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If you need some extra a/c for the Italeri kit, let me know.

Does this help any?



Source: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10465380

I’ve had good luck getting answers to obscure questions here. So let’s try another one…
I am looking for photo etch drop tank hangars for modern carriers. One/350 scale. I found a guy on a Czek forum that was adding them to his enterprise. Unfortunately, he didn’t say whether he bought them or made them. I spent a lot of time copying and pasting into Google translate to try and figure that out. Here’s what they look like.

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

Is the waterline version available

Here are the US fleet carriers and whether or not they have been kitted in injection-molded plastic in 1/350 scale.

CV-1 Langley: yes
CV-2 Lexington: yes
CV-3 Saratoga: yes
CV-4 Ranger: yes
CV-5 Yorktown: yes
CV-6 Enterprise: yes
CV-7 Wasp: no
CV-8 Hornet: yes
CV-9 Essex: yes
CV-10 Yorktown: yes
CVS-11 Intrepid: yes
CV-12 Hornet: no
CV-13 Franklin: yes
CV-14 Ticonderoga: yes
CV-15 Randolph: no
CV-16 Lexington: no
CV-17 Bunker Hill: no
CV-18 Wasp: no
CV-19 Hancock: yes
CV-20 Bennington: no
CV-21 Boxer: no
CVL-22 Independence: yes
CVL-23 Princeton: yes
CVL-24 Belleau Wood: no
CVL-25 Cowpens: no
CVL-26 Monterey: no
CVL-27 Langley: no
CVL-28 Cabot: no
CVL-29 Bataan: no
CVL-30 San Jacinto: no
CV-31 Bon Homme Richard: no
CV-32 Leyte: no
CV-33 Kearsarge: no
CV-34 Oriskany: no
CV-35 Reprisal: no
CV-36 Antietam: no
CV-37 Princeton: no
CV-38 Shangri La: no
CV-39 Lake Champlain: no
CV-40 Tarawa: no
CV-41 Midway: yes
CV-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt: no
CV-43 Coral Sea: no
CV-45 Valley Forge: no
CV-46 Iwo Jima: no
CV-47 Philippine Sea: no
CV-59 Forrestal: no
CV-60 Saratoga: no
CV-61 Ranger: no
CV-62 Independence: no
CV-63 Kitty Hawk: yes
CV-64 Constellation: yes
CVN-65 Enterprise: yes
CV-66 America: no
CV-67 John F. Kennedy: yes
CVN-68 Nimitz: yes
CVN-69 Dwight D. Eisenhower: no
CVN-70 Carl Vinson: no
CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt: no
CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln: no
CVN-73 George Washington: no
CVN-74 John C. Stennis: no
CVN-75 Harry S. Truman: no
CVN-76 Ronald Reagan: no
CVN-77 George H. W. Bush: no
CVN-78 Gerald Ford: no
CVN-79 John F. Kennedy: no
CVN-80 Enterprise: no
CVN-81 Doris Miller: no

Not yet any Midways, Forrestals or Fords.

Of 70 subjects, 21 have been kitted, or 29%.

Greetings,

I would go with the CV-62 Island. The smokestack is angled on CV-62 (and CV-61) and level on CV-60 (and CV-59). CV-61/62 were a bit different in some subtle ways from the first two. The sterns are different, the port elevator is shaped different, the Islands are a bit different, and the masts were generally different on all of them depending on the era you build. Using the 1971 Island for a 1977 build should get you pretty close.

Good luck,

Mark

Greetings,

I would go with the CV-62 Island. The smokestack is angled on CV-62 (and CV-61) and level on CV-60 (and CV-59). CV-61/62 were a bit different in some subtle ways from the first two. The sterns are different, the port elevator is shaped different, the Islands are a bit different, and the masts were generally different on all of them depending on the era you build. Using the 1971 Island for a 1977 build should get you pretty close.

Good luck,

Mark