santa maria

About one month ago I started a new build: Santa Maria by Artesania Latina, my third ship (as an adult, that is). This is not AL's present kit of Santa Maria, but an older one. Once in a while I will be posting some pictures showing my progress, without adding much text, if at all. So perhaps...

I have been doing some reading on The Age of Discovery, particularly the voyages of Spain (who went West for gold and silver) and Portugal (who went East for spices). Incredible voyages of sailing into the unknown with quite primitive equipment, no maps, no idea where you might end up and a...

In this magazine I will post photos and videos of the construction of a fairly well-known kit produced by our company, I hope the information will be useful to those who build this kit, as well as those who will build in the future.

I dont know if this is in the right place, its not so much a build log, more a way of marking my progress, and getting suggestions on how to improve my build skills. If its in the wrong place please move it. I started the Santa Maria several months ago. Its certainly the first proper masted...

La Gallega – AKA ‘la Santa Maria’ by Artesania Latina but before Columbus. La Gallega was categorised as a Nao (A carrack. Portuguese: Nau, Spanish: Nao, Catalan: Carraca) which means “Ship”, an ocean-going sailing ship developed in the 14th to 15th centuries by Portugal and Spain, (most...

I received my Santa Maria kit yesterday and unboxed it today. This is a heavy kit. Very well packaged and presented. I think it's a good value for the money. I've attached photos of the unboxing. There is a spiral bound instruction book. There are sheets with illustrations. There are...

As it was said, the time had come to complete Columbus' fleet and add the missing ship to it. As is often the case with Heller, the sight of frames with elements does not raise any major objections until we take a closer look at them... The plastic sails need to be replaced with ones made of...

Hi everyone, I started scratch build of a Columbus Santa Maria according to an Anatomy of the ship book by Xavier Pastor. It seamed to me it would not be a too difficult job since I have a book and just need to follow it, but there was equally time spent on thinking of how to build something or...

Unboxing Having just completed the Amati Nina there were no surprises here: a box of good quality materials and fittings. Many of these looked very familiar from my previous build: the windlass, ship's boat, door frames etc. It appears that Columbus bought a job lot when kitting out his fleet. I...

Hello everyone, I wanted to share my progress on the Santa Maria 1:65 ship model that I've been building for a few months now. Initially, I started with an Amati kit, thinking it would be an "easytobuild" straightforward project lasting only a couple of months. However, after obtaining books by...

From Amati family there were always something nice happening; first there were violins and then ship models. From Wikipedia: Amati (/əˈmɑːti/, Italian: [aˈmaːti]) is the last name of a family of Italian violin makers who lived at Cremona from about 1538 to 1740. Their importance is considered...

Hello shipmates, Before we are getting started with my new buildlog, a short introduction of myself and the ship is in order. I'm a new member of this forum, and I live in The Netherlands a small country in Europe. I'm also a member of other fora. So posting on a forum is not new to me. Some...

Hello again friends. After HMS Pickle I started Santa Maria kit of Mantua which I bought three years ago. I will modify the kit a little during the construction. Everybody knows everything about Santa Maria. So, no need to tell about her history. I did the framing and glued the main simulated...

Figured since I'm still close to the starting point on this ship, I would show what I'm doing. I'll post pics of the progress so far when the frame is faired and ready for Planking. Here is the Kit

Because my Santa Maria build log was damaged i decided to open a new topic for it and reload the pics and copy the texts. After i complete this log, admins can remove my old damaged one (because i will copy the texts from old one to this log please do not remove the old one until i finish this)

this is a rough log of the santa maria model constructed from the santa maria kit by mamoli.

Hello fellow ship model builders ,this is my new build log for the ship Santa Maria.Updates are coming soon. Zoltan

Christopher Columbus had three ships on his first voyage, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Columbus sailed from Palos de la Frontera on 3 August, 1492. His flagship, the Santa Maria had 52 men aboard while his other two ships, the Nina and Pinta were each crewed by 18 men. The Santa...