Tim Reynaga Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share Posted September 2, 2022 Santa Maria’s launch is a single part with some nice clinker planking on the outside of the hull but without any detailing at all on the inside. This is fine as Pyro designed it to be stowed inverted on the ship’s main deck. It is uncertain how the boat was actually stowed, and it was often towed behind the ship, so just for fun I added thwarts from .015 X .040 inch plastic strip so the boat could be shown either inverted or right side up. The boat received the same oil stain over acrylic paint treatment as the ship. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Gidday Tim, that boat looks simple but effective. Regards, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 3, 2022 Author Share Posted September 3, 2022 I’ve made a start on Santa Maria’s flags. The Royal Standard carried by all of Columbus’ ships (repeated on the pennant) was the Bandera de Castilla y León (banner of Castile and León) quartered white and red with the coats of arms of Castile and León in yellow and red. This was the flag Queen Ysabel (Isabella). Thus far the red sections have been added over the white. So much for the easy part – now for those castles and lions... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Nice work. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 17 hours ago, Tim Reynaga said: now for those castles and lions... Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 4, 2022 Author Share Posted September 4, 2022 The biggest challenge of these flags was painting the tiny lions. I’m no artist, so I just jumped in with my finest brush and did the best I could with them. The pennant also received its lions – which were even smaller than the ones on the banner! When I did these very flags before on my Pyro Pinta build several years back, my then eleven year old daughter had graciously complimented me on my “cool flying monkeys.” Sadly, my skills don’t seem to have progressed much since then... With the eight castles added in yellow, I’m calling these done. They are far from perfect, but my hope is that the less than elegant renderings will still harmonize with the heavy style of detailing on the rest of the kit. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 Gidday Tim, your "cool flying monkeys" are definitely looking leonine, I think they and the castles look very good. For someone who claims to be no artist they are very artistic. Well done. Regards, Jeff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl42 Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 Hand painted? Bravo!!! They're amazingly well done. Anything I attempted would be far more like some outrageously botched restorations in Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 4, 2022 Author Share Posted September 4, 2022 1 hour ago, dnl42 said: Hand painted? Bravo!!! They're amazingly well done. Anything I attempted would be far more like some outrageously botched restorations in Spain. Thanks for your kind words... and OMG! Those outrageously botched restorations in Spain are hilarious! 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 5, 2022 Author Share Posted September 5, 2022 Thank you gentlemen for your kind support! After the triumph of the flying monkeys I moved on to the flag atop the mizzen mast, the Royal Standard of the Catholic Kings. This one represented the united kingdoms of Ysabel and Fernando (Ferdinand) and was even more complicated than the banner and pennant. Yikes! 😲 Fortunately, since it is so small I figured I could get away with a vague, impressionistic representation of the standard. Thank goodness there is only one of these! 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 It has surprised me how good these hand painted flags look from the usual viewing distance. Perhaps we can't make it as 'good' as a decal but we can certainly make it good enough if we have a go. Thanks for the inspiration. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SallysDad Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 Beautiful job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 15, 2022 Author Share Posted September 15, 2022 The last of the flags was the unique Columbus Expedition Standard. Presented to Columbus by the Queen for the voyage, the Standard flown by the fleet consisted of the sacred cross flanked by the letters “F” for Fernando de Aragón (Ferdinand of Aragon) and “Y” for Ysabel de Castilla (Isabella of Castile) with each of the initials topped with a crown. Pyro had depicted the flag as a large swallowtail, but Xavier Pastor’s authoritative Anatomy of the Ship: The Ships of Christopher Columbus shows the standard as rectangular. I duly trimmed the kit part down to a rectangle and painted it up following Pastor’s interpretation... and didn’t like it at all! Although perhaps more correct than the original kit rendering, that humble rectangular flag was definitely less appealing than Pyro’s dramatic swallowtail. Fortunately, I had that second kit on hand, so I raided its foremast/flag and started again. Also, this time instead of painting the flag I used the new decals which came with the recent Lindberg reissue of the kit. The excellent Cartograf decals went on beautifully, and reproduced the fancy lettering quickly and without fuss. I just love it when reissued kits are actually better than the originals! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) The kit sails looked pretty good overall, but there were some minor knock out pin marks on the concave sides and holes for tying on the rigging. Sanding away the pin marks was no problem, and I filled the holes with super glue. Interestingly, the portion of the sail I sanded shows how the surfaces of the 50 year old plastic kit parts have yellowed over time! After addressing these issues and and smoothing mold lines, I airbrushed the sails with Tamiya XF-25 Flat White tinted with XF-57 Buff and then shot the seams with a slightly lightened mix of the buff color. The sample cards on the left of the pic show the stark contrast between the two shades... ...but on the sails themselves these variations are more subtle. Edited September 19, 2022 by Tim Reynaga 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 The sail bowlines and Sacred Cross on the main and fore sails received pin washes with thinned brown enamel... ...which was then mostly wiped away with a thinner-dampened rag. The crosses were then blocked in with red and yellow acrylics. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 1 minute ago, Tim Reynaga said: The sail bowlines and Sacred Cross on the main and fore sails received pin washes with thinned brown enamel... ...which was then mostly wiped away with a thinner-dampened rag. The crosses were then blocked in with red and yellow acrylics. That's tidy brushwork! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Gidday Tim, those sails are nicely done. They seem to be more billowed than is usual with plastic model ship sails. Regards, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 It's amazing how nice those old injection moulded parts, like even sails and flags, can be made to look with a bit of work and careful painting! Superb work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 18, 2022 Author Share Posted September 18, 2022 The flags and sails done, masts have now been given their Tamiya XF-59 Desert Yellow “wood” coats and await the oil stain... but I couldn’t resist a quick test-fit! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 7 hours ago, Tim Reynaga said: but I couldn’t resist a quick test-fit! Gidday Tim, I think many of us do, and she looks great. Err, I couldn't help but notice your check-off list under the model, all female names. The mind boggles at the possibilities. No doubt all is above board and wholesome but you might want to be a bit more discrete! 😁 Regards, Jeff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Baby names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 1 hour ago, ArnoldAmbrose said: Gidday Tim, I think many of us do, and she looks great. Err, I couldn't help but notice your check-off list under the model, all female names. The mind boggles at the possibilities. No doubt all is above board and wholesome but you might want to be a bit more discrete! 😁 Regards, Jeff. LOL! Well Jeff, perhaps I should delete the picture, or just let the list remain a mystery... but I don't want to leave the impression that I am some kind of creep! I work from home, and the names are just a list of my staff for an IT asset inventory jotted down on a napkin during a phone call! 🤣 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Gidday Tim, don't worry, it's just my devious mind likes to run off on tangents. 🙂 Regards, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Reynaga Posted October 10, 2022 Author Share Posted October 10, 2022 I’ve begun mounting the sails starting with the main, topgallant, and fore sails. I’ll leave the mizzen and sprit sails off for the moment to make it easier to mount the standing rigging without knocking them off. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl42 Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 That looks quite good! The finish is just excellent! Personally, I'd never try a plastic model of a wooden ship as I'd make a complete caricature of the subject, I was wondering if you were going to try to finish by today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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