1/700 Yorktown (CV-5) – 4 June 1942 (Midway)

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2019-05-19 18.39.47I finished up another one this evening, the 1/700 Trumpeter Yorktown (CV-5) in her Midway appearance.  Like the Essex, she was essentially complete – I just needed to finish a few minor items (add a couple of guns, a flag, and weather the flight deck a bit) and come up with a decent air group.

The kit is really well done – the only real scratchbuilding I did was, again, masts and radars.

The air group is three SBDs, six TBD Devastators with wings folded (snip, snip), and in a blast from the past, four 1970's F4F-4s with wings folded.  Midway marked the first appearance of the folding-wing Wildcat.

The model goes in the display case under my 1993 Yorktown in its December 1940 appearance – again, not quite complete.  Here it's shown with Lt. Bill Leonard's F4F from 4 June 1942 in 1/72 scale, with a copy of his signature when I met him at the Nimitz Institite symposium in 1992. 2019-05-19 18.46.33 

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