Hi.
I could say I'm somekind of a modeler myself. I've made three Titanic models of cardboard and they were all over 2 meters long.
I used a little plastic model as a starter, but it was too small and i wanted to make a bigger one,( sounds just like mr Ismay)
Eventually they grew so big that the last one had to be done on our long corridor so that it could fit out of our house. (My parents didn't like that) I sank that one in a lake near our sommer cottage and it really looked like Titanic with her huge stern up in the air. Of course I collected all the trash away afterwards and burned it.
It was a day to remember...