Artesenia Latina Le Renard

[Adrenalin19991]

Hi All,

 

As a second project im looking at the AL Le Renard. Can anyone give me some information as to the historical accuracy and kit quality + anything else. i have just complete an AL Virginia and while it was a good first project the historical accuracy side of things regarding accuracy to a real ship was, in my opinion virtually non-existent and as such am looking for a kit that is a true closer representation of a historical ship. As such im slightly hesitant to order this kit until i know its a bit better on the mentioned fronts than the Virginia. I particularly want to build a sloop of this scale such as this.

 

I know that Soclaine does a kit of this vessel so if anyone can share information or experiences on this kit id be appreciative.

 

Many thanks in Advance,

[Rick01]

Literally just started this kit a week back although I haven't started a build here. It seems to be a fairly accurate model of the replica rather than the original as far as I can tell. Instructions are not the best either! It'll keep me busy but I feel that I'll have a fight most of the way.

If you want a cutter and are prepared for a bit of bashing then look at H. M. Cutter Mermaid, there are a few builds here and plenty of historical detail out there to enable you to take the basic kit and turn it into a nice reasonably accurate model.

 

Rick

[mtaylor]

The inaccuracies (historically) are a part of just about every AL kit.  But, they do make a nice model for the most partl

[Dwight]

I thought they were closed ??

[mtaylor]

1 hour ago, Dwight said:

I thought they were closed ??

They are, but there's still a lot on Fleabay, etc.