Santa Maria 1/75, Heller [COMPLETED BUILD]

Thanks for appreciating the painting, although in my opinion it is nothing extraordinary...
Diorama... I wrote earlier that I want to put it on water. However, I am very worried whether I will succeed, because it would be the first water in my life. I have made a number of more and less successful attempts with various dioramas (buildings, mountains, forest, etc.) but never with water.
I don't want to call it a "diorama", because it's just supposed to be some sea waves, but I would be grateful for any suggestion and hint.:D:D:D
 
As planned, the fun with the spider's web begins. The rigging looks different in Heller's plans, in OcCre, and even differently in Mamoli. Therefore, I intend to make them from the elements I have and make something in between these three manufacturers, but the basis of my rigging is Mamoli.
These are the first ropes I managed to install today. I forgot how delicate and "live" they are...
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I am calm, not everyone has to like what I do... I keep this diary so that others do not make my mistakes and benefit from what I manage to do correctly.:)
 
Now sailors have something to climb on. What remains of the rigging is what I like the most, i.e. part of the running rigging, sail mounting and the sails themselves.

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I'm currently finishing arming the yards

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Czesiek said:
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 canvas. The railings also need to be replaced with wooden ones, as do all the stairs. Heller's ropes are also suddenly being replaced with wooden ones.
Set jufers remind me more of game rings than actual jufers
I am seriously considering deepening the connection of the boards on the deck. I don't have the right tool to do it properly and I don't really know what it should be, but I'll think, maybe I'll be able to do something...
Of course, there will be some barrels on top of all this, maybe some decorations. So there are going to be a lot of changes, so we'll see how I manage to do it.
P.S. I will add that I plan to place the model on a diorama...
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Hallo @Czesiek
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Gentlemen, I have a dilemma and I am asking for your opinion. I have always made canvas sails without painting them, or with a slight tint in tea infusion.
I'm thinking about trying to "age" the canvas by "staining" it with a gray primer.
At the bottom, a "dirty" sail against the background of normal canvas

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What is your opinion?
 
I think if you are going down this road you should add some very slight areas of staining to break up the flat colour and add a little contrast and interest.
 
I think you should make it little yellowish or at least darker then the gray primer
 
It took me a long time to overcome the laziness that had overtaken me, but I'm back to life with a finished model. I wrote earlier that the rigging will be something that results from Mamola and Heller's photos. That's how I tried to do it, and you can see how it turned out in the photos below.
Now I will try to somehow put MS back on the water. I hope there will not be such a long break as now. But since there's going to be a ship launch, I have to find a godmother... The champagne has already been bought:)

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Congratulations for finishing this model - well done
 
The launch of Santa Maria and its baptism was completed!
What turned out to be quite problematic was not so much painting the water, but shaping it itself. To make the waves smaller or bigger, the reflections of the waves from the sides were also a dilemma...
I tried to somehow reconcile the size of the waves with the not very strong wind and the speed of the sailing ship, which was not much faster than the wind. Please judge for yourself how it turned out
Regards

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