Here's my just completed build of Modelcraft's 'Shell Welder' a 1/130 scale kit based on an ancient Frog kit from 1961, and what a horrible kit it is. The best I can say about it is that the two hull halves fitted together fairly well, but as for the other 178 parts, I can't say the same.
I'm still a newcomer to building ships, so this is my fifth build, and this kit was easily the worst, with huge amounts of flash on most castings, and lots of pieces not even close to fitting. Despite this, it has been an enjoyable past three months slowly getting a result.
I'm afraid I have no idea about rigging, so I added a few cursory wires to help it look the part, and forgot about the other two dozen it still needs.
The water is my own invention, with a base of plaster of paris (over a craftwood base), 5 paint colours for the water, then 6 layers of decoupage craft glue called Mod Podge, then clear silicone sealer for the turbulent water, then some more paint.
I liked the box artwork, which has the Shell Welder in less-than-smooth seas, so I thought I'd have a go at that kind of water.
The kit was second-hand, of course, it came with no decals and most of the instructions were missing, so I had lots of fun figuring out what went where, and creating my own decals, etc. Here's some more pix of the build.
The real 1:1 Shell Welder was about 1000 tons, a coastal oil tanker built in 1955.
While researching other modellers' builds of the kit (to help me to figure out what it should look like) I discovered that this is considered by lots of modellers to be a memorably bad kit. I'd have to agree with them, but I do find building bad kits to be remarkably good fun, even if the results are far from perfect (but then again, all my beginner's efforts have plenty of blemishes, and for some reason that doesn't don't really bother me).