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Hi all, I'm slowly building a USS Ranger from Italeri. I als have a extra aircraft kit from Pitroad. The italeri:

20240201_212943 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

The Pitroad set:

20240224_152434 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

The decals:

20240224_152422 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

My question is where I can situate the ship in time with these planes and the ones in the kit? Thanks in advance!

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Greetz, Ronald from the Netherlands.

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Those aircraft are a fair amount too big for that Italeri 1/720 scale kit.

As for the airwing composition, the F/A-18 is too late and the A-4 is too early. That leaves you with an airwing accurate for the mid-1980s. I believe those squadrons on the decal sheet served on the Carl Vinson, not Ranger, but that is getting pretty far into the weeds. (If you want to dig and get really precise, take a look at http://www.gonavy.jp/CVW-NEf.html and scroll down to CVW-2 in the 1980s and see the exact squadron makeup.)

Again though, Pitroad aircraft are a bit big for 1/700 and the Italeri kit is smaller than 1/700. Take a look at the aircraft in the kit and compare a similar one to the Pitroad one. If you need some extra a/c for the Italeri kit, let me know.
Rick

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Thanks Rick! If you calculate on for example a F14 who is 19 meters long it would be 2,71 centimeters in 1:700 and 2,63 centimeters in 1:720 (yes, I'm European ) . So I reasoned that it would be not that big a difference.
I will do a thorough comparison with the kit planes against the Pitroad ones and get back here.



I will do that sir!

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Greetz, Ronald from the Netherlands.

My Blog: http://metusajunction.blogspot.com

My photos: https://www.flickr.com/people/52307730@N06/

It does! It is an amazing break down. It really helps people to understand the different layers of "layered defense".

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Tom's model works makes a set of 1/350 drop tank racks for post ww2 carriers.

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Greetings,

Ran across this a few days ago. I bought it and will update this thread when I get it. It looks to be a pretty good 1/700 Forrestal kit. From the pics, I think that it is circa 1962 right up to the fire, July 1967. I plan to do CVW-17 right before the fire. There is another 3D Kit of Forrestal, but it looked "clunky" to me. The elevators were way to thick and so forth. I am hoping that this is a good, reasonably accurate (whatever that really means!) Forrestal. If it is, it could also be used to do Saratoga and with the Model Monkey Island, a bit broader range of dates. (1970-1975) Ranger and Indy had enough differences that I doubt that this kit would be good for those ships, at least without a lot of scratch building.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364706119387


https://www.model-monkey.com/product-pa ... -1970-1975

Mark


edit: whoops! My intent was to put this thread in the calling all ships Forrestal thread. Need some help from a moderator. Many apologies....

I bought a set and it arrived the other day. Looks more like a ww2 set that's been relabeled. It has circular holders on the ends of the down braces. I tried to see what f there was a way to still use them if i cut off the circles but the width of the down bars is too narrow for a 1/350 drop tank to fit in-between them. I’m on the hunt again.

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