80 year old wanting to get into modeling wood ships decades after plastic modeling

Hello, I am new to this forum, and I appreciate getting your feedback. I need all the help I can get! When I was much younger, I did a lot of plastic modeling, mostly WWll vintage planes. I really enjoyed it. I'm now 80, single, and looking to get into wood ship modeling (kits). Recently, I had a very unpleasant experience after initially purchasing several wood kits from a company that has the worst customer service I've ever had. These kits, Mamoli Mini kits, were supposed to be

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