New to Tall Ships, let me introduce myself.
After posting several threads to this part of the forum I guess it is time to introduce myself.
I am 51 years old and have been modeling most of my life. In my younger, single and carefree days I indulged in buying lots of resin kits and HUGE kits of spaceships and submarines that I still don't have space to build or display them. Now that I am very happily married (NO, this is not a paid or coerced announcement --- I really really mean it, I am a very lucky man) I have to be more responsible and choose my projects more carefully.
I don't have many of my finished models on the web. But here are a few examples:
http://www.starshipmodeler.org/gallery6/ll_basil.htm
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e9/modelnut/Lost%20in%20Space/j2bestleft.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e9/modelnut/Grand%20Baleen%20Squid/GrandBaleenSquidonthemantle.jpg
I have an ongoing dream project, a 72 scale Jules Verne NAUTILUS:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e9/modelnut/NAUTILUS/12.jpg
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But lately I have seen several excellent examples of tall ship models online. And I want one! 
I read Forester's Horatio Hornblower series in college and loved them! Ever since then I have had a itch to build the Lydia from Beat to Quarters. I think now is the time.
I could use some advice and this seems the place to get it. Thank you all for the help you have been and in advance for all the help to come!
- Leelan