Hi Steve, and thanks yes it does help.
ModelMonkey wrote:
Trumpeter/Merit got it wrong.
And it probably won’t be the last time either.
But as it happens in this hobby, your pictures bring up yet another question.
There seems to be a difference in the platforms on the bow in between and just to the outside of the two support columns. I have outlined the area in question in red in the Yorktown and Hornet photos.
In the Yorktown photo this is an open deck with rails
In the Hornet photo this is an enclosed space of some sort.
My question is what was this on the Enterprise, an open deck with rails or an enclosed space?
Or is this a time dependent thing. I know Yorktown and Enterprise were built pretty much side by side and the Hornet was built several years later so would both the Yorktown and Enterprise have been built with open platforms and then Hornet built with enclosed spaces due to the experience the USN gained while operating the Yorktown and Enterprise? The only plans I have for Enterprise are the ones in Roger Chesneau’s Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers but they are after the Enterprise’s 1943 refit at Puget Sound.
I’m trying to build CV-6 during the Summer/Fall of 1942 but all of the pictures I have found on the net are black and white and don’t show much of detail of the forecastle deck due to it being in shadow and her being painted in the MS-11 paint scheme.
Oh and where did you get the Yorktown picture?
Thanks in advance
Mark B.