La Belle Poule - 1932 - 1:50 - Dusek Ship Kits

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La Belle Poule - 1932 - 1:50 - Dusek Ship Kits - D021

Company: Dusek Ship Kits
Kit No:  D021
Retail Price: EUR 369.-
Available here: Dusek Ship Kits





History

The Belle Poule is school schooner of French navy. The Belle Poule together with her sister ship Etoile was launched at shipyard Féchamp at Normandy on 8 February 1932. The Belle Poule is 37,5m long and has displacement 225tons. The ship is able to sail up to 12.5 knots with using of sails and up to 9 knots if she is powered by diesel engine.



Technical data

• Scale: 1:50,
  
• Length: 755 mm
  
• Width: 255mm
  
• Height: 655mm
  

The Kit

• 13 x sheets of small plans
  
• 1 x sheet of model size plan
  
• 1 x Instructions (online available in english, french and czech)
  
• 16 sheets of lasercut wood (plywood, veneer and pear)
  
• Various dowels for masts and yards
  
• Various High Quality Resin Parts
  
• 1 x Photoetched brass parts
  
• 1 x Fine-meshed sail cloth
  
• 1 x Copper Foil
  
• Various Rope and all needed small parts (blocks, Pole, Chains, Fittings etc.)
  
• 1 x French Flag
  

All parts of the kit are stored safely and tidily in the box. 









Let's look deeper at this kit and start with the high quality resin parts. 











We also get enough Copper foil for the hull.





For the masts and yards we get very nice dowels. There are also some pear strips for the build. The quality of the wood is excellent! 





You may ask why there are not more strips? All planks are prespilled lasered as we will see soon :-) Let's check out the wood sheets.











And here are the lasered on thin veneer.





The deck has it's planks allready lasered.





And its is lasered perfectly.




Let's check more of the veneer sheets with the prespilled planks.










And more.








The 4mm plywood sheets with keel and frames.







The photoetched parts.









Let's see the smaller parts of this nice kit. 













And for everybody who love sails here we go.





Paperwork. Essential for ever good kit are the instructions and plans. As usually for Dusek you get the instruction in different languages. In this kit they are french but online you can download english and czech as well. 





The instructions are well done and an intermediate Modeller should have no problem at all. 









There are 13 smaller sheets showing all details of this nice schooner.







Or to check the parts of the kit.





Last but not least there is one big of sheet showing the modell in 1:1.









Conclusion

A really nice kit designed by Daniel Dusek. The lasered prespilled planks make it much easier to plank a more complex hull like that of the "La Belle Poule". All parts are made of high-quality materials and you can see the attention to detail in this Dusek kit as well. The instructions leave few to no questions unanswered, the plans are drawn in detail and printed in a great way. 


Dusek Ship Kits currently lists this model for €369, and I think that represents really good value for money for this nice kit.


Some impressions of the build model.















My sincere thanks go to Daniel Dusek for sending this kit for review here on Model Ship World. To buy, go to your favorite Dusek dealer or directly to http://www.dusekshipkits.com