I haven't built (or bought) the kit, but on the basis of all the reviews it certainly looks like an outstanding one. I do, however, want to take the liberty of pointing out one odd error in it. I've hesitated to mention this in the context of finished models built from the kit, because the goof would be difficult to fix on a completed model. But fixing it in advance should be pretty simple.
I'm basing this on the Navy "Booklet of General Plans" for the class leader, the
Yorktown. (Copies are available from The Floating Drydock.) They show a curious feature of the stack. At the front of it, on the island platform that forms its base, is an area marked "Void." Photos showing the front of the stack are kind of scarce, but if you find one taken from the right angle it's obvious that there's a big gap, at least ten feet wide, running down the front of the stack from the cap to the base. (In some photos it looks like a black stripe painted on the front of the stack.) I've never seen an explanation of what this opening is for; I think it may have been a simple means of maintaining air circulation around the funnel uptakes.
I should emphasize that I don't have a photo of the
Hornet in front of me that shows this strange gap. But there's no question whatever that the
Enterprise and
Yorktown had it. (It's quite prominent in the photos of the wreck of the
Yorktown in Robert Ballard's book,
Return to Midway.) All the kit manufacturers seem to have missed it. The only models I've seen that show it are those two superb 1/72
Enterprises at Pensacola and Oshkosh.
To reproduce the gap on an in-progress model would be simple: just shave back the sides of the stack at the front. It might be appropriate to box in the resulting space with sheet styrene; that would take ten or fifteen minutes.
Incidentally, several aftermarket manufacturers have produced amazing sets of photo-etched parts for this kit. The Gold Medal Models set includes a 1/350 Jimmy Doolittle (complete with bald head, presumably), and White Ensign - if you can believe this - offers interior detail parts for the aircraft. It looks to me like a person could spend the rest of his or her life working on that kit.