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(Yes, I know OSHA didn't exist until decades after the Titanic disaster, and wouldn't have had jurisdiction over the ship even if they had. The Title is still funny to me, given one of the photos below.)
This was a fascinatingly asymmetric stage, especially given that the deck this stage is going to support is not itself asymmetric. I think the way it's going to be built will require the asymmetry, but we'll find out. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Here's the mise-en-place.
I started by adding a few internal supports, which you'll see two photos down, and then I built and added these two structures.
I built the next layer of tiny rooms; we're up to the upper decks, and this one is a mirror image of the same deck from box one.
Next I added some internal walls along the length of the ship.
I put in some more internal supports, asymmetrically as I mentioned above.
Also interesting to note is this piece, which is only attached by the one stud in the center, with one end resting unattached on the flat part of the tan piece, and the other end floating over empty space. It will stay that way until halfway through the next stage, when more blocks are added on top of it that will attach it to the blocks around it. It was unstable enough that I thought I must have messed up, but I triple checked and everything is where it's supposed to be.
Finally I built and added the outer walls, and the tiles on top of them. When I make multiple identical sub-assemblies like this, I like to include these progressive build shots so you can see how they're built; in this case I think it's fairly obvious, but I also just enjoy posing the shots.
That's it for the build, but there's three more photos. First, because of the asymmetrical internal structure, you can see different views through the top layer of windows on each side of the ship. The difference is subtle enough, and the views are abstract enough, that I don't think it's an intentional detail, but I thought it was still interesting enough to photograph.
And finally, the photo that prompted the title. Sometimes during builds I notice internal views that I think are neat, even though they won't be visible once the build is complete. Here I know this isn't what the inside of the full-size ship looked like (obviously), and even if it was, it wouldn't have actually been built in vertical slices like these, but I nonetheless imagine this as an in-progress shot from the construction of the full-size ship, with builders in hard hats posed around, including a few on climbing equipment up on the walls and internal scaffolding. (I am definitely not an expert in early 20th century ship building, in case that wasn't already patently obvious.)
Thanks as always for reading! Discussion prompt, creativity version: In the Lego model, that door frame piece on top of the red block in the photo above is just being used as a structural piece. In the fantasy world where this is a full-size shot of a ship being built in vertical slices for some reason, does it serve some other purpose? Is there something inside that central tower running along the front half of this section?
This was a fascinatingly asymmetric stage, especially given that the deck this stage is going to support is not itself asymmetric. I think the way it's going to be built will require the asymmetry, but we'll find out. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Here's the mise-en-place.
I started by adding a few internal supports, which you'll see two photos down, and then I built and added these two structures.
I built the next layer of tiny rooms; we're up to the upper decks, and this one is a mirror image of the same deck from box one.
Next I added some internal walls along the length of the ship.
I put in some more internal supports, asymmetrically as I mentioned above.
Also interesting to note is this piece, which is only attached by the one stud in the center, with one end resting unattached on the flat part of the tan piece, and the other end floating over empty space. It will stay that way until halfway through the next stage, when more blocks are added on top of it that will attach it to the blocks around it. It was unstable enough that I thought I must have messed up, but I triple checked and everything is where it's supposed to be.
Finally I built and added the outer walls, and the tiles on top of them. When I make multiple identical sub-assemblies like this, I like to include these progressive build shots so you can see how they're built; in this case I think it's fairly obvious, but I also just enjoy posing the shots.
That's it for the build, but there's three more photos. First, because of the asymmetrical internal structure, you can see different views through the top layer of windows on each side of the ship. The difference is subtle enough, and the views are abstract enough, that I don't think it's an intentional detail, but I thought it was still interesting enough to photograph.
And finally, the photo that prompted the title. Sometimes during builds I notice internal views that I think are neat, even though they won't be visible once the build is complete. Here I know this isn't what the inside of the full-size ship looked like (obviously), and even if it was, it wouldn't have actually been built in vertical slices like these, but I nonetheless imagine this as an in-progress shot from the construction of the full-size ship, with builders in hard hats posed around, including a few on climbing equipment up on the walls and internal scaffolding. (I am definitely not an expert in early 20th century ship building, in case that wasn't already patently obvious.)
Thanks as always for reading! Discussion prompt, creativity version: In the Lego model, that door frame piece on top of the red block in the photo above is just being used as a structural piece. In the fantasy world where this is a full-size shot of a ship being built in vertical slices for some reason, does it serve some other purpose? Is there something inside that central tower running along the front half of this section?