1/200 USS HORNET CV-8 BUILD PART 1 

These Trumpeter 1/200's are real killers in more ways than one. Good luck.

I started in 1966.Take your time and be patient.Its very rewarding.Dad was on Hornets oldest sister Yorktown CV5 and lost it at Midway.Good luck.

The hanger set is cool as well and the small planes look very good

This is going to look great when it is all done with the history of the ship and what had happened with the Doolittle it will set this model to greatness

North Star Models has some great resin sets of figures. I, like you have had my head buried in books and the interweb researching the Arizona. I came across North Star and, while they’re not giving them away, they are reasonably priced. About $30-35 US for approx. 50 figures. Really looking forward to the build. It’s one I’d love to do someday. SBD looks fantastic.

Looks like an exciting project!

Looks great mate. Missed your videos lately. Please do lots more. The Dauntless looks great. That canopy framing will be a right pain to paint. The ship will end up being massive.

Great Carrier and Kit !!! You want to do my 1/200 USS Missouri 1945 ?????

I knew this was your next project. Are you going to try and make this one RC or focus on the finer details? I would make 1/200 models except I have already settled on 1/350 scale.

Ahoy Matt My 1/200 scale Hornet came in yesterday Wowwwwwwwwwwww hUGEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Not certain if it will fit in my trailer. but I will make it fit I cleared out one of myh rooms I have 4 room in the trailer 1 will be the display room for her I be working on her along with the USS MISSOURI 1/350 I can say one thing wow never seen a kit this huge before. Love your videos I be following your build on this giant behemoth. Frankie day

Nice challenge you have set for yourself..I still think you should consider an airbrush even just for the economics of paint usage...I use rattle cans for big areas however I save money using an airbrush for detail painting. But hey your choice and we will come along for the ride.

I'll be watching this closely. I'm starting to plan for my 1/200 Enterprise (Santa Cruz), but I'm a little bit away from actually starting it.

Want Moar! Where more parts! Give! ( I have this in the basement I am staging down.)

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024) This actually has great promise! I have thought of much as I suggest below: You could make it a Douglas A-24 Banshee U.S. Army (USAAF? Please clarify) dive bomber. Add a few dozen more, with them all queuing up at dawn along a 20-foot long stretch (if my maths are correct, a square 26.4 feet on a side in 1:200th-scale would be a square mile) of Marston mat PSP for a strike upon an enemy airfield round 400 nmi to the northwest, palm trees, sand for hundreds of yards, a dozen Quonset Huts (living quarters) all in a row, scores of tiny figures bustling about their errands and duties (life in a war zone tends to focus the mind upon the task at hand), a handful of battle-damaged buildings, a few A-24s being serviced, a crashed North American B-25B Mitchell USAAF medium bomber off to one side . . . . For your next project, essentially the same, except a hundred or so B-25B Mitchell bombers making an elephant walk to a 25-foot long stretch of Marston mat PSP to intercept a transport convoy approaching from the south, this setting half again larger . . . . And for your third project, a hundred or so B-25B Mitchell bombers have just sighted that transport convoy on the horizon, the morning sun behind them: round a dozen steam ships and a trio of aging destroyers, all in 1:200th-scale, arriving from the south. They drop down to fifty feet as they quickly sweep round to the east to put the sun at their backs . . . .

Where did you find those planes with the folded wings? Where could I find those?

Great video. Any update on your uss Missouri? I remember you made a part 5 to the build of it but never made anymore parts to it and that was 2 years ago lol

Please do the me 262 and ju 87