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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Sea => Topic started by: kpnuts on September 26, 2022, 02:09:07 AM

Title: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: kpnuts on September 26, 2022, 02:09:07 AM
Hi all going through my stash I've discovered I have these two kits of the same subject so I thought I would build them both at the same time so we can all see the differences between them.

(https://i.ibb.co/59TWX94/PSX-20220925-181653.jpg)

First thing you can see is the colours are different on both of them.

(https://i.ibb.co/JmxNzbx/PSX-20220925-181626.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/bWxwDBk/IMG-1846.jpg)

I have no idea which is right  (if either) but I don't really care I will paint them both as per instructions.

The dark brown is the revell kit

(https://i.ibb.co/MVysvR9/PSX-20220925-181526.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/16YLKtg/PSX-20220925-181600.jpg)

The whiter coloured sails are the revell ones.

At first glance the revell kit is the better detailed of them.

(https://i.ibb.co/FKyXTTr/PSX-20220925-181458.jpg)
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 26, 2022, 02:25:20 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: finsrin on September 26, 2022, 04:37:42 AM
Very interesting side-by-side builds.  Similar scales too.  :smiley:
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: Old Wombat on September 26, 2022, 09:34:40 AM
Interestingly, according to ScaleMates, the Revell kit has the oldest moulds (1966) with Airfix being half a decade later (1971).
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: Frank3k on September 26, 2022, 11:39:41 PM
Revell had a series of sailing ships in "box scale" from that era that were just fantastic. The H.M.S. Bounty (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-05404-hms-bounty--111480) and the Santa Maria (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-05405-columbus-ship-santa-maria--111481) were in the same series.
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on September 27, 2022, 12:25:13 AM
Quote from: Frank3k on September 26, 2022, 11:39:41 PM
Revell had a series of sailing ships in "box scale" from that era that were just fantastic. The H.M.S. Bounty (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-05404-hms-bounty--111480) and the Santa Maria (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-05405-columbus-ship-santa-maria--111481) were in the same series.
Another of the Revell sailing ships that belongs in this category is the 1/56th scale Sailing Yacht America (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-05416-uss-america--1016014).  A very nice model when built and rigged properly. 
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: Story on September 27, 2022, 09:22:28 AM
If you want to save some of your sanity and remaining eyesight, "Admiralty Models" was a style with stub masts meant to highlight the hull features.

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIUA074RAB5LzSJPzyb8vynX2zY9CcplihqA&usqp=CAU)
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: kpnuts on October 03, 2022, 02:57:50 AM
OK so far the Revell kit is far and away the better fitting kit, the Airfix kit is lucky it's not taken an unscheduled flight across the room.

Airfix kit.

(https://i.ibb.co/zPdyJP5/IMG-1901.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/4PBPd4d/IMG-1897.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/vxK79C4/PSX-20221002-181236.jpg)

Revell kit.

(https://i.ibb.co/TM8vhmq/IMG-1902.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/k6H6jjr/IMG-1895.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/Zd0x8fT/PSX-20221002-181215.jpg)

So far Revell is wining.
Title: Re: Revell and Airfix Mayflower
Post by: kim margosein on October 04, 2022, 12:57:24 PM
A replica of the Mayflower was built in 1957.  The kits are probably  based on the replica, so there is an issue of accuracy.   IIRC the replica was pretty much a generic ship of Mayflower's type at the time.