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SANTA MARIA, 1492,
SCALE: 1/72, length: 465mm, wide: 250mm, height: 445mm
HISTORY:
Santa Maria was the flagship of Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to America. On
August 1492 Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina started their voyage to America in Palos de la
Frontera port in southwest coast of Spain. After two months at 12 October sailors saw a land.
There are no exact drawings of the Santa Maria but it is supposed that a length of hull of the
ship was about 35 meters and displacement about 200tons.
Recommended tool list:
1) Modeler’s knife or scalpel
2) Mini drilling machine
3) Drill bits
4) Selection of abrasive paper
5) Scissors
6) Pliers
7) Clothes pegs or crocodile clips
8) Pencil
9) Rule
10) Set of needle files
11) Sewing machine
12) Electric plank bender
Before you begin:
Before you begin to build the model it is necessary with a vengeance read building
instructions and plans. Also chronology of assembly steps is necessary to keep. You check if
the parts go together before you glue it respectively you make any corrections with sandpaper.
During the gluing, painting, lacquering and at work with another chemical materials is
necessary well ventilated in your working room. You cut the parts from sheet until actually
required for fitting. You cut by knife only in direction off ward your body so that you head to
injury risk.
Coloring:
Medieval ships were protected against influence of salt water and woodworms by a mixture of
tar and thanks to it the hull of ships was a reddish-brown or brownish-black color. This effect
it is possible to get by staining of the wood by dark wood stain. It is recommended to use the
wood stain before gluing of the parts. Decks of the ships were probably in naturally color of
wood. Anchors and other metal parts were a black color.
Bending of wooden strips:
The Wooden strips will be more flexible if you will boil it in hot water about 10-15 minutes.
You can bend the strips along any cylindrical area but ideal is using of special plank bender (it
would be best to use electric plank bender). If you need to do very small radius so you must
bend the wooden strips in more steps.
Work with photo etched parts:
Very carefully cut out parts by a pliers or scissors from a sheet. The photo etched parts glue
by cyanoacrilate adhesive.
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Model building process:
I) Keel:
a) First glue a keel from parts 0-5. The parts glue together and then lade them by any weight
on a flat area.
II) Framing of a hull:
a) First glue frames 7-14, fore reinforcements 15, 16 and stern reinforcements and 18-23 to
the keel 0 and reinforcements 17 to the frames 9-11.
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b) First glue decks 24-26 to the framing of the hull. Then sharpen by a sand paper or files the
fore and aft reinforcements and frames into needed shape.
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III) Hull planking I:
a) First glue strips 27 and 28 to the stern of the ship. Then plank the hull by strips 30. First
bend the strips by procedure which is described in the beginning of these instructions before
you will glue them to the framing. Then start the planking of the hull by strips which are draw
by bold lines on the figure below and also on the plan. Start with the planking on the stern
(where quite small radius of strips is needed) and then continue to the stem.
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IV) Deck:
a) Cut out the parts of the frames which overlap decks.
b) First plank the decks by strips 31. Then make hatch covers. First make frames of the
hatches from parts 34-36 and then glue them to the decks. Then plank the hatches by strips 37
and glue to them hinges 68 and eyes 33 with rings 49.
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V) Hull planking II:
a) Make four gun ports into the hull (two gun ports on both sides). First draw outlines of the
gun ports by a pencil on the hull. Then drill holes near the outlines. Then cut out the gun ports
by a sharp knife or scalpel. Finally sharpen the gun ports by needle files.
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b) First planking by strips 32 walls of decks. Then glue waterway 38 to the decks and framing
39 to the bulwarks. Then glue beams 46 to the bow and railings 47 and 48 to the hull. Then
glue wales 40 and 41 and reinforcement frames 42-44. Finally glue plank sheer 45 to the hull.
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c) First glue a deck 50to the bow and then plank it by strips 51. Then border it by strips 52
and 53.
