More news from Gold Medal Models. All-new PE sets for Trumpeter's USS Saratoga (the 1930's version) are now available.

Gold Medal Models sends us more exciting news with the release of their 1/350 PE set for Trumpeter's USS Saratoga (the 1930's version). Also available is the 1930's Air Wing set (No. 350-40). The details include wing struts for biplanes, wheels, propellers, and tailhooks for all eight types now being made by Trumpeter.
Specialized railing in several styles with numerous pre-shaped and pre-sized sections for ease of installation; watertight doors & pre-sized rails for tops of 8" gun turrets; pre-sized safety railing for the No. 2 elevator; fold-to-shape inclined ladders in several sizes; vertical ladders; watertight doors in two correct styles with open and closed options; D.F. loop antennas; pre-sized and correctly patterned safety rails and safety nets for the flight deck; structural supports for several areas of the ship; details for aircraft and ship's boats; boat chocks in two sizes; two-position flight deck palisades (windbreak) with correct number of panels; replacement yardarms with doublers; pilot house equipment; funnel cap grilles; cable reels in two styles; funnel boat deck braces; details for 5" 25 caliber antiaircraft guns; arresting gear sheaves and barricade supports; correct three-bladed screws for the ship's four propeller shafts; turnbuckles and eyebolts for detailing rigging; and figures of Captains William F. Halsey, John Towers, and Albert C. Read, Saratoga's commanding officers during the late 1930's. Fits the Trumpeter kit.
While modifying the 1/350 scale Saratoga PE design to create the 1/700 version for Trumpeter's 1/700 Saratoga kit, GMM discovered a missing railing section in the Gold Medal Models No. 350-39 1/350 scale Saratoga PE set.
The missing railing is GMM Part No. BP5, the pre-shaped rail for the starboard side boat pocket in the hull. Although most modelers could easily make this part from extra rails supplied in the set, GMM decided to produce a small fret with this railing in it and include it in the remainder of the first production run of the Saratoga PE set. (Corrections have been made and all subsequent production runs of the Saratoga PE set will have Railing BP5 included.)
At the same time, GMM making this small fret with Railing BP5 available at no charge to any GMM customer who purchased one of the early production 1/350 scale Saratoga PE sets. Simply e-mail GMM with your request and they send it off at no charge. GMM sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.