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Trumpeter Large Scale 1/350 U.S.S Ranger Carrier Model features ..... - single piece full hull,
- highly detailed (flight deck, hangar deck and superstructure),
- full weapons suite (8 × 5 in (127 mm)/25 cal anti-aircraft guns, 40 × .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns),
- ships crane,
- life rafts and ships boats,
- deck fittings,
- extensive photoetch (railings, inclined and vertical ladders, mast, antenna and additional fine accents),
- aircraft catapult
- aircraft (SBD-3 (x5), TBF-1 (x5), F6F-3 (x5)),
- name plate and display stand.
Completed model is approximately 25" long.
Decals and 3-view color painting guide representing flight deck markings, aircraft insignia, hull markings, jack and ensign.
Fossileyes' Factoids: USS Ranger (CV-4) was the first ship of the United States Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier. Ranger was a relatively small ship, closer in size and displacement to the first U.S. carrier—Langley—than later ships. An island superstructure was not included in the original design, but was added after completion. Of the eight pre-war U.S. aircraft carriers CV-1 through CV-8, Ranger was one of only three to survive the entirety of World War II, the others being Enterprise and Saratoga. Unlike the others, however, she was initially deemed too slow for use with the Pacific Fleet's carrier task forces, and so most of her wartime service was spent in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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