the sea floor and hydro-dynamic forces during the fall and impact;

Crushed, Cian O'reilly

Also, the other vids are now on youtube;
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeZGK6I00v7YInRc7DYv2g