Product Description This is a Trumpeter 1/700 Scale assembly and painting required plastic model kit of the USS Essex CV-9, the lead ship of U.S. Navy Essex class aircraft carriers. Model kit features: Kit features full or waterline hull with stand and includes markings for measure 21, 1943. 606 parts on 32 sprues plus lower hull, upper hull, decks and waterline plate and display stand. Length: 378.7 mm, Width: 59.8mm. *ABOUT THE USS ESSEX: No class of warship symbolizes the might of a nation's naval power in World War II better than the Essex class aircraft carriers, the most numerous class of heavy warships of the 20th Century, with 24 ships built. Commissioned on 31 December 1942, the USS Essex served in the Pacific throughout the Second World War with great success, and she was the carrier for Air Group 15, the "Fabled Fifteen," commanded by the U.S. Navy's top ace of the war, David McCampbell (1944). From the Manufacturer Trumpeter's line of battleships and aircraft carriers feature hundreds of parts on nearly a dozen sprues. The kits can be built as full hull or waterline versions, and comes with both pieces. Each measures over a foot long when complete and is for Skill Level 2 modelers. Each plastic model kit is an accurate representation of the military ships.
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