![]() (It was the company's third sailing ship kit - after the Constitution and Bounty. Revell and Heller have, at one time or another, produced different Santa Maria kits. That's one reason I lost enthusiasm for the project after building one of them. ![]() But I'd be reluctant to put finished models of the Nina and Pinta built from the Heller (or Revell) kits side by side on a shelf, where their near-identical hulls would be obvious. But the basic hull halves are the same.) That doesn't mean either is necessarily inaccurate so little is known for certain about those ships that it's dangerous to make such pronouncements about any model or full-size replica. (If I remember correctly - a dubious proposition - the Pinta kit has some extra pieces to build up the forecastle bulwarks. One big caveat: Heller used the same hull components for both the Nina and the Pinta. I remember it as a reasonably well-detailed, if rather basic, kit that would be capable of being turned into a nice model (probably a great deal nicer than the one I built). I did build one of the Heller "Columbus ships" (I can't remember whether it was the Nina or the Pinta) many years ago. Quite a few Revell sailing ship kits have appeared in Heller boxes over the years, and a few Heller ones have appeared under the Revell label. Such kits tend to bounce around manufacturers license each other to distribute kits in different markets. ![]() ![]() I don't think I've ever seen the inside of the Revell box, but I'm about ninety percent sure the Revell and Heller Nina kits are identical. ![]()
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