Doors 1 & 2

If you look at the model's forward well deck you will see two pairs of doors on the aft of the forecastle. One pair on either side of the #2 hatch.

You need to add three to these walls.

Add a door on each of the bulkheads that turn foreword under the forecastle on either side of the # 2 hatch.

This is a single door in the style of the paired doors mentioned above. Fabricate these out of sheet plastic and paint them to match the well deck colors, white on the upper half and primer red/brown on the bottom half.

Door 3

The third door leads to the Lamp Room and is located to the port side of the port pair of double doors. The opening can be seen in the photos of the sunken Titanic's well deck area. The Lamp Room door sat on the wall between the port bollard and port side door pair and appears to be full length.

Again, just use a small rectangle of sheet plastic to fabricate. Glue the door just starboard of the port bollard and underneath the pipe that runs along the top of the bulkhead to port .

If you are going to add this pipe (see the PIPES section) do so -before- adding the Lamp Room door so you do not block the door.

Paint the door white on the upper half and primer red/brown on the lower half to match the well deck.

Doors 4 and 5

On the lower part of J39 is the forward bulkhead of B deck, this contains six windows and two port holes. The portholes were in fact doors.

Used a hobby knife and a straight edge to scribe a door shape around each porthole. Check Ballard's `Exploring the Titanic' page 44 for a visual of the doors.

Another method is to make them out of sheet plastic and glue them into place but don't forget to re-drill out the portholes. We found scribing the easiest method.

Doors 6 & 7

Two small half height doors need to be added to the either side of the HULL as follows:

Located between the posts holding up the floor of A deck. They sit above the 3rd and 4th porthole of C deck aft of the forward well deck. The tops of these doors included the wood hand railings. See Exploring the Titanic, page 44 for a visual reference.

Fabricate from sheet plastic and paint white with brown tops.

Doors 8 & 9

A single door is located in the center of the enclosed crew stairwell (port and starboard) leading down from the boat deck. We placed ours so it was visible from the side between the 2nd and 3rd post on A-deck underneath the Wing Cabs.

Fabricate from sheet plastic and paint white.

• Note - It is not 100% certain at the time of this writing if the crew stairwell doors were there or if the enclosure just had open doorways. Bruce Beveridge comments: "...that the plans call for a door and there is some pictures which possibly show a door (without a port hole) but the modeler should leave it off since in every picture of T where this entrance is seen, the door is either left open or removed. The door can not be seen." Modeler's choice

Doors 10 &11

These doors are to be added to the partitions you made for the forward end of the A deck promenade in the BULKHEADS section.

Once you have made the partition and bent it to the angle required, fabricate two doors out of sheet plastic and glue to the flat areas next to the notched out windows you made.

Door 12

Part J 29 needs to be rebuilt before you can add the door. See BULKHEAD section.

Cut out a single door from sheet plastic, drill out a port hole in the top 1/3 of the door and glue this to the port side of the windows. The door is not full length but was raised up from the deck level slightly.

See WINDOWS section for description of the windows.

Doors 13, 14 & 15

These are located along B deck towards the aft end of the A deck private promenade windows and bow end of the 1st class B deck entrance. The style of door can be seen on the model's hull immediately in front of the Cafe Parisien. There are three doors located here and placed as follows: C

Cut from sheet plastic, glue and paint white.

Doors 16 & 17

These are located along B deck on the bow end of the 1st class B deck entrance. It does -not- have the 3rd door aft of the private promenade as seen on the starboard side, just the two at the 1st class entrance.

Cut from sheet plastic, glue and paint white.

Doors 18 & 19

Port and starboard of the deckhouse there is a 'cubicle'. A sliding door needs to be added to the out board bulkhead of each 'cubicle', these doors lead to stairs down to A deck.

Open: Cut sheet plastic to represent the width of two doors. Paint the forward section black to represent an open door.

Closed: Cut sheet plastic to represent one door and clue to forward corner of bulkhead. To represent the runner cut pulled sprue to twice the length of the door. Glue sprue flush to bottom and top of door starting at the forward edge of the door.

Aft of the portside's sliding door add a deck lamp and small hand rail. Seen here on the Olympic.

Door 20

Add a door to the aft bulkhead of the port 'cubicle' near the corner (this was known as the chair room on the Olympic). It should face the cowl vent that sits in front of the aft expansion joint. It is a single door.

Paint all doors white.

Door 25 & 26

On the walls facing port and starboard aft of the Palm Court sliding doors were single doors with a porthole. Fashion from sheet plastic.

Paint the doors white.

Add a door to the starboard aft side of the Tank Room between the two forward windows. You will also fill a window here (See WINDOW section). Cut door out from sheet plastic and glue into position on the bulkhead.

Add a mat below it. (See MATS section)

Door 28

On top of the 2nd class entrance's deckhouse sat another structure for the elevator machinery. Add another door to the bow wall facing funnel #4. The model provides a door on the stern side of this structure.

Also add a ladder to the bulkhead on the starboard side of this door. See LADDERS section.

Doors 29 & 30

This is an interior detail.

Add a pair of swinging portholed doors to the bulkhead just past the curved bay window Cafe Parisien as seen on page 52 of Leo Marriott's "Titanic". Note that these portholes were larger than the standard portholes. Construct these from sheet plastic and glued them into place after drilling out the portholes (or you can paint black dots if you do not wish to drill them).

On the stern wall was a door that led to the open B deck aft promenade probably used by the crew only. Cut one from sheet plastic and glue it to the promenade side of the partition where it will be seen.

Doors 31 & 32

On the forward end of the aft well deck there is a bulkhead that housed the 2nd class staircase. This bulkhead angles back on either side to pass behind the cranes. Add a watertight door to both angled sections about 1/3 of the way from the aft corner.

Doors are white on upper half, primer red/brown on bottom half.

Doors 34 & 35

Behind the #6 hatch is the third class entrance. The bulkheads turn aft shortly outboard of the edges of #6 hatch. A door needs to be added approx. half way down the bulkhead and behind the two vents that must be added under the stairs to the Poop deck. See VENTS section.

Fashion these from sheet plastic and glue them to the bulkheads.

Paint the top half white and the bottom half primer red/brown.

Door 35

Add a door to the port side of the support underneath the docking bridge's stairs for use by the crew. See DOCKING BRIDGE section.