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I'd certainly agree. For reasons unclear I started in 1/350 back when and haven't jumped at changing, but it could be time.

Looks to me like a nice kit - worlds removed from the old Aoshima British carriers.

It will fill a big gap in the plastic 1/700 world. It's on my bucket list of kits I want to build.

It appears it's been out in England for a month. As they are experts on the subject, there's a lot of fine detail criticism and at least one major shape issue. One person preferred the old Revell kit, which isn't at all a bad one.

It has a big PE fret available as well.

What gets my attention, when looking at the sprues, is how much detail got cast onto the hull halves with slide mold technology.

I do hope that one day somebody does this ship in 1/350 scale. I do remember getting the old Revell 1/720 HMS Ark Royal HMS Ashanti pair kit at the local Sears when I was a boy and building it. It's nice to see a new tooled kit of this historically significant ship coming out.

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Looks like a model thats been either produced or pilot shot already.

Besides the stringbags, there appear to be Skuas, Fulmars and a Walrus.

That is very nice indeed.

I'd really like for Trump to do one of their 1/200 monsters of this ship.