Santa Maria 1492 / by firdajan2 / 1:96

[firdajan2]

Dear friends,

As I promised, immediatetely after first two ships of Columbus fleet I started to build the last one - Santa Maria. It´s not a necessary to write any introducion, everybody know this ship.
My model will be based on plans from polish magazine " modelarstwo okretowe " ( and as I found out, they took them from the book of " anatomy of the ship " series ). Here is the link:

Modelarstwo okr?towe

The first image show how the ship will look. I improve plans to 1:96 scale and start as obviously with framework. Now I have to reinforce it by two pieces of wooden bars and make decks. Then I´ll add a lot of orizontal ribs

Jan

[Vermin_King]

As someone here once said, it isn't a set unless you have all of them.

Looking forward to seeing this

[RdK]

Cool!

Thx Jan! This will make the fleet complete and my curiosity satisfied!

Rgds,
Radek

[RdK]

PS: Looking forward to the detailed description for the planking! :D

[bradford46]

Very nice work. It is difficult to keep the frames at right angles to the keel--your photos hide the precision and care you have taken to get it right. I, too, look forward to the planking.

[Michael Mash]

Your "scratch-build" work starts off so simple.
But as it continues, it becomes more and more refined.
Mike

[Raz]

Hi Jan

I'm really looking forward to reading about your Santa Maria build. I recently came across your previous build logs on papermodelers.sk after reading Doris's build logs on modelshipworld and finding and translating her sk build logs. (I used google translate which gave some interesting translations. I'm still not sure what 'dolepil' means but I think it's sanding or grinding!).

It's very impressive the ships you both have built using cardboard. A month ago I started building my first model, it was going to be from wood but after seeing Doris's and your builds I decided to try cardboard and foil. I'm using the San Salvador paper model ship plan. I have completed the decks and have put two cardboard planking layers on the hull and varnished and sanded them smooth, I will find out how smooth when the foil goes on shortly! So far so good.

May I ask how you resized and printed the Modelarstwo Santa Maria plans to a different scale? I have been trying to work out the best way to do that (especially if wanting a larger model). Do you zoom the view of the model plan PDF to the scale you want, say 104% zoom for 1:96, then screen capture the new scaled images that you need eg bulkheads, keel etc, and copy them to another document/application to save and print, so that they are all the new scale? Or is there another way? Any information that you can provide on how you do this would be much appreciated.

Thanks for all the detail in your build logs, they are great reading and extremely helpful!

Raz

[firdajan2]

Thank you, dear friends, for your replies

bradford46: take a look at first two photos - as you can see, I used two wooden bars to keep the frames at right angles to the keel and for keeping of straightness of the frame.

Raz: " dolepil " means that I´m finished with gluing ( end of gluing ).
About resizing of plans:
1. I transform pdf format to jpg - there´s a lot of internet services, you can fint them through google very easy.
2. I copy the second page of plans into the Microsoft Word program and use the work with pictures. You need just the bottom part of the page - there are hull lines and the scale meter. Now It´s just very easy to transform the picture into the right scale

So, as I mentioned above, the frame is reinforced with two wooden bars and with horizontal ribs. All is glued toether. I have decks prepared - today I ´ll glue them on the ship. Then I can to grind the hull and start with planking.

Jan

[Michael Mash]

Hello Jan,
The wood supports are easily seen in the first two images.
The forecastle is really left hanging out there, but
looks like it becomes stable when you add the main deck.
Great work.
Mike

[bradford46]

The two photos showing how you used the wooden dowels makes it very clear how you have kept everything aligned and secure. The decks already look very good: are you going to lay planks on them?
Great work.