I took the plunge and ordered my first ship model. Like many others on this site, I was attracted to this ship by its association with Darwin, and its career as a survey ship. I have been fascinated by the many build logs here and on Model Ship World. I'm attracted by the possibilities of customizing aspects of the kit to improve its accuracy after seeing some great work here, but not sure if that will be beyond my capabilities as a shipyard novice. At least I tell myself that I was involved in delicate fingertip work throughout my career until I partially retired recently. Over the last few years I have read a lot about the Beagle voyage and poured over the Marquardt AOTS book. I hope you will be indulgent when I post probably very basic questions. So here is the shiny newly arrived box. Really exciting...