Finished this in October, 2020: 1/144 scale USS Guadalcanal, CVE-60, as she appeared in June ‘44 when U-505 was captured. Hull is mostly balsa, with a layer of fiberglass. Hangar and flightdeck are foam core board and lots of styrene. Gun mounts are 3-D printed. Aircraft are a mix of plastic kits: Minicraft and F-Toys Avegers and Sweet FM-2 Wildcats
Radar antenna and forward elevator are motorized.
11 second video showing elevator in action:
Holy Batman, the working elevator was cool.
Sweet. Nice build.
Rear Admiral Gallery would be most proud!
That’s really impressive. If I’m calculating this correctly, she’s about 42 inches long.
I’m looking at my Bogue model, which is about 8 inches long.
Nicely built. I like the radar as well.
Bill
Looks great!
Thanks, guys!
Model is 42" LOA. I really enjoyed all the scratchbuilding- used a lot of Evergreen sheet and strip.
One more photo: Taken on “Sea trials” the month before- caught a gust on the port beam. Prototypical!
USS Guadalcanal, spring '44 (US Navy photo)
Apparently that’s a good scale to use, as that’s what the Norfolk Navy Musem’s diorama seems to be in.
No one can say you don’t build to specifications.
Nicely done.
your pics didn’t come through for me capn .
