#CV-6

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Enterprise CV-6. A great ship being towed to be scraped in 1958. It was the most decorated ship from WWII. It participated in most Pacific campaigns during the war. Attempts to save the ship failed. By 1961, she had been scrapped for Detroit auto metal.

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I guess I know what I’m doing for the rest of the night.

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Question: what do you get when you go to a bookstore, but also visit the hobby shop next door “just for a little peek”

Answer, a model of the WW2 USS Enterprise.

I really shouldn’t have picked this one up. There’s a lot of other things I could and should be doing. But I couldn’t resist, and now here we are

First impressions are a bit mixed. What the box neglected to mention was that this is a waterline kit. Meaning, this ship won’t have the lovely red hull that my other two ships have. Not a dealbreaker, but a bit disappointing. The company that made this model, Trumpeter, doesn’t have the best of reviews. Several people online complained about ill fitting parts, which for a 390 piece kit with very small parts could prove more of a hassle than it’d be worth. Fortunately, the same sources also noted that these issues were mostly with earlier kits. This one was made in 2018. I’m happy to say that so far things are going well. The only major issues with fitting have been with the connecting bits as opposed to the entire part being the wrong size (something I faced with the General Lee model). Stuff like that is very easy to fix, either by whittling parts down, widening the hole, or even cutting off the male end altogether.

Even though I’m usually horrible at posting regular updates on builds, this one I’m going to be intentionally sporadic. Like I said, I don’t have a lot of time to work on the model. In addition, there’s a lot of parts, and I’ll likely need to go slowly to protect the little parts from damage. So I’ll likely only post when significant work has been done. Not sure what that’ll look like, but I’ll know it when I see it.

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First model in HP Multijet Plastic (Shapeways Professional Plastic)

Tested the new HP Strong and Flexible material with this little known airplane that was the direct predecessor of the Douglas SDB Dauntless, the paint scheme is based on pictures from LIFE that I found in flickr.

It is 6B10 from the squadrons aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) in September 1940

Link to the shop item at Shapeways

1/285 (6mm) Northrop BT-1 dive bomber

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) operating in the Pacific, circa late June 1941

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WWII by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: A Douglas SBD Dauntless scout-bomber and five Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo planes prepare to take-off from the carrier during operations in the south Pacific area, 4 May 1942. Note launching officer making arm signals in the lower left-center. Take-offs averaged one every thirty seconds. US Navy Photo

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WWII by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: Flight deck scene, 1 February 1942, during the raids against the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. Note belts of 20mm caliber ammunition being carried around by the crewman in the foreground. The aircraft in the background are part of the carrier's air group Douglass SBD-3 Dauntlesses. US Navy Photo

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WWII by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6): Two SBD-5 bombers turn into the landing pattern as they return to the carrier after strikes on the Palau Islands, 20-30 March 1944. Note tail hooks in down position. US Navy Photo