Towards the aft of the bow section, the deck levels have collapsed forming a layer cake of rubble, cable, girders, and rust. Due in part to both the initial snapping of the backbone at the surface and the final impact with the ocean floor, the deck collapse remains one of Titanic's defining features. The first step of creating Titanic's aft section was creating the boilers visible in the wreckage. I used cut sections of a mechanical pencil, perfectly round and the proper size to fit the adequate scale. In reality, the boilers would be 4 times the height of the average man. These boilers were used to power the largest single steam engines ever built, nearly 2 stories in height, each.
Above the boiler level sat the rest of the decks. I decided, again, to make these out of plasticard. I twisted and warped the ends with a pair of clippers and some help from a lighter. This helped simulate the twisted nature of the steel decking as it was ripped from its other half.
With cabling and debris added, the result begins to look more like the actual wreckage.
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