Bud - thanks a million!!! a lot of that stuff is spot on working from memory... one of the interior shots was the entryway with the ladder down to H division that I bunked behind... it was 100% right... believe it or not looking at all those line drawings had me seeing it in living "haze gray" in my head... remembering different things that happened at different points along those drawings...
Anyway, before I go off on another sea story.. thanks again! I might try the ship Ed listed as practice and do this one afterwards.. the only thing I worry about is all that PE, I am still in the learning phase with that... (mental note to buy PE for all the planes I have scheduled to build for practice)