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USS Midway CV-41 1/350 Scale

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USS Midway CV-41 1/350 Scale
Posted by redstang95 on Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:41 PM

Hi, I'm currently building a 1/700 scale USS Midway resin model from Orange Hobby which is very detailed but a bit smaller thank I'd like. I've been trying to find a 1/350 scale version from the 1980's - 1990's but I haven't had any luck so far. Has anyone seen one available lately? 

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  • From: North Carolina, USA
Posted by Model Monkey on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 10:41 AM

None ever made in 1/350 scale.

The largest commercial kits produced so far have been the classic Revell 1/547 scale kits of all three sisters.  They are actually all the same kit produced from 1954 molds, often reboxed with new decals, and generally depict the ships in their Korean War-era straight-deck appearance.

See: https://www.scalemates.com/topics/topic.php?id=217

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Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:59 AM

The Midway has gone through three vastly different configurations, and an interim one.

Built and launched as a parallel deck ship, she and the other two in her class did not see action in WW2. In the early '50's she had here bow enclosed in a version of the "hurricane bow" that became a part of the Essex SCB (Ship Conversion Board) - 125 angle deck program. Following the conversion of most of the Essex class carriers, Midway went through a similar conversion in SCB-110.

In 1970 she was commissioned again following modification SCB-101.66. The flight deck got much bigger, elevators were moved around. This is her current configuration in San Diego.

IMO that version is kind of a dog, but it served the purpose.

I would like to see a 1/350 model of either of the first two versions. The Revell kit is a beauty though and it's quite large. It scales with the angle-deck Essex kits and the Forrestal kits. 

Gold Medal Models sells a PE set that can pretty well build one each of all three. I would guess that the modeler would run out of railings, but that's no problem in itself.

In a pinch I understand that it also could be used for the Renwal (now Revell although OOP) Shangri-La.

And I am going to make a wild guess that Model Monkey prints island structures and other items for each of the 30 or so carriers that fall into the above.

I'm most of the way through building a full-hull conversion of the FDR as Midway. I have a thread about it if you care to look in.

 

Bill

 

 

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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