RMS Titanic Model [7ft Version]
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This is my model of the RMS Titanic designed in LDD. The story of this ocean liner is so well-known in our culture that I'd be shocked to meet someone who has reached past adolescents who is not familiar with its story, therefore we shan't waste each other's time with a biography of the ship.
This LEGO rendering of the Titanic is 7.3 feet long [7'4" / 2.24M / 280 studs longs / 28 studs wide], and contains a total of over 7,000 bricks. This model is a digital reproduction of my model seen sinking in my swimming pool found on youtube at this link. Some modifications were made to the model compared, so this isn't an exact replica, but all changes were done to improve the appearance and accuracy of the model. Here is an non-exhaustive list of changes made; the funnels of the ship were downsized slightly as they were disproportional with the rest of the ship. The shape hull of the ship has been completely redone. Digital plans from the actual Titanic were used to see how the different frames of the hull were shaped, assisting with building the curvature of the bow and stern. A better method than my previous strategy of just "fudging it". Details for various portions of the decks are now improved, these improvements were aided by the limitless supply of plates and bricks in LDD, versus my finite collection. This lead to the addition of details such as guard rails on particular parts of the decking, also 'A' Deck's height has been increased by one plate.
If one were actually looking to build a complete replica of this ship, it would require a great deal of money, fortunately a cheaper, yet smaller, five foot version is also available here. The ship is purposefully 'under-detailed', therefore any skilled builder could easily go in and improve the appearance of this model; instead of making a heavily detailed materpiece, I choose to build my ships out of mainly "basic" blocks, so that it would actually be feasible to build at this large scale in real life. Another thing to note about this model is that there are no internal supports provided, consequently requiring one to have to design their own systems of supports to reinforce the ship. Without added supports it would not by physically possible to build this model, further increasing the total cost of building a replica of my model. Even if you were to replace all the costly large [1x10, 1x8 1x16...] bricks and large plates [4x10, 2x16, 6x16...] with cheaper bricks like 1x4 bricks or 4x4 plates and buy only used bricks off Bricklink.com, it wouldn't be shocking if this model still costs close to ~$700 USD.
If all listed previously doesn't deter you and you are quite the adventurous or endowed builder, wanting to build the model, I recommend against trying to use the generated instructions that LDD creates to assist in building your own model. If your computer actually able to renders it without crashing, it would probably take many hours to generate; unless you got yourself a MLG power rig, and even then it will not really be too useful. LDD tends to order the instructions linearly based on when you placed the bricks. The order that parts of the ship were built is far from ideal. My advice is to copy simply by looking at my model. To help with that, go into the settings of LDD and select, "Show Brick Outlines", this makes it easier to see the different kinds of bricks. To get better viewing angles of the model, depending on your keyboard, use the (Alt/Shift) keys and the mouse to drag your camera view around the model to see how various sections are constructed, also double clicking on a brick will center the camera on that brick. To get a complete list and quantity of all necessary parts, you WILL have to generate the building guide; After it generates, be sure to click the, "export to HTML, button, and at the very end of the generated HTML document you'll find a part list.
This LEGO rendering of the Titanic is 7.3 feet long [7'4" / 2.24M / 280 studs longs / 28 studs wide], and contains a total of over 7,000 bricks. This model is a digital reproduction of my model seen sinking in my swimming pool found on youtube at this link. Some modifications were made to the model compared, so this isn't an exact replica, but all changes were done to improve the appearance and accuracy of the model. Here is an non-exhaustive list of changes made; the funnels of the ship were downsized slightly as they were disproportional with the rest of the ship. The shape hull of the ship has been completely redone. Digital plans from the actual Titanic were used to see how the different frames of the hull were shaped, assisting with building the curvature of the bow and stern. A better method than my previous strategy of just "fudging it". Details for various portions of the decks are now improved, these improvements were aided by the limitless supply of plates and bricks in LDD, versus my finite collection. This lead to the addition of details such as guard rails on particular parts of the decking, also 'A' Deck's height has been increased by one plate.
If one were actually looking to build a complete replica of this ship, it would require a great deal of money, fortunately a cheaper, yet smaller, five foot version is also available here. The ship is purposefully 'under-detailed', therefore any skilled builder could easily go in and improve the appearance of this model; instead of making a heavily detailed materpiece, I choose to build my ships out of mainly "basic" blocks, so that it would actually be feasible to build at this large scale in real life. Another thing to note about this model is that there are no internal supports provided, consequently requiring one to have to design their own systems of supports to reinforce the ship. Without added supports it would not by physically possible to build this model, further increasing the total cost of building a replica of my model. Even if you were to replace all the costly large [1x10, 1x8 1x16...] bricks and large plates [4x10, 2x16, 6x16...] with cheaper bricks like 1x4 bricks or 4x4 plates and buy only used bricks off Bricklink.com, it wouldn't be shocking if this model still costs close to ~$700 USD.
If all listed previously doesn't deter you and you are quite the adventurous or endowed builder, wanting to build the model, I recommend against trying to use the generated instructions that LDD creates to assist in building your own model. If your computer actually able to renders it without crashing, it would probably take many hours to generate; unless you got yourself a MLG power rig, and even then it will not really be too useful. LDD tends to order the instructions linearly based on when you placed the bricks. The order that parts of the ship were built is far from ideal. My advice is to copy simply by looking at my model. To help with that, go into the settings of LDD and select, "Show Brick Outlines", this makes it easier to see the different kinds of bricks. To get better viewing angles of the model, depending on your keyboard, use the (Alt/Shift) keys and the mouse to drag your camera view around the model to see how various sections are constructed, also double clicking on a brick will center the camera on that brick. To get a complete list and quantity of all necessary parts, you WILL have to generate the building guide; After it generates, be sure to click the, "export to HTML, button, and at the very end of the generated HTML document you'll find a part list.
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Requires LEGO DIGITAL DESIGNER to view model
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