I occasionally build 1:1200 merchant vessels using John Bowen's books. I have three, and please tell me if I'm wrong, I think that's pretty much all that exists on the subject. Right now I'm trying to finish Aorangi, 1924, Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.
One of my areas of interest is using a diode laser to help get some of the parts... I had access to a CO2 laser for the Aorangi, and while I haven't yet bought a laser for myself, my Brother has one. Unfortunately he's 3 hrs away, but I'm hoping to buy one for myself this coming year. I'm already working on the cut files for the Beavercove, 1946, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, but I haven't physically started that one yet.
I still have one of my very first models, a 5-masted schooner Rose, built in 1975 when I was fifteen.
I also have a stash of plastic model kits that I enjoy building, mostly WW1 biplanes and between-the-wars oddball subjects.
Best
BG