Question about 1/83 Revell Mayflower

[Plumbum]

I have an old Revell 1/83 Mayflower kit in sealed bags. I was going to do the ship my mother's family

came to U S on in 1637, the John of London but had no luck then thought it was similar in size to

the Mayflower. As the plot thickens, I also do family history and had my DNA done. Come to find out

after 67 years that I have 13 relatives who were on the Mayflower in 1620, 11 from my fathers side and

2 from my mothers side of the family. So "the Mayflower " it is. I need to find some good images to use

for paint colors. Are there any out there of the Mayflower II or a model which is as historically correct as

possible. I understand there are no real pictures or first hand paintings but something to get me close.

Thanks---John

 

[Jeff T]

John, here is a link to an article which has some photos of the Mayflower II, which was recently restored last year:

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12283922/mayflower-ii-sea-trials-plymouth/amp/

 

I hope this may be of help for you.

Jeff

 

[Black Knight]

Airfix, through the book publisher Patrick Stephens, did a book on building the Mayflower model kit.

Although mainly aimed at the Airfix kit just about everything in the book will help on building any kit

 

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/MAYFLOWER-Classic-Ships-History-Model-Hackney/12210421155/bd

 

and have a read through this build.

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys, that helps a great deal!---John

 

[Francis Macnaughton]

I would suggest looking on the Fine Scale Modeller forum as this kit gets a lot of attention there.  This thread seems a useful one:

 

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/7/p/165396/1837128.aspx?page=2

[Noel Smith]

I had one of the Revell Mayflower kits and remember that the mouldings looked quite good.

The book referred to in an earlier post published by Patrick Stephens is one of three by a writer named Noel Hackney that were published way back in the 70's. They were devoted to the Mayflower, Curry Dark and Victory models from the Airfix Classic Ships series. I have all three and they go into great detail about improving, painting and rigging the Airfix kits. The Mayflower book would be a great help in building the Revell model.

They are long out of print, but besides second hand book sellers, sometimes they appear in boxes under the table at local model shows or at Telford in the Kit Swap.

[RAF4EVER]

1 hour ago, Noel Smith said:

I had one of the Revell Mayflower kits and remember that the mouldings looked quite good.

The book referred to in an earlier post published by Patrick Stephens is one of three by a writer named Noel Hackney that were published way back in the 70's. They were devoted to the Mayflower, Curry Dark and Victory models from the Airfix Classic Ships series. I have all three and they go into great detail about improving, painting and rigging the Airfix kits. The Mayflower book would be a great help in building the Revell model.

They are long out of print, but besides second hand book sellers, sometimes they appear in boxes under the table at local model shows or at Telford in the Kit Swap.

Curry Dark?, should that not read CUTTY SARK?😈

[Noel Smith]

Thanks for picking up my error. The tablet I sometimes use has a habit of changing words around so I really should have noticed it at the time.

Yes you are quite correct Curry Dark should read Cutty Sark.    Have edited my post to correct it.

[Killingholme]

Much of what we know about Mayflower was researched by an American naval architect William Baker (whose research was the basis for the 1950s replica). Research has advanced somewhat since his time- we know a lot more about the fittings of ships of this period for example as maritime archaeology has progressed, but his work remains pretty solid. His book is a good introduction that's easily available second hand. Anything else is rather more specialist and mainly dispersed across academic journals such as Mariner's Mirror etc, so it could be considered overkill for researching building a model.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mayflower-Colonial-Vessels-William-1983-04-22/dp/B01FKRPO1W

 

Will