My at the moment unfinished Revell’s Santa Maria. Picture is taken with flash, so collors shown is not trully.
Some earlear pictures with almost true colors of model:
Verry very nice job on that model. It looks so real. I want mine to look that good. How long have you had it? Thanks, Paul
Thank You, Paul.
I’m working on it a little bit more than 1,5 year. Not every day, of course. And not every week, sometimes is not simple find free time for modeling.
As You can see, model is not the “simply model from the kit box”, and that need’s patience and time.
Excellent job so far! You did an outstanding job on the painting.
Bill Morrison
Thank You, Bill.
Yes, painting was very time consuming, but rigging, cloth sails, pin rails - too.
I’m made rigging as for real ship of that time, using Xavier Pastors book “The Ships of Christopher Columbus - Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta”, and different plans for Santa Maria - i.e. rigging is not simplified, as Revell’s instructions for “advanced rigging”, everything “works” as in real ship; to make realistic cloth sails was not easy work too.
Simply i want to build model as i can do best.
There are more to do with this model - work for month or two.
Some pictures of works, done before.
Sails after seving:
Sails after lictroses added:
Sails before tonnig, but with painted crosses:
Sails after tonnig them:
How bonnets attached to main sail:
I have remade anchors (allready shown in picture of my first message, and differs from anchors, shown in pictures of my second message):
I would love to find a copy of that book. I have all three of those Revell kits on the shelves . . . I recently found them in a Surplus Unlimited store for a dollar for the set.
Bill Morrison
Bill, please see the conversations.
Additional things, made by myself, that were’nt in “usual” Revell Santa Maria kit.
Beautiful work! The sails are very, very nice. Did you sew them? And the mode lis going to be a piece of art work when you are finished
Thank You, Jerome.
Yes, i have sew the sails. And sewing was made with tense of one thread, to achieve sails “unduliation”.
Very nicely done,congrats. I have this ship in my stash, and now I want to build it (…but only after the Constitution is done…).
SirDrake
Again, beautifully done! One thing that I would recommend is that you either run a wash between the deck planks or darken them with pencil lines.
Bill Morrison
Thank You, SirDrake. There are a lot of “little works” more to do with the model, but thats will be easeast part.
Thanks again, Bill. I have plans to imitate coulking lines between deck planks with pencil - You are reading my minds :-).
Nice job on the Santa Maria. Years ago, I bought their Mayflower kit at a garage sale. When I got it home, I discovered it was missing the main deck. I contacted Revell USA and a lady there replied that the molds for the kit now resided with Revell of Germany. She sent my request for the missing deck to them and I had the deck in the mail about 2 weeks later. Revell has great customer service. I haven’t put the ship together yet. I bought it because it was so inexpensive…only 2 bucks. Being a dyed in the wool armor nut, I doubt I will ever build it. When it comes to ships, I am more a WWII submarine enthusiast.
Cheers,
Big Ray in Ioway USA
Thank You, Panzer Man.
By the way, i have Revell’s Mayflower too. Perfect kit. I will build that model later too.
Forum, I am kitbashing and refitting the Revell Santa Maria, aka Anta Aria, as a new refitted ship with different sails and more cannons as per “voyage to Siam in 1530 and storm damage.” The main sail seems too high but if I lower it you cannot see forward from the rear deck. Which way did they build them? Did the tillerman have to see forward from the aft deck or not? What did the tiller look like too? Thanks, Paul
Forum, Trying to post pictures of my modified Santa Maria depicting early ship to Siam during refit following storm in Andaman Sea. 
This is link. Here goes. Paul