silveroxide
Senior Member
It has been a while since I have built a sailing ship. This one will be a Christmas gift to my son in law who lives at the Jersey Shore. (My Daughter and Son in law are Ok, they have electricity and very little damage, and his business only suffered a broken plate glass window.)
Pape air started to build the San Salvador, but since he ran into some health setbacks, I decided to go ahead and make a build thread on it. Hopefully he will recover and get back to paper modeling in the future.
Continuing with another build, I hope to have it finished by the Holidays. My initial finish date was for Thanksgiving but I do not believe I can accomplish that. This model will be a mixture of cardstock and wood. The decking is almost finished and the rib sections are heavily laminated to almost the same thickness as a wooden model. The hull will be a mixture of wood planking over a cardstock hull. There is some slight fit problems with the ribs but they are easy to overcome. I will treat this build like a wood model from Artesania Latina. Here are the first photos
Pape air started to build the San Salvador, but since he ran into some health setbacks, I decided to go ahead and make a build thread on it. Hopefully he will recover and get back to paper modeling in the future.
Continuing with another build, I hope to have it finished by the Holidays. My initial finish date was for Thanksgiving but I do not believe I can accomplish that. This model will be a mixture of cardstock and wood. The decking is almost finished and the rib sections are heavily laminated to almost the same thickness as a wooden model. The hull will be a mixture of wood planking over a cardstock hull. There is some slight fit problems with the ribs but they are easy to overcome. I will treat this build like a wood model from Artesania Latina. Here are the first photos