This is the very new first model from a new Hong Kong company called Suyata Models. The kit (SL001) is a cartoon version of that spectacular failure of a ship, the R.M.S. Titanic, or as The Onion put it, "the World's Largest Metaphor".
This is a superb kit in so many respects. The moulding is beautiful and the fit fantastic. It is cast in four colours, but I still painted everything using various Vallejos and Tamiya gloss white acrylics.
Witht he kit I also bought the laser cut wooden decking. There were about 25 pieces of decking, and I took the better part of a day applying it after first sticking it to my fingers. However, it was a great way to learn about applying wooden decking to model ships. There was no decking for the aft flying bridge so I used excess wood to make proper decking for that piece. I also added chain for the anchors; rigging; a sternpost flag; and filled in all the portholes with clear glue.
Here is my first-view pre-build in-box review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjsfoTdB2cU
The Onion says this was the final transmission from the Titanic: "Titanic struck by icy representation of nature's supremacy STOP insufficient lifeboats due to pompous certainty in man's infallibility STOP Microcosm of larger society STOP". Strangely there are almost as many lifeboats in this cartoon kit as there were on the real ocean liner.
John Clearwater
Work-in-progress in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast,
which just so happens to be in my spare bathroom...
