l'amarante

Hello everyone. Last year I successfully completed the construction of the Le Gros Ventre model according to Gerard Delacroix's monograph (published on modelshipworld.com) and I chose L'Amarante as my next model (also according to GD's monograph). I started the POF construction at the end of...

Hello My dear friends Today I am happy to announce that I'm opening my new construction project : POF L'Amarante Corvette de 12 canons 1744 1:36 (Ancre Monograph by Gérard Delacroix) with this beautiful I will enter an important and challenging phase, building a full scratch model. First, I...

Hello everyone, My order from ANCRE arrived today. I placed the order on 06-04-2022 ( which was a Saturday) and it arrived today!!! That was nine days from France. I live in Florida. You can't do any better than that. It would take that long to order something from my own state. Thank you ANCRE...

Hello, everyone. Here I would like to introduce you to my second project, I am trying to build the La Palme, a sister ship of the L' Amarante. I hope that I get a lot of input from you to identify any errors and to fix them. Le Coureur will continue to be built whenever I need a change. Now...

I started building this French corvette in April 2013, using Gerard Delacroix's excellent monograph. For its construction I used pear, ebony, Brazilian boxwood and maple wood for the decking. The model is currently still to be finished as I intend to set it up with its complete sailing...