Welcome aboard, Kapitän Schneider.
If I may give you an advice : once your modeling training is done (that shouldn't take long), go for small coastal merchants. Of course these ones are not as pretty as other ships... But what's needed here is ship classes that you'll spot most of the time.
What I mean is that working on HMS Glorious, for example, and making it look just like the real one would be fine of course, but the bad thing is that it got sunk early in the war, so where's the need to work for many weeks or even months on a ship that hardly anyone will spot in game, hehe.
Good luck mate !
Edit
Max is good, IMO.
