Well when they launched it at Blackpool years ago, I went to look at it, had a chat to the guy that designed it for Jotica, I asked him why he had put the forecastle deck in timber, where the drawings show it as plated,( LOADS OF WATER ON THIS DECK BECAUSE OF THE LOW FREEBOARD), He said, it looked nicer, I said , you copied the ROLLCALL from british steam tugs, my drawings show a full plated deck.
Compering my model to the kit , it just towers over it, 1/40 scale to 1/48 does not seem much but its longer , wider and higher, apart from a few mistaks its a nice looking kit and sails o/k. ron h