Are all the US carriers now available in 1/350?
Langley, Saratoga
Yorktown class
Wasp/Ranger (kit?)
Essex class (WW2 deck, and later angled deck ??)
Escorts - Independance, and Casablanca class
Enterprise - CV-65 (one ship class?)
Nimitz class
What am I missing?
Missing:
Wasp
Midway/Coral Sea/FDR
the angle-deck mods for the Essexes
Forrestal
new Saratoga
new Ranger
Independence
America
Constellation
Kennedy
Kitty Hawk
Nowhere as complete as you may think
other cve classes still missing.
Would be a heck of an assembly, though.
Almost would have to sort them by size, since some spanned eras, designations, too.
Should the CVS be shown or treat them separately? Ok, brain locking up, were the “jeep” carriers AVT at one point? Weren’t Midway and Lexington CVT at some point?
And, to be fair, probably ought to include the helo carriers, too–could restrict that to only LHA.
And, at that level of completeness, probably ought to include a Fletcher with catapult, and the sidewheel training carrier that was on the Great lakes.
This might be a tad easier in 1/700 if only for the displaying of it .
Rather like an assembly of every USN carrier-borne aircraft. Seems simple at first, until you start writing this stuff down.
Independence class is CVL, not Escort. Also Saipan class.
CVE Classes missing; first was Long Island, foremost Bogue (and subclass Prince William), then Sangamon, Charger, Casablanca (listed), and Commencement Bay classes.
After a little googling, I think we can shorten EdGrune’s list.
Forrestal class - Forrestal, Ranger, Saratoga, Independence.
Kittyhawk class - Kitty Hawk, America, Constellation…Kennedy was heavily modified Kittyhawk.
Wasp/Ranger
Midway class
What other CVE’s besided Independence and Casablanca?
Hi Knox… please re-read, the Independence class was a CVL not a CVE. The CVEs could not keep up with the fleet carriers, being built on slower merchant hulls, whereas the CVLs started out as cruiser hulls. Read above, your question has already been answered.
Hello everyone
Hancock
Ticonderoga
Hornet
Lexington
Franklin
All Trumpeter 1/350 kits
And Saratoga CV-3 don’t forget…
Other than the CVE’s that returned from lend lease, did the USN ever have a carrier that had previously sailed under a foreign flag, or for that matter been built in a foreign country other than Canada?
Don’t believe so.
… as well as the LSTs modified to carry/launch Grasshopper observation planes (Operation Dragoon)
Bondo,
No, the US never “had” carriers that served in foreign navies. We did build some for lend/lease along with other ship classes, but didn’t take a carrier built for foreign service and commission it in the USN.
Shipyards in the US did take some CVEs and concert them back to commercial vessels post WW2.
It would be interesting to see some kits modified for the various stages of modernization that took place for the Essex-class and the Midways. You’ll have the modernized islands, etc. for the early stages all the way to the SCB-125 angled decks.
Even some after market conversion sets, I think, could be a good idea.
Don’t forget the 1/700-1/720 stuff too. Since I go for the smaller scale stuff myself.
Thank you most kindly Ed, the smile that cause was well worth the facepalm D’oh!
Fair wind and following seas; Happy New Year to you one and all
Ok, lots of other ‘classes’ not available in 1/350.
Here’s another idea…how about just representing the USN ‘categories’…
CV / CVA / CVE / CVL / CVS/ CVT/ AVT/ LHA.
Maybe skip the LSTs.
L’arsenal used to sell a Bogue in 1/350. Hasegawa now sells a Casablanca. Tamiya used to sell a Bogue in 1/700. Don’t forget CVN.
pretty sure that Ed and Tracy know this as well or better than I do, but,you really can’t do the whole list in either scale, yet
these sites will help you sort out a ship kit list,and you can see the gaps in models available
http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/ is a list site of World carriers
http://www.quuxuum.org/rajens_list/rajen.html
the missing ships is what caused me to build only “one of each class”
no 1/700 or 1/350 Kennedy (NOT very similar at all to a Kittyhawk)
no Midways in 1/350, but, you can get angled Midways in resin, in 1/700, for a price
no Angled Essex, either,in either scale,and you need those for the 27C+125’s, the 27A+125’s,whether you want them for CVA, CVS, CVT, or LPH, you even have to get a resin set in 1/350 to do a 27C straight deck(of is that set for a 27A?, I forget)
you can get the LHA in 1/700 or 1/720, and the LHD’s in 1/700 or 1/350, but no LHA in 1/350,same with the LPH’s,in 1/700 okay, but not 1/350
CV/CVL-22 to 30 in 1/700 or 1/350, okay,but neither has a CVL-48 or 49
the CVE that just came out will let you do the LPH Thetis Bay, if you are good enough to scratch the rear of the flight deck
there is a long way to go to get the “full list” in either scale,but, it is getting better
hope the links helped
Rex
I do believe that Revell released some angle decked Essex’s in 1/720 scale years ago.
they were 1/535-540 or so, depending on who listed them, Revell had an ancient 1/720 straight deck though,the first one I built was a Franklin boxing, I believe it was released later as an Intrepid, with no changes to the sprues
i have the angled deck lexington as a trainer.