Blue Devil wrote:
Good luck, Mark! I'm having enough fun trying to do the same thing to the 1/350 kit. I do know that the smaller kit still has the parts for the 1.1 mounts and tubs from the Yorktown, but don't know if the 1/200 version has the same. I have screen shots of the 350 Yorktown instructions if that would help you at all. And Dick J mentioned a while back that the Big E actually had 2 20mm single mounts on the fantail, which I did find a picture of in the Doyle book. Odd place to put them, pretty limited field of fire, but I'm sure it was temporary.
Michael
Thanks Michael: I did some more studying on the 1/200 Enterprise comparing photo's to the kit and marking the instructions accordingly. The Trumpeter kit also provides the four 1.1" guns and provides the three tubs for the quad forty's. The tubs are the wrong shape for the the 1.1's so new tubs will have to be have to scratchbuilt, not too difficult I wouldn't imagine. The forward bandstand is wrong for a Midway Enterprise too, as it had two 20's so that has to be changed, again, no biggie. I do have the 1/350 Yorktown and Hornet kits, so thanks for the offer, but won't be needed. I have the Doyle book coming as well as the updated "The Big E" with photo's by Edward Stafford. I read the Stafford book several years ago; it was a great read, could hardly put it down, so looking forward to to getting into it again, this time with Pictures, so even a Marine can follow it this time.
As an aside, I have gone through pages and pages of forum material Under the Completed models and found one post of a completed 1/200 Hornet: in the Picture Post Under Construction, I have not found one blog or post about building the 1/200 Enterprise, I did find one post on a 1/200 Hornet that stopped in 2019 so not a lot of 1/200 Yorktown Carriers being posted on the forums.
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Mark
Master Gunnery Sergeant USMC (Ret.)
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1/200 USS Enterprise, CV-6