In responce to jhaydock, umm yer I did use a fair bit of curves. I have good referenhce planes which are key. I have posted the ones I used below. The good thinks about them is that you can draw them from the front and because they are numbered you then can move them in the side to the right position. After that you loft and see if it looks right. Then I think about tweeking.

As for motivation, I have a girlfriend who wants me to get a good job out of it and then move out. :p

I have started textureing, I only have the figurehead to do but I will leave that for a bit. I'm mainly a modeller so my textureing has started a new thread in the texturing section. It's not going to look that good but it will only bee seen for a little distance (I have partly worked out the camera motion for my showreel). The better I get over time the more I will come back to this project and improve on it.

Shame really but there you go.