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                        CV-9 Essex 1943 reference help?

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                        yah4sure
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        • From: Albert Lea, MN
                        CV-9 Essex 1943 reference help?
                        Posted by yah4sure on Friday, November 18, 2005 12:44 PM
                        I'm building a 1:350 Scale CV-9 Essex based on May 1943
                        color and armament scheme. The Trumpeter Model has
                        catapults in the forward hangar bays. Most references I
                        have show that CV-9 didn't have these.

                        Does anyone know of a good book or books that my shed some light on if there were two Quad Bofors on the port
                        side as in some of the latter Essex class carriers?

                        Thanks for ANY help or even pure speculation. :D
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                        gburdon
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Burlington, Ontario Canada
                        Posted by gburdon on Saturday, November 19, 2005 4:34 AM

                        yah4sure:

                        Maybe this reference would help it has line drawings etc.

                        http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=SS4010

                        Cheers;

                        Gregory

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                        yah4sure
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        • From: Albert Lea, MN
                        Posted by yah4sure on Sunday, November 20, 2005 10:55 AM
                        Hi Gregory,
                        I've got that book, and "Anatomy of a ship,
                        The Aircraft Carrier INTREPID" by John Roberts.
                        Most references have pictures of CV-10 and up, or
                        the essex from angles I already have. I'm going
                        to look into the Floating Drydock and see if they
                        can help. Maybe I'm being too anal, but when you
                        invest over $175 in the model PE and brass details,
                        you want it to be perfect...or close.

                        Thanks for your help.
                        Chris
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                        rgbenson
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: high dry cold SC Colorado
                        Posted by rgbenson on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:04 PM
                        Hi Chris,

                        I built a CV-9 about 18 mo.s ago, and found a great reference (very dog-eared and marked up now...)

                        Glenn Arnold, Warship Perspectives, Essex Class Aircraft Carriers in World War Two,  ISBN not found , but the Publisher is WR Press, Inc., New York, 2002. 

                        Alan Raven did some of the drawings, and there is a great foldout plan.

                        I got my copy searching on www.abebooks.com, and located someone who had it in Silver City, NM!

                        Cheers!

                        Rob Benson



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                        yah4sure
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        • From: Albert Lea, MN
                        Posted by yah4sure on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:18 AM
                        Great call Rob
                        I just ordered that book from totalnavy.com yesterday I'm hoping it'll help me decide which ship and time period to
                        build.
                        What did you end up building?

                        Thanks for the info
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                        yah4sure
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        • From: Albert Lea, MN
                        Posted by yah4sure on Monday, November 28, 2005 10:29 AM
                        Hey All,

                        Here's the progress on the hanger deck. I added styrene sheet and sprue to hide the molding marks on the inside of the bulkheads. A little artistic license, but it breaks up the empty spaces.

                        Let me know if this link works...I'm new to photobucket.

                        http://photobucket.com/albums/c118/yah4sure/
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