# 3. First Layer Planking: Columbus Santa Maria. Scale 1/65

🌐This video has English subtitles. You may translate them into your language ------------------------------------ 🌊 This is the first part of 2 videos about planking. Here I do the lower part of the hull. Some planks, nails, glue, and soldering iron - that is all you need for this stage... Well, almost. You need some patience and accuracy. Although this layer will not be visible, it is the base for clean final planking. I wish you a good time, and thank you for watching! ------------------------------------- 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. The time-code: 0:00 - Intro 0:17 - Marking planks layout 0:38 - Pre-cutting top-timbers 1:02 - How to bend planks with a soldering iron 1:16 - Applying the first plank 2:22 - Applying planks 2 & 3 4:25 - How to narrow planks for the ship model hull 6:47 - How to glue planks with PVA glue in a matter of seconds 7:04 - Cleaning the channel for the wooden keel 7:33 - The final result of the stage #modelmaking #hobby #shipmodel #miniaturemodel #planking #howto #asmr