Corel La Couronne model kit for sale on eBay - ENDS IN 16Hrs !

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

I came across this Corel kit of La Couronne for sale on eBay. It's currently at a very low price, so if you like this type of ship, grab it. Auction ends in 16 hours!

La Couronne Kit on eBay

 

[Pepite 1/60]

No, I didn't buy it! Not this time, anyways.

 

[FrankL514]

JMHO. While Corel products and materials are very good the instructions are absolutely worthless. I saw the instructions and put that ship back on the shelf. 2 or 3 pages of running English. Absolutely horrible. So, unless you are a very experienced modeler, Corel is not for you. I have built the Cutty Sark, HMS Beagle, King of Mississippi and various smaller ships and I am currently 80% done with OCCRE La Candelaria. I consider myself a good modeler. I purchased the Corel Prins Willem a few years ago. I only hope I can get enough experience to eventually build that ship.

 

[Kaman]

As a first timer I built Corel's "Unicorn" and really struggled with the instructions. Overall the english translation was very poor, few diagrams and huge jumps in step by step continuity without any guidance. Corel kits are very much for the skilled modeller

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

JMHO. While Corel products and materials are very good the instructions are absolutely worthless. I saw the instructions and put that ship back on the shelf. 2 or 3 pages of running English. Absolutely horrible. So, unless you are a very experienced modeler, Corel is not for you. I have built the Cutty Sark, HMS Beagle, King of Mississippi and various smaller ships and I am currently 80% done with OCCRE La Candelaria. I consider myself a good modeler. I purchased the Corel Prins Willem a few years ago. I only hope I can get enough experience to eventually build that ship.

There are a few more Corel La Couronne models on eBay for sale, but they are significantly more expensive auctions. Seventeenth century ships have become the main period of interest for me.

Building a Corel model needs two essential things: experience building with wood or other fabrication craft, and ability to read, understand, and translate blueprints and drawings into measured parts and assemblies.

My first ship wooden was a Corel kit, but I came to the table with years of experience in metal crafting and carpentry from other hobbies, and was trained in marine engineering technical drafting. Corel's Prins Willem kit and Herman Ketting's book are on my shelf along with Amati's (Vanguard Model's) HMS Revenge and Mamoli's privateer Rattlesnake. Those will be easy compared to the HMS Sovereign of the Seas currently being built. I think I have enough models to last the rest of my life, and maybe more.