Very, very creative approach to the lighting both in the LED/fiber optics for the portholes and the hull to base electrical contacts. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Looking forward to the finished product. Been doing an unlit Titanic but plan on a lighted one at some point. You've given me LOTS of ideas on how to accomplish this. Tip...EZ Line works great, but fly tying thread (06 or 08) gives you more options for colors. The shrouds were galvanized cable so grey would be accurate. Looking awesome so far!
Excellent work! I'm working on the 1/350 Titanic kit from minicraft 2012 pop with railings. Sad warps & over the top detail. Actually cut a finger on the flash of keel. So I sanded it all down & scab on candle tin to replicate the plate. I'm going to try heat gun to fix warps. Thanx for the info. Yours looks great!
This is looking great, I really like you idea for lighting it. Just wanted to add that Gold Medal Models does a railing set and deck chairs for this beauty.
Superb Job These kits Are Very Rare Not To Many Were Produced From 1978 Through 1984. I Built One Of these on you tube On My Channel . A Great Kit and One Of It Kind Ever Produced. Hardy Well doneFrankie Day
Hi Frankie, I just finished watching your Lusitania build videos. I'll be very happy if mine turns out half as good! Wonderful job and I enjoyed your talk about some of the ships history as well. Love your positive attitude about modeling :)
@@TrekWorks Thanks. It has been sitting in it's box for 30 years. It is time I finish it. Have several Titanic kits as well including the original Entex model. The Entex Titanic was the first model I put lights in a model using a 100 or so of those mini light bulbs that have two wires coming from the bulb. I think they were called wheat bulbs, but I do not remember. Look forward to seeing you build a 1/350 Titanic model.
Looks amazing. Can I ask what diameter fibre optic wire you used? Did you use different diameters? Also, what Kelvin are your LEDs to achieve that realistic light look? thank you!
Have you considered getting deck transfers or real wood replacement decks? It can make the decks really pop rather then look plain single color. Also the lighting on the front facing portholes was usually dimmer then everywhere else to allow night sailing. Do you have an idea for this?
Hey Boyd you think you could show exactly how you got the lighting to turn on the way dose how you wired up the contact points in another video I ask because that's way I want my 1/350 Titanic lighting to turn on ?
Are we following a DISASTER theme here, Boyd? What's next Morro Castle or Andrea Doria? ;) It's a good choice, the Lusitania. One of the first great disaster films about a shipwreck was "The Sinking of the Lusitania" animated by Winsor McCay creator of Little Nemo (in Slumberland) and Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated character with personality. Beautiful ship when it was in service. It's unfortunate the shipwreck really IS a wreck now. Between deliberate depth charging of the wreck and salvaging that's been going on since at least the late 1930s, it's been picked over and is in VERY rough shape now. Personally, I think they carried munitions on that ship and HID the fact to protect some political careers including one very well-known later PM who was British's equivalent to the US Secr of the Navy during World War I but we won't mention names directly here!
I recently watched an old British documentary about the Lusitania and in it they were diving on it and using plastic explosives to remove the props and anchors. Pretty disrespectful in my eyes. Anyway, one of the propellers is on display in a park near some office buildings in the Dallas Texas area of all places.
But seriously, I think the best-looking ocean liners were built before 1920 I think those 4-funnel ships were particularly impressive looking their architecture. I do think the first two Olympic Class ships were the sleekest-looking superliners of their time. And yes, I do think the better-looking classes were the Olympic ships (except for Britannic; those heavy cargo cranes and ultra-duty lifeboat davits on that ship were hideous) and Lusitania/Mauretania. They had another Cunard ship called Aquitania which was a semi-sister ship to the Lusitania and Mauretania but it was more luxurious and biased towards comfort over speed like the Olympic class ocean liners.
@@TrekWorks I read they found an old silent film in one of the salvage expeditions. Surprisingly enough, some of the footage actually survived in the water for all those decades. They think there may be valuable painting STILL sealed in airtight cannisters. The problem is that salvaging is VERY restricted by the Irish government now and the wreck IS crumbling so it's getting more and more dangerous to do any interior explorations if they're at all possible now Oh, and I agree with cutting it up to remove parts -- I don't agree with that, either -- BUT the Royal Navy supposedly already depth-charged the wreck decades ago to chase out German subs (World War II) trying to use the wreck to hide and (conspiracy hat on, but I've said already I think there's more to this story than the "official history) they possibly removed evidence of munitions. I hate to say it but I think the Germans were right and contraband WAS being shipped on many ocean liners. The coal dust explosion theory is nice and it may be what happened (to sink the ship) BUT that ship was definitely carrying munitions.
Thanks for showing all the detail and how to solve problems. Well done!
Very, very creative approach to the lighting both in the LED/fiber optics for the portholes and the hull to base electrical contacts. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Cool power supply idea.
Looking forward to the finished product. Been doing an unlit Titanic but plan on a lighted one at some point. You've given me LOTS of ideas on how to accomplish this. Tip...EZ Line works great, but fly tying thread (06 or 08) gives you more options for colors. The shrouds were galvanized cable so grey would be accurate. Looking awesome so far!
Excellent work! I'm working on the 1/350 Titanic kit from minicraft 2012 pop with railings. Sad warps & over the top detail. Actually cut a finger on the flash of keel. So I sanded it all down & scab on candle tin to replicate the plate. I'm going to try heat gun to fix warps. Thanx for the info. Yours looks great!
