trumpeter mayflower

Hello,

Sorry to resurrect an ancient thread, but thought I'd chime it, albeit three years late. The Imai Mayflower, as well as the Pyro/Lifelike model, are based upon the model built by R.C. Anderson for the Pilgrim Society. I believe that even the Series 1 Airfix kit has a similar heritage.

Cheers,

Rob

I have build this kit and have pictures over on www.modelwarships.com if that will help.

Rod

Here's another thread with some useful information: /forums/726600/ShowPost.aspx.

Unfortunately Trumpeter's Mayflower kit is rather dubious in terms of scale accuracy! It appears to be mostly based on the Imai kit, but the upper works and in particular the masts + yards are out of scale (too small) with the lower hull. It retains the Imai kit's rather unconvincing flower + dolphin decorations on the stern.

Imai's Mayflower, BTW, appears to be based on a different set of plans than the Revell kit, which is based on the replica Mayflower II. Other than the aforementioned stern decorations, it's an excellent kit. It actually scales out at around 1/60, not the 1/70 given on the box, which would make the Trumpeter kit (if it's larger than the Imai one) closer to 1/50.

I'm guessing that Trumpeter decided to copy the Imai kit but added the upperworks from the Revell kit in an attempt to make it look more like the Mayflower II replica  - but somewhere in the process of scanning/pantographing the scales got slightly mixed up, and they also forgot to scale up the masts and yards along with the rest of the ship.

itv63tango wrote:

are thier any reviews of this kit thinking of getting one

here is  past thread use search box at the bottom of page to find stuff that might already have been discussed can save you a lot trouble good luck there might be more than think you can find it yourself

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