Included are both Essex sets from Gold Medal Models, Essex Fittings (GMM-350-22) and Essex Gold Plus Fine Details (GMM-350-22A), as well as a bonus set of WW2 USN Aircraft Details (GMM-350-26).
Essex Fittings:
Railing (including custom fitted rails for bow and stern and specialized rails for numerous other areas such as elevators & hangar openings); twelve vertical ladders; 28 inclined ladders (including 16 short ladders for flight deck access); one boat rudder with pulpit & cradles; main and secondary yardarm; search and fire control radars (SK, SK-2, SC-2, SP, SM-1, SG, two Mk. 12 with IFF, and two Mk. 22); assorted smaller antennas (TDY, TDY-1, YE beacon, and two types of ECM antennas); two hooks for cranes; two funnel cap grilles; 28 watertight doors; two mast platform supports; five platforms and two latticework tower masts for all variations of radar installations; one whistle platform; one BM antenna platform; four cable reels; 52 carrier-style floater net baskets; five deck-edge radio antenna masts with protective screens for second and fifth antenna masts; two ventilator grilles; one LSO platform with one catwalk, two choices of windscreens, & safety net; deck-edge elevator girders & nets; three leadsman's platforms; two simulated stud-link anchor chains; and one figure of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.
Essex Fine Details:
Provides see-through perforated flight deck catwalks and sub-flight deck gallery catwalks with fold-up handrails; arresting gear sheaves; flight deck barrier supports; 18 sets of fold-to-shape 40mm Quad Bofors armor shields with folding template, gunsights, & choice of early or late styles of guardrails; 60 sets of 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun armor shields, handwheels, shoulder rests & gunsights; four sets of 5" 38 cal. open gun mount guardrails; two accommodation ladders; choice of early or late styles of tripod mast braces with platforms and integral railings; four styles of fold-to-shape reproducers (loudspeakers) with support brackets; bridge platform wind deflectors; one forward LSO platform with windscreen & safety nets. Complements GMM No. 350-22 Essex ship set.
WW2 USN Aircraft Details:
Propellers, landing gear, and tailhooks for WW2 USN carrier-based aircraft of the following types: F4F (x 9), SBD (x 10), F6F (x 10), TBF (x 10), TBD (x 10), F4U (x 10 - includes ten 3-blade and ten 4-blade propellers), SB2C (x 10). Relief-etched for extra detail.