I bought the Occre Beagle kit and then I bought Anatomy of the Ship book by Marquardt for the Beagle. I found numerous scale errors in the kit. The forecastle is built flat in the kit whereas the actual ship had a rise towards the bow. The sides of the kit hull do no curve in at the top like the real ship. The width of the deck planking was more than twice the scale width; which tends to throw off the scale of the rest of the ship. There are other details along the same lines where the kit does not match the actual ship. I bring this up not as an outright complaint against Occre, but I was wondering if there are any other kits out there that started out a little more true to scale?
I plan to do some serious kit bashing otherwise.
I plan to do some serious kit bashing otherwise.