I've completely missed this one!!
Review: USS Yorktown CV-5, Merit International, 1/350th Scale
1/350 USS Yorktown (CV 5) Build/WIP....
Edit: Here's another build.... 1/350 Merit USS Yorktown CV-5 at The Ship Model Forum.
Since i got the Skyraider done in USS MIDWAY markings i deciced to build a F-4B and A-6A from the USS MIDWAY. I will be using the Eduard ( Academy ) F-4B and Hobby Boss A-6A.There is a reason for the white plastic between pilot and RIO. When dry fitting tub with instrument panel and ejection...
I took my younger daughter to the USS Midway museum in downtown San Diego. It's a customary destination for elementary/junior high students so both my daughters had already been there but the first time for me.
Username: Crimea River
First name: Andy
Category: Advanced
Scale: 1/350
Manufacturer: Dragon
Model Type: USS Princeton CVL-23
Aftermarket addons: White Ensign PE35149 Photoetched Detail Set, Nautilus Wooden Deck.
What would the USN had done, had the USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Enterprise CV-6 been sunk/damaged at Pearl Harbor, leaving them with USS Saratoga CV-3, USS Ranger CV-4, USS Yorktown CV-5, USS Wasp CV-7 and USS Hornet CV-8?
Mind you, the other carriers would still meet the same destiny, when...
Just thought some of you might be interested in the Buffalo Naval and Military park located in Buffalo, New York.
The park is incredible and I was really impressed with all that's there.
2 ships and a sub are a permanent part of the museum.
USS Little Rock ,Guided Missile Light Cruiser...
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Here is the other Hellcat just finished that I built in the same time as McCampbell machine... This F6F-5 BuNo.58088 "white 36" was apparently very probably flown by Lt Cecil E. Harris from VF-18 aboard USS Intrepid during October-November 1944.
Go back to my MS.406... :)
USS Augusta, USS Midway, USS Enterprise, USS Missouri, USS New York, USS Helena, and USS Macon in the Hudson River in New York, New York, United States for Navy Day celebrations, 27 Oct 1945
Shown here is the USS Blakeley (DD-150) about to be fitted with her new bow that was taken from USS Taylor (DD-468). The pic shows the complicated melding of plates and beams necessary to fit the parts together. Note the halved port hole.