I would highly recommend "Lilla Weneda", a beautiful ship, and model of a Coastal Polish ferry. You will want to read all of this ship's history, as this model is so wonderful. Using Photoshop[, I made this model around 2 years ago. I up scaled it to 200% of it's original size (I ended up with around 26 pages of parts, who knew!). Mine is about 26" long. It is wonderful to build at any scale, as these pictures from the website show. Amazingly, this ship is
FREE!. It can be had from this website, (scroll down a little), make sure you download the instructions!
http://www.digitalnavy.com/LillaWeneda/index.html