Scale: 1/350

Recommended to help convert your Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Hornet CV-8 model kit to sistership USS Enterprise CV-6.
 
This accurately shaped and highly detailed model represents the June, 1942 Battle of Midway appearance of the island of the US Navy's most decorated warship, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6, the "Big E".  Enterprise received 20 "Battle Stars" for her service, more than any other US Navy warship during World War Two.

Features:
overall dimensions accurately scaled from official US Navy plans drawn by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, dated 1940
details confirmed by careful study of period photographs of the real ship
open Pilot House windows
open Fighting Top windows
open Primary and Secondary Flight Control windows
open Battle Lookouts, also known as "Vision Slits"
open integrated doors of the correct type and configuration
accurately shaped decks
accurately shaped splinter shielding and Pilot House sky lookout position shape unique to Enterprise
properly shaped funnel cap with exterior piping
delicate exterior electrical cabling detail
properly sized and located 16" and 12" diameter portholes ("air ports")
properly scaled smokepipes passing through the entire island - forward smokepipe at the correct slope
heavy structural deck support details (light supports omitted, ready for your favorite photo-etch
aft cutout for crane
 
These 3D-printed acrylic parts are designed to accurately represent features of the actual ship.  They are not 3D-printed copies of plastic kit parts.  Some adjustment to your plastic kit's parts or other aftermarket parts such as photoetch or wood decks may be necessary for best fit.  To fit this acrylic island to your plastic kit's flight deck, please remove any raised locator strips on the kit's flight deck part.  A simple cuticle cutter can cleanly and easily remove these raised locator features.

© Model Monkey LLC. This 3D-printed product may not be copied or recast.
 
From Wikipedia: "USS Enterprise (CV-6), was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Colloquially referred to as the "Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. A Yorktown-class carrier, she was launched in 1936 and was one of only three American carriers commissioned prior to World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other US ship. These actions included the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, various other air-sea engagements during the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On three separate occasions during the Pacific War, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle, earning her the name "The Grey Ghost". Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II and became the most decorated US ship of World War II."