Thanks so much guys for the very kind words. I was feeling a bit down that I didn't deliver the final model and your responses have given me a real lift.

Don, I enjoyed looking through your website. Your pencil drawings are brilliant. Do you use MoI with TurboCad?

Marc, in my experience Balancer does preserve the vertex normals. I have not noticed any issues in that regard. They have recently implemented some additional features to allow some sections of a mesh to be excluded from reduction. On the model of Colleoni I was able to keep the scuttles round by painting the glass and the rim a certain colour and then by locking that material colour, was able to preserve the shape. Definitely worth downloading the demo.

Burr, I went way too far with these models. I'm a lousy businessman! I learned a lot from the experience though. I'm going to finish off that last ship at my own pace and might start a new thread for it.

3. HMAS Sydney II (light cruiser) as lost: