Scale: 1/700
Recommended to help build USS Intrepid CVS-11 as she appeared during the Vietnam War from:
- Dragon 1/700 scale USS Antietam CV-36
- Jim Shirley Productions 1/700 scale USS Oriskany CVA-34
- Ships & Co. 1/700 scale USS Intrepid CVS-11
- Ships & Co. 1/700 scale USS Ticonderoga CVA-14
This multi-part kit represents the modernized SCB-125 island of Essex class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid CVS-11 as it appeared about 1966-1967 during combat operations off Vietnam. At that time, Intrepid was operating as an attack aircraft carrier. Carrier Air Wing 10 (CVW-10), tail code "AK", was aboard with Douglas A-4 Skyhawks and Douglas A-1J Skyraiders, among others.
Features:
- accurately shaped structure scaled from official US Navy plans
- solid bridge and PriFly windows with delicate framing
- decks properly offset to port
- properly positioned deck features
- wiper motor details on the navigating bridge
- deck supporting structure details accurately positioned as confirmed by photos of the real ship
- delicate exterior piping detail correct for Intrepid
- porthole rigols ("eyebrows")
- correct style A/T doors for Intrepid, most in the open position
- door overhead rain deflectors
- integrated Phasor 90 paired-cone antennas
- correct number and position of PriFly splinter shield ribs
- properly slanted and positioned antenna base outriggers
- open, intregrated venturi (wind deflectors)
- open funnel cap (grille not included), ready for your favorite photoetch set
- integrated Mk.37 Fire Control Directors
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