And it's really about criminal that anyone(s) in this modern day could release something like a Quincy; or Vincennes; or (CVL) Princeton - something you've never had available in styrene, for 50 years now - with some major flaw(s) in it!

I might beat them to the punch on a next (logical) subject - an Omaha-class CL - by bashing one (down to 1:500) on the hull of the Mirage 400-scale 4-stacker DD! I mean, what the heck: if you're going to have to do some major correction(s) to a brand-new kit, anyway - after paying $100 more for the privelege, mind you - then might as well get started now converting from an existing kit, for relative peanuts. And I suppose you could do exactly the same in 350-scale, on the (very nice) hull of the classic Revell 1:240 flush-decker (which tragically has that incorrect deck-planking, just begging for some New Lease on Life).

One day soon I better do a photo-demo of this kitbash idea, too (before I forget)!

Cheers,

-Matty