VI) Details:
a) Install guns into the hull. First drill holes for gun barrels into the frames 17. Then glue the
gun barrels 57 into the holes.
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b) First glue channels 58 with their knee 60 to the hull. Then make mounting of the deadeyes
blocks 83 and eyebolts 82 and fix them by chain 185 to the channels and to the hull.
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c) First make ladder from strips 65 and then glue it to the bow. Then make stairs from parts 63
and 64 and then glue them to the decks. Finally glue doors 66 to their places.
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d) First glue a rudder from parts 61 and 62. Then install the rudder with hinges 69-78 to stern
post.
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e) After the plan 2 glue cleats 84-113, eyebolts 114-129, knighthead 79 and mast foots 54-56
to the hull and decks. Then make a stand from parts 130-132.
f) Make anchors from parts 133-135 and 195. Then tie anchor cable 136 to the anchors and
the anchors tie to the hull how it is shown in the figure below.
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VII) Rigging:
a) First sharpen by a sand paper bowsprit 141 and masts 142, 152 and 156. Then glue cleats
108 and 109 to the bowsprit. Then wind ropes 140 to the main mast and glue pawl 143,
trestletrees 145 and crosstrees 186 to the main mast too. Then glue cheeks 153 and 157 and
flag masts 150 and 158 to the fore and aft masts. Then glue the masts to the hull. Then tie
standing rigging to the fore and aft masts. The scheme of the standing rigging is shown in the
plan 3.
b) First make a top from parts 160-163 and topmast 147 with flag mast 150. Then glue the
top, topmast and mast cap 146 to the main mast. Then tie the flag mast to the topmast.
c) Tie standing rigging to the foremast, topmast and aft mast. The scheme of the standing
rigging is shown in the plan 4.
d) First sharpen by a sand paper yards 164-168. Then tie the yards to the main mast and
bowsprit. Then tie running rigging to these yards. The scheme of the running rigging is shown
in the plan 5.
e) First tie the yards to the fore and aft masts. Then tie running rigging to these yards. The
scheme of the running rigging is shown in the plan 6.
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VIII) Sails:
a) Make sail 179-183. First draw by pencil contours of the sail on the cloth. To the border of
the sails add about 10mm for fell. By the pencil draw on the cloth also seams which divided
the sail into simple segments. Then scissor the sail with fells and sewn it like it is shown
below.
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b) To the circumference of the sails sew on ropes 187 so that in the corner of the sail will eyes
with diameters about 3mm. Then tie ropes 137 to the rope 187
c) Tie the sails to the yards by rope 137.
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d) After the plan 7 tie the sails to bowsprit and main mast. Then tie ropes for control to the
sails, eyebolts and cleats. Finally tie flags to the flag masts.
e) After the plan 8 tie the sails to fore and aft masts. Then tie ropes for control to the sails,
eyebolts and cleats. Finally tie pennant to the flagpole.
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IX) Boat:
a) First glue together parts 188-192. Then sharpen the boat by a sand paper into needed shape.
Finally glue keel, stem and stern post 193 to the boat.
