Did you know there was a massive whacking great lump of a ship that was never supposed to sink and then it, well, did. And it happened 100 years ago? No. Well join the hareem of people on Twitter who this week admitted that they thought the Titanic was just a film not an actual historical event. Shambolic.

If you are one of those people, we urge you to immediately go out and purchase this rather fantasmagorical air fix model of the legendary vessel herself and do some historical re-enactments and some serious Google based learning to make up for lost time.

On a more serious note, it is indeed a century since the ill fated liner met her fate in the north Atlantic and while the box office rakes in many dollars with a re-release Airfix have, we feel, gone one better by creating a 1:1400 scale (it was really rather huge after all) replica model of the ship, made up of 381 pieces.

And if you don’t think you’ll get your model all fitted together in time there is slightly smaller version at a 1:1700 scale to consider (priced at £49.99 and £24.99). We’ve got our paintbrushes all ready to pay homage on the 14th.