Academy Boat Model Building Kit, R.M.S. Titanic Centenary Edition

I am an amateur modeler (built various tanks, ships and planes). This kit is detailed enough plus comes with colored parts with a low price tag.It took me roughly 8 hrs to put it together, many repetitive small parts. Most parts fit very well, the end result is also satisfactory to me.

This is a really nice model of the Titanic. I really like the way the pieces are already colored. That being said, I do have a few minor complaints. One being the peices that the propellers attaches to are molded in black instead of maroon like the rest of the bottom hull. Two there is a section of deck that has the deck plank pattern but it is white instead of tan like the rest of the deck pieces. Three, the Grand Staircase Glass dome housing is done in tan instead of white. Other than the color issues I can't complain. I really love the brass colored propellers that are included aside from the standard black molded propellers. I also like the fact that the portholes and some of the windows are open. You can install battery operated miniature led lights into it if you want to. There are openings in the deck layers for you to do so. It's basically the same Titanic model kit that does come with LED lights, minus the lights. Assembling it is a little tricky in regards to the cranes and bollards. As well as the other smaller pieces. The only things that are missing are the support cables for the funnels and the telegraph wire that goes from the foremast to the rearmast. But seeing as how the model it's self is not that big, roughly 14 inches when assembled, I can over look it.

Fun to build. Took 3 to 4 hours. We did it over a few days. The parts are very small. You do not need to paint it which is Nice. Final result is a nice display piece.

Great little kit. The instructions were straight forward. My 9 year old son and I put it together. The parts are so tiny that he didn't quite have the dexterity to glue them without help so I was the gluer and he was the part-finder. Definitely make sure you have a pair of sharp nail scissors to cut the parts out and make sure you hold your finger over the part so it doesn’t zing across the room and get lost in the carpet, not that it happened to be or anything.....By the way, the kit doesn’t include glue or file. I used a nail file to true up the parts/remove flashing so they fit nicely.

This was a hard model to assemble but was a nice project to do with my 7 yr old grandson to introduce him to the art of model making. The parts are very small and one needs to be careful to cut out with model cutting tool. A good set of tweezers in necessary. The directions are not that great. One may also need a magnifying glass. The finished product looks pretty good and suitable for a display in his room. Not a toy to play with as it is very fragile. I would go for a larger scale model or do a Revell kit and do your own painting.

I got this for my daughter as she is a huge Thai Tanic fan. She’s 12 and she did it in two days probably in about 10 hours total. She absolutely loved it. It has a lot of little pieces yet the ship itself is in pretty much one big piece but there’s a lot of little pieces for the detail. There’s no glue included so if you do get this he will need superglue.

My 6 year old son is really into boats, Titanic included. I wanted something we could work on together. This was a little advanced for his age, so I did a lot of work, but it was a fun project for us to do together. It wasn't overly complicated and turned out very nice. Not having to paint pieces was a big plus. I'd recommend.

One big investment or time, patience and therefore money. Pieces have to be dealer with tweezers and magnifying glasses, superglue for time and it’s soooo small that slips I’ll over tools and finger. It’s not good material so it can be used as art or conversation pierce, but too frágil for a toy. Pictures are misleading, it fits in the pal of your hand.