Scale: 1/350
Recommended to help build USS Lexington CV-2 as she appeared from 1936-1940 from:
- Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Lexington CV-2
- Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Saratoga CV-3
This model represents the massive funnel of celebrated aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-2 as she appeared in the late 1930s during which she and her crew participated in extensive training activities laying the foundation for modern carrier warfare.
Features:
- fully assembled
- accurately dimensioned from US Navy Booklet of General Plans drawings
- accurate elliptical shape, not slab-sided a some plastic kits are, and the 01 level is wider aft
- detail shapes and locations confirmed by careful study of photographs of the actual ship
- open smoke pipes, accurately sized and properly sloped and compartmented, passing all the way through
- properly sized and accurately shaped secondary conning station/aviation control station with open windows
- open drying room vents just below the funnel cap
- funnel cap roof has the correct complex curve - plastic kit manufacturers get this shape wrong
- funnel cap roof access hatches (three)
- ammunition hoists on the starboard side of the AA platform with delicate guide rails extending to the flight deck level
- access hatches on the roof of the fresh water tank (the boxy structure on the 01 level forward of the stack)
- accurate splinter shield shapes with ribs properly numbered, sized and located
- accurate aft 8" fire control station "fighting top" on the funnel with open windows
- detailed, internal, twin 8" Mount #3 barbette and associated bulkheads with open scuttles which will be visible through:
- open A/T doors, ready for your favorite photoetch
- open portholes (airports) properly sized and located
- delicate exterior electrical cabling, properly positioned and routed
- subtle, raised locators for searchlights, directors and 20mm Oerlikons
- heavy structural supports included
- light structural supports, railings and ladders omitted, ready for your favorite photoetch
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Model Monkey Lexington class products:
USS Lexington CV-2
- USS Lexington Island 1936-1940
- USS Lexington Island 1942 (Battle of the Coral Sea)
- USS Lexington Funnel 1928-1935
- USS Lexington Funnel 1936-1940
- USS Lexington Funnel 1941
- USS Lexington Funnel 1942 (Battle of the Coral Sea)
- USS Lexington 1942 Alternative Splinter Shields (Round-ended – Battle of the Coral Sea)
- USS Lexington and USS Saratoga 8"/55 Turrets 1928-1941
- USS Lexington and USS Saratoga rudder
- Anchors for USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Saratoga CV-3 (set of 3)
USS Saratoga CV-3
- USS Saratoga Island 1931-1932
- USS Saratoga Island 1933-1935
- USS Saratoga Island 1936-1940
- USS Saratoga Island 1941 (flight deck widened forward and lengthened aft)
- USS Saratoga Island 1942 (Battles of the Eastern Solomons and Guadalcanal)
- USS Saratoga Island 1943 (Raids on Bouganville, Rabaul, and the Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign)
- USS Saratoga Island 1944-1945 (Battle for Okinawa)
- USS Saratoga Funnel 1928-1940
- USS Saratoga Funnel 1941-1942
- USS Saratoga Funnel 1942-1943
- USS Saratoga Funnel 1944-1945
- USS Lexington and USS Saratoga 8"/55 Turrets 1928-1941
- USS Lexington and USS Saratoga rudder
- USS 5"/38 Mk.32 Twin Mounts (turrets) - for Saratoga 1942-1946
- Anchors for USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Saratoga CV-3 (set of 3)