Revell's Mayflower, Why you should build it!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2024
- Why should you build sailing ships if you prefer airplanes? Is Revell's Mayflower a good kit? Will It make you pull your hair out? Will you wake up screaming and drenched is sweat from stress dreams after building it? Well, I built it, and I'll tell you all about it
Splendid work! Congratulations
Designing sailing ships were definitely an extremely high end technology for their time line. Requiring three major levels of expertise, materials, incorporating physics into pure mechanical end points and skill of crews , navigation also. That's why I think they are difficult to manufacture a kit while keeping cost down and then build it. The most difficult areas being the miniature rigging and wind filled sales. It almost might be more " historic" to somehow build the sails furled rather than replicate them billowing in the wind . The primary technique to model them has few choices except vacuum formed. Considering all of that, It would probably be a challenge to break away from one's building field to test you're skill set. In today's world with most models being made off shore, I wonder if you could reach a person and actually get a new part You did an excellent job on this kit, I always enjoy your videos showing your diversification of working through the modeling world
Thank you! I definitely think the furled sail is probably better, and maybe more realistic looking. I had thought of using very fine cloth material for sails, and using the vacuform sails as a pattern, but I'd have to experiment. . . Dang it, now I feel like experimenting!
This kit may have been a tough challenge, but your build came out beautifully. Model ships from this era are tough builds, in my opinion, and especially the rigging. Regarding the original Mayflower, my u nderstanding is that no one knows for sure what it looked like because there are no contemporary illustrations. A historical survey in the 1950s (MIT, I think) determined that the Mayflower was a fairly common design for the time, and a type of ship used to transport commodities such as grain and wine around Europe and the Mediterranean. It was a tired ship when it left for the New World. A smaller companion ship, the Speedwell, left with the Mayflower but was also in poor condition. It was in such rundown condition that it had to turn back. Again, a very nice build.
Thank you! I was happy with it. I think you're right that we don't know what it exactly looks like, but I think to a modern eye a fluyt is a fluyt. Not only was it a common design, but the name was pretty common too, so even if we did get an illustration of "the Mayflower" there would only be something like a one in thirty chance that it was the one that carried the pilgrims. Now that you mention it though, I wonder what sorts of things the mayflower would have carried beside religious dissidents. . . Certainly grain and wine, but it would be cool to get a sense of the different products that the holds may have been crammed with. Did the pilgrims smell Riga tar, or find old strands of wool in the oakum?
Great video, Thank You for sharing. I built it back in 1977, it was a fun build. I might get another one. On your next videos can you lower the background music, loved it, but it was kind of distracting. Looking forwards to your next build. Hope you have a great week, take care, Tony
Sorry, I just really like Simple Gifts. Now that I think of it though, I wonder if the Puritans would have been very happy with my choice. . . Anyway, I'll tone it down.
@@professorbellbuilds You are right, that's a great tune. I downloaded it. And thanks for the heads up in the problem areas. Not bad for a 57-year-old kit. Back in the sixties the go to scale was HO (87th) because of the trains, that's why you see the early Revell/Airfix/Matchbox in that scale. Hope you have a great week, Tony
@@tonyperez4791 HO makes sense. . . I wonder how one could integrate the mayflower into a train layout. . .
Airfix did/does a 1/72 Golden Hind I believe.
I beleive you're correct. Heller also has some neat ships that are 1/75 scale. I also built a cog that was 1/72.
Well I'm glad it's not just me who is still cursing (haven't you heard me across the pond?) this kit. I have the Anniversary kit and no, it hasn't been updated. A sneaky peaky on the underside of the precarious stand shows Revell Inc. 1966. That's so long ago it was when England won the World Cup when it was the Jules Rimet Trophy for God's sake! BUT I will not be defeated by bits of ill fitting plastic and glue. No sir and I'm making my own sails. Your venture is just great sir and you survived. Nice video, thank you. Regards from England.
Stay strong brother! If the English built the original one 400 years ago, then the English can build the model! Did yours come with all the spars? The molding on mine was so bad that several were only half there. Revell did send me some replacements, but it was still a pain. How will you make your sails? I had some ideas, but I've never put them into practice. I do have a 1/350 scale Galleon that I may want to upgrade with better sails too. . . Since you mentioned soccer (I know, I'm an American), do you have a premier league team? I've always supported Aston Villa, but I haven't had time to follow sports for a while.