This is looking great, I really like you idea for lighting it. Just wanted to add that Gold Medal Models does a railing set and deck chairs for this beauty.
Glad you finally got one...she is a pretty ship.
Superb Job These kits Are Very Rare Not To Many Were Produced From 1978 Through 1984. I Built One Of these on you tube
On My Channel . A Great Kit and One Of It Kind Ever Produced. Hardy
Well doneFrankie Day
Hi Frankie, I just finished watching your Lusitania build videos. I'll be very happy if mine turns out half as good! Wonderful job and I enjoyed your talk about some of the ships history as well. Love your positive attitude about modeling :)
looking great with that light, very nice work.
Looks great...thanks for sharing, a lot of work there but the payoff is fantastic
Great idea with the fiber optics, thanks for sharing, lots of info in this video, appreciate it!
Outstanding model ideas. I have an old Entex version half built in it's original box yet. Might just get it out and start finishing it.
Thanks, I've since finished the model and you can see it on my channel. Your lucky to have the kit. They are RARE! Enjoy building yours.
@@TrekWorks Thanks. It has been sitting in it's box for 30 years. It is time I finish it. Have several Titanic kits as well including the original Entex model. The Entex Titanic was the first model I put lights in a model using a 100 or so of those mini light bulbs that have two wires coming from the bulb. I think they were called wheat bulbs, but I do not remember. Look forward to seeing you build a 1/350 Titanic model.
Interesting subject and nicely done so far.
This looks awesome! Can't wait to see the finished product!
For the red and green navigation lights you mentioned using fiber optics curved down. How do you make the red and green colors?
Hi Boyd. Looking good so far. Enjoy the day. Ray L
Looking nice Boyd. I’ve got this kit also. I’m hoping for a 1/200 model of this to go with the upcoming Titanic kit.
Looks amazing. Can I ask what diameter fibre optic wire you used? Did you use different diameters? Also, what Kelvin are your LEDs to achieve that realistic light look? thank you!
Did you use a yellow or white LED as your source? I asked because I am lighting my Lusitania and want it to look more like incandescent lighting.
Have you considered getting deck transfers or real wood replacement decks? It can make the decks really pop rather then look plain single color. Also the lighting on the front facing portholes was usually dimmer then everywhere else to allow night sailing. Do you have an idea for this?
The kit is so old that nobody makes a wood deck set for it anymore.
Looks great! Thanks for the tips.
looks awesome
Hey Boyd you think you could show exactly how you got the lighting to turn on the way dose how you wired up the contact points in another video I ask because that's way I want my 1/350 Titanic lighting to turn on ?
I'll talk about that more in the next update.
@@TrekWorks thanks Boyd but I need to see how you did it like in the video you did on How to Solder LEDs & LED Strips video.
Nice so far
Looks great Boyd! Cant wait to see the final product. By the way, did you finish the Star Destroyer?
She's a beauty!!!!!!!
So far so good my friend.
What did you pay for the modell ?
I could imagine that its expience...
Is beautyful
Genius!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Awesome I just learned a better way for lighting, thanks
Are we following a DISASTER theme here, Boyd?
What's next Morro Castle or Andrea Doria? ;)
It's a good choice, the Lusitania. One of the first great disaster films about a shipwreck was "The Sinking of the Lusitania" animated by Winsor McCay creator of Little Nemo (in Slumberland) and Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated character with personality.
Beautiful ship when it was in service. It's unfortunate the shipwreck really IS a wreck now. Between deliberate depth charging of the wreck and salvaging that's been going on since at least the late 1930s, it's been picked over and is in VERY rough shape now. Personally, I think they carried munitions on that ship and HID the fact to protect some political careers including one very well-known later PM who was British's equivalent to the US Secr of the Navy during World War I but we won't mention names directly here!
I recently watched an old British documentary about the Lusitania and in it they were diving on it and using plastic explosives to remove the props and anchors. Pretty disrespectful in my eyes. Anyway, one of the propellers is on display in a park near some office buildings in the Dallas Texas area of all places.
But seriously, I think the best-looking ocean liners were built before 1920
I think those 4-funnel ships were particularly impressive looking their architecture. I do think the first two Olympic Class ships were the sleekest-looking superliners of their time.
And yes, I do think the better-looking classes were the Olympic ships (except for Britannic; those heavy cargo cranes and ultra-duty lifeboat davits on that ship were hideous) and Lusitania/Mauretania. They had another Cunard ship called Aquitania which was a semi-sister ship to the Lusitania and Mauretania but it was more luxurious and biased towards comfort over speed like the Olympic class ocean liners.
@@TrekWorks I read they found an old silent film in one of the salvage expeditions. Surprisingly enough, some of the footage actually survived in the water for all those decades.
They think there may be valuable painting STILL sealed in airtight cannisters.
The problem is that salvaging is VERY restricted by the Irish government now and the wreck IS crumbling so it's getting more and more dangerous to do any interior explorations if they're at all possible now
Oh, and I agree with cutting it up to remove parts -- I don't agree with that, either -- BUT the Royal Navy supposedly already depth-charged the wreck decades ago to chase out German subs (World War II) trying to use the wreck to hide and (conspiracy hat on, but I've said already I think there's more to this story than the "official history) they possibly removed evidence of munitions.
I hate to say it but I think the Germans were right and contraband WAS being shipped on many ocean liners. The coal dust explosion theory is nice and it may be what happened (to sink the ship) BUT that ship was definitely carrying munitions.