I highly recommend 1/600 scale for doing ship drawing

I drew my last destroyer drawing at 1/600 scale (50ft/in) and I remembered why I like the scale. That is large enough that drawing accuracy is greatly improved. 1/12oo scale is too small. Small errors have a large effect on the drawing. I have done 770ft battlecruisers at 1/600 scale and it really helps for that size as well. The only problem with it is that scans must be pieced together graphically, and there are always small alignment errors.