USS Aircraft Carrier CV-8 Hornet. Award Winner built with great details over all. Top building quality with classic US Navy Gray color scheme. Detailed superstructure and decks. Add AA gun detail. Add boats, radar, search lights, mast and crane details. Add aircraft and more add on details. Airbrushed and painted with dry brushing to show wear and fading, wash with realistic deck and panels finishing, add flow and streaks rust with dried salt smear and waterline marks on dirt and more on real live weathering. Full hull and water line you can chose, if you have no additional request after you bought, we will build you full hall. 1 Dream Works Hobby. 2 Dream Works Hobby. 3 Dream Works Hobby. 4 Dream Works Hobby. 5 Dream Works Hobby. 6 Dream Works Hobby. 7 Dream Works Hobby. 8 Dream Works Hobby. USS Hornet, a 19,800 ton Yorktown class aircraft carrier, was constructed at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned in October 1941, she spent the next four months shaking down in the Atlantic. Transferred to the Pacific in March 1942, Hornet was immediately employed on the Doolittle raid. On 18 April 1942, she launched 16 Army B-25 bombers to attack Japan, a strike that caused relatively little damage, but which had enormous strategic implications. Hornet was then sent to the South Pacific to reinforce U. Units there following the Battle of Coral Sea, but was recalled to Pearl Harbor in mid-May. She then took part in the Battle of Midway, on 4-6 June, during which her planes shared in the sinking of the Japanese cruiser Mikuma. During much of September and October, she was the only operational U. Aircraft carrier available to oppose the Japanese in that area. On 26 October 1942, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, her planes attacked and badly damaged the Japanese carrier Shokaku. In return, however, Hornet received heavy bomb and torpedo damage, necessitating her abandonment. Destroyers attempted to scuttle her, she remained afloat until torpedoed and sunk by Japanese ships early in the morning of 27 October. The item “Award Winner Built Trumpeter 1/700 USS Aircraft Carrier CV-8 Hornet” is in sale since Monday, October 23, 2017. This item is in the category “Toys & Hobbies\Models & Kits\Military\Sea”. The seller is “dreamworkshobby” and is located in Scarborough, Ontario. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- MPN: Does Not Apply
- Brand: Trumpeter
- Scale: 1/700