Notice: this model has been updated to include more detail and integrated exterior doors (no photo-etch doors needed). Photos in the carousel show the older, less detailed design. If you order this model, you will receive the updated, more detailed model.
Scale: 1/350
Recommended to help build USS Lexington CV-2 as she appeared from 1936-1940 from your Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Saratoga CV-3 kit.
This model represents the bridge tower of celebrated aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-2 as she appeared from the latter 1930s through 1940 during which she and her crew participated in extensive training activities laying the foundation for modern aircraft carrier warfare.
Features:
- fully assembled
- accurately dimensioned from US Navy Booklet of General Plans drawings
- detail locations confirmed by careful study of photographs of the actual ship
- proper asymmetrical deck shapes for Lexington (Saratoga's were shaped differently)
- accurate splinter shield shapes with forward cutout (Saratoga's were shaped differently)
- accurate fighting tops, including a separate top for the funnel, both with open windows
- upper top Fire Control Station (the large uppermost platform on top the tripod) includes supporting structural framing with lightening holes, subtle locator disks for rangefinders (not included) and splinter shielding of a slightly different shape than Saratoga's
- open doors
- open portholes (airports) properly sized and located
- detailed interior barbette and associated bulkheads with open scuttles
- heavy structural supports included
- light structural supports, railings and ladders omitted, ready for your favorite photoetch
- accurately shaped fire control station ("fighting top") with open windows
- includes a matching spare fire control station ("fighting top") of the correct shape for your plastic kit's funnel with shutters in the raised (closed) position
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