My first model - caravel "La Niña" 1:72 scratch [COMPLETED BUILD]

[Dave boatswain]

Way to go Dave. Lovely sails. I agree the stain came out perfectly and will look so good on your ship. Cheers Grant

Thanks Grant, I like these sails too


Parrels and flags. It would be best to make the flags from fabric, but I don’t have that option yet, so I chose the simple option and made them from paper. Perhaps I will replace them with more suitable ones later.By the way, I will hang the yards as shown in this diagram

 

[Dave boatswain]

That's all... I attached the flag to the main mast, thereby completing the building of the La Niña caravel. I'll try to take final photos later.

 

[Jimsky]

Congratulations on completing your first model! Looks good! I will wait for your final photos. Remember to photoshoot on the plain background to your images appear in our Photcollection gallery.

 

[Dave boatswain]

Congratulations on completing your first model! Looks good!

Thank you very much Jim!

I will wait for your final photos. Remember to photoshoot on the plain background to your images appear in our Photcollection gallery.

Jim, I'm afraid I don't yet have the opportunity to take high-quality photographs on a plain background. I plan to go to an open area where there is a lot of natural light. If you don’t mind, I’ll post the photos in this log, and let the gallery wait for the photos on the photo background (if I ever take them).

 

[Daniel20]

Congratulations Dave! I have enjoyed your build, anything next on your wish to build list?

 

[Jimsky]

Thank you very much Jim!

Jim, I'm afraid I don't yet have the opportunity to take high-quality photographs on a plain background. I plan to go to an open area where there is a lot of natural light. If you don’t mind, I’ll post the photos in this log, and let the gallery wait for the photos on the photo background (if I ever take them).

Hello, Dave. Frankly speaking, high-quality photos are not a requirement. You can take photos with the same camera\phone as you did for the build log. The only requirement is to have a plain background of your choice: white, black, or other colors of your choice. You can post your images here

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Good luck!

 

[WojtasS]

Congratulations Dave. I'm too waiting for final pictures.... and next build log

 

[Dave boatswain]

Congratulations Dave! I have enjoyed your build, anything next on your wish to build list?

Thanks Daniel! I have an old idea to build the entire Columbus squadron, these are two more ships - the caravel Pinta and the Nao Santa Maria. I would start with Pinta and build it according to the drawings that the author of this model usedRecently I had a crazy thought in my head: shouldn’t I build something on a scale of 1:250? For example, Santa Maria in this scale will be a little more than 10 centimeters in length. I don't know if I can decide to do this. A modeler from Odessa is currently making a model of Grenado in this scale - he’s doing a good job

 

[Dave boatswain]

Congratulations Dave. I'm too waiting for final pictures.... and next build log

Thank you very much Wojtas!

 

[Uwek]

Congratulations also from my side - a very good model -> BRAVO

 

[GrantTyler]

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Good morning Dave. Congratulations. I have enjoyed following you build this wonderful La Niña. Wow that tiny Grenado is crazy. So many details included. I look forward to the next one. Cheers Grant

 

[Dave boatswain]

Congratulations also from my side - a very good model -> BRAVO

Good morning Dave. Congratulations. I have enjoyed following you build this wonderful La Niña. Wow that tiny Grenado is crazy. So many details included. I look forward to the next one. Cheers Grant

Uwe and Grant thank you very much for your congratulations and kind words

 

[Dave boatswain]

Final photos.
I had to invent a way to take photographs on a plain background and in natural light . @Jimsky, would these photos be suitable for a gallery? Except the last one, of course

 

[Dave boatswain]

Thanks to everyone who followed the construction of the model and motivated me to continue

 

[Jimsky]

All of them are great images for the gallery! Congratulations again, I am very proud that youngsters like you are our forum members. We strive to make scale models a hobby adopted by youngsters.

In my old country (USSR, which doesn't exist anymore), scale models hobby was trendy among teenagers, I built my first model when I was 8 years old.

 

[Daniel20]

Thats a great set of photos Dave and a good picture of you as a bonus too!

 

[dockattner]

Congratulations Dave! A fine ship model! Way to go!

 

[Adry]

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Beautiful pictures, beautiful work, makes an amazing log. Thank you for sharing.

 

[GrantTyler]

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Bravo

 

[Jack Jäger]

super job 10/10 JJ..