Also check out the Pete Coleman Airfix-Heller Victory website.
I've built or am building two. The Heller which needs no description, and the small scale Revell which is a fine model also.
I personally wouldn't take on a big wood Victory.
There have been a lot of really fine diorama models of the ship, like the Shep Paine ones and the one Dafi is doing.
I'm an old model railroader and I'm of the opinion that a larger scale model of a smaller subject, say a 32 pounder in action with gun crew, is a fine thing.