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New from Shipyard - Santa Maria & Lexington |
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
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Flagship Santa Maria was a larger round-hull ship also called nao. Christopher Columbus himself piloted Santa Maria in 1492. She was a merchant ship between 200-600 tons with length of 75 feet and width 25 feet.
Now ShipYard is releasing their 3rd laser cut set with Santa Maria in scale 1:72. The box includes abolutely all you need to build that card model.
Almost at the same time we can see that the publisher also releases standard card model of American brig Lexington from 1776!
Looking at the descriptions, seems it should be fairly stright forward one....
As to Santa Maria, the set weights around 1.5 kg and constists of:
- laser cut hull construction parts
- laser engraved deck plankings
- brass turned cannons and falconets
- wooden masts and yards
- wooden blocks
- metal bindings
- flags printed on cloth paper
- cloth for sails
- different thicknesses threads
- acryl paints set
- brushes
- glue
- razor blade
- Step-by-step manual with lots of pictures and descriptions showing also methods of gluing and painting. Translated into Polish, English, German and Spanish!
Some pictures of Santa Maria model built by ShipYard:
Having mentioned before new USS Lexington.
The first USS Lexington of the United States Navy was a brigantine purchased in 1776.
Originally named the Wild Duck, Abraham van Bibber purchased her for the Maryland Committee of Safety, at St. Eustatius in the Dutch West Indies in February 1776. She soon got underway for the Delaware Capes and reached Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 9 March with a cargo of sorely needed gunpowder for the patriot forces. Four days later the Marine Committee purchased Wild Duck, renamed her Lexington, and turned her over to Wharton and Humphry for fitting out. (Source Wikipedia)
This is standard set in A4 format, and looking at number of sheets it should be fairly easy to build as. So perhaps a good start into world of tall ships. Here are few shots sent by Shipyard:
| Santa Leocadia 1777 |
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| Santa Maria 1492 |
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| Lexington 1776 |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 June 2008 )
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