The Amerigo Vespucci is 'la piu belle nave' of the world. I built this small model with the same sensitive fingers as when I painted the smallest painting in the world in 1979, which was mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records.
I started in 2007, buying a kit 1:84. From the beginning I noticed an enormous difference between the kit and the real ship. So I gathered about 5000 pics from internet as well as some building plans and started. The whole project lasted 6 fine years and ended in 2012.