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Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 12:50 AM UTC
Announced for an end of July release, a waterline kit version of this ship with a complement of TBD torpedo bombers, SBD dive bombers and F4 fighters.
Yorktown was designed and built on lessons learned from the previously built converted carriers Saratoga and Ranger. She and her sisters Enterprise and Hornet were the epitome of US pre-war carrier designs.She fought in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, where she met her fate after repeated arial attacks and a torpedo strike by the IJN submarine I-168.

This kit represents Yorktown at the time of the Battle of Midway. The hangar door shutters can be built open or closed and the rear elevator can be built in raised or lowered positions. In this scale, she measures 350mm (13 + inches) in length.
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This is new? I thought they already released this kit last year? Basically a repop of the Hornet with new sprues for the Yorktown's bridge and deck?
MAY 20, 2014 - 04:55 AM
Which in itself could be the reboxed Enterprise kit. Without seeing the sprue trees myself to compare I can't say for certain but it's a common practice in the kit industry to repackage the basic mold and add in differences like decals or maybe in this case, different aircraft. I think the Hornet kit has B-25s for the Doolittle raid.
MAY 20, 2014 - 07:26 AM
Yes, this is the kit that was released some time ago (I remember seeing it on display at the Nationals in Orlando in 2012). I picked it up online some time ago. It's a mis-mash repop of the old Enterprise and Hornet kits. Basically it looks like the Yorktown, but it's underscale like the old kits (actually around 1/720th), the island is too thin and has incorrect details, and the AA gun galleries around the flight deck are not correct for any of the three ships at any time during their careers. Very disappointing.
MAY 20, 2014 - 08:16 AM
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