Hueforge Olympic In Dazzle Camoflarge 1914

Hello and welcome to my latest share - so I actually wasn't planning to do another entry for the battleship contest due to a number of factors mainly that the other two took an awful lot of time to complete, but then I remembered the history of RMS Olympic, the full sister ship to the ill-fated Titanic and I felt compelled to create some work in her honour. 

If you don't know her story I've detailed her journey below and I'm sure once you read it you too will see why she should be remembered, more so than both of her sisters Titanic and Britannic! Fun fact is that most of the original photos (unless of the wreck) in books/online etc of “Titanic” are actually that of Olympic as she was built and completed first, and as both ships where identical inside and out to save time and money they reused the photos and just labelled them Titanic. Yes I'm a bit of a Titanic buff lol. 

This is a hueforge painting which I've created of her showing her loading troops on during WW1 in her troopship days so she is painted in her special Dazzle Camouflage. I wanted this image to be in the style of an old photograph postcard hence the writing included which reads “The Olympic” “Old Reliable A faithful servant of the empire” . I believe that this is a good representation of the time period. 

I will also be shortly be sharing a 3d model of her in her early troopship colours and her sister Britannic in her hospital colour  for you to print alongside this hueforge. I will expanding this to include her well known sister ship The Titanic very soon, so follow us for more.

The print profile shared is the same as shown in the photos and there are genuine print photos included in this main page. It has colour swap commands for AMS if you wish to still print with manual colour changes remove the filament swap commands in the preview and replace with pauses at the below stated layers. 

This print uses 4 colours black, blue grey, grey and white and the swap details are below

Swap Instructions:
    Start with Black
    At layer #10 (0.88mm) swap to Black
    At layer #19 (1.6mm) swap to Blue Gray
    At layer #20 (1.68mm) swap to Grey
    At layer #28 (2.32mm) swap to White for the rest.

If you wish to rescale please feel free just untick the uniform scale box resize and then put your Z height back to 100% or your colours will be off.

I really hope you love  “Old Reliable” as much as we do and as always Happy Printing. 

RMS Olympic — The True Story Of “Old Reliable”

Birth of a Giant

In 1910, from the slips of Harland & Wolff in Belfast, the great Olympic emerged — the first of the White Star Line’s legendary Olympic-class liners. Commissioned under the leadership of J. Bruce Ismay, designed by chief naval architect Thomas Andrews, and built alongside her sister Titanic, she was the largest moving object ever created at that time. Stretching 882 feet with four iconic funnels, she carried the prestigious prefix RMS — Royal Mail Steamer — as an official carrier of the British Royal Mail.

Launched in June 1911, she embodied Edwardian elegance: sweeping staircases, ornate dining saloons, smoking rooms, and lounges that rivalled the grandest hotels of London and Paris. Unlike her younger sisters, she would live a long and storied life, proving herself the most successful of the class.

Into the Great War

With the outbreak of World War I, Olympics' peaceful service was set aside. In 1916, her speed and vast capacity saw her transformed again — this time into a troopship. Dressed in bold dazzle camouflage, her hull was painted with jagged black, white, and grey patterns designed to confuse German U-boats. As a troopship, she ferried over 200,000 soldiers across the Atlantic, more than any other liner of her day.

In May 1918, she famously rammed and sank U-103, becoming one of the few civilian ships to destroy an enemy submarine. Her record of faithful service earned her the affectionate nickname “Old Reliable.”

A Return to Peace

After the Armistice, Olympic returned to civilian life, her interiors restored to their Edwardian splendour. She carried thousands of passengers throughout the roaring 1920s, ferrying emigrants, businessmen, and tourists across the Atlantic. As Titanic and Britannic lay beneath the sea, Olympic stood as the last survivor of her class — a reminder of White Star's ambition and resilience.

The End of an Era

By the 1930s, newer and faster liners made Olympic look dated, and the economic depression made her costly to run. In 1935, after twenty-four years of service, she was retired and sent for scrapping at Jarrow and later Inverkeithing.

Yet Olympic did not vanish entirely. Much of her interior was auctioned off and survives today. The magnificent first-class dining room panelling was installed at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, where visitors can still dine amid the ship’s woodwork. Other fittings found homes in private residences, clubs, and even aboard other ships.

Legacy of “Old Reliable”

Though her sisters met tragic ends — Titanic on her maiden voyage and Britannic in the Aegean — Olympic endured. She carried civilians in luxury, soldiers to war, and the wounded back to safety. She sank a submarine, ferried more men than any other liner of her day, and earned her place in history not as a ship of tragedy, but as a ship of triumph and survival.

Today, fragments of her still shine in hotels, clubs, and collections, and her story endures as a symbol of resilience. She was, and remains, the White Star Line’s “Old Reliable.”

We really hope you love this model as much as we have designing and creating it and as always Happy Printing.