# 2. Before planking: some upgrades. Columbus Santa Maria. Scale 1/65

🌐This video has English subtitles. You may translate them into your language ------------------------------------ 🌊Since this sailboat model will be illuminated from the inside, and also because some of the internal sections will be visible from the outside, I decided to slightly “upgrade“ the skeleton of the model. I’ll fabricate a kind of lower hold, also I will make planking of the fore compartment. I think it is the most convenient to do before the general planking of the hull. ------------------------------------- Other videos from the Santa Maria series: ------------------------------------- In this series of videos, I am building a model of the Santa Maria sailboat - the largest ship from Christopher Columbus’s 1492 expedition. The model is based on a kit from Amati on a 1/65 scale. Since Amati ship model kit designs are often simplified for easier assembly, there are some elements that I will significantly modify or correct. To get a better idea of what and how to revamp elements of construction, I use available materials on ship modeling, open information about sailboats of the 15th-16th centuries from the Internet, as well as the book “The Ships of Christopher Columbus. Santa Maria, Niña, Pinta“ by Xavier Pastor from the Anatomy of the Ship collection. But since there is very little evidence of how the ships of Columbus looked like, I will allow myself some fantasy, when building this model of a sailboat. #modelmaking #hobby #shipmodel #miniaturemodel #planking