Hello everyone,
My name is Rene and i’m 38 years old and live in the Netherlands. I've been painting models from a very young age, and i always wanted to build a wooden model ship.
My dad use to have a unfinished Santa Maria ship from Billing Boats at home which i always admired. This prompted me to buy my own ship and start building.
I started building the model in april 2020 during Corona, and it's now 99,9% done. It’s the Mayflower 1:60 from Billing Boats.
I’m really happy the way it turned out, because the build instructions that came with the modelkit we’re a bit unclear sometimes or there was no instructions at all.
I had to scour a lot of forums to find out specific things, which after all was fun to do.
I took some liberty’s with the materials used, and adapted a few things to my own taste so some things won’t be historically accurate or build accurate.
Also i replaced the sails that came with the kit. I got the fabric for the sails from the sailmaker in the Dutch Zuiderzee museum, which i though would be a nice touch.
The fabric was to thick to sew with a sewingmachine, so i had to to everything by hand.
Nonetheless i’m happy with the end result and wanted to share some photo’s here.
My name is Rene and i’m 38 years old and live in the Netherlands. I've been painting models from a very young age, and i always wanted to build a wooden model ship.
My dad use to have a unfinished Santa Maria ship from Billing Boats at home which i always admired. This prompted me to buy my own ship and start building.
I started building the model in april 2020 during Corona, and it's now 99,9% done. It’s the Mayflower 1:60 from Billing Boats.
I’m really happy the way it turned out, because the build instructions that came with the modelkit we’re a bit unclear sometimes or there was no instructions at all.
I had to scour a lot of forums to find out specific things, which after all was fun to do.
I took some liberty’s with the materials used, and adapted a few things to my own taste so some things won’t be historically accurate or build accurate.
Also i replaced the sails that came with the kit. I got the fabric for the sails from the sailmaker in the Dutch Zuiderzee museum, which i though would be a nice touch.
The fabric was to thick to sew with a sewingmachine, so i had to to everything by hand.
Nonetheless i’m happy with the end result and wanted to share some photo’s here.
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