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What am saying is the Academy upper hull is that Trumpeter wide. Now maybe that is by design for the Yorktowns were exactly that, narrow in hull and wide in upper beam. Myself I really do not care about the lower hull.

Here is what I do care about as a water line builder. I purchased 3 HP kits with poor flight deck fits. I purchased every offering of Tom’s kits and his lower hull and poor flight deck fits. I purchased the Trumpeter kits of all 3 sisters and they go together without me having to be disappointed and start chopping. Granted the upper Trumpeter hull of Hornet is wider than that Trumpeter/Merit but once they are painted and flight deck goes down who really is going to know but you and I ? It is not like I have choice in the matter.

I try to keep my builds strictly OB and the Yorktowns will be no exception. I will upgrade the weapons, aircraft, radars, rafts, decals and photo-etch where my skills permit. With that said the one exception I will make for the Yorktowns will be the late era Enterprise of Tom’s in which I will cut away his 5”38 galleries and extend them with Tamiya gun galleries so they are no longer masked. Accurate no. But then I had no choice did I .

I stopped chasing Unicorns in the hobby. I have to fight paint and accessories shortages, poor instructions, poor manufacturing and rising prices. So they may not be accurate but it is the enjoyment of the build and the remembrance of those that served.