Best aircraft carrier

[the_Baron]

There has been at least one resin Ranger kit, but I’m pretty sure there’s never been a plastic one.

I wish somebody would do a nice, state-of-the-art plastic Ranger and Langley. And a Wasp (CV-7)…

I agree, JT. Every time there’s a poll on kits we’d like to see, Langley, Rangerand Wasp injection-molded in 1/700 are three suggestions I submit. The Corsair Armada kits do come up from time to time on eBay, and I think Corsair Armada re-releases them, too, every so often.

I will second the Trumpeter 1/700 Saratoga, too. It’s a very nice kit out of the box, though it does benefit from PE for the rails and safety netting around the flight deck.

[warshipguy]

How is the Trumpeter 1/700 USS Hornet? Is it any better than the Tamiya offerings of the Yorktown class?

Bill

[baysider]

I see they’ve released the Yorktown, CV-5 so can CV-6 be far behind? I thought about getting the Yorktown and converting to Enterprise but I guess I’ll wait for the Big E and svae myself some trouble!

[warshipguy]

The Enterprise is already here, and stores don’t seem to be able to keep them in stock.

Bill

[seasick]

Here are my modern carriers:

Revell of Germany USS Wasp LHD-1

Trumpeter USS Stennis CVN-74

Fijumi USS Kitty Hawk CV-63

Trumpeter Adm. Kuznetsov

HP PA Charles DeGaulle (Resin)

all in 1/700

[GMorrison]

Thats quite impressive! Do you know how the Hobby Boss LHD-1 compares? Is it perhaps the same kit?

[surfsup]

AS for another Navy, Aoshima has a very nice 1-700 WW2 HMS Ark Royal at the moment and Trumpeter has shown Test Shots of the same Ship in 1-350 for release next Year. I have about 14 Carriers in my Nest for the Slipways ranging from 1-700 to 1-350 US to IJN to Russian. PS I would love to see a Carrier GB also…Cheers Mark

[docidle]

A 1/350 WWII Ark Royal from Trumpeter? I’m getting in line now! But then again, any 1/350 WWII RN Aircraft Carrier would be very welcomed.

Steve

Here is a picture I found online of said test shot.

[Straycat1911]

You could compromise and get the Gallery Models 1/350 USS Intrepid, an Essex class carrier from WWII but with the later Vietnam era SCB-27a angled deck appearance. Given that the Intrepid was a CVS and never operated F-4 Phantoms, you could model her as the USS Hancock (CVA 19) or USS Oriskany (CVA 34) because the kit comes very close to those ships as well. However, Essex class carriers did not operate Phantoms. You could build the Tamiya USS Enterprise or the Trumpeter USS Nimitz, both of which did operate the F-4 until 1992. Also, Merit will soon be releasing a 1/350 USS John F. Kennedy (CVA/CV 67) and Trumpeter will release a 1/350 USS Kitty Hawk (CVA/CV 63) later this year.

Bill

“Operated Phantoms until 1992”??? Ummm, don’t think so. Enterprise recieved her first Tomcats in 1975, Nimitz shortly afterward(she had them for The Final Countdown in 1981). Unless you’re referring to Marine recce birds?

[Cajunjoe56]

Trumperter makes a Essex class cv

in 350 scale i.e. Uas Essex cv9

uss York town cv 10

[Cajunjoe56]

all of the Essex class cv s embarked a4 C and d skyhawks and a1 d sky raiders and chance vaught f8 crusaders and grumman s2 trackers

and Grumman seasprite asw choppers

and gruman s f 2 s for cod duties

f4 Phantoms were used on uss enterprise cvn65 and and on the forestall class of cva s and on uss Nimitz can 68 from 1/2/75 to 12/2/89

and on kittyhawk class of cva

like I wrote befor there were no f 4 phantoms embarked on any of essex class aircraft carriers