I've got an old Revell kit of the USS Lexington, a "long-hull" Essex class carrier that I am slowly converting into the USS Hancock (CVA-19), and plan to give it to my father, who served on it. I'll be building a waterline display with a wooden base complete with a shelf to store his cruise book "Strike!" in. I need to find aircraft for the flight deck in the proper scale, which I'm not sure of at the moment. If need be, I could always make them of styrene stock.
Also, if anybody needs some pics from that cruise book, I can scan them and post. Lots of details from carrier operations circa 1956-57. I'll be giving the book back to him when I finish the model and give it to him, though.
Ken