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Part list:
0 Keel plywood 4mm 1pc
1-5 Keel wood 4mm 1pc
6-14 Frames plywood 4mm 1pc
15-23 Reinforcements plywood 4mm 2pcs
24-26 Deck plywood 1mm 1pc
27-30 Planking strip 2x3mm 90pc
31 Deck strip 0,5x4mm 30pcs
32 Planking strip 2x3mm 90pc
33 Eyebolts eyebolt 100pcs
34 Hatches plywood 1mm 90pcs
35 Hatches plywood 1mm 30pcs
36 Hatches strip 2x2mm 2pcs
37 Hatches strip 0,5x4mm 30pcs
38 Waterways strip 2x3mm 90pcs
39 Framing strip 2x3mm 90pcs
40 Wales strip 2x3mm 90pcs
41 Wales strip 1x1mm 4pcs
42 Planking strip 2x3mm 90pcs
43 Planking strip 1x1mm 4pcs
44 Planking strip 3x3mm 4pcs
45 Plank sheer strip 2x4mm 4pcs
46 Beam strip 2x3mm 90pcs
47, 48 Railings strip 2x3mm 90pcs
49 Ring ring 4mm 8pcs
50 Deck plywood 1mm 1pc
51 Deck strip 0,5x4mm 30pcs
52, 53 Waterways strip 2x3mm 90pcs
54-56 Mast foot plywood 1mm 1pc
57 Gun barrel gun barrel 4pcs
58 Channel
59 Capping strip strip 2x2mm 2pcs
60 Knee wood 2mm 2pcs
61 Rudder wood 4mm 1pc
62 Rudder strip 2x3mm 90pcs
63 Stairs plywood 1mm 6pcs
64 Stairs plywood 1mm 18pcs
65 Ladder strip 1x1mm 4pcs
66 Doors wood 2mm 3pcs
67 Preparation for stairs plywood 4mm 1pc
68 Hinges photoetched part 8pcs
69-78 Rudder hinges photoetched part 1pc
79 Knighthead wood 4mm 1pc
80 Dead eyes felloe wire 0,5mm 1m
81 Eyebolts eyebolt 100pcs
82 Eyebolts wire 0,5mm 1m
83 Dead eye blocks dead eyes block 20pcs
84-113 Cleats wood 2mm 60pcs
wood 2mm 2pcs
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114-129 Eyebolts eyebolt 100pcs
130-131 Stand plywood 4mm 1pc
132 Stand dowel 10mm 2pcs
133 Anchor wood 2mm 2pcs
134 Anchor cast 2pcs
135 Ring ring 6mm 2pcs
136 Rigging rope 2mm, hell 0,5m
137 Rigging rope 0,25mm, hell 40m
138 Rigging rope 0,5mm, dark 20m
140 Rigging rope 1mm, dark 10m
141 Bowsprit dowel 6mm 2pcs
142 Main mast dowel 10mm 2pcs
143 Pawl strip 1x1mm 4pcs
144 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------145 Trestletrees wood 2mm 90pcs
146 Mast cap wood 2mm 1pc
147 Topmast dowel 3mm 1pc
148 Pin wire 1mm 0,1m
149 Cheeks strip 1x1mm 4pcs
150 Flag mast dowel 2mm 1pc
151 Truck dowel 3mm 1pc
152 Fore mast dowel 6mm 2pcs
153 Cheeks strip 1x1mm 4pcs
154 Flag mast dowel 2mm 1pc
155 Truck dowel 3mm 1pc
156 Aft mast dowel 5mm 2pcs
157 Cheeks strip 1x1mm 4pcs
158 Flag mast dowel 2mm 1pc
159 Truck dowel 3mm 1pc
160 Top plywood 1mm 1pc
161 Top plywood 1mm 1pc
162 Top plywood 1mm 1pc
163 Top strip 2x2mm 2pcs
164 Spritsail yard dowel 3mm 1pc
165 Fore yard dowel 4mm 1pc
166 Main yard dowel 5mm 2pcs
167 Topsail yard dowel 2mm 1pc
168 Mizen yard dowel 3mm 1pc
169 Blocks block 5mm, 1hole 80pcs
170 Blocks block 7mm, violin 2pcs
171 Blocks block 7mm, 3 holes 5pcs
172 Blocks block 5mm, 3holes 2pcs
173 Rollers roller 2mm 100pcs
174-177 Flags flags 1pc
178 Flag pole dowel 2mm 1pc
179-183 Sails cloth 1pc
184 Rudder hinges wire 1mm 0,1m
185 Chain chain 0,5m
186 Crosstrees strip 2x3mm 90pcs
187 Rigging rope 1mm, hell 5m
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188-192 Boat wood 2mm 1pc
193 Keel of boat strip 1x1mm 1pc
194 Barrels barrel 12x14mm 10pcs
195 Mounting of the anchor photoetched part 4pcs
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