Welcome to the USS Enterprise CV-6 out of box review! We will start this build after Titanic. Also, the next 2 episodes will review the KA and Pontos Details sets for this kit!
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Welcome to the USS Enterprise CV-6 out of box review! We will start this build after Titanic. Also, the next 2 episodes will review the KA and Pontos Details sets for this kit!
www.TheMidwestModelshop.com
Follow us on FaceBook and Instagram
Get David Doyle Books here: https://daviddoylebooks.com/
I ordered my Enterprise model kit here: https://www.megahobby.com/products/tr...
You can also try these links:
https://spruebrothers.com/trp03712-1-...
https://freetimehobbies.com/1-200-tru...
https://www.amazon.com/TRP03712-Trump...
Music is by: The Midwestern
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And please clarify how one can replicate variants and overhauls.
I understand from what I can see from your box opening that you have an early-war Enterprise, circa early- to mid-1942. Please clarify.
I recall the Enterprise round July 1943 till October 1943 had undergone an overhaul at a naval facility (a drydock?) in Bremerton, Washington that had added waterline anti-torpedo blisters, new radars, Oerlikon and Bofors anti-aircraft guns, etc., extended the flight deck, amongst perhaps others. (The Navy had built the USS Hornet [CV-8] several years after the USS Yorktown [CV-5] class ship and the Enterprise, so it already may have had some or all these upgrades.) The Navy also had exchanged the aircraft to Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat Fighters and Grumman TBF-1 Avenger Torpedo Bombers, and uprated Douglas SBD Dauntless Dive Bombers. Would Trumpeter be issuing another, late-war kit of the Enterprise? Or would one need aftermarket conversion sets? Or would one need to scratch build all these? From what I can see of Trumpeter's arrangement of the hull and the hull inserts, the company's designers have made allowances for differentiation, anticipating other versions. My guess is that Trumpeter's USS Hornet kit incorporates similar variations as I discuss here.
My build, to my keen regret (you already have me salivating!), will not be immediate. Still, I would like to assemble two versions together, depicting them underway and engaged in flight operations, with the flight deck terribly busy.
The late-war Enterprise would include several Chance Vought F4U-2 Corsair night fighters. (I am uncertain as to the correct dating for these.)