All US carriers in 1/350?

[COChef]

In the 60’s the US Navy gave the USS Cabot (CVL 28) to Spain after 12yrs in mothballs Spain returned it in 1989

[constructor]

I will be happy with just the WWII carriers.

[the_Baron]

Please note, too, that the Wasp (CV-7) and Ranger (CV-4) were separate, different designs; the list item might tend to suggest that they were of the same class, and so, one model could be done as either ship.

Is there a 1/350 model of either of those two? I wasn’t aware of any.

I’m trying to do the same kind of collection, but in 1/700. I can build 8 of the first 10, missing, of course, the Ranger and the Wasp. I’m keeping my eyes open for the old Corsair Armada kits.

Best regards,

Brad

[EdGrune]

Please note, too, that the Wasp (CV-7) and Ranger (CV-4) were separate, different designs; the list item might tend to suggest that they were of the same class, and so, one model could be done as either ship.

Is there a 1/350 model of either of those two? I wasn’t aware of any.

I’m trying to do the same kind of collection, but in 1/700. I can build 8 of the first 10, missing, of course, the Ranger and the Wasp. I’m keeping my eyes open for the old Corsair Armada kits.

Best regards,

Brad

There was a resin Ranger in 1:350, but it never saw the light of day beyond the master stage. Iron Shipwright had the master with them at the 2001 IPMS Nationals in Chicago. The market (even back then) killed it. The size of the hunk-o-resin that would have been required to make one put the kit unit price in the same vicinity as a Blue Water Navy Enterprise. The market would not sustain its development beyond the master.

[bbrowniii]

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.

Don’t forget the Wasp-class LHDs…

[kustommodeler1]

I would love to have a post- 101.66 Midway in 1/350, but alas the only one I know of is Arii’s 1/800 scale.

[stikpusher]

knoxb:

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.

Don’t forget the Wasp-class LHDs…

and the LPHs…

[RedCorvette]

What about Sable & Wolverine?

Mark

[wdolson2]

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?

There was the USS Robin (aka HMS Victorious) which was loaned to the USN in 1943 to fill the gap while the Enterprise was in the yard and the first Essexes were working up. The ship still had an RN crew with RN aircraft.

I wish Trumpeter had come out with a CV-6 and CV-5 Enterprise and Yorktown after the Hornet (CV-8). There is a resin conversion, but it costs almost as much as the Hornet kit. I would think the Enterprise especially would be very popular, and it would take them that much effort to add parts to cover the differences between the three ships.

I ended up with two 1/350 Lexingtons and I’d like to make one of them into a late war Saratoga. Nobody has a conversion out there though.

Bill

[the_Baron]

I wish Trumpeter had come out with a CV-6 and CV-5 Enterprise and Yorktown after the Hornet (CV-8). There is a resin conversion, but it costs almost as much as the Hornet kit. I would think the Enterprise especially would be very popular, and it would take them that much effort to add parts to cover the differences between the three ships.

Good point…it’s more work to convert the Hornet back into either of her predecessors than it is to convert the Yorktown into the Enterprise or vice versa, isn’t it? And each of the three is equally celebrated, I think, that is, I would think the market would welcome each one with equal eagerness.

I’ve picked up the Tamiya Waterline series versions in 1/700, one CV-8 kit, and 2 CV-6, one to be finished as the Big E and the other as the Fighting Lady.