colpatben

Hi all.

 

Actual date this post was prepared 14^th January 2020.

 

Helm Position between cabin walls aft of the mizzen and below the aft deck.

 

 

 

 

 

I did tidy up the overspill of CA around the window frame on the starboard cabin wall!

 

 

Aft deck fitted completely covering the helm.

 

And test fitted lower part of all masts.

 

 

 

Colin

On 2/2/2021 at 4:56 AM, Clark Griswold said:

  Note to self: keep track of when you're cutting with the grain.  Plenty of work to go still.

 

 

 

Oops!

 

 

Colin

Me again.

 

Actual date this post was prepared 14^th January 2020.

 

Following on from planking the Under Deck, the main deck is on.

 

 

And a view of the stern gallery supports.

 

 

 

Colin

Hi all.

 

Actual date this post was prepared 11^th January 2021, for a build thread on another forum.

 

 

The first ‘Real Deck’ to be fitted is what the instructions call the Under Deck but I would call the Well Deck!

 

 

Anyhow it has to be sprung to get it under the frames to get it into place.

 

 

Part and fully planked.

 

 

 

 

Colin.

Hi all

 

This post was origionally written on 30th Dec 2020 for a build thread on another forum.

 

Lockdown Christmas so cut and assembled rib and main deck frames.

 

 

 

 

 

Colin.

22 hours ago, chris watton said:

Yeah, I have never seen that before. I bought my Le Superb in 1992 from Model Dockyard, and this was laser cut, one of the first, I think, and very nice (for the time) and excellent manual.

Chris.

 

Well that's interesting. So I had either been sold old stock or possibly my memory ain't what it used to be an I bought it much earlier than I thought!

If I was of a mind I should contact Mantua to try to find out when they started to use laser cut parts on this model, but life's too short .  😊 

 

Colin.

21 minutes ago, Ryland Craze said:

Hi Colin and welcome to Model Ship World.  You have built some really nice models and I look forward to seeing your future builds.  We are glad to have you aboard.

 

Thanks Ryland.

 

Started now at  Le Superbe Build

 

Colin.

 

 

Hi one and all.

 

This post was originally written on 26^th December 2020. For a build thread on another forum, but I have decided to move it all to here.

 

First a back story:

 

I bought this particular kit after exhibiting at the first London Model Engineering Exhibition held at The Alexandra Palace in 1996, yes almost 25 years ago!

 

 

At that time I was building and showing RC boats and racing Tamiya1/10 off road cars whilst assisting at the Chesham Model Shop in Buckinghamshire, who were the UK importer of Wedico boat and truck kits. They had a stand at the Model Engineers Exhibition and I was able to attend every day so had lots of time to browse around.

 

One divorce and five homes later I think that I should at least start it and hopefully see it through to completion.

 

This kit is fairly straightforward plank on frame construction with just a few fiddly bits.

 

The most obvious change in this kit since I bought it is that now wooden parts in kits are laser cut whereas this kit has all the frames and other ply parts either partway machine cut with a router or just printed on solid wood that will need to be cut out with a fretsaw.

 

 

The next post will be the build start.

 

Colin.

Thank you for the welcome one and all.

 

I will be posting my Le Superbe build log, starting at day one.

 

Colin

Hi fellow boat modellers.

 

I had been model boatbuilding for more years than I want to remember, up until my last model in 2009.

 

To introduce myself, I attach a picture of each of the boats I have built over these years in much the same order as they were constructed!

 

Wedico Inga IV.

 

 

 

Wedico Berlin Ferry.

 

 

Billings Smit Nederland.

 

 

 

Dumas Creole Queen.

 

 

Mantua Models Anteo.

 

 

 

Robbe Atlantis.

 

 

 

Robbe Glasgow Paddle Tug (with Wilesco Steam plant).

 

 

 

 

Scratch Built Atlantic Conveyor. In Falklands Task Force configuration.

 

 

Scratch built Fairmile B in Rescue Launch configuration (RML542)

 

 

All long gone except:

 

 

Billings Le Etoile. Static Display, still with me on the dining room windowsill.

 

 

Currently in our lockdown situation December 2020, I have started to build a Mantua Le Superbe.

 

 

I had started a build log on another site, but it is not the best place to have posted. I was wondering if it would be morally OK to move the build log to this site?

 

All the best.

 

Colin.