Howdy folks! I just purchased the 1/500 scale Renewal Shangri-La and I am thinking about updating it to just before she was retired from service. Is there any one anywhere that makes 1/500 scale aircraft sets in plastic or resin? A few A-4s and F-8s would be cool. Thanks so much 
Try www.starfighter-decals.com . It’s a “cottage industry” company they offers lots of resin aircraft (and other parts, and decals) for the old Revell and Renwal carriers. I haven’t seen them in the flesh, but in the photos they look really nice. And the prices aren’t bad.
Groovy! Thank you ! That’s where I’m getting them. Also gonna get the deck markings set #500-100. Going to Gold Medal for PE set 540-6 for radars and other goodies! The only obstacle is convincing my wife to let me pop 3 times the kit price for it all lol!
Oops. Just noticed the title says “Renewal” instead of Renwal. Silly tablet autocorrect…
I sympathize completely. My I-phone is always trying to “correct” stuff that didn’t need correcting. Infernal computers.
I’ll be interested to see that PE set. The scale difference worries me
It kinda worried me at first, but the 1/500 kit is 533mm overall length and the 1/540 kit is 508mm so that’s a frog hair under an inch lengthwise so I think the scale difference might be livable.
I just used the PE set on mine, the scale difference isn’t too noticeable except the air search radars SPS 40 and SPS 43 need to be trimmed a bit around the edges in order to fit and look right. The railings and stairs fit fine. Aircraft seem a tad too big but I’m using them anyway.