John W. wrote:
Infini / Mr. Choi
Perhaps you could consider doing a carrier aircraft detail set for the North American B-25B bombers launched from USS HORNET (CV-8) during the Doolittle Raid. Perhaps there's also a chance you could do an upgrade kit to the USS YORKTOWN detail up set for the HORNET. I am suggesting a smaller kit than the full upgrade that would include just the parts necessary to make HORNET from the YORKTOWN detail up. This would include some changes to the front edge of the flight deck and along the flight deck near the #1 1.1" mount. This would assume the modeler would have the YORKTOWN detail up set and this set would just add to it. I think most of the parts are already done on your ENTERPRISE set (the brass gun tubs instead of the kit's plastic tubs in the YORKTOWN set for example). I doubt Merit will release a HORNET, so this would greatly assist those of us building HORNET.
Thanks for listening.
Dear John W.
Thank you for your detailed and specific suggestions.
The Photo etching set for the B-25 Mitchell is worth considering.
However, we need to make sure that the CV-8 kit is easily available on the market with 1/350 trumpeter B-25 kits that is scarce.
Photo etching sets are not sold unless the modelers can easily buy kits in the Hobby shop.
The USS Yorktown CV-5 and USS Enterprise CV-6 kits in Merit / trumpeter use a lot of common parts.
However, there is no common part with USS Hornet CV-8 kit which was released 15 years ago.
Moreover, Island is completely different.
Therefore, it is expected that it is almost impossible to apply photo etching set for USS Yorktown to a USS Hornet kit.
I think I need to do more research on this issue.
Best Regards,
Thanks
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