Szewczyk A./ Szewczyk A. Flugzeugträger der Essex-Klasse 1943 - 1945 Technik und Einsatzgeschichte, Model Hobby 978-3-86619-062-7, 2011
Although written in German, it is very detailed and the plans – both ship & aircraft – appear to be accurate. It contains tables of each Air Group carried on each CV, their movements etc.
Lots of photos to boot. But expensive in comparison to the above mentioned books
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There are books available that can help.
Try getting these books 1. Essex class aircraft carriers of WW2 by Steve Backer Shipcraft book #12
2009. ISBN 9781-84832-018-5
2.Warship Perspectives Essex class carriers of World War two by Glen Arnold,2002. ISBN-?
ThIs next book is out of print ,but could be obtained thru the public library.
3. Essex class Carriers by Alan Raven,NIP,1988
ISBN-0-87021-021-1. Alot of drawings of the Essex class showing the Essex class existence from 1942
to 1988.
Are there any avid Dragon 1/700 Essex model builders in here? I have a slew of them and would like to not build doubles or repeats of them. I do have a few “parts lots” of sprues including bridge parts and different decks (1 cat, 2 cat long deck, 2 cat short deck, etc) so either a few more WW2 or other Korean War variations (I have 2xCV9 Essex CV12 Hornet CV31 BHR 2xCV36 Antietam LPH4 Boxer and 2xCVS37 Princeton I plan on doing some OTB with appropriate airwings and others as other carriers with other parts I have
So did anyone do the research or know a place to go to see what parts to mix and match for other ships?
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