Which one to choose?

[Ismaele]

Hello everyone.
While I am building the Victory (see my blog) I intend to take advantage of Black Friday to buy my next kit.
I am leaning towards the Santisima Trinidad, which was the Spanish flagship at Trafalgar.
I have narrowed my choice to two kits, one from OcCre and one from Artesania Latina. The discounted prices are very different, around 400 euros for OcCre, around 630 for Artesania Latina. Both companies sell complete, quality products with a rich set of instructions, but examining the characteristics of these specific models would make me lean towards the Artesania Latina one, because the significant price difference seems justified, in this specific case, by a better quality and greater richness of details.
I would like to have some opinions from the forum community, perhaps from someone who has already built the models.
Thanks everyone.

 

[Kurt Konrath]

I can't say anything bad about OcCre, great models and customer service.

Do a search on the forum about ST, and see what others have built and posted logs on.

I don't know much about the AL kit.

 

[gene438]

I think both companies are solid, I think you stated it well when you said the AL kit is more expensive but has more detail and quality parts. If the price increase is worth it to you, I would also go with AL. My philosophy is that with the hundreds of hours of entertainment, fun and contentment we get with building these large kits, a couple hundred dollars is not much.