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Here is a picture of her Sister ship. There are very few surviving pictures of the IJN Shokaku |
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Here the ship has not yet had its windows cut and been skinned with balsa. The sections are to be cut out with a dremmel to allow space for the plane launching mechanism and other internals. YES the ship will lauch it's own planes. Preliminary tests have shown the scale Zeroes to have a maximum effective range of about 50ft! This mechanism will be detailed in a future installment The smaller ship is a US Gearing class destroyer also in 1/96 scale (this is a balsa mock up for a target ship). It'll take quite a few holes to sink this ship! |
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The last picture may look a little strange. Arthur is holding his ship with the flight deck towards him and the stern sitting on the ground. There is a small skeg down aft and a rudder lead also. |
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IJN Shokaku