Aoshima

Aoshima Bunka Kyozai Co., Ltd. was established in 1923 in Shizuoka, Japan as an aircraft research institute and began to manufacture wooden airplane model kits in 1929. 
Over the following years, the company has released thousands of plastic model kits of aircraft, vehicles, ships, spacecraft, and figures from a wide variety of different genres and franchises. 
== Star Trek releases==
The company acquired licensing for the production of starship replicas in 2010.
Aoshima’s fully-painted 1:2000-scale ABS starship replicas measured 32 cm long (docked) and included internal LED lighting for the windows, deflector array, and warp nacelles. 
The saucer section separated from the stardrive section, the Captain's yacht separated from the saucer, and each ship included a 45 mm-long 1:80-scale Type 15 shuttlepod. Its display stand divided into two to allow the starship to be presented in saucer separation configuration. 
* – pale blue deco with El-Baz shuttlepod; released in October 2011 (Japan)
*USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D – white "TV Image Color" deco with El-Baz shuttlepod; released in March 2012 (Japan); Previews/Diamond Comic Distributors exclusive outside of Japan
* – pale blue deco limited edition repaint with Onizuka shuttlepod; Blister Direct exclusive released in March 2012 (Japan); BBTS exclusive (US)
File:Aoshima USS Enterprise-D.jpg|USS Enterprise-D
File:Aoshima USS Enterprise-D TV Image Color.jpg|USS Enterprise-D TV Image Color
File:Aoshima USS Yamato.jpg|USS Yamato
File:Aoshima Star Trek Shuttlepods.jpg|Type 15 shuttlepods
File:Aoshima USS Enterprise-D comparison.jpg|Shuttlepods and removable Captain's yacht 
File:Aoshima Star Trek starships box fronts.jpg|Packaging
=== Prototype ===
A prototype was shown at Japanese conventions in 2012 but the ship did not reach production.
*Future (as seen in )
== See also ==
* Star Trek model kits
== External link ==
* – official site
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