Santa Maria

[Tony1955]

my next build is going to be the Santa Maria. Are there any useful books or information about her please?

 

[Dave boatswain]

Anatomy of the ship: the ships of Christopher Columbus, Xavier Pastor.

Kolumbusschiffe 1492 by Winter Heinrich.

 

[Piter]

my next build is going to be the Santa Maria. Are there any useful books or information about her please?



















The hardest part was filming the process for my fellow modelers because the phone editor constantly glitched and couldn’t deliver proper editing. That’s when I switched to Movavi and now https://www.movavi.com/ has become my main tool. The software let me professionally edit time-lapses of the assembly, add voice-over, and include historical footage. Thanks to that, my Santa Maria build videos received great feedback in the community and motivated me to start the next model. Now every new ship begins not just with a box of parts, but with a proper video shooting plan.

Seeing the discussion about building the Santa Maria model instantly took me back to my own project last year — I assembled Christopher Columbus’s caravel in 1:75 scale and spent months researching historical details to make everything authentic