1/200 Enterprise CV-6 Video 1 

The national insignia # 12 and #13 are correct sizes. There are photographs showing early war markings being enlarged for recogntion purposes.

I could watch you videos all day mate, finally a new video for me to sit down and watch!

If you're wanting to do a water line model but still be able to see the propellers and stuff you could do an epoxy type of diorama. This would allow you too see the detail from the side as if it were underwater, and from the top you could build an ocean look to it

Really looking forward to this build. Looks amazing!

CV-6 in 1/350 is definitely on my bucket list. Will definitely be watching out for these videos

This is going to be great build, Ben. I can't wait!

Mr and Mrs Doyle are great people. I have been buying the reference books they sell for years. He autographs them for me too. You can't go wrong if you buy from them.

Can’t wait to see this progress! I don’t usually watch reviews where the modeler goes through the instructions, but I watched this because I know how far you’re going to go| on this project.

I can’t wait for you to start on big e. You are incredible at all your projects. Titanic is looking amazing.

Cv6 was a proud ship and did more than her share of battle,she was a “patched “ together ship after lots of battle damage. A sea sean would be really nice and the amount of detail that can be put in at 1/200 will look good. Can’t wait to to see your ideas. Also CV6 received torpedo blisters in 1944 so by the model hull doesn’t seem to have them,so it gives you and idea of what years to build.

Fantastic review Ben, been following your videos from the Arizona on... Inspired me to build the 'MO' which I am enjoying massively. And used your videos as reference many times over. Keep up the amazing work.

Excellent review. Looking forward to this build.

Glad to see you picked the Enterprise as your next build. I started on mine a week ago. So far it has gone together well, a few fit issues, but not bad. I went with the Pontos set for photo etch.

Looking forward to watching this build

The USS Enterprise is my favorite Ship in WW2, congratulations from Brasil...

When you build F4 fighter plane, Mark one plane captain as "Rod" he is my brother an was plane captain during Viet Nam. My uncle Jerry was on Enterprise as well during VN..

Super stoked to see you build this Ben! Take care and best to you and yours!🙏🇺🇸✌️🇺🇦

Thank you for sharing your model details and thoughts.

Looking forward to seeing this build

I don’t know a lot about the USS Enterprise but I’m looking forward to this build.

Absolutely thrilled you are doing the Big E. I have the kit and will be following along!!!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!!!

Barges and whale-boats, the motor whaleboats were for crew and carrying cargo, barges were for the flag officers and admiralty, I think you have a good idea, as an old salty sailor, I kinda laugh at what you say. This looks like it will be a great build! WWII ships or Capital Ships were the pride of the fleet. "Shine she must Sail she may" Keep it clean! Love the vids, I served on Wisconsin, what a remarkable ship. As far as the oblong openings, those were chalks (mooring lines). Good Luck, looking forward to your series on the build.

This will be a great build, looking forward to the next videos.

Really looking forward to that. Looks amazing

Great review Ben. This looks like it will be great viewing, cant wait to see detail parts review

Outstanding, going to be a run build. Can't wait to see what you do with the hanger deck. When you opened your book, the page with the Enterprise and Saratoga off Dimond Head. My brother on the Saratoga.

This should be so excellent. The Titanic builds are cool, but I loved your MO build and this should be similar, I hope. Press on!

As kids, we used to build, load up with M-80s/firecrackers, lighter fluid, and float in a pond until climax.

Wonderful wonderful!!! It’s going to be epic!!

Nice, I am building this kit actually, you will see, lot of photos to study and little upgrades to make, she changed a lot her appearance during the war, especially in 1942-43.

"Aaaaaaaand - we have a big plate... this is for SOMETHING" Had to laugh! I feel like I'm in the room with a friend when you unbox this stuff - awesome video!

Nice build choice, looking forward to this 👌

Yes, full build! And please clarify how one can replicate variants and overhauls. I understand from what I can see from your box opening that you have an early-war Enterprise, circa early- to mid-1942. Please clarify. I recall the Enterprise round July 1943 till October 1943 had undergone an overhaul at a naval facility (a drydock?) in Bremerton, Washington that had added waterline anti-torpedo blisters, new radars, Oerlikon and Bofors anti-aircraft guns, etc., extended the flight deck, amongst perhaps others. (The Navy had built the USS Hornet [CV-8] several years after the USS Yorktown [CV-5] class ship and the Enterprise, so it already may have had some or all these upgrades.) The Navy also had exchanged the aircraft to Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat Fighters and Grumman TBF-1 Avenger Torpedo Bombers, and uprated Douglas SBD Dauntless Dive Bombers. Would Trumpeter be issuing another, late-war kit of the Enterprise? Or would one need aftermarket conversion sets? Or would one need to scratch build all these? From what I can see of Trumpeter's arrangement of the hull and the hull inserts, the company's designers have made allowances for differentiation, anticipating other versions. My guess is that Trumpeter's USS Hornet kit incorporates similar variations as I discuss here. My build, to my keen regret (you already have me salivating!), will not be immediate. Still, I would like to assemble two versions together, depicting them underway and engaged in flight operations, with the flight deck terribly busy. The late-war Enterprise would include several Chance Vought F4U-2 Corsair night fighters. (I am uncertain as to the correct dating for these.)

