1/350 titanic scale hull plates ?

I am helping my son in a science project and have a Revell 1/350th Titanic hull. I notices the overlapping hull plates at least appear to a laymen to be hugely out of scale. Were the overlapping hull plates really that thick?

AL

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You are right, the plate thickness on the Titanic plastic models are way out of scale. Even on a very large model, say 1/96 scale, the plate thickness would be subtle, maybe .010 or so. To give you an example, when we make up hulls in large scale we usually tape and just apply a few extra coats of primer to represent hull plating, if it is done at all. Other guys use very thin aluminum strips.

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