Scaling

Leah, the scaling issue was not directed at you so please don't take it personally, it was simply that you had made the ship and plane too small.

OK, this is how Tim described to me to be the best way to scale things, in the customize menu, at the top of the max screen, go to units and change it to metric, and metres. Once this is done create a rectangle which is the height of nelson. This will be your 'measuring stick'. Once you've done this you use the measuring stick to gauge a ratio of Nelson to a ship, so if nelson is 1 metre high and the ship is 100 metres high, then you duplicate the measuring stick and scale it up by 100 times and then scale the ship to be the same size, using the height element, as the stick.

I hope this makes sense, maybe if anyone does re-scale a ship when they save the scene they could make this apparent in the file name so people could use some of the models if needed.