Ahoy and avast! All spars are present, whether they're correct or not, I'm due to find out. The sails I saw made involved using the kit sails as cast so to speak. I've got a spare white pillow case in polyester which is grainy and canvas looking. Put that into boiling water with 3 or 4 used tea bags to weather it a bit. When dry cut pieces roughly to size and place the now slightly tanned clothe over the kit sails. Then paint on a good ol' amount of 50/50 pva glue and water, let that dry and cut the final shape. Those sails that are furled I'll probably do while still wet. I have a hand held battery sewing machine to do some stitching effects. All this is on Alex Modeling. He made them for a revell HMS Victory which I also have, God help me. But to me the Victory is sacred so I'll just have to bite my tongue. Football? I was born in West Ham when it existed, that's dockland east London. So I'll always have a soft spot for them.......and Arsenal. But coincidentally the first match I ever saw live as a lad without my dad being with me (1962ish) was a home game against Aston Villa. The Hammers were 4-2 up when my brother and me decided to miss the leaving crush, they got a fifth as we left the ground. Now I have no time for prima donnas rolling around as if pole axed because someone tackled them, I enjoy rugby but most of all I love the NFL. My first love are the Commanders quite by accident from the hen they beat the Dolphins in Superbowl 17? Second love the Seahawks and then Jaguars. That's enough from me. Thank you again, I have subscribed and thanks for your encouragement. A very Merry Christmas to you sir and may 2024 be peaceful and happy modeling.
OH Hello Mr. Professor ! you bring me back to things ! =) AND what a great Work again!
the golden HInd ist anywhere...
AND HMS Beagle i had tryed to get figures, got now 1/100 ones, do you think they could fit?
these scales are boring?
Is the Beagle 1/72? I think the scale might be too far off, unless Darwin and his companions were all exceptionally short!
@@professorbellbuilds think, they made the Beagle out of an other Kit? it should be 1/96
OH so great your explanaiton one inch 6 Feet =)
@@professorbellbuilds 1:76 scale (4mm to the foot) ??? =)
makes sense?
I don't know. . . 1/76 doesn't make much sense to me. I would have thought of it as 760mm equals 2.5 feet, but then why would they be converting between metric and imperial measurements?@@fernlenker
@@professorbellbuilds =)
Nice build. I hear you on the problems with the blocks. Maybe it would have been better to order some wood blocks to avoid all the headaches.
It might not be a bad idea. . . I didn't know they made those!
how are you meant to know the lenths of cotton.or am i missing something?
The lengths of cotton? Do you mean the rigging?
William Mullins came from the town I live close to (his daughter Priscilla became quite famous because of the Longfellow poem apparently). So I probably should build it, but why no English flag flying from her or even the Union flag from 1606 ?🤔😁
Well. . . I'm guessing here because I don't quite remember why I didn't have any flags flying from it, but I bet it was because I thought they were too cheesy. I remember I had a Lubeck Flag flying from a Hansa cog I built, and it was basically just glossy paper, and I still think it looks dumb. So, I bet when I built the Mayflower I decided to not have any flags at all rather than goofy paper ones. If you do build it, let me know if it comes with flags, and if so how they look.
@@professorbellbuilds Great answer, you had me laughing out loud for real 😂
1:41 THANK YOU explaining! since so so many years, i thought why 1/72 ! ?? YES that makes sense =)) one inch equal 6 Feet =) genious!
now please explain 1/76 =)
OH ever one fine old matchbox stand nest to an 1/72 Modell i start crying and ask me WHY!
The tooling is 53 years old!
yeah. . . that might be time for an update.
You stopped me from buying it. Thank you.
Glad I could help! I wish I could recommend an alternative, but I've only built the one Mayflower. If you do choose another, let me know how it looks!
I do have a wood kit of the Mayflower I just opened. Guess I will try that.@@professorbellbuilds
It is not better still warped 😅 get there tho
huh?