Notice: this model has been updated to include more detail and integrated exterior doors (no photo-etch doors needed).  Photos and renderings 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 Saratoga CV-3 as she appeared in 1941.
 
This model represents the island of celebrated aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 as she appeared the year of the Pearl Harbor attack, after her flight deck had been widened but her 8-inch guns had not yet been removed nor had a stability/torpedo blister been yet installed on her starboard side.

The major difference between this version and the 1936 version is the addition of a box-like Radio Direction Finder Station located above and forward of the Pilot House, a small platform on the port side of the roof of the Flag Plotting Station above the Pilot House, and a shielded extension forward on the windbreak of the uppermost fire control platform.

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 Saratoga (Lexington's were shaped differently)
accurate splinter shield shapes (Lexington's were shaped differently)
enlarged Flag Plotting Station (above Pilot House), unique to Saratoga
box-like Radio Direction Finder Station
accurate fighting top 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 Lexington'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
 
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