 At least since James Cameron's movie everybody knows about it: the titanic - majestic, full of splendor and the sign-board of the White-Star-Line. The supposedly unsinkable ship sank after a collision with an iceberg in April 1912. More than 1500 people lost their lives in this catastrophe.
My first model with 14
My acquaintance with the Titanic, this impressive and stylish ship of the White-Star-Line, however, began a long time before the movie. My father had already told us boys when we were children about the sinking of this ship and about the technical equipment on board. That fascinated us. The wish, to build a model of this ship, developed soon, but there was only limited material. A single picture created the basis for my first attempt. One could identify the result, that it should be the Titanic, but many questions remained open, e.g. the entire underwater ship.
That was about 1976 when I was 14 years old. From then on, I collected everything that existed about the Titanic, but that was not much. Only when Robert Ballard discovered the wreck, the ship was interesting again and the collecting became more productive. At Christmas 1992 the fever got me entirely because my wife gave me the work "Olympic & Titanic".
Within the next 2 1/2 years the model was created with the yardstick of 1:100, which was very detailed. Over 2.500 hours of work were put into this ship and almost everything is hand-made. You can read more about it in the building report.
Thanks
Although I built the model on my own, I have to say thanks for the support that I got. At first I want to thank my family that had to manage without me in the time of the building. Especially my wife Ute has always been a critical assistant with the work and today she is even prouder than I of the created model. But I also thank the joiner master Ralf Baensch from Ahlbeck, who generously placed wood ledges and furnished plates at my disposal, Mister Eichholz, who reduced some of my work and veered more than 1000 bull's eyes out of brass cane. Also thanks to the master-glazier Niels Fetting who built the first glass box for free and therefore made the first exhibition possible. Hans Buchholtz carved some small parts for me.
Especially thanks to my niece Susi who translated these pages in English.
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