Heller Mayflower?

I thought it would be better to re-float this thread, rather than start a new one.

I've found this kit at www.super-hobby.es/.../Mayflower.html

And am pretty sure it's a re-boxing of Revell's "simplified assembly", 20+ inch kit, not Airfix's.

That mounting stand is pretty recognizable - it's exactly the same my simplified Constitution comes with. And the wood grain detail seems a bit too heavy for an Airfix kit. Plus the plastic shrouds and ratlines, the low part count... all seems to point in that direction.

I'm really, really tempted to get it, as from what I've read it's a very nice kit, but it's rather expensive :(

Wondering if Heller's Golden Hind (which seems to be a much larger scale than the stated 1/200 figure) makes a nice kit? It's much cheaper.

Jake,

I am definitely interested if you have an extra one of the larger Revell kits.  What are you interested in as a return?

Bill

Jake,pM sent!

Gents, thread is from 2005 and maybe he doesn't have the kit anymore - perhaps I should have created a new thread rather than replying to this old one. Sorry about that.

The Heller Golden Hind is the old Revell kit re-boxed.  It is a nice kit although I don't know the true scale.  

Bill

Nice to know. A search revealed that Revell's kit was 1/96, so it shouldn't be too hard to find aftermarket blocks and deadeyes for it. That Heller Mayflower is just too bloody expensive, I'd rather put the money towards the savings for the 1/100 Victory...

It's interesting. The photos of the Heller kit look almost exactly like the parts in the smaller Revell kit. I wonder . . .

My guess is that Revell´s simplified build version is based on the smaller one, and Heller reboxed the first (it's just too large to be the smaller one).

BTW, if the model's length corresponds to the "overall length" of the Mayflower II, the scale on Heller's kit would be roughly 1/67, would be nice to work with.

I had built the larger Revell Mayflower when it was first released and gave it to my grandparents.  I have no idea whatever became of the model after they died, but I remember it as a very pleasant model to build. It would be nice to find another one. I may have to consider the Heller kit if I can find the money.  Perhaps I will go plow a few driveways!

Bill

There's a large one on eBay right now, in what seems to be a 1980 boxing. I'd swear the box says 20" long, and price is not bad. I'm not getting it because of the shipping costs to Spain, but you might be interested.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Bill

Either Revell Mayflower is an excellent kit. The larger, "Quick Build" version is just a pantographed-up version of the smaller one.

Be aware that it's actually a scale model of the Mayflower II, whose accuracy has been questioned in recent years. (It was built in the fifties.) It's an acknowledged fact that the deck spaces are about a foot too high for authenticity (to keep visitors from bashing their heads on the beams). How important that is, is of course up to the individual modeler.

Really nice figures in the kit.

Yes I'm six foot plus and I really enjoyed my trip to Plymouth. They had a re-enactor playing Bradford in the main cabin.

He asked me where I was from, I replied "California". That puzzled him, so I explained that it was in New Spain.

"Aye, yeh be a papist, then?" Sort of un-PC but true, and very funny.

I got a Revell 1/83 kit at Hobby Lobby last October for $10.79 on the clearance rack.  I reckon that would be the small one.