CHRIS CLIFFORD finds Suyata’s Titanic Port Scene & Vehicle a decidedly different – and fun – build project.
Key Model World first published an in-box review of Suyata’s inventive Titanic Port Scene & Vehicle soon after its release earlier this year. It’s an ingenious package, to no particular scale, but portrays the infamous passenger liner visiting a far-flung location (distinctly possible for the real vessel had it not sunk on its maiden voyage)… and in caricature form with distorted dimensions, almost from the pages of a graphic novel.
Suyata had already released its 15cm-long snap-fit Titanic in a Seal & Iceberg Scene boxing, with chunks of ice and a cute seal family also rendered in styrene. Here though, said ship comes with a whole dockside (in a nameless city/country) and adjacent buildings, a steampunk-style flying machine and a whacky vehicle that looks a little like a skinny Japanese pagoda on wheels. It all fits with the fantasy aesthetic and is enormous fun for any modeller who likes out-of-the-ordinary subjects (especially anyone with maritime leanings). And different styrene colours are employed too, so you don’t have to worry about painting. If you're the type of modeller who enjoys Hasegaw…
