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Published: 2014-10-03 00:05:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 969; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 1
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Britannic departs from her "base" of "Mudros" and sets off back to Southampton while a battleship watches her departure, a bit disappointed of her leaving. You can imagine how different the port would look with Britannic around!IDK! XD
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How did you get this model to float? I tried getting models of Titanic to float but they keep on rolling over.
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You need weights on the bottom
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Ah What type of weights you used on your Britannic? and How much would you suggests?
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Well the ship weighs around 3lbs.
I actually have no set weights, there's literally rocks being used.
But what I found on my 1/350 models (this doesn't apply to smaller ones like the 1/570) is that the use of a magnet, or something much denser is a good thing to put amidships so it stays balanced, so it doesn't roll over as easily.
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did you make this from a kit? i never heard of a Brittanic kit
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There are no Britannic models, It was modified, but I couldn't go the easy way there either, since the brass conversion sets are impossible to find. The extra pieces were borrowed from other models, or scratc built.
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you did a good job of it, those davitts can be 3d laser printed for the 1:350 kit but are very expensive
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Thank you, they are actually spare cargo cranes from a previous model, and they can lower lifeboats as well! All are movable , including the rudder...it is true that they turned very slowly.
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Do you remember the name of the model you got the cranes from?
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It was just an old Titanic model of the same scale, which was also a Britannic model. It had gotten beaten up, and I decided to just redo the model, rather than repair it, since my modelling skills had improved by then.
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was it the 1:350 kit ?
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yes it was, the Centennial Editions are really cheap now:
Centennial Edition $55.00
Regular..................$95.00
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She was decommissioned for a short time after her third voyage, but she was brought back in later.
She probably would have sunk in 1917/18 if not in 1916, since unrestricted submarine warfare let u-boats sink hospital ships without warning.
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Ah yes, having Britannic around was a lovely sight indeed for the gentleman.
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Indeed.
She was known as the best hospital ship in the war, and the only other ship that could carry more patients than her was Aquitania.
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