Christian Bruer
Hi Alistair, if you want to build a ship and want to have fun, I can highly recommend this one:
scalemates.com/kits/100770-dragon-1027-uss-livermore-dd-429

Lenght is approx. 298mm and it is easy to build because of high quality moulding and sub assemblies.

Hope that helps and bring you to the good side of modelmaking😄

Alistair Graham
Cheers for that, i am looking to make a start on a ship. I had done quite a few planes and swapped to AFV and soft sinned trucks so need another change of scenery, long slim things are easier to store than models with sticking out parts like planes.