Aoshima 1/120 Cutty Sark available !!!

I don't know about "sage" comments, but a quick Forum search on the phrase "Aoshima Cutty Sark" produced no fewer than 52 posts.  This one is a reasonable summary:  /forums/946140/ShowPost.aspx .

I frankly find the price of the Aoshima reissue pretty horrifying, but it is (assuming the new owners haven't made any significant modifications to the Imai original) an outstanding kit.  My biggest criticism probably would be that, because the scale is relatively small, the manufacturer found it necessary to make the upper spars a bit heavy.  As I've noted in several other posts, it is in many (though by no means all) respects a more accurate kit than the big old Revell one. 

There is an older post talking about the best of the plastic sailing ship model kits.  jtilley remarks there on the reasons he feels the Aoshima is a finer kit than the Revell 1/96 in a number of ways.

 I am sure that, like a great shark, he will rise from the "deep", sink his teeth into this post and respond with some sage comments.

 Bill