Here's another tiny ship model from my collection, the 18th century Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon, famous for fighting the USS Chesapeake and acting as a scout in Nelson's fleet at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar, in about 1/400-450 scale. I built this last year but have only yesterday actually got round to photographing it.
This kit is one of Airfix's tiny "Historic Ships" series, which were among the first Airfix plastic kits ever produced (the Golden Hind was the first, apart from the rare Ferguson tractor). It is definitely one of the better ones, having sharper moulding and more detail than HMS Victory (which is about 1/600 scale). It's still very crude, but being only about 5"/12cm long (about the size of one of the ship's boats on Heller's 1/100 Victory) doesn't look too bad. Airfix's Shannon is actually the only plastic kit of a Royal Navy sail frigate in existence, and, other than the Pyro Bomb Ketch, is, as far as I know, the only plastic kit of a late 18th century Royal Navy warship other than the Victory (not counting the Bounty and Endeavour which were converted merchants)
I cut off the moulded plastic sails, scratchbuilt some basic stern gallery detail, and a few other additions and modifications I can't remember. Rigging is distinctly basic, and the spars (particularly the upper yards) are overscale, but it still looks nice from a foot or so away!
I don't usually build models this small - 1/200 to 1/35 is more my area of interest - but it can be an interesting challenge to build something this tiny for a change. However, I'm sure a small-scale expert (check out some of the 1/700 and 1/600 builds in the Modelwarships.com gallery to see what I mean) could do a lot more with it, including in-scale spars, replacement cannons (turned brass?), PE figures, full rigging, etc...)