I'm excited that you're planning on a diorama for the Enterprise! I love watching Ebroin's and Studio Blue Ocean's dioramas (especially Ebroin's explosions), but a lot of the ships are 1/700 so they suffer from the scale effect making the ships look clunky. Yours ought to look great at 1/200! (Not too late to make the Titanic a diorama complete with iceberg.)

Ben, Wayne at Yellow-Wings Decals. I will be following your build of the USS Enterprise. I'm doing you one better though, I'm planning to build the USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise side by side. The Trumpeter kits are 98% the same, so building both together shouldn't be that hard. My builds will be backdated to the 1938-1940 versions of these two carriers. Wish me luck, I think I'm going to need it.

I am very much looking forward to this one. The 1/350 version is in line to get to my bench.

Good choice for your next build, man. The most heavily decorated ship in the history of the US Navy. And yeah the steel plates being on the hanger deck is accurate. On US carriers that were built before and during WW2 the flight deck wasn't the main strength deck on them. This made it to where our carriers could carry more aircraft than other navies' carriers. The main strength deck was the hanger deck on a US carrier, hence why on the model's hanger deck you see steel plate detail.

This one is on my future build list

This is going to be great!

in the future why don't you tackle the new "gallery models "1/200 Yamato . check it out

Can't wait!!!!!!

Ben, the USS Enterprise looks to be an interesting build. But I can't wait to see the Titanic finished.

Hi Ben, as usual classic review. I still am on with the 1/200 Missouri but i also have the 1/350 scale Enterprise and also Hornet to do, I also have that David Doyle Enterprise book, it is a really nice reference book to have. Looking forward to seeing the titanic finished and then starting your next big build. Richard.

Looks like a really cool kit. Have a great day. -David

I've been looking at this kit, gigantic as it is, along with the 1/200 Bismarck and Hood.

The oblong “portholes” are for mooring lines…And, correct.

Wow, I was hoping you'd build this kit.

38:09 The star on the port wing of that Dauntless DB looks HUGE - maybe those over sized decals were modelled after that? The starboard wing seems to have a smaller star.

Really looking forward to this. I have the kit (will be my first ship build) and both detail sets. I'm not planning to start for another year or so. Your build will be a great reference to follow.

Now I want this kit too :D

I have the kit. when I get to ing I plan to build it from the box but add some 3D printed parts and hull plating detail using the tape & paint method.

I don’t think they non-skidded the flight decks during WW2. This is going to be a really fun build to watch! You’re level of detail, and explanation of you achieve it is excellent!

Looking forward to this, I have the 1/200 Hornet to build once I get the 1/200 Iowa built...

Looks fantastic, I just hope one day someone does a late war enterprise in 1/350 or 1/200

Woohoo! 👏

Woohoo! I love your channel but I am suffering a bit of Titanic fatigue, lol.

Wow that's huge can't wait to see all the extra detail your insane lol 👍👍💞💞🇺🇸🇺🇸😂😂😂😂

for over scale decales photocopy them to a smaller scale and print them again on decal printing paper - easy.

Cool stuff, I'm into tanks but I'm working on a 1/10 amphibious vehicle to take on a lake near me ,it's based on a old cc01 Tamiya chassis Good luck with your build 👍!

Wow !!

Thank You! For mentioning the deck coloring. Unfortunately you've got the Guadacanal or earlier USS Enterprise, which has 1.1in Chicago piano AA guns not 40mm Bofors so now you've got a choice build as is or update the AA suite and radars to make it cooler or go as is. Oh, of all the Trumpeter model ships I've seen one half of the ship is great the other not so good. If you need a hand I helped update the 1/72 scale scratch built USS Enterprise at EAA museum in Oshkosh, WI. Yes, I was an IPMS member .

If you need a really good Reference book try: USS Enterprise (CV-6): The Most Decorated ship of WWII by Steve Ewing.

I think the aircraft they gave you are from early in the war, 1941 - 1942, Wildcats, Dauntless Dive Bombers and Devastors Torpedo planes are my guess

Funny that this should come up in my recommended videos. I just bought the CV5 Yorktown. 1/200

Been watching the "Battle 360" series (History Channel) and it's centered around USS Enterprise CV-6 and been fascinated by the history of the ship, been thinking of getting a model for it, and THIS VIDEO was the one I picked to watch!

The bases on the gun gallery structure are for 5”25 guns for antiaircraft defense

I wonder will any of the model company made a 1/200 CVN-65 or CVN-68 in 1/200 Scale.

Awesome

Trumpeter is awesome, just the fact they made such massive kits. Been on their 1/48 DKM U-Boat now for a few yrs and packin it with extra goodies like the Pontos update kit etc. Oh the aircraft ya got there are Dauntless dive bomber, F4F wildcats and the TBD Devastator. Hey got ya an idea do a Wasp diorama as it look now when they found it?

