Scale: 1/600

Recommended island to build USS Yorktown CV-5 from the classic 1/600 scale Aurora USS Enterprise CV-6 kit.
 
This accurately shaped and highly detailed model represents the 1942 appearance of the island of celebrated US Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5, veteran of the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway, where she was lost.  Her wreck was discovered by Robert D. Ballard and his team from National Geographic in 1998.  

Features:
fully assembled
overall dimensions accurately scaled from official US Navy plans drawn by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, dated 1940
details specific to USS Yorktown confirmed by careful study of builders plans, period photographs of the real ship and photos of the wreck
open Pilot House windows
open Fighting Top windows
open Primary Flight Control "PriFly" windows
open Battle Lookouts, aka "Vision Slits"
open doors, ready for your favorite photo-etch (not included)
accurately shaped decks
accurately shaped splinter shielding and Pilot House sky lookout position shape unique to Yorktown
properly shaped funnel cap with exterior piping detail
properly sized and located 16" and 12" diameter portholes with rigol ("eyebrow") detail
properly scale smokepipes passing through the entire island - forward smokepipe at the correct slope
weather shelter
heavy structural deck support details (light supports omitted, ready for your favorite photo-etch
aft cutout for crane

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