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How about this as a part work, with lighting kit it would be glorious No finer ship than the QM2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tur0RGjESSs
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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Not a ship with history. Titanic has a story and is known around the world. QM2 is just a large Liner thats all. Don't think there would be great appeal for it.
Chris  On the bench 1/350 Revell Tirpitz Platinum Edition (Pontos PE and Wooden deck) plus extra Eduard PE set and extra MK1 door sets.
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A nice thought in principle but there’s no great appeal for liner kits to the mass market iother than Titanic which is done to death and is why the general kit market has few choices and only one ever made it as a Partwork (other than Titanic) which was the Hachette 1/250 SS France., it didn’t sell too well even in France and funnily enough a later test of the revised Hachette Titanic as a lit version even failed to make it to market 😱
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It’s about as good as it gets in terms of QM2
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magpie1832 wrote:Not a ship with history. Titanic has a story and is known around the world. QM2 is just a large Liner thats all. Don't think there would be great appeal for it.
Chris Totally get that, and that is the problem with Liners generally not much in the way of a story for most of them, if you think about what is the second most famous liner of all time the field then opens up, could be the Carpaithia, if you know the Titanic story you know about Carpaithia. or I would argue Lusitania famed for being sunk at the opening of WW1 or possibly Queen Mary as she still exists and people can visit her, but its a very small field, even if many of them were famed for luxury and are very beautiful ships. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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But the reason why you don’t see kits of such as Carpathia is the very fact that kit manufacturers don’t see much of a return., there not going to invest thousands in tooling and production costs to sell 100 kits a year. As Carpathia is a Titanic sister ship (and very similar), you could possibly consider a kit bash from a Titanic kit.
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Tomick wrote:But the reason why you don’t see kits of such as Carpathia is the very fact that kit manufacturers don’t see much of a return., there not going to invest thousands in tooling and production costs to sell 100 kits a year. As Carpathia is a Titanic sister ship (and very similar), you could possibly consider a kit bash from a Titanic kit. I understand that and get it totally Carpaithia was a Cunnard ship Britannic and Olympic are ir titanic's Sisters, there is a resin kit of Carpathaia, the resin industry is more suited to the small runs “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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Sorry am losing the plot with Titanic talk lol - Ivernia and Saxonia can be considered something akin to half-sisters of Carpathia. The trio were ordered together, Ivernia and Carpathia from Swan & Hunter, Saxonia from John Brown. Ivernia and Saxonia were launched in 1899 and measured 600 feet long. Carpathia followed in 1902, at 558 feet. Presumably, the hull forms for I and S were scaled down appropriately to fit the smaller Carpathia. She's the runt of the litter, so to speak. The hulls appear to follow similar plans, but the superstructure is considerably different. So it looks like your stuck with a resin Carpathia for now and seems that even plans are are a rarity.
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I think a more iconic modern ship than the QM2 would be the QE2.
A seriously beautiful and globally loved ship.
It does have a history, and even a war history. It wasn't meant to be called QE2 either. It was just Queen Elizabeth.
Cunard went into a flap when the Queen launched her and called her 'Queen Elizabeth the second'.
Mind you, as a part work... probably not.
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She is agood looking ship but i would think Lucitania would be the next biggest pull after Titanic just because of the world shock at her sinking “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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