This is a first look in the box of the new TITANIC egg/cartoon scale model released in 2020. TITANIC SEAL & ICEBERG SCENE, from Suyata (HK) International Co., Ltd, of Hong Kong (kit #SL001). The kit is not officially available in North America due to lack of a distributor, but I acquired this one from the factory in China. It arrived in about 17 days by post.
Quality and details are excellent. It can be made waterline or full hull version. All parts are moulded in appropriate colours, but any purist will of course paint most everything. Technically it is a snap-together kit, but of course purists will glue everything in place and add rigging. Overall it is 150 mm long. For reasons I do not understand, all of the six seals in the kit have names. Even the small seals are the size of a funnels on the ship. Real wooden decks as extras are available for this Suyata kit on-line for only about $10. The only negative is the lack of decals for the hull. This seems odd given the quality and the decal for the base/stand.
Overall this kit is far and away better than the new Meng cartoon kit of the Titanic, which has fewer parts, fewer decks, and is overall smaller. This would make a great kit to do with a child over a weekend, or for an actual modeller to do up fancy.
My video review on youtube is attached here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjsfoTdB2cU
John Clearwater
