Let me start out by saying that I model as women knit... It's relaxing and fun, so I am not the world champion of modelling. But I love it, and I have now set my mind on a series of HM Ships of WWII.
I chose the scale 1/600 because I once did at 1/700 and that was too small for me, and besides the Airfix models are easy enough for me to handle. But I want to build an Illustrious Class carrier (Illustrious, Formidable, Victorious or Indomitable). But the only British WWII carrier - of any scale - I have been able to find is the Ark Royal.
Any help is appreciated - I have been thinking about conversion of the said Ark, or an entirely different model, because I have never done scratch building.
The goal of the series is a selection of the ships in the British Pacific Fleet of early 1945.