I have BOTH the OcCre and the Amati Revenge kits. Both kits are good. The OcCre is smaller, and the mahogany wood for the hull planking is pretty kit standard, but you can throw on cherry or walnut and upgrade the whole look of the model. I'm not a fan of the MDF frames in the Amato kit. They work, but are fragile. It might be best to get some cheap basswood plywood from Menards, trace and cut new frames, but only if you want the model to last 100 years. One the planking is done, the strength of frames won't be needed. Both kits use printed paper or paper like material for the painted portions of the hull. Painting the colorful patterns instead of using the kit prints would be a very challenging and laborious process, but at least you have a choice. Frankly, I'm not sure which to build first. That is, after I finish HMS Sovereign of the Seas. Required upgrades for both kits include replacement of all the blocks, as usual. There's no sense spending all that time rigging with crappy clocks. Using properly made quality rope is optional IMHO. Adding lots of small details (such as gun tackles, or yardarm parrels) on the OcCre model is a challenge due to the smaller size of the model. I've built at 1:100 scale before, and it's a notable effort cramming all the desired detailes and working with tightly spaced rigging.
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