Very nice 👌 👍

Hi, When you start your build of Enterprise can you give a thought to motorising and radio control of the kit? Your suggestions and ideas would be most helpful.

Glad to see that you're going for this kit next. I had built one for myself and had some fit issues, so need some modifications here and there to fit them all together. I also bought the same PE upgrades kit. And it has been great so far. The decals included in the kit is a problem though. As it's the markings for USS Hornet CV-8 air group. So it also needs some modifications 🙁

I imagine this is going to be a fun build, lot of repition building/painting though. I would love to build the ww2 version of the USS Midway at 1/200.

I'm sure the first minute or so of the video was full of interesting info, but I was wholly distracted by anticipating that coffee cup to go flying what with the way he was waving his hands around....

at 38:09 into the video. The handbook shows a picture of a dauntless. The stars on the wings look very large, maybe the kit decal is not wrong?

I’ve been looking for the USS Ranger CV-61 to build can’t find one. Can you help out where I can find one?

Instead of a waterline model, do a Radio Control model. It would look SO good on the water.

Now that I'm watching this video and you want a waterline model but don't want to slice your hull, I have a suggestion. Build a full hull and build a diorama so you can drop it in place or display it on a wood base like the Mo

Another Aircraft decal concern: The stars all lack the red "Meatball" that was seen prior to the deletion of all red from USN markings. I would have thought they'd at least included them as separate centers, as the ship looks to represent the "Big E" as she was before her first wartime refit in Late 1942. (More AA guns were added and the last TBD Devastators replaced.) The "Meatballs were deleted just around Midway (b4 or after I don't recall which.)

You sir are my father!! I can't wait to see what you with it. I have the Hornet!!

The market is saturated with the same old kits but different scale. I'd love to see Enterprise released as she was in late war before the final blow that ended her war. Torpedo blisters, lengthend deck and all the aa fit out she carried. Now that would be great to build. Oh well. Anyway I look forward to seeing how this progresses.

COOL❗❗

The Enterprise will be an AMAZING build, and I am happy to watch it! But, I must admit, I was hoping you would have built a wooden ship. All good!

You mentioned Doyle's book on the Enterprise. There are two others worthy of mention and inclusion in your reference materials: Edward Stafford's "Big E" and especially the illustrated version with input by Paul Stillwell -- this is a great history of the ship and the men who fought on her plus the illustrated version (which is almost a "coffee-table" book) has many, many pictures, some of which aren't in Doyle's book. Some are in color as well. The second book is Barrett Tillman's "Enterprise" -- another good history of the ship and its men -- some pictures but mostly for the history. Always nice to have the history of the ship, I think.

I thought maybe you were gonna do a USS Texas build since it was currently in dry dock. This will be an awesome build though.

I have the 1/200 Hornet CV-8 model, yet to be started. Do you know the differences or can you note thm as you build? Can the same detail sets be used. Actually flown aboard USS Enterprise , but CVN-65.

The hangar deck definitely had some deck plate detail, as seen in pictures of her in service and also while the hangar was empty as she sat awaiting scrapping. But the kit detail is definitely exaggerated.

Do these huge scale kits offer you the choice to build it with out PE parts, offering styrene pieces as well?

I think possibly the upper pieces of the small boats and launches you are having the heartburn over are intended to represent tight fitting foul weather canvas covers. Hard to see through the clear wrap but that would be my guess. These boats were typically stowed in a location that exposed them to the elements and any features above the gunwales wouldn't be visible.

NICE SIZED KIT :)

Ben, The boats you're fussing about are called "P" boats. 1 would be the captains gig, 1 the admiral's barge, and the rest officers boats. The open boats are utility boats and are for the crew.

Hi Ben, Great choice for your next project.dont know if you have seen the Chinese guy who built this but he cut the hull down to the waterline and it actually looked really good .just a idea for you to ponder over .afterthought I must watch the video before I comment lol

Nice looking kit. It seems that the 200th scale monster model ships do a nicer job than the 1/16th scale monster tank kits. My opinion. I'd go and grab one, maybe this one, if I had a space big enough (I don't). I can barely manage my 1/350th collection.

As big as it is...they couldn't be bothered with hull plate detail ! Will they be doing Yorktown, she's the one I'm partial to. Not sure what detail differences there would be between CV-4, 5 & 6.

Will be looking forward to this build. The big E. ❤

Shame they scrapped her I believe they did a campaign to try and save her as a museum !!

You mentioned making a water diorama for this hull, but are sort of concerned about losing the underwater details. I have seen some wonderful resin wood working pieces where the resins are translucent and you can see deep into the work. The wood workers tint the resin to the colors they want. Something that large though would take a lot of resin. Just a thought… But I do look forward to watching this build as you work it.

Any way of easily making them into remote control?

Hi could you not use large roundels for B-24 if you have at that scale...Tony

A lot of slide molding was used on this kit that's how they made the one piece island .