COBI's R.M.S. Titanic at 1:450 is built from 848 blocks, 63 cm long, and comes with a display stand. Every marking is printed onto the blocks; nothing needs gluing or painting.
This is the version built to be played with as well as displayed. Wheels are hidden in the flat underside so the ship rolls across a floor or a table, and the rudder, cranes and propellers all move. COBI reworked this edition with new printed brick patterns and a stiffer internal structure.
What moved her
Three propellers drove Titanic, and they did not all work the same way. The two outer shafts were turned by conventional steam engines; the centre one ran off a turbine fed with the exhaust steam the other two had finished with — an arrangement that recovered energy which would otherwise have gone up the funnels.
Feeding them took 29 boilers and 159 coal furnaces, and every shovelful went in by hand. Around 600 tonnes of coal a day were moved by firemen and trimmers working four-hour shifts in the heat below the waterline, out of sight of the passengers in the dining saloon above. The men who kept the ship moving were the ones least likely to reach a lifeboat.
Which Titanic to buy
COBI makes three, and they are different products rather than different prices for the same thing:
Set 1680 is 1:700, 593 pieces, 38.5 cm — the small display model. This set, 1688, is 1:450, 848 pieces, 63 cm, and the only one with wheels. Set 1686 is 1:300, 3,260 pieces, 91 cm — a centrepiece and a project of weeks. If the ship is for a child, this is the one.
Specifications
Pieces: 848 · Scale: 1:450 · Age: 8+
Model dimensions: 63 × 6.5 × 14 cm (24.8 × 2.6 × 5.5 in)
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