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USS Hornet CV-8 Ship Models

1/350  A110 "New Modelers Kit" on sale $149.95 plastic kit.

This kit features 433 parts on 17 sprues; plus lower hull and waterline plate. Fully detailed
Hangar decks, Flight deck and display stand. Finished the kit is 28" long, 4" wide.
Includes various deck aircraft including B-25 Mitchells. Each kit includes 2 each
of the planes listed below plus the planes have clear canopies. Markings for
Tokyo Raid & Battle of Midway. This kit has been seen by a well known builder who
has told me this will be a great kit to build. If you liked Trumpeter's Arizona
this kit is superior and on par with Tamiya's USS Enterprise.
For an in depth review of this kit click here.

Painted 1/350 scale WWII Carrier Sailors Click here!


You can also order extra aircraft. Each Box has 10 Aircraft.

Bomber Decals 10.00 per 16 aircraft. #A110DC

I'm happy to announce that our General Quarters Decals for the 1/350Trumpeter B-25s are here at long last. The sheet provides enough markings for every aircraft that took part in the Doolittle raid, including correctly sized national insignia (the kit's are wrong), prop warning stripes, "U.S.ARMY" titles for the lower wings (missing from the kit decals entirely), correct serials for all aircraft, *and* nose art for those aircraft that carried it! All in all, a lot of stuff packed onto one sheet. As you can see, you get a color instruction sheet with full painting instructions, and showing placement details for all the decals included, and the whole thing is sent to you in a zip bag. Note, these are regular waterslide, silkscreen printed decals (printed by Cartograf in Italy - the world's best), they are not laser or Alps output.

The Doolittle Tokyo Raid

Commissioned in November, 1941 and younger sister to both Yorktown and Enterprise, USS Hornet had a short, yet distinguished operational career. In early 1942, when the Japanese juggernaut seemed all but unstoppable, a plan was under development to stage a raid on the Japanese capital, Tokyo. A conventional carrier strike would have been suicide, but the Japanese High Command would never expect an attack by land-based aircraft. The plan called for 16 B-25B's to be launched from the deck of a carrier, attack their Japanese targets and then proceed to friendly territory on the Chinese mainland. The Hornet was chosen for this task, and launched "Doolittle Raiders" on April 18, 1942. This one event started a series of events culminating in the Battle of Midway. When Roosevelt was asked by reporters where the planes came from he said, "Shangri-La".

Website for the USS Hornet CV-8

This great photo is from steelnavy.com