Thank you for kind comments, Dicky.
I'm really enjoying this build as I consider her a pretty ship. Should get the girls around me at the lakeside eh!!
I know of this site and have perused it's contents several times. I was going on a trip on her, but the paddle shaft has been sent away for repair, so she is laid up at the moment.
I have been fervently collecting all the data I can since starting this one and have quite a collection of pictures now. They are collated on the laptop and I refer to them all day. The great thing about this way is that I can enlarge the view to check certain points. believe me, it's not in the master plans supplied. This one is scratch build from the empty hull upwards, that's why I making such a 'Pigs ear' of it. I shall get there in the end especially as I am getting help from you helpful guys.
Here's me thinking it was a flat top boat with hundreds of people on it.
There is is so much more to it and I'm learning all the time.
Time for a break now so it's off to Westbourne Models for a week to spend my pension. (Now where can I get two hundred scale 1/48 people??)
Cheers...Ken