A forum search on the word HECEPOB will produce all sorts of disgustingly lengthy rants about the subject, from others as well as myself.) One correspondent on another website, who generally was rather defensive of HECEPOB kits, aknowledged that 'Corel tends to be lazy with its research.' On the basis of what I've seen, that's an understatement. As I said in my last post, Corel kits in general don't have a good reputation - even among the HECEPOB brigade. (HECEPOB, for the benefit of the uniniated, is a term I am proud to have coined myself it's an acronym for Hideously Expensive Continental European Plank-On-Bulkhead. Unicorn, for instance, which is a sorry joke). That said, the model in the photos certainly does look better than some of the others (the Corel H.M.S. That's even more true of wood kits than of plastic ones. As we all know, a good modeler can make a nice model from a mediocre kit - and a lousy modeler can make a lousy model out of a good kit. The illustrations of finished models built from wood kits, by nature, reflect the skills and knowledge of the people who built them. The only grounds I have for evaluating the Corel Bellona are the photos on the Model Expo website, and it obviously wouldn't be fair or reasonable for me to attempt a serious evaluation of the kit on that basis.
