| That is entirely up to yourself. There is a guy who has just produced a fibre glass mold of the Bismarck that comes in at something like 8 foot. Is that cheating?
I am a great believer in you do what you want to do in the way you want to do it. How you acheive the result is entirely up to you and no-one has a right to say otherwise.
I am currently making a model of a steam coaster which is a Mountfleet kit. However the plywood overlays were not to my liking so I am planking the decks and making hatchboards myself. How much of what I am doing is cheating? Who knows and who cares!! I am making a model in my own way and enjoying doing it which is exactly what you should also do. Scaling up a model is a common practise for arriving at a larger size and using a kit to do it seems a good idea to me! Bear in mind you will still have to do all the research to determine just how accurate the kit is anyway!!
Good luck and keep us up to date with the progress.
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