HMS Illustrious, Finished.

Looks great for a first ship build.

Maybe after a chance to relax and build some simpler models, you'll tackle another ship some day.  Just be prepared for a long build, and have a shelf for work-in-progress models where you can store major projects while you take a break.

I'm assuming that's the Dragon 1/700th kit?  That has to be my all-time "almost buys" of all times.  For some reason every time I get ready to pull the trigger on it I back down...

Its the Airfix kit actually.

Please don't be discouraged with ship modelling simply because you built one kit that had warped pieces; even aircraft kits sometimes have that problem. Warps can be easily dealt with using hot water and a little patience.  If you wanted to build the Tamiya USS Enterprise, build it. You will probably not have the same problems.

Bill

Yeah...