That is a great build! I have the kit waiting to be built as well. I just hope it turns out as nice as yours!
More Titanic trivia...
There actually was a passenger by the name of Jack Dawson on board the Titanic who died...
The Titanic was the first ship ever to use the emergency call sign SOS...
Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold waters of the Atlantic. He was reportedly drunk-as-a-skunk as the Titanic sank, and the amount of whiskey in his body seemed to serve as a type of anti-freeze, protecting him from the frigid temperatures of the ocean water. The character in the movie Titanic, who is seen peering at Rose while gripping the railing of the vertical stern with one hand and his flask with the other as the ship goes down, is based on Joghin’s real life persona...
The Titanic was the first ship to ever have a heated swimming pool...
The Titanic almost did not make it out of the harbor at the start of it's voyage. The suction from it's propellers was so great, that it sucked the R.M.S. New York away from it's pier, snapping the ropes holding it to the pier. The two ships were mere feet from collision when Captain E.J. Smith ordered the engines stopped. The R.M.S. New York was then towed back to the pier. If they had collided, the White Star Line would have had to delay the maiden voyage, and the Titanic would not have hit the iceberg and sunk...
Morgan Robertson the author of Futility (as mentioned on another post), also wrote a book about Japanese flying machines attacking an island in the Pacific on a December day in the early 1940's...