Each Heller cannon has nine parts. I made a jig to put them together in.
The Revell little kit is fine, although it does not have lower gun decks and there are a few cannons run out on those decks, not all of them.
Longridge's model is that way too.
I get a lot of criticism for offering my opinion too much, some of the crit pretty abusive, so I say this only because it's a pretty generally held one.
Any wooden ship or boat kit is a challenge and takes skill. That skill is a product of practice and the ability to figure out how to make things absent any instruction.
Open a wooden ship model box and you'll see line, cast fittings, rigging blocks, non-tapered dowels and a whole lot of strip wood.
Either a solid hull blank or a set of laser cut bulkheads.
Solid hulls need to be shaped, which requires transfering the profiles from the drawings to the blank and finalizing the hull lines. Plank on bulkhead requires a good holding jig or stand, and an understanding of what goes where, how it needs to be shaped, and how to attach the planks in a clean fashion.
And it goes on.
So my opinion. Start with a smaller solid hull kit. Schooners are wonderful. The yacht America is a good one, as are all of the various fishing schooners and their derivatives.
Model Shipways made a skipjack I think called the Willie Bennett.
Then try a two masted brig or privateer. That'll get you a dozen or so guns on the deck, a cross yard or two, and a lot more deck detail.
If you dive in on a big frigate or multi-deck warship, it will never get finished in less than several thousand hours. A work year/ five days a week/ 9-5 is 2010 hours.
And do your research. A lot of the wooden ship model kits are junk, and cost a lot of money.
Bill