Thank you all for your comments, I really appreciate the time taken and drawings made to help me! I'll try and address each suggestion now.
Thanks but which part do you think is too high? CGH has mentioned this as well. The front end I presume.
Thanks, I think the colour scheme has worked out nicely.
Definitely worth getting some ship parts if you can, it makes the building a lot easier! Welcome to the forum by the way.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Pearl gold is definitely a tricky colour to use because of the limited number of pieces. Regarding the head rails, do you think that the positioning against the side of the ship is a bad height, or the position on the prow? I can't think of any way to connect them either with the current technique. I'll certainly try removing the plates you circled.
With regards to the bow shape, I can't get that picture to load but it's a case of lowering the front end more?
The stern , such a tricky bit to work on.. I will see what I can do.
Hi, thanks for you comments. The anchor is just a sort of temporary solution at the moment and partly to remind me that I need to include one somewhere. I will take on board your point about closing up those holes.
Hi Captain, thanks for the suggestions. I've already addressed a couple of points with my other answers, it seems the general consensus is that the (front?) walls are too high. I'll try lowering them and adding some more details there and on the stern.
Thanks for looking in, I appreciated all your comments with the Puffin before.
Thanks for the picture Aalak, I think that looks like a nice pattern so i'll certainly try implementing it with the bow redesign. I am at the moment planning on some proper string rigging. With the Puffin I always felt that it was going to be temporary so I didn't want to invest the time in full rigging. I had been thinking of those pieces as well, they should be easy to fit into the side!
Thanks everyone, a lot to be getting on with now..