Titanic production reference model indicating the ship break from "Titanic". ...

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Titanic production reference model indicating the ship break from "Titanic". Titanic production reference model indicating the ship break from "Titanic". (TCF, 1997) A commercial model kit, assembled by Titanic production crew to serve as the 3D example of how the doomed ocean liner would have split in two. Consisting of a 30 x 3.5 in. plastic model assembled and painted primer gray. A 7 x 4 in. central section of the model's hull has been blacked out with paint indicating where the ship would have come apart after the infamous collision with an iceberg. While a store-bought model kit, the ship is assembled with the care and finesse expected of the best Hollywood model-makers in the business as directed by James Cameron, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker who started his career in the modelmaking department himself. With some hairline cracking and is placed on a 7 x 32 in. wooden plank painted ocean blue as a base. In production-used good condition. Special shipping arrangements will apply.

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