Charlie, I am a pretty good modeler, but I do not have the tools or capentry skill for doing the hull right. If I can get a premade hull, the rest of the other detail stuff is easy for me, as I already have the immediate means to complete that part of it. There are model reference sites all over the net for these kinds of gunboats and so it would not be terribly hard to mimic the layout of just about any ship we would choose to. I have some hulls I could use now, but in 54mm, they would be sized for torpedo boats and nothing else...Michael