Main Features:
- Authentic 1:700 scale model of the USS Essex in its original form
in 1943-1944
- Option of either a waterline version or a full hull version
- Display stand included
- Detailed Hangar deck with interior details
- Contains parts so all hull-side doors can be modeled in an open,
half-open or closed position
- Flight deck elevators can be posed as raised or lowered
- Finely detailed bridge superstructure (all one piece)
- Slide-molded 5-inch twin turrets (Slide mold technology -- see
below for a description of this technique)
- Different types of radar provided, including YE Homing Beacon, SC
Radar, SK Radar and Mk37 Director - Super detailed anti-aircraft
guns including 5-inch .38 Cabiber Single Open Mount, Quadruple 40mm
Bofors and Single 20mm Qerlikon
- Onboard aircraft consisting of SBD Dauntless, F6F Hellcat and
TBF/M Avenger are conveniently constructed in transparent
plastic
- Cartograf decals offer 2 marking schemes, plus air group and
national insignia
- 1:700 photo-etched deck crew
- Deck-edge elevator can be positioned up or down - Plastic and
photo-etched options for safety net
