HMHS Britannic

[james_TW]

Total long shot here and I hope PH can help me...

My (8 year old) son loves Titanic and everything to do with it - He reads up on its history and can happily recite most of it and some obscure facts back to me that even I didn't know. However, what he's asked for, for Christmas, is a model of the HMHS Britannic - Unfortunately, I'm struggling to find this anywhere as searches usually point me towards the Titanic, of which he already has several models of...

Can anyone on PH help me here at all?

Thanks

JTW

[dr_gn]

Do you mean models to build yourself, or to buy?

If the former, I'd have thought simply putting a Britannic colour scheme on a model of the Titanic would get you pretty close. The engineering differences discernable on a small scale model could be fairly easily scratch built I'd imagine.

[james_TW]

Either, or - He's 8 so it'd need to be relatively robust and/or easy to build and of a reasonable size...

[dr_gn]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Riley Blue]

I can't help with the model but you might want to take him to the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick: https://www.classiclodges.co.uk/the-white-swan/tit...

[dr_gn]

Regarding the colour scheme - You could get some Tamiya white primer spray can for the white bits (covers very nicely); it would be a simple masking job for the rest of the hull. The red crosses could be cut from some standard small scale ww2 ambulance decals (try Hannants), and for the green stripes, you could get some plain decal paper, spray it green and cut appropriate length strips off it. That way there’s no masking, and if you mess up you can have as many goes as you need.

The extra lifeboats might be available 3D printed from somewhere like shapeways.

[DamienB]

The Revell easyclick 1/600 Titanic painted as Brittanic would do the job nicely, great kit, very few bits need glue. My 8 year old loved it.

[Starfighter]

Don’t forget to add the crew.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

[AshVX220]

Starfighter said:

Don’t forget to add the crew.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

Thanks for that link, absolutely remarkable!

[Derek Smith]

dr_gn said:

The extra lifeboats might be available 3D printed from somewhere like shapeways.

Better late than never.

I wonder how many additional survivors there would have been with sufficient lifeboats.