I am not familiar with that particular ship, but in general Trumpeter kits are quite good. The only problem with them is important to novices. Trumpeter does tend to design kits with some major parts broken down into more pieces than other kit mfgs. For instance, deckhouses that others cast as one piece may be cast as five (roof/deck and four sides).
The reason I mention this is that model ships are probably the most involved genre of models- by that I mean the most parts and assembly steps, leading to a longer build time than other genres. This discourages a lot of new ship modelers and causes them to give up before finishing. Many of us do not necessarily finish a major ship project in one time on the bench. I have a couple of shelves of Work-in-progress kits. Be aware of this, and if you do put it aside for awhile to work on a simpler kit, be careful in boxing it up and make sure you include all the parts, including remaining photo-etch and the instructions.
There have been a number of threads in this forum on using PE on ships, and a neat thing about the FSM forums is that the old threads are archived and available for quite a long while. There are some tricks, especially with railings, so if you have any troubles do not hesitate to ask away.