Well! I am also a "fine-art photographer": I print my own work, which is displayed in my Bed & breakfast / Gallery as well as other venues (Galleries) in western Nova Scotia.. And during the winter, I work at getting Lobsters ready for market.
One of the reason I relocated here, from the Canadian west: the rich maritime and ship building culture, and the clean fresh air.
I have never built the model linked in
@Ophotn original post.
It takes about 30 hours for one 17-inch basic model built by a novice: when I launched my kit (it was never mass produced), as a test, I had a couple built by some friends who had never built anything like this before. I have been thinking of resurrecting this kit but having problem finding a supplier for the wood at a good price.
From the basic model (shown as the traditional green in my previous reply), the "sky is the limit" as far as being creative: although they all have the same basic shape, every canoe becomes a one-of-a-kind piece.
Yep! Canoes do not have the high profile for what would be considered model-building: nothing fancy and no guns.
G